@JilltheTooth They would probably hunker down and stay until everything was used up, which, when one considers their technology is arguably capable of rendering stuff to its elemental form, could be quite awhile. You can to a point, travel among them if you had no technology to bring attention to towards you. I never seen them as manufacturers, they were more like Vikings or pirates, taking the best of what others had made. It may take years, to many years but I think they would, within eight years have picked apart the world of all its technology, then leave and go look for more. If you found a way to live primitively, you might slide under the radar.
@tedd Our guns would work pretty well against the borg. Seeing a modern E-22 Raptor, Sukhoi T-50 Maksimov, etc, of today are at least 30 times smaller than Akira, and Ambassador class starships, that would make any bullets or missiles fairly small. Worse than trying to take down a bull elephant with a .22 snub nose revolver. When they discover most of our weaponry is depended on electronics and computer, which would be primitive compared to theirs, a well placed EMP spread and most of the defenses are pretty much blind at that point. Even the big 16 in cannons on a battle ship would be small by comparison.
@JilltheTooth, @zensky Go get a holodeck, we don’t allow that sort of behavior in 10 Forward eye roll
@KatawaGrey I’d call Voyager and have them open up a portal to fluidic space and Species 8472 come and take out the Borg. Sadly we have no Starfleet today. If we did, how can we be sure Species 8472 won’t turn on us after polishing off the Borg?