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[TNG] What if the Borg cube of Wolf 359 that went on to be destroyed in earth orbit... wasn't?

Following the battle of Wolf 359, the cube resumed course towards Earth, completely undamaged. The Enterprise, having finally completed repairs, raced to catch up to the Borg. In preparation for a Borg invasion of Earth, a state of emergency was declared on the planet. Brushing aside the last line of defense by easily destroying a flotilla of Mars Defense Perimeter sentry pods, the Borg cube took up position in Earth orbit. However, using the recaptured Locutus and his link to the collective mind of the Borg, Data manages to invoke a man-in-the-middle attack on the secure link between the local Collective aboard the Cube, and Locutus, injecting a global sleep command to all drones. The entire crew of the Cub simultaneously begins their regeneration cycles, entering a state of dormancy and leaving the cube entirely undefended.

Automated counter measures detect the anomaly and are unsuccessful in reversing the hack, and thus execute a self-destruct sequence to avoid contamination further up the network topology, in addition to preventing Borg technology -- ironically -- assimilated.

*However, Data detects this malware defense response, and is successful in disabling it, while spoofing a command acknowledgement along the Locutus link up the network. The subspace link is then disabled -- if necessary, on the hardware level -- and the Collective loses contact with the Cube, seemingly due to successful execution of self destruct command.*

*The Cube remains in orbit around Earth, disconnected from the Collective, and all drones offline, and completely at the mercy of Starfleet scientists.*

**How do events from this point unfold differently along the future timeline, including the Dominion war and the Voyager incident?**
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Federation science is advanced by decades. By the time of the Dominion War, our weapons and regenerative tech make it a brief conflict. The DMZ probably never is established, because the Cardassian War goes much better, so no Maquis and no loss of Voyager in the Badlands.

The Federation learns how to hijack the Borg transwarp network, and eventually takes a more proactive stance against future Borg incursions, dismantling or locking out the Borg, hedging them out of near space one conduit at a time.

It still learns about Species 8472, the Voth, and the Hirogen. If we are lucky we just stay out of fluidic space. If not they may become a dire enemy defending against 'invasion' if first contact does not go well.

The Hirogen are naturally predatory and will see Federation explorers as new and interesting prey. They might be able to be bought off with holodeck tech from the start, if it's a Galaxy or Sovereign class crew instead of an Intrepid. Voyager's poor showing was due to simple inadequate defenses.

The Federation is not ready for the Voth and vice versa. It will probably devolve into a holy war against the human race.

The worst threat, however, are probably the time-meddling Krenim. Without Voyager's interference who knows how far they would have screwed up Delta-Quadrant chronology before their timeship was destroyed.