The Borg

posted on June 10th, 2004, 7:50 pm

However, it would be logical to have life support on borg ships. If not, you would always have to wait until your newly assimilated drones developed their own life support systems.

But even if that wouldn't be the reason, their is another explanation possible:

I presume the borg who went outside had some kind of internal life support subsystem e.g. a implant that supplies the blood with oxygen. However, you can't take enough oxygen for days within such an implant, so it is more efficient to have life support on the mothership.

Those would be my theories.

posted on June 10th, 2004, 9:02 pm

Besides we saw the flash-back footage of Picard in FC and in BOBW when he was assimilated and if the borg ship didn't have life support Picard would have died before he was assimilated.

posted on June 10th, 2004, 9:08 pm

yep i think every borg ships has live support systems. they are no complete machines, their organic parts to still require all the things a normal lifeform requires.
but i think borg have other life support systems. you can use "life support" for distribution nodes, alkoves and other stuff to.

posted on June 10th, 2004, 10:39 pm

Oh I just had an idea, a Borg special weapon that makes only a few Phaser or Disruptor shots effective unless they have rotating frequency like the Sovern class. Or maybe have it so Borg or a single class of ship can penatrate another races shields after a few shots unless they have rotating shield harmonics(think thats it) like ths Sovern and Defaint I believe. Just a thought

posted on June 11th, 2004, 12:20 am

Wonder if the writers ever thought about the new borg thing-but life support in this case (according to Optec or Doca) is regeneration alcoves and the like.

posted on June 11th, 2004, 2:09 am

Are rotating phaser and shield frequencies even possible? if they are let me in on the secret? Im still trying to find out how to get weapons to fire aft only. just can't seem to get it. have no idea how to do it. I can get the forward weapons to not fire aft, but I can't get the aft weapons to not fire forward.

posted on June 11th, 2004, 2:12 am

Mine was just an idea, think outside the box and anything is possible.

posted on June 11th, 2004, 7:10 pm

no i was not mistaken, when they first get onto the ship and are exploring they go on to it and open a draw inside are lots of small babies with some implants on them but not all.

posted on June 11th, 2004, 8:08 pm

those chambers made those babys grow faster, so they could be integrated into the collective(similar to what they did to seven of nine) bu i don't understand what that has to do with life support

posted on June 11th, 2004, 8:23 pm

They most likely dont breath at all, using implants to move instead of muscles or use them for oxygen, either way we should all get implants so we can achieve perfection!

posted on June 11th, 2004, 8:36 pm

Afcourse the borg have life support on their ships, otherwise how do you explain voyagers and enterprises crew getting aboard a cube and having no special suits for oxigen

posted on June 11th, 2004, 11:10 pm

Thats called writers and a special effects budget, think how many times in star trek when they SHOULD have worn suits.

posted on June 12th, 2004, 1:59 am

no, when they are beaming to borg vessels they are using a special vulcan technique to hold breath for a few hours even while talking and screaming

DOCa Cola

posted on June 12th, 2004, 2:01 am

LOL, good stuff.

posted on June 13th, 2004, 10:09 am

Of course Borg ships have atmosphere, otherwise you wouldnt be able to hear them talking and making noises. No noise in a vacuum (At odds with ships making noises when they fly past)
Their atmosphere is somethign like Methane, Carbon Monoxide, and Fluorine, so they'd have to do the Vulcan breathign thing anyway