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Captain's log
It's been a while since my last entry into the log. Before embarking on my next assignment, I've decided to make an entry of the events that have transpired over the last five years.
Five years ago, we encountered the Borg again. The Borg captured Captain Picard and transformed him into Locutus to act as a Borg representative to humanity. We mounted a rescue mission in hopes of retrieving the Captain from the Borg but were repulsed. The modifications we made to the deflector dish in our attempt to destroy the Borg cube when the attempted rescue of Captain Picard failed were ineffective because the Borg had already gained knowledge of our plans when they assimilated the captain into their collective. In addition, our modifications also damaged our engines which prevented us from joining the hastily assembled fleet by Admiral Hanson at Wolf 359.
Once we made necessary repairs, we journeyed to Wolf 359 in hopes of joining in the battle against the Borg. But we were too late. The Borg destroyed 39 of the 40 ships at Wolf 359 and the lone surviving vessel had headed elsewhere for repairs. We proceeded to Earth in sector 001 to join whatever defenses Starfleet was massing against the Borg cube and hoped we would not be too late.
But again we were too late. The Borg had warped in close to Earth orbit and proceeded to assimilate as many people as possible. By the time the Enterprise entered Sol system, major cities as well as Space Station McKinley were broadcasting distress calls. McKinley had Borg drones throughout the station and their numbers were growing. Hundreds of Borg drones appeared in Paris, New York and San Francisco. Starfleet headquarters and the Academy were inundated with drones that were beginning the assimilation process. Earth had fallen to the Borg; we just didn't know it yet.
I ordered the Enterprise and all ships in the system to launch an attack on the Borg cube orbiting Earth. A general message was broadcast to all ships to head for Sector 001 in a head on assault against the Borg. Reports were coming in from Earth of some resistance but it was rapidly crumbling. Our attack against the Borg cube was an utter failure. The Borg cube took all the punishment the Enterprise and the rest of the ships in the system doled out like it was nothing. When it did begin to notice our presence, its beam weapon cut through ships left and right. Our shields, like our weapons were next to useless. The attack was repulsed with ease but it did buy some time to allow transports and other ships to flee from Earth.
The Enterprise along with about a dozen ships limped to Mars and the Utopia Planitia shipyards for repairs and to rearm the ships. We then waited for a day so more ships could join in another fight against the Borg cube. When we felt we had enough ships and weaponry, we attacked the cube in force. Only problem was that by that time, the Borg had control of the Earth based defenses as well as Space station McKinley as well as the nearly indestructible cube ship. Our attacked failed again but we kept trying over the next week. But with each passing day, it became more and more apparent that the Borg had established a beach head in the Alpha Quadrant and would not be leaving anytime soon. Ships continually fled from Earth but the Borg did not care. There would still be billions of lives they could assimilate.
Starfleet command was reestablished on Mars, at least what remained of command. An unknown signal was sent by the Borg to parts unknown, but everyone who knew of the signal had their suspicions. While the attacks against the Borg cube continued, preparations were made to evacuate the Sol system. The number of starships littering the space near Earth was a clear indicator that the only reason the Borg did not take the offensive was because it was waiting for something to happen.
A week after the signal was sent; headquarters on Mars detected a spatial anomaly about a light year from Earth. Another attack was made against the Borg cube while other ships headed out toward the spatial anomaly. The attack against the cube failed again while the ships sent toward the anomaly were all destroyed by the eight Borg cubes that had come through the transwarp vortex. Preparations that had been under way for an evacuation of the Sol system were now done with more urgency. The orbital portions of the Utopia Planitia shipyards had been modified so it could travel away from the system on its own. The shipyard immediately went to warp when news of the destruction of the fleet outside Sol system was reported. Thousands of scientists and engineers fled in civilian transports. The combat capable ships stayed behind to delay the Borg vessels from approaching Mars.
Luck was finally on our side for once. Only one cube headed towards Mars, the other seven took off in various directions. Nobody knew where they had gone, but according to the vectors, they were headed towards the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, the Cardassian Union, the Tholian Assembly and the other major powers in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. At that moment, though, all we cared about was that only one more cube would be in the Sol system. The assembled fleet went to attack the Borg cube headed towards Mars to delay it as much as possible. Many would escape but many more would be left behind. It was like déjà vu with Earth a week earlier. After an hour of trying to fight the new Borg cube, the remaining ships fled the system. The Sol system was effectively in Borg control and out of the war against the Borg.
A month after the Borg entered Federation space, intelligence reports indicated that the Borg were in control of Earth, Cardassia Prime, Romulus and Remus, as well as Q'osnos and Tholia. All groups that tried to attack the Borg were repulsed. The major powers of the Alpha and Beta quadrants were in a state of war against a new invader and their once mighty fleets fell to the onslaught of the Borg. In a year, hundreds of star systems fell under Borg control and all were in the process of being assimilated. For the next two years, the remnants of the various powers in the Alpha and Beta quadrants continued the fight without any success. The Borg adapted relentlessly to the attacks and continued their march across the stars.
It was a little over three years since the war began that hope began to die. One by one, star systems were attacked and assimilated. Starships and starbases were captured or destroyed with every encounter with the Borg. The Federation tried to find allies, but everyone had enough problems with the Borg in their territory and the fact that Locutus was on the Borg vessel led to great hatred of the Federation. Starfleet command sent ships to try to contact races that might have the power to fight the Borg like the Metrons and the Organians, but the Organians refused to fight against the Borg while the Metrons refused to meet our envoys. The Enterprise sought out the alien Douwd on Ranos IV but he refused to kill any more beings after the destruction of the Husnock. Q was nowhere to be found but even if he could, it was his fault that the Borg knew of the Federation.
All hope was lost in our fight against the Borg. Nothing we tried, nothing we did was successful. With each passing day or month or year, more and more Borg cubes were detected. Estimates at the time indicated that there were hundreds if not thousands of cubes throughout known territory. There was talk that the Federation would fall in a matter of months if it hadn't already. Command was instituting plans to flee Federation space and travel to other parts of the galaxy in hopes of at least surviving the Borg. It was then that we met someone who was willing to help us.