I think the borg would only assimilate the technology of an aquatic species, not the individuals themselves. The only aquatic species we've seen are aquatic zendi. They're physically massive and wouldn't make good drones in the least.
Do the Borg invade aquatic civilizations?
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Mudang Harada
Lieutenant Commander
We also saw the Moneans.
It is vastly more difficult to make fire, blend elements and develop technology when living underwater. Odds are, most intelligent technologically current lifeforms are air breathers.
I always thought the drones were not just worker bees but basically individual processing units, like the Borg were a massively parallel processing computer, and the more processors/drones you have the faster the group can process information and take action. If so, while an aquatic species might be useless for stomping around like a zombie and using power tools, it might make a great component in the "bran" aspect of the collective.
I wouldn't say slow, as much as deliberate. In FC when pursuing the retreating Starfleet troops, they catch up pretty quick. When they are slow, why rush, once the pursued have run out of weapons modifictions and out of decks, they aren't going anywhere, tortoise and hare.
A bigger budgeted show where Borg sprint across great steppes pursing escaping civilians would be pretty epic of course.
Mudang Harada
Lieutenant Commander
I mean the humanoid drones. Why do it faster, quicker victory=less casualties. I also wonder how well they adapt to phisical objects like old school canonballs or what if a Vulcan wields a chainsaw against them like a sword?
I guess that at that point, they actually resort to using their arm-mounted disruptors, which have only been seen in use by the rogue Borg in "Descent" and "Descent, Part II".
Soran has such a disruptor in ST:Generations, no doubt he scavenged it from the aftermath of the Borg attack which destroyed his world. And these would not be the Borg who went rogue, but the 'normal' collective. So it would seem that regular Borg drones use those weapons as well.
Whatever and whenever would he have taken an alien arm-attached weapon for? The Borg wouldn't abandon their technology in a successful operation. Soran must have obtained the disruptor in local space at some point soon before 2371 when he got involved with Klingons.
I know; I was merely noting that the usage of disruptors was not at the Collective's command.
