Miniseries seed - need ideas.

[Kronok]

I would like to prefaced the following by saying that I wanted to post on this topic yesterday when I first saw it, so most of what I write is a repeat of some of the fine ideas suggested. Great minds think alike I guess???

Originally posted by First of Two

1: Why did the Borg finally attack en masse? Is there new technology? Why would they change tactics?

Why not use a little canon reference? If you time it right, you could have the reason for the attack based upon Janeway’s destruction of the Borg Transwarp Conduits. The Borg realizes what a deadly blow this will be (WAS??? I hate Temporal Mechanics!!!), so they decide to destroy Janeway & the Federation before they have a chance to destroy the conduits. I would have to watch “Endgame” again to get more of the details, but I remember that the episode involved the Klingons, seedy undercover merchant trading, & time-travel themes.
As far as new technology, are you talking about the Federation or the Borg?
As far as tactics, I think that assimilating the Federation IS a tactic that they would love to accomplish if they could.

2: How can the crew stop them? Assuming that they do take the Guardian option, what can the crew change in the past to stop a Borg invasion? (I originally thought of having the Borg be the cause of the temporal rift via a new weapon, assimilated from a newly-conquered world, and having the crew simply try to prevent that world from being assimilated, but I don't know if that will work anymore... then I thought about sending the crew farther into the true timeline's future, to help Future Janeway get the tech that she took to VOY to destroy the transwarp hub, thus preventing the multicube attack... but that got too weird too fast)

Well, if you keep true to the way the Borg should be run (IMHO); you cannot stop them. I think of it like this- You can will the battle, but not the war. The movie “First Contact” depicted this perfectly. Picard, Data and crew stopped the Borg during one incursion, but they still exist as a major enemy of the galaxy. Always keep this theme and they won’t become impotent like they did during the Voyager series. However, if you are trying to rationalize the way Janeway and friends did so well against the Borg, I would suggest you use the “insider information” slant. Species 8472 had a way to block the assimilation process on the cellular/molecular level. Maybe the Federation is about get into peace talks with them and the Borg need to assimilate them before they can complete diplomatic negotiations? Plus, 37DD of Nine must have some information on how to beat the Borg in certain areas: shield harmonics, weapon configurations, sleep function activation, etc.
The Guardian of Forever is a crazy wildcard as to how it can be used. Do the PCs use it to go back in time to where the Borg first formed and perform genocide on the race before it has a chance to even begin? Do they go and stop Janeway from altering the timeline? The possibilities are almost endless.

Hope this helps.

[First of Two]

C5: Having never read Carpe Jugulum, I'll have to say it's coincidence.

Kronok: Unfortunately (as I remembered while trying to figure out a VOY tie-in much like you suggested), my story is set during the Dominion War, before the events in "In the Pale Moonlight," which makes using materials from later impossible until they happen.

In fact, I WAS considering 'creating' a reason that the Borg became so easy to defeat during 'Dark Frontier" and "Endgame" and tying it in to my adventure (like, say, the assimilation-resistant NPC somehow triggers the Unimatrix Zero revolution?), but since the PC's will probably never know about it, I discarded it as irrelevant.

[euson1]

PC ship displaced in time.
Voyager returns home.
Borg assimilation of admiral Janeway and her future tech a trap.
Borg lose the future tech to Janeway's nano-virus.
Federation now has future tech that lets them vaporise cubes with a single torpedo.
Borg must launch an allout attack before the Federation can assimilate the new tech.
PC ship returns.
Alpha Quadrent a wasteland.
Borg have survived, but have taken MASSIVE casualties.
MASSIVE casualties is a must otherwise PCs return and are assimilated at once.

So what do you think?

[The Tatterdemalion King]

The Borg probably got transwarp from the Voth.