Iron Prime wrote:sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:If you want me to tell you just where it happened let me know.
At first I thought you were refering to the Neutral Zone outpost, but that wasn't that far back.
Please tell.
It's not TNG episode "Neutral Zone" but it is related.This will be a long post.
The Star Trek Voyager episode "The Raven" states that at least 10 years prior to the U.S.S. Enterprise-D's first encounter with the Borg, the Federation had some knowledge of the existence of the Borg, based on encounters with species who had been affected by them such as the El-Aurians, whose homeworld was destroyed 90 years before and a number of refugies were rescued by James T.Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise B [Star Trek Generations].
But this information was not made public to all of the Federation's people because the information was too sketchy and unconfirmed. There were descriptions of cube-shaped vessels, but almost no information on what Borg individuals looked like, other than rumors that they were cyborg's or their true motivations.
Two of the people aware of the rumors were Magnus and Erin Hansen, who made a request to the Federation Council on Exobiology to let them travel into unknown space onboard the U.S.S. Raven to research the rumors and then study the Borg. Their request was granted and the they departed from Deep Space 4 toward the Delta Quadrant with their young daughter along for the trip.
For eight months, the Hansens tracked nothing but stray readings and sensor echoes, and in the process of chasing their theories about the Borg, the unconventional scientists deviated from their flight plan, crossed the Neutral Zone and disobeyed a direct order to return.While at a space sport the were told about a planet in a near by system that was attacked by a cube shaped ship.
Soon they detected a transwarp conduit from which emerged a Borg Cube. The Raven was scanned by the Cube, but the Borg ship did not alter course, apparently considering the small vessel neither a target nor a threat. The Hansens tracked the Borg Cube through the relatively nearby region of space for three months, when the Cube finally entered a transwarp conduit again. The Raven followed in its wake, and found itself in the Delta Quadrant — the Borg's territory.
The Hansens designed a variety of new technologies to allow themselves to study the Borg up close without being detected. They developed multi-adaptive shielding to make the Raven virtually invisible to Borg sensors. Magnus periodically made "field trips" to the Cube they were tracking to observe first-hand the behavior and interactions of the drones.
The Hansens studied the Borg in this way for over two years. But then a subspace particle storm damaged the Raven and caused its multi-adaptive shielding to go off-line for 13.2 seconds, long enough for the Borg to perceive the vessel as a threat. In spite of the Hansens' attempts to hide in a nebula and mask their warp trail, the Borg caught up with the Raven as it crash-landed.All three of the Hansens were assimilated into the Collective at that time, including the young girl Annika Hansen, who became the drone designated as "Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One."
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