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[cruets]

There is a popular fan theory that the Borg "Farm" civilisations.

Wow thanks. great read . It all makes sense now. Can't believe Picard never aske himself how the federation always got so lucky. Arrogant eathlings

 

[Fuchsdh]

Terk noob here.

Wasn't there an episode when they killed Borg with conventional (bullets) weapons? They wouldn't be able to adapt to those would they?

I imagine if the Federation started switching to ballistic weapons, the Borg would adapt (heavier armor plating on drones, different type of shield technology to deflect bullets and not just energy weapons, et al.) Picard's trick works because there's absolutely no time for the drones to react. If he just sat in the Holodeck killing drones as they came in at some point it would stop working (hell maybe the Borg would just start using other Drones as humanish shields to get close to him.)

That's why a sustained Borg war would be so interesting--every move the good guys make the Borg will start countering. In the television show that really only manifested as resistance to their energy weapons and a way to defeat the virus Voyager uploads.

 

[Koomaster]

Borg Queen was necessary because without her the Borg are just a virus that mindlessly assimilates and replicates. Viruses can eventually be 'cured' and wiped out. So they need the queen to be apart from the hive mind to give directives and vision on how to better utilize their new found knowledge every time they assimilate a species.

 

[QuicheFontaine]

Borg Queen was necessary because without her the Borg are just a virus that mindlessly assimilates and replicates. Viruses can eventually be 'cured' and wiped out. So they need the queen to be apart from the hive mind to give directives and vision on how to better utilize their new found knowledge every time they assimilate a species.

Some guy in the ebola thread told me you can't cure viruses tho.

 

[pants]

Some guy in the ebola thread told me you can't cure viruses tho.

I saw your posts in that thread, oh boy.

 

[QuicheFontaine]

I saw your posts in that thread, oh boy.

I know, right? Doctors are mean!

 

[mr jones]

Borg Queen was necessary because without her the Borg are just a virus that mindlessly assimilates and replicates. Viruses can eventually be 'cured' and wiped out. So they need the queen to be apart from the hive mind to give directives and vision on how to better utilize their new found knowledge every time they assimilate a species.

COMPLETE BULLSHIT.

You have to think outside the box when it comes to the Borg. The Borg as a set of different matrices that make up a complete consciousness is fascinating, and worth multiple episodes studying. As another poster said, they're not evil by nature. They just ARE. They see themselves as becoming better by assimilating different species and technologies. You could have episodes where some federation good guy is trying to give the concept of individuality to the Borg, and why the Borg will almost always encounter resistance to assimilation.

FUCK the Borg Queen.

Oh, and... um... yeah. My mind is blown from Borg being short for cyborg. How did I miss THAT???

 

[biggersmaller]

The Borg were great in TNG - an ominous army of remorseless killers. Then First Contact comes along. Seriously, how did they fuck a 2 hour war movie with the Borg up? Lazy fish-out-of-water time travel plot trapped inside a shitty zombie home invasion flick.

I wanted a war and I got a 8 minute battle followed by drunk Troy and Geordi having needed be explained what taking a leak is.

Shatnerverse is great. It's such a Kirk wankfest.

Fuck, I read those books in high school. So try to keep up:

Kirk is killed, resurrected, and killed again in Generations. Then Shatner resurrects Kirk in the novelized sequel...then kills him again...only to bring him back again to life in the subsequent book...to fight space ecoterrorists.

Kirk is Space Jesus X3. Good times.

 

[benjipwns]

My favorite part of the Shatnerverse books is that in every single one (well of the first five or six or however many I read years ago) had at least one moment where no matter who was in the room and their experience, Picard, Spock, Data, etc. they all had to turn to Kirk to solve some dilemma.

 

[Volimar]

I just saw this on thinkgeek

Someone buy it for me.

 

[DY_nasty]

at least we have the geth

:/

 

[industrian]

Shatnerverse is great. It's such a Kirk wankfest.

I remember The Ashes of Eden being pretty good when I read it (I was 11-12.)

Then Insurrection came along and lifted a good deal of the book's plot.

 

[Rapstah]

at least we have the geth

:/

We do?

 

[benjipwns]

I remember The Ashes of Eden being pretty good when I read it (I was 11-12.)

Then Insurrection came along and lifted a good deal of the book's plot.

Yeah, that one isn't as insane.

It has a nice comic adaption.