Poll General Borg Questions Thread

[AdamNY]

Would it be like them to do it? I'm watching "Scorpion" (Voyager) and it's got me wondering, would it have been typical of TNG/First Contact Borg to do such a thing? We never see weapons of mass destruction from them when it came to TNG.
Thoughts?

 

[AdamNY]

I get the impression that they were going to destroy them, but I'm not sure. What made this episode creepy was that this felt more like a sequel to "Q Who" than the "Best of Both Worlds" (both parts). The Borg seemed to go back to their more violent (less assimilating) roots.
But did they plan on doing so?
The Borg seemed to be searching in their direction for the Borg.

 

[AdamNY]

*episode creepy for me

 

[AdamNY]

I felt like in a sense, him going weakened them. I understood the moral dilemna of not wanting to kill the Borg, but I also think putting the anomoly wouldn't have worked either anyways.

 

[NewHeavensNewEarth]

Can you consolidate your Borg questions into 1 thread, please? All fine questions, but not all needing their own threads.

 

[Boris Skrbic]

No.

 

[Boris Skrbic]

Added their biological and technological distinctiveness to their own.

 

[Boris Skrbic]

Yes.

 

[Mojochi]

I'm thinking if Hugh had gone missing from the crash site, when they returned to it, they'd have begun trying to track his homing signal. I think Geordi mentioned having blocked or suppressed it temporarily. Hugh seemed convinced they'd track him nonetheless. It probably wouldn't take much effort for them to suss out that he'd been intercepted, and then begin the process of finding out who had

They'd have tracked them down eventually IMHO, & given how terribly things went the last time they had absconded with a drone, they'd probably lay waste to the ship to get him out of their possession

 

[1001001]

I merged the three different Borg threads into one, and edited the title.

@AdamNY welcome to the TrekBBS. Please take some time to review the rules for posting here. They are pinned at the top of the forum.

Posting too many threads at once and posting too many times in a row are both frowned upon.

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[AdamNY]

Who put them altogether? That wasn't me

Can you consolidate your Borg questions into 1 thread, please? All fine questions, but not all needing their own threads.

 

[AdamNY]

I'm thinking if Hugh had gone missing from the crash site, when they returned to it, they'd have begun trying to track his homing signal. I think Geordi mentioned having blocked or suppressed it temporarily. Hugh seemed convinced they'd track him nonetheless. It probably wouldn't take much effort for them to suss out that he'd been intercepted, and then begin the process of finding out who had

They'd have tracked them down eventually IMHO, & given how terribly things went the last time they had absconded with a drone, they'd probably lay waste to the ship to get him out of their possession

That's what this episode feel more like "Q Who" than the assimilation episode "BOBW"

 

[AdamNY]

I merged the three different Borg threads into one, and edited the title.

@AdamNY welcome to the TrekBBS. Please take some time to review the rules for posting here. They are pinned at the top of the forum.

Posting too many threads at once and posting too many times in a row are both frowned upon.

Thanks

Frowned upon by who? The mods or the people here?

 

[1001001]

Frowned upon by who? The mods or the people here?

Generally speaking, both.

In this particular case, as the moderator, I’m informing you of the rules for posting here. That’s the job.

As long as you stick to those, you’ll be fine.

 

[Tenacity]

We never see weapons of mass destruction from them when it came to TNG.

If they have antimatter, they inherently have WMD's.

 

[Finn]

So does the D! Picard once mentioned the ship's technology was capability of destroying cities and causing quakes from orbit. I think this thread is silly.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

It seems clear they are capable of mass destruction, they just prefer to take planets intact.

 

[Mojochi]

So does the D! Picard once mentioned the ship's technology was capability of destroying cities and causing quakes from orbit.

Heck, the waste byproduct the ship makes is a WMD

 

[BorgMan]

It seems clear they are capable of mass destruction, they just prefer to take planets intact.

They do, yeah. You can see so during the Undine crisis. They tried assimilating them (because yay fluidic space), then when that failed they tried to destroy them... With little success. It took the out-of-the-cube (ghehe) thinking of a Federation crew to come up with a weapon capable of destroying them.

That being said... I am also a firm believer that they're just not interested in blowing everything up. It goes against their principle of bettering themselves. They only resort to WMD tactics if the other party is a threat they can't adapt to.

 

[The Old Mixer]

They scooped up entire settlements. Is that not mass destruction?