At how easily enterprise was able to find a way around the Borg's personal shielding in "Regeneration". Why would the crew of the enterprise from the 22nd century have more success fighting the Borg than Jean Luc Picard and his 24th century technology, someone please explain this to me.
I thought there was some indication that the Borg that were revived had been damaged by spending a century in the cold and were probably not functioning at optimum levels. The fact that they didn't even identify themselves as Borg would suggest there were gaps in their knowledge that would have had an impact on how they function.
I always figured they were more pre-occupied with completing their original mission of sending the message back to the DQ, that they didn't work as much on upgrading all the primitive technology they were assimilating to accomplish their mission.....
.... and on top of that, one could argue that since it was an earlier time from the TNG era, their way of thinking about combating the Borg would also be different, based on the technology and tactics used at that time.
Like cooking your food or replicating it..... both have the same end result, but the approach to that end result is different. Since the Borg was more accustomed to assimilating advanced and worthwhile technology from the 24th century, they might not have been 100% apt at dealing with more primitive/older technology and thinking...... or their ability to adapt to that technology was limited based on the technology they assimilated.
The question I always had with the First Contact 'Machine Gun' bit - later in the film we see Borg walking on the 1701-E Hull in space. Given that to operate in space, the Borg 'armor' would need to be able to withstand a micrometeorite (or other particle) impact; WHY would the armor in it's base design NOT be bulletproof.
Would need to and does are two different things..... I just considered their suits to be about par as our space suits for short term space walks..... if you shoot an astronaut with a tommy gun, does he not implode?
But I always figured they borg would eventually adapt to projectile bullets and setup something like a deflector shield around them once they figured out their speed, power, rate of fire, etc. I mean, star ships have shields to defend against energy weapons, yet also have deflector shields to help avoid space debris from whacking into the ship..... the principles for that I imagine would be the same for the Borg against bullets.
