So I’m at work yesterday, and I caught the last 20 min or so of that “Voyager” program. In this episode, the captain and some of her henchmen are planning a pop-in, steal the techno-dealie, pop-out style of mission to a borg’s ship. Watching this, I has a few questions about these borgs:
1: Why are there only humans “assimilated” on board? Are there no other aliens to take over anywhere else in space?
2: If these guys are so advanced technologically, why do they allow intruders to wander aimlessly through their ship without taking any steps to stop them until they are up to no good? Surely, waiting until after the damage has been done is counter-productive, is it not??
3: Is this “adaptation” of theirs some sort of psychic thing? Because they never seem to need to make any physical changes to any system to “adapt” it. One moment it’s vulnerable, the next it’s protected. Also, if one is killed, how does he transmit the information needed to adapt back to the rest? Killed=off. You can’t get information from something not transmitting it, so where does this adaptive information come from?
4: Can they run? Why this menacing, slow lurch towards any enemy?
5: If they build a defense against energy attacks, why doesn’t anyone ever beam one in the head with a pipe, or some sort of blunt instrument? They certainly don’t move fast enough to block anything from what I had seen, and it would impossible to develope a shield against a blunt object anyway, since walking or touching anything would be impossible with a preventative shield around you…
6: Saw the Borg Homeland: Just a huge spacestation of sorts. Where did the raw materials come from to build it? There doesn’t seem to be any planet nearby…
In reality, here’s what would happen in MY version of this Star Trek episode.
Captain and the crew would beam onto Borg ship armed with bats and wrenches, or other sharp/blunt objects. In a calm manner, they would go from floor to floor, beaning every borg they find right in the head. Borgs goes down, no longer transmitting their status (including what has just happened). Some others come to investigate the loss, and suffer a similar fate. Meanwhile, more crewmembers are beaming across with blunt instruments all over their ship, and talking them out left right and centre.
Since the borg are so damned slow, resistance is futile… Soon, each one of 'em has a new sunroof.
The crew all return to their own ship, except for a small party to plant the nuke to blow the crap out of the cube. They beam back, fly to a safe distance, press the shiny red button, and watch the fireworks…
So I guess that’s all I have for now… Just a few of the things I thought of in 20 min of Voyager the other day…