Anyone interested in a "Borg Ship Recognition Manual"?

[Therin of Andor]

Emh wrote:

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No, but I see Waldo!

Down Under (and in the UK?) he's Wally. Makes no sense at all when he meets the quasi-Mirror Universe Wally, named Odlaw.

[Wowbagger]

Dayton Ward wrote:

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Maybe we could have Borg ship blueprints, and maybe *they* would finally show us where the bowling alley is.

PICARD: Mister Data, what can you tell us?
DATA: The ship is strangely generalised in design. There is no specific bridge, no command centre. There is no engineering section. I can identify no living quarters. There is only...
RIKER: What is it, Data? Life signs?
DATA: There is no indication of life. However... I am picking up a bowling alley.

[BrotherBenny]

Jaron wrote:

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I think a book about identifying Borg ships is a great idea. In fact, I threw together some concept art for it:


Can you spot the Borg cube?

*peers hard at page*
...
*still looking*
...

[The Borg Queen]

Rat Boy wrote:

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Make it a kids book and have the Borg Queen teach young drones about different shapes.

That's a great idea!

[HIj'Qa]

There is a pretty good Borg Ship Recognition section in the Prima Guide to the Star Trek Legacy game. Ten or more pages with ships from the ENT era through 25th cent with nice picture, stats, etc.

[Chemahkuu]

captcalhoun wrote:

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Cube. weird random design. sphere. lozenge. crown thingy.

yeah, that'll be a varied book...

Well more like;

1. Cube
2. Sphere
3. Probe
4. Diamond
5. Weird thing
6. Unimatrix
7. Hub
8. Armada designs (Assimilator, Detector, Yards) ?

But yeah, theres book out there with this stuff in it already.

[The Borg Queen]

Chemahkuu wrote:

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5. Weird thing

You mean the "Multi-kinetic neutronic mine"?

[captcalhoun]

no, the thingy from Descent that the individualists flew

[HIj'Qa]

Chemahkuu wrote:

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Well more like;

1. Cube
2. Sphere
3. Probe
4. Diamond
5. Weird thing
6. Unimatrix
7. Hub
8. Armada designs (Assimilator, Detector, Yards) ?

But yeah, theres book out there with this stuff in it already.

The Prima guide lists several generations of

Diamond
Obelisk
Cube
Rectangle
Sphere
Pyramid
and
Tactical Cube

[Kolrad]

Would a Borg diamond be distinguishable from a Borg cube flying diagonally?

[David cgc]

You tell me.

[Christopher]

I suppose that "diamond" in this context is an inaccurate term for an octahedron.

[FredH]

captcalhoun wrote:

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no, the thingy from Descent that the individualists flew

IIRC, a screen readout during one of Voyager's Borg-related episodes showed that thingy to have been a multikinetic-neutronic-mine-or-whatever. Presumably Lore found one, took it over and retrofitted it into a starship; this does not seem entirely out of character.

[Saratoga NX-3842]

Dayton3 wrote:

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Granted, only 7 different Borg ships have actually appeared onscreen with a couple of more implied, but I've always been intrigued by what people could come up with in trying to imagine different Borg ships down through the ages.

I'm more interested in a moratorium on any Borg stories for the next decade.

They're the superweapons of the Star Wars Expanded Universe

[Christopher]

FredH wrote:

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IIRC, a screen readout during one of Voyager's Borg-related episodes showed that thingy to have been a multikinetic-neutronic-mine-or-whatever. Presumably Lore found one, took it over and retrofitted it into a starship; this does not seem entirely out of character.

A VGR episode may have reused a shot of that miniature and labeled it as something different, but that doesn't mean you should take that reuse literally, any more than you should with any of the hundreds of other reuses of ship miniatures, FX shots, makeup designs, actors, costumes, etc. The idea of converting a mine into a starship makes no sense. A mine is a small thing that blows up. You can't retrofit a hand grenade into a truck.