Borg transwarp

[Mjolnir2000]

The series ends with Voyager destroying a Borg transwarp hub, apparently robbing them of their ability to access a large chunk of the galaxy. But I seem to remember an incident a season or two earlier in which Voyager steals a "transwarp coil" from a Borg sphere, and are able to use it to go wherever they please. Since they aren't able to use it to get home, I can accept that it's probably a fair bit slower than travel via the hub, but I do recall it taking several years off their journey, suggesting that even without a hub a Borg ship should be able to travel from the heart of Borg space to the Federation in a few weeks. So why is the hub such a big deal?

 

[Disco]

I may be wrong but from memory Voyager didn't just destroy the hub but left a bomb at the start of the hub that destroyed a lot of Borg ships/other hubs? My memory isn't great however...

 

[Guy Gardener]

In the beginning TNG Descent, which was awful, Picard... Beverly? Someone in the big seat followed the Borg through their own Transwarp conduit. It was only a couple light years away in neutral space. 6 days at high regular warp which equated to a few seconds through the conduit.

Of course why the hypothetical rescue party didn't use the conduit is anyones guess?

(OH! Picard (others too) were kidnapped and Bev did chase them through the conduit because she had the bridge.)

But the point is that conduits have always been reusable.

I've made the comparison to laying railway tracks and train stations connecting the train lines more than once because it is incredibly apropos.

Voyager trekked 20 thousand light years before the coil burnt out that they "liberated" in Dark Frontier.

I can only suppose that that is because they stuck the wrong engine part in the wrong engine and that a Borg transwarp coil would last years or decades inside a Borg Cube.

Geordie described entering a conduit like jumping into a fast moving river.

Which means that Voyager was probably actually flying with their docking thrusters inside the corridor and not impulse drive at all, which would be just a huge mistake like trying to jetski down a Hydroslide at six flags.

 

[NOVE9]

Well you could just as easily say that the coil wasn't fully compatible with starfleet technology or it is designed to work in harmony with many coils. I doubt they fudged it considering 7 would have helped them install it.

 

[Guy Gardener]

This is why I think that she is not as smart as she says she is.

Seven should be able to make her own transwarpcoils, if sh can get her hands on the raw materials.

Considering every time the build a shuttle, they have to build new warp coils.

hell.

Even every time they build a torpedo they have to build new coils.

Hmm?

Transwarp torpedos.

Remember K'Ehleyr?

Worfs wife?

She travelled by class 8 probe which was basically a torpedo with the bomb taken out.

They could have sent Harry back, so that everyone else could enjoy themselves finally.

 

[bbjeg]

I was a going to say, they could use it to shoot Neelix into a star but that might be going too far.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Well, I was just thinking, you tell them it's a transwarp probe that will take him home, but it's really just a stasis pod.

You can't tell me that there isn't a button on the transporter control labelled "shred"?

 

[bbjeg]

^Then some bad guy would be able to shred the crew from one place.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Data's Grampah was buried in space by transporter.

Did he materialize outside the ship or diffuse into the universe?

 

[Enterprise1701]

Maybe the rogue Borg in "Descent" and Voyager in "Dark Frontier" used temporary conduits while the transwarp hub maintains permanent conduits?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Think of the hub as mission control. It maintains and regulates all the transwarp corridors across the galaxy, or at least the ones connected to it, but remember, the Borg have 6 hubs in the Milk Way Galaxy... This large and complex network of conduits is an infrastructure just like any other infrastructure it needs constant supervision to maintain saftey standards and useability, just like there is always road works going on all across your country to make sure that nothing falls into disrepair when it is needed.

 

[trekshark]

Data's Grampah was buried in space by transporter.

Did he materialize outside the ship or diffuse into the universe?

materialized and floated away, there's a pic here:
http://them0vieblog.com/2014/01/01/star-trek-the-next-generation-the-schizoid-man-review/

 

[Guy Gardener]

Danke.

 

[Lord Manitou]

Why didn't the Borg use the hub to take over the galaxy? I don't know.It is the same to say why didn't they assimilate planet earth? Who knows?
It would seem the Hub is one of the Borgs pets since they respect perfection. The Borg will respect reaching any part of the galaxy in minutes instead of hours or days or weeks.

 

[Guy Gardener]

1. There were 6 hubs before Endgame started (It's in the Endgame script.).

2. The Borg do not want to take over the Galaxy.

3. Assimilation is a positive uplifting reward for having something worthwhile to contribute to the collective. The Borg feel sad for the drudge lives led by the unassimilated.

4. The Borg will not assimilate inferior species with nothing to contribute who will diminish overall Borg Perfection... Hey! That's how Brad Pitt defeated the Zombies in World War Z!

 

[Vandervecken]

I was a going to say, they could use it to shoot Neelix into a star but that might be going too far.

Well sure it would be, who knows what polluting a star like that would produce?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Whiskers?

 

[Praxius]

The thing I don't get is if the Borg were never completely destroyed at the end of Voyager, then not only could they easily build back up and carry on with normal business, but even if Voyager destroyed the conduit, the Borg could just simply build another one.

After all, they know how to do it.

 

[Guy Gardener]

If it was the author, or the producers intent that the Borg all died in the end, then they did an extremely poor job of expressing that fact.

Years later SG1 used the Stargate network, opening all the gates simultaneously to blast their antireplicator weapon everywhere at the same time.

Practically the same thing.

Poof!

Bad guys gone.

Everyone did the snoopy dance.

 

[Melakon]

The Borg will prevail.