Most Logical Way To Defend Earth Against The Borg

[Crazy Eddie]

The best counter to this sort of illogical villainy is a bit of illogical heroism. Like if Starfleet decided to recruit Torchwood or something to build up some kind of fancy, clandestine silver-bullet defense that gets yanked out of the woodworks if the Borg ever show up again with whatever asinine scheme they've decided to use.

I can imagine how Torchwood would handle the Borg. Infect Captain Jack with some kind of super-nasty STD. Send him over to the Borg cube to charm his way through the ship, one drone at a time. The Borg sicken and die. Get Captain Jack back, give him the cure, have him get off a quick one-liner. Next episode.

Hell, that's apparently what Icheb's parents tried to do. The fact that it worked as well as it did sorta proves my point, if you think about it: the best defense against the Borg is usually a half dozen sneaky bastards with some kind of silver-bullet technobabble weapon that strikes the Borg at their weakest point.

 

[Captain Rob]

The best counter to this sort of illogical villainy is a bit of illogical heroism. Like if Starfleet decided to recruit Torchwood or something to build up some kind of fancy, clandestine silver-bullet defense that gets yanked out of the woodworks if the Borg ever show up again with whatever asinine scheme they've decided to use.

I can imagine how Torchwood would handle the Borg. Infect Captain Jack with some kind of super-nasty STD. Send him over to the Borg cube to charm his way through the ship, one drone at a time. The Borg sicken and die. Get Captain Jack back, give him the cure, have him get off a quick one-liner. Next episode.

No STD is neccessary. After a few of Captain Jack's one-liners the Borg would shut themselves down.

 

[Captain Rob]

Hmmm; defeat an illogical attack with an illogical defense. Got one:
Since the Borg only react to things they consider a threat. When a cube is located why don't Starfleet just beam over a whole bunch of tribble food and about a dozen tribbles? The ultimate low tech solution.
Would the Federation consider outlawing tribbles as WMDs? Weapons of Mass Digestion?

But, wouldn't the Borg just assimilate them? Then the Borg would have the ultimate weapon against all humanoid species with a thing for cute and furries, Borg-Tribbles.

"Awww, how cute! May I hold it?"

"Cooo, broooo, cooooo" (Translation: "Resistance is futile")

A Borg-Tribble. Quick! Somebody photoshop one!

 

[Caliburn24]

From what we have seen onscreen, Borg industrial capacity far outstrips the Federation's industrial capacity, therefore any defense no matter how intricately designed and well planned will eventually be ground down to dust. I think Guinin said something along those lines back when the Borg were first introduced.

If you're defensive against the Borg, you die, or rather, get assimilated. You have to attack to have any chance, no matter how small, for victory.

 

[Deks]

From what we have seen onscreen, Borg industrial capacity far outstrips the Federation's industrial capacity, therefore any defense no matter how intricately designed and well planned will eventually be ground down to dust. I think Guinin said something along those lines back when the Borg were first introduced.

If you're defensive against the Borg, you die, or rather, get assimilated. You have to attack to have any chance, no matter how small, for victory.

That's the gist of it really.
Problem is, none of the races full potential is ever fully utilized.
That much is virtually always done in the novels.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

^ That's what I mean, though. If the Borg were behaving logically they would just send TEN cubes to invade Earth and tear through Starfleet. If by some miracle the fleet managed to turn them back, send fifteen in the next wave, these new ones having adapted to Earth's new weapons. If that doesn't work, send twenty more.

They never do it this way because it robs Our Heroes of the chance to come up with some kind of silver bullet last minute "modify the tachyon matrix compositor" solution to save the day. And since that's what will be required ANYWAY, you might as well create a special orgnaization whose entire job is to do just that when needed. The advantage is they'd be effective against more than just the Borg, they could probably turn back any wandering whale probes and V'gers etc that happen their way.

Of coruse, if that's too expensive or infeasible, the better solution is to just keep the Enterprise on speed dial.

 

[Shatnertage]

^ Yes, if they were really thinking strategically, they'd use the Anaconda strategy that worked for the North during the Civil War: blockade, divide, then use your superior industrial base and numbers to win a war of attrition.

That would make lousy TV, though. But it would be nice if someone had thought up a reason why the Borg never tried this strategy.

 

[Caliburn24]

I've always liked to think that the cube from Best of Both Worlds, and the other Borg activity in TNG were just advanced scouts, sent ahead of their slower main advance which will reach the Federation sometime after DS9 and Voyager ended.

Or alternatively, that the Borg do not consider the Federation much of a threat, and instead have the bulk of their resources tied up against other more serious threats.

The novels of course have their own take on it all, but I don't particularly like how the Destiny trilogy just used a deus ex machina solution to solve the whole Borg problem.

 

[Wingsley]

By far the best defense against the Borg is a potent (and extremely dangerous) offense.

HOW TO DEFEAT THE BORG IN SIX NOT-SO-EASY STEPS:

1: Seek out and located a lone Borg vessel to be used as a target.

2: Amass a small attack fleet of varied races with a variety of offensive weapons and defenses (Romulan, Klingon, Dominion, Breen, Federation, etc.)

3: Recruit Kamikaze attack troops that will use the Rutian-Ansatan Dimensional Inverter device to suddenly teleport aboard the target Borg vessel, sabotage the ship from within, and plant bombs. (Since no transporter is being used to "beam aboard" the target vessel, there is no way for the Borg to block a transporter beam.)

4: The bombs should contain an additional weapon along with explosives: nanites designed to attack and "poison" the Borg infrastructure with Omicron radiation.

5: As the starships in the attack fleet play a game of cat-and-mouse with the Borg ship, provoking it to waste energy, the Inverter-equipped attack troops bomb the Borg ship from within, quickly returning to their home ships before the Borg drones can move to subdue the attackers.

6: As with the abduction of Locutus, the Inverter-equipped attack troops could subdue a single drone, take it back to one of the starships, and use it to gain access to the Borg collective signals. As the ship weakens from the attacks, the attack fleet could use the drone to disable the Borg ship and neutralize it for further study.

Once neutralized, the Borg could be disarmed and their technology used to enhance the attacking alliance. The alliance would then be in a position to contain, isolate and stop the Borg on a broader scale. So it would be "the good guys" who learn to adapt and assimilate the Borg.

 

[Hofner]

Defending Earth against the Borg would be very simple. All you'll need is Captain Picard and a few standard starships. He'll point out some random spot on the Borg cube, they concentrate their firepower on it for a few seconds and poof. No more Borg cube. It's canon you know.

Robert

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Defending Earth against the Borg would be very simple. All you'll need is Captain Picard and a few standard starships. He'll point out some random spot on the Borg cube, they concentrate their firepower on it for a few seconds and poof. No more Borg cube. It's canon you know.

Robert

You know, I always wondered why Starfleet never just did that anyway. It does not make sense for all the starships to hit the cube wherever they want.

The logical course of action would be to concentrate all of their firepower on a single spot and overcome the defences at that location.

Starships have different shield areas aka dorsal shielding, we've heard data say "dorsal shielding down to 50%" and we saw an image in Nemesis of that shield failing more than the others. So if an enemy wanted to overcome the shields all firepower would be focused on one section of the shields to try and quickly overcome them before they can compensate.

If you wanna damage a Borg vessel, fire every torpedo and phaser available at one location and you'll gradually blast away a huge chunk and then all it takes is one torpedo to get through into the centre of the cube and the cube is history because the inside of the cube has an atmosphere.

 

[Vanyel]

Hmmm; defeat an illogical attack with an illogical defense. Got one:
Since the Borg only react to things they consider a threat. When a cube is located why don't Starfleet just beam over a whole bunch of tribble food and about a dozen tribbles? The ultimate low tech solution.
Would the Federation consider outlawing tribbles as WMDs? Weapons of Mass Digestion?

But, wouldn't the Borg just assimilate them? Then the Borg would have the ultimate weapon against all humanoid species with a thing for cute and furries, Borg-Tribbles.

"Awww, how cute! May I hold it?"

"Cooo, broooo, cooooo" (Translation: "Resistance is futile")

A Borg-Tribble. Quick! Somebody photoshop one!

I found this on another site:

 

[TiberiusMaximus]

Since Starfleet seem able to beam someone aboard a Borg Cube at will, they could beam aboard something as archaic and mundane (compared to 24th Century tech) as a nuclear warhead on a short detonation fuse.

I'd like to see them TRY to adapt to that. And what would happen if a smallish remotely controlled ship warped into the cube? That would do an awful lot of damage.

 

[Vanyel]

3: Recruit Kamikaze attack troops that will use the Rutian-Ansatan Dimensional Inverter device to suddenly teleport aboard the target Borg vessel, sabotage the ship from within, and plant bombs. (Since no transporter is being used to "beam aboard" the target vessel, there is no way for the Borg to block a transporter beam.)

That would seem to be the most logical way. They put anything in the Borg Cube, reactor coolant, destructive nanites, everything you mentioned.

The only thing I can see the Borg doing to counter would be send an overwhelming force and assimilate the Federation before Inverters could destroy too many cubes.

 

[Captain Rob]

But, wouldn't the Borg just assimilate them? Then the Borg would have the ultimate weapon against all humanoid species with a thing for cute and furries, Borg-Tribbles.

"Awww, how cute! May I hold it?"

"Cooo, broooo, cooooo" (Translation: "Resistance is futile")

A Borg-Tribble. Quick! Somebody photoshop one!

I found this on another site:

Thanks! I love them. I can hear them now:

Through Universal Translator:
"We are the Borg-tribble. You will be assimilated. Your distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile! ... Aw screw it. We're all pregnant and hungry."

 

[Meredith]

Clone via the replicator/transporter Billions and Trillions of one Red Shirted Ensign. Once the Collective Consists of 51% of the same person have their CO order them to proceede with the controlled de-assimilation of the remaining 49% until they are done and then de-assimilate the Ensigns and "Merge" their patterns dawn to one individual again.

Essentially a DDOS attack against the Borg.

 

[Captain Rob]

Since they're all red-shirts, wouldn't they all be killed?