Can bioneural gel packs be assimilated by Borg nanoprobes?
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The only thing nanoprobes couldn't assimilate is Species 8472 biotech, for the same reason they couldn't stabilise Omega: writer-induced incompetence.
Omega: Use its own resonance.
Species 8472: Use their own biochemical signature.
If they can assimilate 29th Century technology, they can assimilate bioneural gelpacks.
Omega: Use its own resonance.
Species 8472: Use their own biochemical signature.
If they can assimilate 29th Century technology, they can assimilate bioneural gelpacks.
Plecostomus
Commodore
Fixed your typo. It's not incompetence to leave an out for your heroes, and its doubly important with an adversary like the Borg, otherwise you quickly write your universe out of existence.
I'm talking about the Borg themselves, not the writers.
That's why the Borg were written to be incompetent. If the Borg were written logically, then there wouldn't be an episode next week.
Actually, even for the Borg, the reason on why they were unable to assimilate 8472 makes sense.
For obvious reasons, they are from a different universe to name one thing, and for the other, their immune system is extremely aggressive as explained in the episode (which also exists in their ships/tech which are based off the same principles as their biological makeup).
Up until every encounter with other alien species, the Borg had access to some kind of info about the race in question, and given how most of the races in the Milky Way only vary on the level of tech development, the 8472's proved to be much more problematic (but hardly impossible to assimilate given enough time) because of their origins and biological makeup.
As for why they were unable to stabilize Omega ... that much is a writers stupidity at it's best.
As for neural gel-packs being assimilated ... I don't see why not.
Their partial organic nature (simplistic though) makes them that much more susceptible to assimilation (technology can easily be assimilated though as well as it was already evidenced on screen).
I really don't get this logic. Failure to achieve everything with ease is incompetence? Since when?
It sounds perfectly plausible that various species of various skill levels, from mollusks to Borg, would have trouble achieving feat X, say, stabilizing the Omega molecule. It would only be a writer cop-out if an established omnipotent creature were shown impotent in a particular respect. And even the Q aren't quite omnipotent.
Timo Saloniemi
It sounds perfectly plausible that various species of various skill levels, from mollusks to Borg, would have trouble achieving feat X, say, stabilizing the Omega molecule. It would only be a writer cop-out if an established omnipotent creature were shown impotent in a particular respect. And even the Q aren't quite omnipotent.
Timo Saloniemi
The fact that they didn't even *think* of using Omega's own resonance frequency to try stabilising it with?
It's the FIRST thing I would have tried.
It's the FIRST thing I would have tried.
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