Quote Originally Posted by Arcane_Secrets View Post
The Borg Collective is evil, yes. Individuals or groups of Borg that break away from the collective and its imperatives to assimilate or destroy all other species, and universally repress all traces of individuality aren't necessarily such (although if they get basically cult leadership, like they did in Descent, they can be, but that's true for members of any species).

On the subject, considering that in First Contact the Borg got closer to assimilating Earth than they did at any other time to the extent that the Enterprise could actually see the assimilated planet as they were following the Borg sphere backwards in time, why didn't the Borg just keep trying time travel attacks against Earth itself until one of them succeeded and the Federation/Enterprise lost? Was this explored at any point in any other work at all?
My theory is that as their goal is to assimilate technology (as well as culture and biology). The further they go back in time, the less technology there is for them to assimilate.