Borg plans after Destiny

[Enterprise1701]

A recent issue of Star Trek: Boldly Go had a not-dissimilar solution to dealing with the Borg, when

Spoiler: Boldly Go Spoilers

Captain Kirk beams over dozens of photon torpedoes onto a Borg sphere, and mass-detonates them.

Way back in 1990, when BoBW aired, I was basically wondering why the Enterprise-D crew didn't execute essentially the same tactic during their own particular Borg-situation, once they'd performed a few infiltrations and gathered enough recon-intel (as we saw in "Q Who" and BoBW).

I guess in "The Best of Both Worlds", the Borg at that stage of history used a distributed ship layout, too big for a single conventional attack and with no critical nexus point to target for a chain reaction. In First Contact, it seems that the cube had shields up the whole time until the end, at which point Starfleet could target a vulnerable point. In Boldly Go, the sphere must be small enough for a Constitution-class ship's torpedo arsenal to take on after a moment of disabled shields.

 

[Sci]

You know what I would have done? Intercept the cube in interstellar space and blow it with an isolytic subspace warhead. Worry about the legal consequences later; it's the damn Borg!

Which will work until such time as the Borg develop an effective counter-measure, so, like, roughly a week.