Could SuperBarclay from the ep Nth Degree have defeated the Borg?

[Romulan_spy]

Could Barclay when he was hooked up to the Enterprise's computer in The Nth Degree have defeated the Borg? I think yes. His heightened intelligence allowed him to come up with very advanced methods. For example, he was able to increase shield strength by 300%. He was also able to generate a subspace distortion that allowed the Enterprise to travel incredibly fast. I think he would have been able to invent a defense or potent attack against the Borg. Furthermore, when he was linked with the Enterprise's computer, he was able to directly control the ship without any lag time. Like the Borg, Barclay would be able to adapt almost instantaneously to every move and react quickly.

 

[Tan Ru]

I would say, "YES!".............

 

[The Badger]

... Like the Borg, Barclay would be able to adapt almost instantaneously to every move and react quickly.

And unlike the Borg, he maintained the ability to anticipate new possibilities. He had imagination.

 

[timelord1010]

To answer your question I think Barclay could have cleaned up the Borg easily. The episode "The Nth Degree" is what I hate about TNG and Trek in general. Come up with great ideas and then you never see them again with the exception of Dr. Crusher's metaphasic shields. Increasing the shield strength by 300%? where is that at? The new "jump" technology that got them to the center of the galaxy in a minute? This should have been installed on every starship. Voyager would have been one episode, Janeway would have just jumped back to the Alpha Quadrant.
I don't mean to come across as a continuity whore but it would be nice to see some of these discoveries show up in a future episode or series.

 

[Luckyflux]

This is my favorite episode of TNG. I haven't seen it in awhile, but the technology that Barclay created and used was wiped from human memory and the computer memory, if I remember correctly.

The 300% increase in shields always gnawed at me alittle bit. I mean to increase the shields Barclay just reconfigured something or re-routed power from somwhere, but he didn't include any new technology to the shields. So if that were the case then the shield always had the ability to be increased, but no one figured out how to do that.....that is what I didn't like. Without adding any new hardward it seems anyone could have increased the shields if they configured it the same way as Barclay, even just trying different configuations might have yielded an increase, so why didn't anyone else ever do it before.....because Barclay was that much smarter? I always thought that was odd.

But Barclay could've defeated the Borg pretty easily. He would have just created something that the Borg could not assimilate and just leave it at that. Even Data created something that (he said) would have defeated the Borg, so I would think that super Barclay could have as well. Plus the Borg don't seem to be able to use tactics at all, they just seem to throw drone after drone at something until they adapt. I would think that Barclay could use that as an advantage.

I bet human Q with his IQ of over 2000 would have some insight as well.

 

[Lt.Cmdr.LaForge]

I guess there's no reason why super-barclay couldnt have defeated the Borg, the only real advantage the borg had was their adaptability and split second reactions due to all decisions being made instantaneously. But like you said, super-barclay could do those things =]

 

[Romulan_spy]

The 300% increase in shields always gnawed at me alittle bit. I mean to increase the shields Barclay just reconfigured something or re-routed power from somwhere, but he didn't include any new technology to the shields. So if that were the case then the shield always had the ability to be increased, but no one figured out how to do that.....that is what I didn't like. Without adding any new hardward it seems anyone could have increased the shields if they configured it the same way as Barclay, even just trying different configuations might have yielded an increase, so why didn't anyone else ever do it before.....because Barclay was that much smarter? I always thought that was odd.

Yeah, it would have been nice to see these upgrades mentioned later.

 

[Snaploud]

The 300% increase in shields always gnawed at me alittle bit. I mean to increase the shields Barclay just reconfigured something or re-routed power from somwhere, but he didn't include any new technology to the shields.

I think we may be talking about semantics. What's the difference between a 24th century computer-programmed reconfiguration and physically installing new hardware? They have replicator/transporter technology, so major hardware changes may not require anything more than inputting new data into an interface.

 

[Luckyflux]

The 300% increase in shields always gnawed at me alittle bit. I mean to increase the shields Barclay just reconfigured something or re-routed power from somwhere, but he didn't include any new technology to the shields.

I think we may be talking about semantics. What's the difference between a 24th century computer-programmed reconfiguration and physically installing new hardware? They have replicator/transporter technology, so major hardware changes may not require anything more than inputting new data into an interface.

Because I took the implication to mean that he only reconfigured the "interface" or the "power routing"....meaning that any ensign might have been able to stumble across the super config by accident, thereby creating the 300 percent increase. To me, it would have been alittle more believable if he added some new hardware to account for all of this "new" energy going to the shield generators.

 

[Snaploud]

The 300% increase in shields always gnawed at me alittle bit. I mean to increase the shields Barclay just reconfigured something or re-routed power from somwhere, but he didn't include any new technology to the shields.

I think we may be talking about semantics. What's the difference between a 24th century computer-programmed reconfiguration and physically installing new hardware? They have replicator/transporter technology, so major hardware changes may not require anything more than inputting new data into an interface.

Because I took the implication to mean that he only reconfigured the "interface" or the "power routing"....meaning that any ensign might have been able to stumble across the super config by accident, thereby creating the 300 percent increase. To me, it would have been alittle more believable if he added some new hardware to account for all of this "new" energy going to the shield generators.

We only had a a two line explanation (or, rather, the beginning of an explanation):

Riker: Everyone's still trying to figure out how you did it?

Barclay: It occurred to me to set up a frequency harmonic between the deflector and shields, using the warp-field generator. And that naturally created an amplification of the energy output.

We have no idea what was involved in such a feat. I think you're filling in the blanks without enough evidence.

 

[NIUPonyBoy]

... Like the Borg, Barclay would be able to adapt almost instantaneously to every move and react quickly.

And unlike the Borg, he maintained the ability to anticipate new possibilities. He had imagination.

But limited resources.

The Borg on the other hand have near unlimited resources, especially when compared to the Enterprise NCC-1701-Barclay.