Originally posted by: vegetation
Originally posted by: Tyler
Originally posted by: kleinesarschloch
the borg have transwarp conduits. it wouldn't take them 200 years to get to earth.
She said it would take 200 years for a subspace transmission to reach the delta quadrant. She didn't say anything about how long it'd take them to get to earth. And yes, Malcolm said "few seconds". You need to actually pay attention next time you watch the show.
Actually, the transmission would have reached the Borg nearly instantly, as Data mentioned in Best of Both Worlds, that Borg transmissions operate on a subspace carrier wave similar to a transporter beam. This also brings the question as to why Data didn't know about this Enterprise incident? It's hard to believe with all his trillions of operations per second that he couldn't make a historical database search come up with something.