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The Borg and the Klingon Empire/Romulan Republic
goodscotch
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We see in canon Trek the Borg's efforts to assimilate the Federation. Why would the Klingon Empire or the Romulan Republic be any less attractive to the Borg? Posting this in the Klingon Discussion area even though the Romulans are involved in the topic. In the ST:Voyager episode "Unity" we see visions of Klingon BoPs attacking a Borg cube, etc. We know little about the Borg's efforts vs. the Klingons and Romulans.
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It makes sense to assimilate the biggest threat/militarily, economically and scientifically advanced entity first.
And it is not the Romulan republic or Klingon empire.
Or maybe it wasn't technology - maybe it was culture. The humans managed to build an Empire without force, by uniting countless of species to work together for their common benefit. An ability, that if the Borg would understand it, could benefit them greatly in their assimilation attemts. No longer forcing people to join the Collective, but convincing them to join? What a powerful force. Maybe the alternate universe where the Borg have assimilated Earth actually has a happy end - the Borg eventually assimilating the ablity to make people cooperate without forcing them to do so, no longer needing brutal assimilation processes, an inelegant and imperfect process.
Though it's odd that the Borg really never cared for cloaking technology. Didn't it fit their military doctrine? Did they know that any species dangerous enough to require them to work with stealth could look through any cloaking tech they could hope to assimilate?
Though in the realm of unrealized plots that never became part of the shows and are thus non-canonical, there was apparently some kind of idea to have the Romulan return be traced back to the alien parasites (actually a part of the Borg). They might have fought their own battles against the Borg (or at least parasite infected Romulans), and now return back their attention to the Federation. It is interesting that the first sign of the Borg was their assimilalation of a bunch of outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone.
There are signs that the Romulans are having problems with the Borg in 2364, Q Who implies that the Borg are the ones that have been disappearing Romulan outposts(The Neutral Zone). We really don't know what the Borg thought of Q's intervention, but what happens during Q Who does seems to have triggered a change from the Borg's slower/stealthier movement though the beta quadrant into a full scale invasion.
With STO we learn that the Borg were working there way along borders of the Gorn space in 2390. Only attacking when they can wipe out an outpost/colony without a trace and being blamed on the KDF/Nausicaans pirates. Again we don't know what happened from the Borg's perspective, but the events during the mission Butterfly apparently re-prioritized the Romulans leading to another switch from stealth to full scale invasion.
Wild guessing time, but Q kicking you 7,000 light years in an instant and the Annorax erasing suns might be seen as "unique" to the Borg.
Edit to Add:
There is also the "wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey" explanation, the Borg are focused on Earth because the Borg told them to.
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