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   From: kilroy@elvis.rowan.edu   
      
   "jalexa9898 " wrote:   
   > The Borg has just attacked the Enterprise, and the Borg drone has   
   > teleported on the enterprise in an attempt to assimilate the crew.   
   > Well Q in his cockiness happens to be on board the ship at the same   
   > time, oh and Q decides to be nice and say I will stay on the ship no   
   > matter what I will not leave. Q sees a borg drone and makes some cocky   
   > joke, but the Borg tries to assimilate Q, now the Q obviously thinking   
   > it can't be assimilated fears nothing but low and behold Q is   
   > assimilated and made in to a borg himself. What would the borg get   
   > from a Q?   
      
   As depicted in the series, when he has full use of his powers, Q is   
   essentially omnipotent, and borderline omniscient.  The Borg would be   
   no more a challenge for him than an earthworm or a butterfly.   
      
   BUT!  One episode involved Q being stripped of his powers, rendered a   
   mortal with a normal human body, and plopped off on board Enterprise.   
   He was not, apparently, stripped of his knowledge, because when   
   presented with an engineering problem he said somethign to the effect   
   of "change the gravitational constant of the universe, make your   
   adjustments, put it back".  Geordi then extended the ship's Something   
   Something field to do a small-scale version of Q's idea.   
      
   SO, if the Borg attacked during the period when Q had no powers, and   
   assimilated him, it seems that they would get the sum of all his   
   knowledge.  That might be cause for concern among anyone who didn't   
   want to be assimilated.   
      
      
   Darren Provine ! kilroy@elvis.rowan.edu ! http://www.rowan.edu/~kilroy   
   "It's hard to work in a group when you're omnipotent." -- Q   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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