Let's Kill the Borg!

[Qutluch]

I have had discussion after discussion lately on fun and innovative ways to kill the Borg! I often wonder why (when in close quarters) the crew doesn't replicate an old-fashioned-firearm (Picard in First Contact) and kill them that way. Today I had someone mention that you could transport a bunch of rocks over them and crush them. There are some interesting techniques that wouldn't quite fit with the plot of the show, but would be funny to watch!

So, how would you kill the Borg? (Plot holes aside)

 

[Guy Gardener]

he hive mind of the borg was divided from Hugh by forcefields.

Voyager used a latice of thousands of forcefirleds to trap the critters in Equinox.

or.

Did you notice how the doctor over took Seven so easily?

Entire planets could be inoculated form the Borg if they put Icheb out to stud.

Travel back in time hundreds of years and help create the Borg with a fail safe that won't kick in till after you get back back to the future.

Janeway breeds with 8472.

 

[Violet.Phoenix]

Janeway breeds with 8472.

Now that would be potent.

Let's see... crow bars would come in handy I imagine. Then again there's always the trusty bat'leth that could take down a few Borg (as Janeway demonstrated).

Of course, one could always make like the Joker and pick them off one by one using a bazuka while driving in a massive transport truck.

 

[Qutluch]

Janeway breeds with 8472.

Now that would be potent.

Of course, one could always make like the Joker and pick them off one by one using a bazuka while driving in a massive transport truck.

That would make for good TV! I would love to see Kes firing a Bazuka!

My husband wants me to add that once they tried to assimilate Chuck Norris they would all die immediately....What the Borg Queen doesn't know is that assimilating Chuck Norris is futile....


I kind of like the idea of an industrial nail gun.

 

[Violet.Phoenix]

Janeway breeds with 8472.

Now that would be potent.

Of course, one could always make like the Joker and pick them off one by one using a bazuka while driving in a massive transport truck.

That would make for good TV! I would love to see Kes firing a Bazuka!

My husband wants me to add that once they tried to assimilate Chuck Norris they would all die immediately....What the Borg Queen doesn't know is that assimilating Chuck Norris is futile....


I kind of like the idea of an industrial nail gun.

Kes going all warlord with a bazuka? I can see it. Now imagine Janeway going all Ripley (a la Macrocosm) and getting her hands on one of those.

Trying to assimilate Chuck Norris would be futile. Imagine if he had been commanding the Enterprise when they first encountered the Borg. It would have been a very short encounter. Then again, their first encounter with Q would probable have been short-lived as well.

A nail gun? Reminds me of the Strain trilogy in which they use said weapon (among other things) to defeat vampires. Of course these nails were silver.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Mount an interferometric transphasic quantum fluxating vuvuzela array on Voyager.

 

[Gov Kodos]

If playing Doom taught me anything, the chain saw and shotgun are a most potent combination for cyborg/zombie critters.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The Borg would have adapted to bullets as quickly as they do phaser settings. After all, they assimilated Earth (for about 30 seconds), and we saw Lilly with a machine gun.


Although, one would think they'd have made that adaptation centuties ago. Or are we the only species in the galaxy to have concieved of hurling little lead balls at extreme velocity at our enemies?

 

[47]

The Borg are already dead, people. Not from the thingy old Janeway gave them, mind you. But when Queen Alice died, they panicked and took the first female they found to replace her. Queen Kathryn screwed them royally by sharing her Future Starfleet values with them, and now they are on their way to another galaxy "to boldly go where no drone has gone before"...

 

[Timo]

"Borg adapt in 30 seconds" doesn't mean they spend 30 seconds inventing a solution to a threat. Rather, they spend 30 seconds implementing that solution - which probably was drawn from a library that was completed tens of thousands of years ago already, and includes every threat this forum could come up with, and then some.

It takes the Borg 30 seconds to adapt to Starfleet phasers, after all - each and every time they encounter Starfleet phasers!

We just have to accept that the Borg don't like to wander about pre-adapted. They prefer to lose two Drones to the threat of the day and only give the necessary modifications to the third. They probably learn more about the enemy that way. Or then it's their version of the Starfleet "we come in peace" thing, a gesture of goodwill...

Which basically means that any weapon will do in defeating the Borg, as long as it gets all of them simultaneously.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Gov Kodos]

The Borg would have adapted to bullets as quickly as they do phaser settings. After all, they assimilated Earth (for about 30 seconds), and we saw Lilly with a machine gun.


Although, one would think they'd have made that adaptation centuties ago. Or are we the only species in the galaxy to have concieved of hurling little lead balls at extreme velocity at our enemies?

Or the shielding works only against assorted electromagnetic forces, and not kinetic force.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I'd like to kill them with kindness.

Surely that would win them over in the end?

 

[F. King Daniel]

If that's how Borg shields work, then their greatest enemy would be micrometeroids.

 

[Gov Kodos]

If that's how Borg shields work, then their greatest enemy would be micrometeroids.

That's every ones enemy in space.

 

[Qutluch]

If playing Doom taught me anything, the chain saw and shotgun are a most potent combination for cyborg/zombie critters.

I love a good chain saw! Just the sound makes me cringe a little. Are we talking Army of Darkness style, or just a good ole hand held one?

 

[Robert D. Robot]

Mount an interferometric transphasic quantum fluxating vuvuzela array on Voyager.

How about broadcasting Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Call" on all frequencies?

I am also wondering if anyone ever taught the Borg how to defend themselves against someone attacking them with a pointed stick? Or someone coming at them armed with a piece of fresh fruit?

 

[JanewayRulz!]

Mount an interferometric transphasic quantum fluxating vuvuzela array on Voyager.

How about broadcasting Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Call" on all frequencies?

I am also wondering if anyone ever taught the Borg how to defend themselves against someone attacking them with a pointed stick? Or someone coming at them armed with a piece of fresh fruit?

Are you asking "how do they protect themselves from a banana?"

The BORG have personal shields. We saw Seven use hers in mid season 4 when the call of the RAVEN reactivated certain circuits... and then again in 4's final (HOPE & FEAR) when (ahem) JANEWAY reactivated them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5b8EGQE1Xo





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Perhaps we should just make them watch "Joe Millionaire" and explain how Fox canceled "Firefly" for that dreck.

We wouldn't have to kill them after that.

They'd just kill themselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uMAKtXlXf4




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[Guy Gardener]

Borg personal shields are tuned to the precise counter-frequency (remember how the enterprise d got whacked?) of their opponents weapons.

I'm assuming that a ship with a massive powersource, can block most of the spectrum, but a single drone does not have a massive power source, which is why they let a couple drone bit it to figure out how the enemies weapons work.

Shielding against a precise energy weapon is one thing, you could probably do it with a d battery... But kinetic energy shields will stop air and movement make it so that a drone will have to stop work while under fire because they can't touch shit.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

If playing Doom taught me anything, the chain saw and shotgun are a most potent combination for cyborg/zombie critters.

I love a good chain saw! Just the sound makes me cringe a little. Are we talking Army of Darkness style, or just a good ole hand held one?

Pull a Reese's Peanut Butter cup.

Get chainsaw in your gun, and gun in your chainsaw.

 

[Qutluch]

How about a pressurized spray gun filled with acid?