Is it because the Q acknowledge the Borg's purpose in the universe as one of the right things to do as a species?? It's pure, straightforward and simple: Assimilate everything and everyone to improve themselves. They don't indulge in politics, have no feelings or remorse because they see those as weaknesses.
shareThey didn't need to involve themselves with the Borg. They knew Trek writers would water down and destroy them all on their own.
shareI think it's that the Q are scared of the Borg. The Borg may be aware of the Q, but if the Q start actively interfering with the Borg, the Borg will become interested in the Q, and they don't want that.
We've seen hints that the Q can be physically vulnerable. In Encounter at Farpoint, Q froze Torres rather than simply deflecting the stun suggesting he would have been affected by the phaser, Sisko knocked Q to the ground with a punch, I can't recall another occasion where a Q was physically attacked in the real world by a mortal to suggest Q was invulnerable.
(Yes, there was the Civil War in Voyager, but that was in the Continuum and yes Amanda did throw Q against a wall, implied to be Q powers, but for the most part, it's just accepted the Q are all-knowing and it's best just to negotiate and get rid of them immediately).
What if the Q are vulnerable to assimilation?
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What if the Q are vulnerable to assimilation?
What if the Borg managed to use the Omega molecule?
It says here in wiki:
When a civilian scientist expedition encountered a rift into this dimension, they unintentionally accelerated the universe's decay as their matter provided Omega with additional energy, but the instability caused by this chain reaction also created the Q Continuum, the Q serving as a creative force to 'counter' the destructive potential of the Omega Continuum. Although Q believed that the only way to stop the decay would be to reverse the original incident and thus essentially erase the Q Continuum from existence, Voyager was able to repair the disruption while only shortening the universe's lifespan by a few million years as opposed to the trillions they would have lost previously, thus saving the Q, but this is only achieved through the sacrifice of Captain Afsarah Eden- a 'child' of the Omega Continuum created when the continuum manifested a new entity based on a scientist who discovered it- and Q's son, who possessed the potential to channel the power of Omega and contain it once again
I think it's because the Borg aren't very interesting to the Q.
shareWylde that is probably the best answer. The Borg are simple in their approach and never deviate from it. How can you mock a species when they have no sense of irony. Even worst than that, they don't even know they're being made fun of. That's no enjoyment to the antagonist.
Spenser with an "S", like the poet.
Doesn't really hold with what we've seen.
q summons 3 cubes against Voyager, they beam aboard, are about to assimilate the crew, Q appears, makes them disappear, and admonishes q:
If the Continuum's told you once, they've told you a thousand times. DON'T PROVOKE THE BORG!
Q don't mess with the Borg because other higher powers in the Q Continuum are watching and making sure you don't have crazy Qs doing whatever they want with their powers like what Picard's Q did. Hence why Q got his powers taken away.
If Q junior snapped his fingers and three Jem'Hadar ships appeared and Picard's Q showed up and said "don't provoke the Dominion", that doesn't mean the Q are afraid of the Dominion. It just means to stop messing around with other species just for your own amusement.
The REAL reason The Q Continuum won't bother with the Borg is simple. Farts. Their cubes just reek of farts, so Q can't board them, without like gas masks and stuff. The worst part is, The Borg, don't even realize they're stinking up the place.
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So we do know the origins of the Borg! They are Jatravartid the only species in the universe who invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel(according The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy).
shareThere are some good and interesting answers here, well done.
I'd like to think it's because of the implications.
Think about it, if Q start doing something about the Borg, limiting them or destroying them, then what? Now they have directly interfered with the natural order/progression of things. They would have to become the COSMIC POLICE.
This one act would lead down to a path where the Q would become some kind of authority that has to start messing with all kinds of trivial, uninteresting and mundane things, dictating policy and creating some sort of super government. I mean, if they interfere with Borg, why not interfere with Klingons and the Ferengi and everything in existence, until they control every atom in the existence 100% of the time?
They don't want to go down that path, they don't want to start policing the Universe and what goes on in it, that would lead to so many moral decisions they'd have to make, they'd have to be the sole source of what defines 'good' and 'bad' and 'unwanted' and 'wanted', they would have to mess with all kinds of developments, evolutions and frankly, it would be a lot of work even for the omnipotent entity group (though a group can never be omnipotent, because there can't be even two omnipotents, they can't share power like that without just becoming one entity - I mean, if I want a molecule to be blue, but the other entity wants it to be pink, and both are omnipotent, what will happen when the wills clash?)..
Of course they could just 'will' the Universe to be exactly as they want it to be, so maybe it's just more interesting to let everything just happen the way they do, Borg or no Borg.
Also, Borg being scary to Q would be like a grain of sand being scary to a military. WHAT? Who could ever think this could be the case?
The Borg are not interested in upper levels of existence so no interference in continuum affairs. This pleases the continuum to no end.
shareGuinan seemed to think she could effect Q by making scary claw hands at him in Q Who. And El-Aurians couldn't have been all that powerful if Picard and Kirk could take one down.
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