Slow moving Borg?

posted on January 24th, 2010, 4:19 pm

Wouldn't running make them look too 'human'?

Possibly, but then many other species can run as well.  I just thought it was kinda off base that they not take advantage of their physical abilities, but oh well.  I guess arrogance clouds their judgement :-P

posted on January 24th, 2010, 4:19 pm

i meant their ships, drones would look silly going fast, but it would make more sense.

borg have so much technology, their ships would realistically (a poor word to use for star trek) be fast. but way overpowered.

posted on January 24th, 2010, 4:19 pm

Well... it depends... speed is not always the best solution... especially with all-armored legs and numerous implants in it and the fact that for the Borg "Resistance is futile", they simply do not need to run they can take their time and hold out for hours to slowly assimilate a ship it doesn't matter...

posted on January 24th, 2010, 5:25 pm

they could wait for hours, but sometimes its more efficient to move fast. i mean if you want to go assimilate someone, you have to catch them sometimes. and the borg would normally enhance their tech with whatever better tech they find. why would they ignore engines?

posted on January 24th, 2010, 10:38 pm

Well, usually the Borg just surround you by beaming in on all sides.  Why run when you can walk...and beam?

posted on January 25th, 2010, 5:27 am

He was too busy mashing an unpowered console with his fists and growling to give the order to fire quantums.

lol he would rather go to ramming speed.

Mabye your right on that one tyler, though it still seems odd that only 4 torps took out a whole sphere.

[RedEyedRaven]

posted on January 26th, 2010, 9:29 am

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That Sphere was just a little baby against the FO-ones 

To me, it looked more like a plot device to keep the Borg alive so they can survive until the end of the movie. First Contact was nothing else than shooting at Borg in fact
It's a pity that Cochrane and the actual first contact are so far pushed in the background, because this could have been a real nice story.
But no. They wanted a Jerry-Bruckheimer movie with the happy-Loveboat-TNG-crew shooting around with phaser-rifles 

posted on January 26th, 2010, 11:04 am

First Contact was nothing else than shooting at Borg in fact

But no. They wanted a Jerry-Brookheimer movie with the happy-Loveboat-TNG-crew shooting around with phaser-rifles 

Sure you're not thinking of Nemisis here?

posted on January 26th, 2010, 11:12 am

Yes, I'm sure.
Nemesis is at least a halfway enjoyable sandwich (because the middle of the movie was good in many ways the other TNG-movies failed).

posted on January 26th, 2010, 1:14 pm

my fav is actualy nemisis and insurrection, Nemisis was about morals and scrifice and Insi was about well... good vs evil

[RedEyedRaven]

posted on February 16th, 2010, 9:13 am

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my fav is actualy nemisis and insurrection, Nemisis was about morals and scrifice and Insi was about well... good vs evil

Watch Insurrection again. I promise that Insurrection is about "out-of-character-TNG-folks" working alongside fascists.
Principle: Federation wants to get the planet the Baku live on. It's federation territory anyway and the Baku are settlers, as we learn later in the movie. And the Sona are their brothers they drove away because they wanted to use technology in their culture. Picard and crew working for and with the Baku, against the orders and the Sona who are reduced to be walking crapfests because of their own people is just very very frustrating to watch.

Edit:
My solution for a good ending would have been: Kick the Baku into the Briar Patch instead of helping them.
Or let Picard be in-character and let him give them a moralty-preaching. If Picard would have acted like Picard, he would have turned his back on the Baku after learning they and the Sona are actually of the same race, because it is inhuman to drive away people for having a different view of things. If someone buys that "the poor Baku are driven away if Picard doesn't intervean"-crap, I will not understand why.

posted on February 16th, 2010, 5:28 pm

I thought the Sona left.  That one guy why never changed his clothes said "A century ago, a group of our young people left..."  They wanted to see the galaxy, so they got off that rock.  I don't think the Baku forced them off, did they?

posted on February 16th, 2010, 5:36 pm

Lol that's right.  He never changed his clothes .

posted on February 16th, 2010, 7:36 pm

Mabye your right on that one tyler, though it still seems odd that only 4 torps took out a whole sphere.

That sphere narrowly escaped a cube which had taken a beating. It probably wasn't in very good shape and it may have been a smaller class of sphere which was meant to be carried as an auxiliary vessel.

posted on February 16th, 2010, 7:42 pm

maybe the borg hadn't fully adapted to quantum torps. the defiant was there, but possibly the borg took out worfs launchers before he could fire, necessitating ramming speed. if the borg hadn't experienced federation quantums before then they would have been weak against them. Like when the enterprise first met the cube, their phasers nuked 20% of the cube.