They held off an entire Klingon fleet. Could they stop one Borg Cube?
Could DS9 fight a Borg Cube?
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I remember there were rumours circulating during the second season that the Borg would be appearing in the season finale. Never happened, obviously. It's difficult to imagine them fighting off a Borg Cube. The Enterprise and Voyager managed it largely through a tactic of hit and run. DS9 obviously couldn't do that, and whilst they may have fought off a Klingon assault, there's a big difference between that and fighting off the Borg.
But didn't you think the Feds were always stupid when they fought the Borg. There was that TNG episode where the Enterprise fires and blasts enormous chunks out of the Borg cube and then they just sit there. Hello! Stupid! Keep shooting! It seems like the first 50 photon torpedoes and 20 phaser bursts DS9 would have fired in a couple seconds would have destroyed them.
Were torpedoes ever effective against the Borg in TNG? They were able to modulate the frequencies of their phasers which enabled them to work on a limited basis.
The only time that the Enterprise was particularly effective in taking chunks out of a cube was in Q-Who, after that, the Borg were, within reason, completely ready for whatever the Federation could throw at them.
The Defiant was specifically built to combat the Borg, but took a heavy beating against them in First Contact.
The only time that the Enterprise was particularly effective in taking chunks out of a cube was in Q-Who, after that, the Borg were, within reason, completely ready for whatever the Federation could throw at them.
The Defiant was specifically built to combat the Borg, but took a heavy beating against them in First Contact.
Well, maybe the Chief could rig the Defiant's warp engines to create a warp wave (like seen in that TNG episode) that could carry DS9 into the badlands. Should the going get tough, run away. :thumbsup:
^^ That's a very good point. Can't really remember too much about the TNG episode in question. Presumably though, it wasn't high warp? If not, the Borg could still outrun them.
Of course, one extreme course of action would be to evacuate the station, going through the wormhole, and collapsing it from the other side. As I said, extreme, but effective I'd imagine.
Of course, one extreme course of action would be to evacuate the station, going through the wormhole, and collapsing it from the other side. As I said, extreme, but effective I'd imagine.
TNG Borg: less than 5 min
Voy Borg: Sisko beams over to Cube, takes hand phaser, and kills half the crew. Beams back over to DS9, opens comm link and sez, "I am the Sisko, GTFO off my station or I'll use superior physical skills to whip yo ass and make you like it MO FO"
Cube sets course for Risa
Voy Borg: Sisko beams over to Cube, takes hand phaser, and kills half the crew. Beams back over to DS9, opens comm link and sez, "I am the Sisko, GTFO off my station or I'll use superior physical skills to whip yo ass and make you like it MO FO"
Cube sets course for Risa
Only species 8472 could stand up to the Borg... Janeway survived by outsmarting the Borg not battling them. As far as the Ds9 'verse goes hummm I dunno, Sisko would probable have to call in the heavy artillery...the Prophets.
All in all I'm just very please that tptb didn't resort to those gimmicky Borg. F the Borg.
All in all I'm just very please that tptb didn't resort to those gimmicky Borg. F the Borg.
I'm betting the concept behind the Defiant being a Borg killer is the fact that it would be a very small, cheap throw away vessel with a few special armarment (pulse phasers, ablative armor, etc.), so they could mass produce tons of them and have a sizable fleet to just chip away at them. Obviously, that never came to fruitation because in all the series, I think we saw 2 or 3 Defiant classes total.
Yeah, but to be fair in DS9 the Defiant was the hero ship. So they wouldn't have had a bunch running around. Especially in the big battle scenes. If they had 20 defiants flying around getting destroyed the audience would thought somethings up.
I don't think DS9 could...but as for those next-door-neighbor Prophets....well... 
No, that point certainly can't be argued against... some big Admiral is off sitting in his office somewhere: "What do you mean the Defiant was the only survivor AGAIN?!?"
Captained by a very agressive Klingon, that would put the Defiant in the thick of the battle. Up close and personal.
I mean that, because of the nature of it's Captain it would have been very likely, relentless in it's attack against the Borg in First Contact. Thus the heavy beating. Juat the same, no, it wouldn't defeat a Borg Cube alone.
A difficult question.
By TNG's "Hugh, the I, Borg" and by VOY's "Borg children" low Borg standards, certainly DS9 would annihilate any Cube brought to bear by those stock of lame Borg.
However, by nature of DS9 being a more complex show, any Borg that would appear on DS9 would be of much more heartier, grade AAA stock, than the aforementioned Borg.
Then, the question of if DS9 could fight a Borg cube becomes muddy.
Probably better that it never happened, because if it did, DS9's difficulty with the hearty stock grade AAA Borg would be misconstrued by viewers as indicating DS9 being weak.
By TNG's "Hugh, the I, Borg" and by VOY's "Borg children" low Borg standards, certainly DS9 would annihilate any Cube brought to bear by those stock of lame Borg.
However, by nature of DS9 being a more complex show, any Borg that would appear on DS9 would be of much more heartier, grade AAA stock, than the aforementioned Borg.
Then, the question of if DS9 could fight a Borg cube becomes muddy.
Probably better that it never happened, because if it did, DS9's difficulty with the hearty stock grade AAA Borg would be misconstrued by viewers as indicating DS9 being weak.
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