Please note all characters are copyright of Paramount and I am merely playing with a facsimile of their Trek characters. Slightly different versions than the originals but just as much fun in their own, unique way.
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Tom Paris manuevered the starship Voyager hard to the port side, barely evading Borg cutting beams that had lanced out from the cube at the Federation vessel a millisecond before. "Where the hell did that cube come from!?" shouted Chakotay, a maquis freedom fighter turned second in command of Voyager, due to some very strange circumstances years prior.
"Sensors didn't indicate a spatial anomaly of any type before the cube arrived and opened fire, Sir!" Harry Kim gritted his teeth as the ship was rocked by another explosion before again speaking, "I'll run a full diagnostic on the ship's sensors and see if we've had some type of malfunction there!"
"Do it, Harry!" Captain Kathryn Janeway uttered from her chair.
"Aye Captain!" Harry quickly responded, "We have an incoming hail too, audio only." The metallic, cold voice of the Borg collective spoke resoundingly and convincingly: "We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ship. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to out own. You will adapt to serve us. Resistance is futile."
Captain Janeway had heard that hail more than once... it offered no inflection in the tone, no change in the pitch or tone... very cold and, to her human ears, devoid of anything that would remotely suggest it had a soul. "Like hell it is!" She screamed audibly. The Captain then locked eyes with her good friend and Chief Security Officer, Commander Tuvok. "I want a full dispersal of photon torpedoes with rotating phaser frequency fire so they can't adjust, at least not immediately!" She knew the Borg would adapt, however. It was their nature; adjust, adapt and overcome their enemies. Janeway new it would only be a matter of time until they were assimilated, unless something miraculous occured.
Tuvok launched a full volley of photons at the cube, phaser fire coming quickly on its heels...not surprisingly, the counter-attack did minimal damage. "Captain," Tuvok began in his monotonal voice, "The Borg vessel suffered minor damage, preliminary readings indicate it is still 89% combat ready and our own shields are down to 15%."
"Shit!" Janeway thought to herself, her eyebrows knotted together out of frustration and the lack of damage that they had returned onto the Borg. "One more hit and our shields will be gone," Tuvok stated.
"Maybe we can run from them, perhaps hide near a spatial distortion!?" Chakotay quipped.
"Harry grimaced and replied," The diagnostic indicates our sensors are working within acceptable parameters... in addition, I've scanned for spatial distortions, singularities, black holes, worm holes... nothing within 8 light years, Commander!"
"Get your phasers and change them to a modulating frequency!!" Janeway barked like a drill instructor. "If we're going to be boarded, we'll give them the fight of their lives! Until then, Tom, take us out of here at maximum warp!! Maybe we can find some aliens who would help us with the Borg... as vicious as they are, they're bound to have enemies all over the Delta Quadrant, and any enemy of theirs is a friend of ours!"
Immediately after Janeway stated that, a brilliant flash on incandescent light filled the bridge and there appeared... Q.
"Well, well, well if it isn't my little humans!! I see you've decided to take on the Borg once again! I really should have introduced your species much sooner... seems you can't help running into each other and the Borg have taken a liking to you!! Why don't you just let them go ahead and assimilate you!? I'm sure you'd find it ... an interesting experience." Q smirked wryly and interlocked his fingers as he did. Captain Janeway didn't know if Q's presence counted as miraculous or if he instigated the entire event, watching from behind the scenes, so to speak. If she had to wager her life, she'd choose the latter.
Janeway shot a scowl at Q but before she could speak, he said, "Come now Kathryn, I was merely having a bit of fun. My life is dull, drab and weary at times and I need to spice it up on occasion!! "Janeway gave Q a look that could kill but he paid her no heed, he simply snapped his fingers and the Borg cube imploded in upon itself. "There now, all the nasty Borg are all dead... feel better?" Q chuckled ominously.
"That wasn't necessary, Q and we both know it! You could have just as easily sent them back where they came from!" Q had a look on his face as though he were mulling it over, then said, "I suppose I could have... I still could even. just pluck them out of the space/time continuum and voila, they'd be back assimilating other species as though they never had been dead... that's the beauty of this universe, Kathryn... the past and future are both fluidic... you can alter events so easily, even on a whim! However, I think they should stay dead...the Borg are spiders and prey upon others... they needed to be squashed!!