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[–] 31 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

Q pretty much only helped humanity.

Yeah, he’s chaotic, but introducing Picard to the Borg before the Borg showed up and steamrolled them was a massive gift.

Even the earlier trial of humanity and temptation of Riker served to strengthen their resolve and principles so they didn’t go all Sisko everywhere when the Borg arrived.

I hope Picard and the federation eventually looked back on Q as the gift that he was.

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  • [–] 14 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

    It was always a mixed blessing. For instance, with the Borg, while it did forewarn them, it also brought them into contact much earlier than they would have naturally.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

    The Borg were only 2 years away from a star base at Enterprise’s maximum warp. We know they can go faster, and that they used warp conduits.

    We can probably say within 2-5 years the Borg would have found almost all Alpha quadrant major powers, and likely would have overwhelmed at least some of them.

    Voyager established Borg presence in the Alpha quadrant decades before Q who, at least, and Enterprise had them on Earth centuries ago.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

    That last one is the result of First Contact time shenanigans.

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