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They would have to call cubes back from where they are pushing territory on the other side of their territory.

The Borg were not just fighting one species when they came to get the Federation, they were expanding outwards on all sides. So they committed the lowest level of resources they believed were necessary, and because the Queen was an arrogant fool, that was just one cube.

For First Contact, you can argue that having been thus far unable to assimilate the Federation they are unaware of the speed of human advancement. In the Star Trek Universe it has been implied that humans are EXCEPTIONALLY inventive especially when faced with a problem, and that the Federation is even FASTER than humanity alone because of the additional viewpoints added to human inventiveness. Basically, the Human Problem of Fantasy Games where the humans are an average, all-around boring species while Elves and Dwarves and others all have specialties? That’s not applicable to Star Trek Universe, where humans are especially well-suited to be engineers, and highly valued for their social abilities which foster teamwork. The presence of humans in the Federation is one of the ingredients that makes the Federation uniquely effective at technological advancement. Not only is the Federation large and powerful, it advances more quickly than the species that the Borg have assimilated, and has advanced to a level that the Borg never allow other species to advance to, AND it advances the way the Borg do by peacefully trading and adding technologies when it admits new member species.

The Queen never dealt with a society like the Federation before, and she didn’t expect them to advance very far beyond their capabilities at Wolf 359. She figured her cube was better, and that should be good enough and if by some weirdness it wasn’t she would destroy the Federation by going back in time and destroying its weirdest, least predictable species: humanity.

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It’s not the coffee, she smiled when she saw Spock’s backside. She leaned back to check him out.

Everyone who called Firefish stupid needs to come see this and reconsider.

Beautiful Day would have been worse, I think.

Mysterious Ways would have been interestingly ironic.

Yeah.

Now you have me thinking of other movie songs that might’ve fit Enterprise, though. For some reason “Don’t you forget about me” comes immediately to mind.

Wow. Thanks.

I think I like the Enterprise version different. It’s an arrangement that does what the better themes like TNG do, where you start off gentle and build to something more exciting. Not as good to me as TNG, but it accomplishes the task of getting you into the mindset for the show.

Really? Wow.

It’s just the most energized, honestly. The TNG theme wakes you up and makes you pay attention.

Honestly, the change on Enterprise being a lyrical song kind of fits because they aren’t the Federation yet. It’s a prequel. So it has this country tune playing in the intro instead.

There is absolutely nothing stopping us from calling it the Federation.

Or from assembling a group of federated instances of various fediverse apps called The United Federation of Instances.

Privacy is abstract to people until something happens to make them realize how valuable it is. “I don’t have anything to hide” is from people who don’t feel threatened by anything, who’ve never been stalked or targeted.