How Many Ships Can A Borg Cube Engage Simultaneously?

[Use of Time]

So if Riker's plan was simply to ram the Ent-D into the cube ship while at warp, as a last resort. Would that have worked? If so, why not just build starship sized husks with a warp core and pack it full of other explosive/radioactive/ whatever and remotely send them into an antimatter fourth of July from the comfort of your own starbase.

 

[SWHouston]

Would that have worked?

I doubt it, remember how very large a Cube Ship is compared to any of the Fed Vessels.
and...
How many times did they transport personnel and some equipment over to the Borg Vessel for lookarounds ? Why couldn't they have transported an Explosive/Torpedo over there ?

Probably faulty equipment.

 

[Timo]

Ramming seems like an obvious thing to try when all else is failing and ships around you are being destroyed and your own future doesn't look too bright, either. Yet the Cube survived Wolf 359. So it's only natural to assume that the Borg know how to defeat ramming attempts.

Remember that the tractor beam seems to be a favored tool of the Borg. It sounds rather likely that they could grab any approaching ship in such a beam, be the approach at low impulse or high warp, and thus render her harmless.

Why couldn't they have transported an Explosive/Torpedo over there ?

Because that would have hurt the Borg, so they would have stopped it? Beaming people there and back did not hurt - it only resulted in the loss of a few perfectly expendable Drones and the gaining of new data on Starfleet phaser settings and tactics.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Use of Time]

Ramming seems like an obvious thing to try when all else is failing and ships around you are being destroyed and your own future doesn't look too bright, either. Yet the Cube survived Wolf 359. So it's only natural to assume that the Borg know how to defeat ramming attempts.

Remember that the tractor beam seems to be a favored tool of the Borg. It sounds rather likely that they could grab any approaching ship in such a beam, be the approach at low impulse or high warp, and thus render her harmless.

Why couldn't they have transported an Explosive/Torpedo over there ?

Because that would have hurt the Borg, so they would have stopped it? Beaming people there and back did not hurt - it only resulted in the loss of a few perfectly expendable Drones and the gaining of new data on Starfleet phaser settings and tactics.

Timo Saloniemi

I don't know if it's natural or not to assume that ships tried ramming the Borg at Wolf 359.

Is it really possible for the Borg ship to snatch a ship that goes to warp at point blank range with a tractor beam?

 

[Knight Templar]

Ramming seems like an obvious thing to try when all else is failing and ships around you are being destroyed and your own future doesn't look too bright, either. Yet the Cube survived Wolf 359. So it's only natural to assume that the Borg know how to defeat ramming attempts.

Remember that the tractor beam seems to be a favored tool of the Borg. It sounds rather likely that they could grab any approaching ship in such a beam, be the approach at low impulse or high warp, and thus render her harmless.

Why couldn't they have transported an Explosive/Torpedo over there ?

Because that would have hurt the Borg, so they would have stopped it? Beaming people there and back did not hurt - it only resulted in the loss of a few perfectly expendable Drones and the gaining of new data on Starfleet phaser settings and tactics.

Timo Saloniemi

I don't know if it's natural or not to assume that ships tried ramming the Borg at Wolf 359.

Is it really possible for the Borg ship to snatch a ship that goes to warp at point blank range with a tractor beam?

The Enterprise-D proved capable of catching and halting the U.S.S. Stargazer when it went to warp and the size differential between them isn't as much as that between a Borg cube and galaxy class ship.

 

[Use of Time]

Ramming seems like an obvious thing to try when all else is failing and ships around you are being destroyed and your own future doesn't look too bright, either. Yet the Cube survived Wolf 359. So it's only natural to assume that the Borg know how to defeat ramming attempts.

Remember that the tractor beam seems to be a favored tool of the Borg. It sounds rather likely that they could grab any approaching ship in such a beam, be the approach at low impulse or high warp, and thus render her harmless.





Because that would have hurt the Borg, so they would have stopped it? Beaming people there and back did not hurt - it only resulted in the loss of a few perfectly expendable Drones and the gaining of new data on Starfleet phaser settings and tactics.

Timo Saloniemi

I don't know if it's natural or not to assume that ships tried ramming the Borg at Wolf 359.

Is it really possible for the Borg ship to snatch a ship that goes to warp at point blank range with a tractor beam?

The Enterprise-D proved capable of catching and halting the U.S.S. Stargazer when it went to warp and the size differential between them isn't as much as that between a Borg cube and galaxy class ship.

Yeah, but they knew it was coming. Would the Borg be able to react that quickly?

 

[Timo]

Generally, the Borg don't appear to be anticipating, but reacting. However, adjusting to a threat can be argued to be anticipation - somebody, at some point, must have been the first to try warp ramming, and if he succeeded, the Borg would now be wiser and constantly prepared for this sort of an attack. They did come "pre-prepared" for photon torpedo attack in "Q Who?" already, after all.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[matthunter]

The Enterprise-D proved capable of catching and halting the U.S.S. Stargazer when it went to warp...

Actually, Data was able to predict where the Stargazer would drop OUT of warp and target the tractor beam on that location. With the E-D/Cube situation, the Enterprise wasn't planning on stopping, whereas Picard needed to in order to make full use of the Stargazer's weaponry.

 

[Timo]

...Or in order to make any use of it. Picard didn't plan on suicide in either of his "Battle of Maxia" iterations. He wanted to fire at the enemy (which can be done from warp and standstill alike) while the enemy couldn't fire back at him (which required warp) and survive (which required standstill), the sum total of this amounting to the Picard Maneuver.

But grabbing objects from warp with a tractor beam is certainly practicable. A simple runabout can do it to another runabout, as in DS9 "Paradise". Given the size and power differential in a putative Wolf 359 ramming, I'd say the advantage goes to the Borg.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Silversmok3]

Ramming seems like an obvious thing to try when all else is failing and ships around you are being destroyed and your own future doesn't look too bright, either. Yet the Cube survived Wolf 359. So it's only natural to assume that the Borg know how to defeat ramming attempts.

Remember that the tractor beam seems to be a favored tool of the Borg. It sounds rather likely that they could grab any approaching ship in such a beam, be the approach at low impulse or high warp, and thus render her harmless.

Why couldn't they have transported an Explosive/Torpedo over there ?

Because that would have hurt the Borg, so they would have stopped it? Beaming people there and back did not hurt - it only resulted in the loss of a few perfectly expendable Drones and the gaining of new data on Starfleet phaser settings and tactics.

Timo Saloniemi

I don't know if it's natural or not to assume that ships tried ramming the Borg at Wolf 359.

Is it really possible for the Borg ship to snatch a ship that goes to warp at point blank range with a tractor beam?

They might or might not be able to stop a ship at warp, but they are certainly capable of shooting it down before it gets to contact distance.

I submit that with the Borg's experience assimilating millions of cultures along its genocidal way, odds are they've seen the old "Im sticking my spaceship up yours" tactic.

 

[publiusr]

A good way to stop the borg--non Caeliar would be to use Dominion devices and something similar to Cardassian defenses. Small emitters mass produced that receive power from ground based sources far out. Swarm the cube--if it is one cube with Defiants while larger capital ships hold back and fire on one side of the cube. The cube turns, the defiants move to the cube destroyed--and a phase cloaked mines are detonated through it.

As soon as detected they detonate--so no adaptation. The Echo papa 607 weapon systems might be looked at. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Echo_Papa_607