How to modify a Borg Vessel into a Starfleet vessel and get a NCC Registration

[SS.Scientific]

How to modify a Borg Vessel into a Starfleet vessel and get a NCC Registration

 

[Dukhat]

You don’t.

 

[Victoria]

During the days of wooden ships, if you captured an enemy ship, it simply got a bit of paint, some new equipment and a new name. Presumably there's nothing stopping StarFleet capturing a Borg cube, slapping in some Federation technology and calling it what they like... Whether that's either practical or useful is another matter.

 

[Tango]

How to modify a Borg Vessel into a Starfleet vessel and get a NCC Registration

They could be Picard-class ships…. Oh, too soon?

 

[David cgc]

During the days of wooden ships, if you captured an enemy ship, it simply got a bit of paint, some new equipment and a new name. Presumably there's nothing stopping StarFleet capturing a Borg cube, slapping in some Federation technology and calling it what they like... Whether that's either practical or useful is another matter.

I have to wonder how well that would work. Without a connection to the Collective, will anything work? If it just ends up being a big pile of metal and you have to swap out everything that actually does stuff, that's pretty pointless. It could be the only way to steal the Borg ship would be more to treat it like an animal, and "yoke" it somehow, having it still be operating as a Borg ship, but forcing it to do what you want instead of what the Borg want (which is more or less what Seven did in season 1 of Picard, but ideally you'd want to do that with some sort of machine and not just a volunteer).

 

[Markonian]

In Star Trek: Armada, when Starfleet captures a Borg cube, the color changes from "evil green" to "good folk's white". Name (alphanumeric string) remains.

In Star Trek Online, the Borg Type 03 can be commanded by Starfleet and get a name with prefix but no registry number.

Or they paint them gold.

 

[publiusr]

Assemblage class

 

[Victoria]

I have to wonder how well that would work. Without a connection to the Collective, will anything work? If it just ends up being a big pile of metal and you have to swap out everything that actually does stuff, that's pretty pointless. It could be the only way to steal the Borg ship would be more to treat it like an animal, and "yoke" it somehow, having it still be operating as a Borg ship, but forcing it to do what you want instead of what the Borg want (which is more or less what Seven did in season 1 of Picard, but ideally you'd want to do that with some sort of machine and not just a volunteer).

In the "wooden ships" days, ships were similar enough in design and operation for equipment to be pretty much interchangable and it was clearly a faster (and potentially cheaper) way of adding ships to your fleet. That's not true with starships - there's a running problem in DS9 with the interface between Cardassian and Federation equipment. That's why I entered the caveat about "practical or useful". It could be done but if, as you say, you have to rip out everything and start from basics then there's nothing to be gained by doing so.

 

[Forbin]

Aren't Borg cubes controlled by Borg plugged into the systems via implants wired into their very brains? Who's going to voluntarily do that?

 

[publiusr]

Bynars perhaps:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bynar

 

[mithril]

in Beta canon borg technology will actively attempt to assimilate crews if no drones are around. borg tech installed into a ship will also spread and assimilate the vessel directly. since borg technology is canonically self-repairing, i'd guess they have nanoprobes built into just about everything, and can use those nanoprobes to alter technology the devices are in contact with. presumably they'd also use them to infect a prize crew if a borg ships is taken over.