Can't imagine there would be much value in assimilating a tree
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x09 - "Võx"
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The tree had metaphasic shielding.
Tree? I am no tree! I am an ent!Can't imagine there would be much value in assimilating a tree
Hypothetically, if the Borg were to destroy Earth Spacedock, wouldn't that in and of itself be enough to cause an extinction level event to the planet?
It's big enough that the Enterprise-F can fit through the space doors. Meaning it's multiple miles long, and must have a huge amount of mass. If the Borg destroy it, that mass would probably fall towards Earth and you have the same problem the Ewoks should have had with the Death Star blowing up in orbit of Endor.
It's big enough that the Enterprise-F can fit through the space doors. Meaning it's multiple miles long, and must have a huge amount of mass. If the Borg destroy it, that mass would probably fall towards Earth and you have the same problem the Ewoks should have had with the Death Star blowing up in orbit of Endor.
Perhaps it will be a new 'branch' of the collective
Can't imagine there would be much value in assimilating a tree
No but there might be value in a few photon torpedoes at starfleet headquaters... probably take out much of North America?
Fair point, but Shelby is a very high-value individual to assimilate, similar to JLP in BOBW! The overall strategy seems off, if increasing the size of the (decimated) collective is the primary goal.
Not necessarily (this is the plot of 'seveneves' btw). Much of the fragments will just continue to orbit, they won't 'fall' unless the explosion sends them earthwards.
But if you were aiming to eliminate any resistance, she would be a top priority target. Tha plus all major government installations plus say the top 5 most populated cities. Would still leave billions to assimilate!
They have already assimilated the fleet, would guess they will see more value in the lifeforms than destroying them.
Its in orbit and doesn't have to all fall to Earth. Orbit does not need to be sustained in all cases. The moon is in orbit and actually is moving away from the Earth. The end state there is long days tending towards no Earth Rotation with the moon very far away. Even if Spacedock were to fall to Earth it would likely be a slow process and there would be time to move the wreckage before reentry into the atmosphere.
And if it fell, it would only be falling from Orbit. Extinction level events tend to be a combination of mass and velocity. This thing has very little velocity relative to earth.
Got to eliminate resistance from the olds. Especially since they don't seem to (yet?) have the ability to mechanically assimilate millennials and older. Gen z and alpha are targets for assimilation of course, but there are billions of them.
In FC even though just one ship I'm sure they had enough fire power to cause more damage but just targeted the phoenix.
Plus...the Ent D gonna stop em
That's true but there was nobody on Earth who could have meaningfully resisted. Whereas there are presumably now a lot of well-armed old people who have experience fighting the borg. Priority number 1 has to be taking out un-assimilated ships (we already saw them do this) plus also potential problems like Shelby and Janeway.
Just thought..
They could have had a pre recorded Admiral Archer celebrating a 20 year anniversary .. And they rebroadcast his speech. Get Scott in there!!
They could have had a pre recorded Admiral Archer celebrating a 20 year anniversary .. And they rebroadcast his speech. Get Scott in there!!
Or Admiral Ackbar. It was a trap!
I wonder how many people in the last 30 years had the idea of the E-D's resurrection in their fanfiction. I've thought up many different fan theories over the years and somehow I never thought of this one. I just assumed they chopped the saucer up into pieces and it was in some garbage dump or if it was ever going to make an appearance it would be like this one.
These borg are completely biological, they probably can't assimilate, no technology.
Going non-canon, we know from the Ships of the Line calendars that the saucer was recovered by Starfleet to prevent influencing the Veridians. It seems obvious to me that Starfleet would do something with the saucer if they got to pick it up anyway instead of dumping it. At the time, the saucer was chock-full of state of the art tech as well. Can't leave that lying around.I wonder how many people in the last 30 years had the idea of the E-D's resurrection in their fanfiction. I've thought up many different fan theories over the years and somehow I never thought of this one. I just assumed they chopped the saucer up into pieces and it was in some garbage dump or if it was ever going to make an appearance it would be like this one.
Given the Enterprise-D's impressive service record, putting the saucer into a museum would be the obvious thing.
In STO, Starfleet maintains functional, full replicas of dozens of historic ships, going back to the 22nd century.
I'm sure in the Return that's what they were doing, removing it so visitors from the other verdian planet didn't come across it in future