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Was there any episode that stated that certain drones wear body armor? What makes the tactical drones so "tactical"?
Actually forget about personal force fields, all a drone has to do is wear some bulletproof armor. Since a drone is stronger than a human and don't bother going anywhere fast, you can pile so much armor onto a drone until he looks like a medieval knight and then not even Worf can stick a blade through.
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Which begs the question "what is the point of the Borg's exoskeleton armour stuff if it's not even bulletproof enough to stop chemically-propelled metal slugs, and holographic ones at that?"
I'm not sure the black clothing the Borg wear is supposed to be armor at all. It could be more like a full-body tool harness, housing those systems that aren't internally contained. Physical armor could have been found far too clumsy and ultimately irrelevant.
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Vogon: "Which begs the question "what is the point of the Borg's exoskeleton armour stuff if it's not even bulletproof enough to stop chemically-propelled metal slugs, and holographic ones at that?"
Don't go there, it starts to spill over on the "Stormtrooper"-paradox from there...
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Hence my qualification of them as holographic metals slugs. Don't YOU start, I had some twat emailing me a while ago saying I shouldn't call my website "phasers" as the picture on the front page is of someone holding a weapon that isn't a phaser. I kid you not. . . 8)
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poet: Hence my qualification of them as holographic metals slugs. Don't YOU start, I had some twat emailing me a while ago saying I shouldn't call my website "phasers" as the picture on the front page is of someone holding a weapon that isn't a phaser. I kid you not. . . 8)
Hehehe . . . yeah, you told me about that. Mine was the "Dude, it's EZRI!" response.
But, seriously, I was just reiterating it because "holographic metal slug" might, in some circles, still make one think of a metal slug, with its momentum and solidity.
(Yes, okay, I was just being a twat. I've simply had this conversation too many times before. Hence my big fat page on the subject.)
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quote:Originally posted by Nim: Vogon: "Which begs the question "what is the point of the Borg's exoskeleton armour stuff if it's not even bulletproof enough to stop chemically-propelled metal slugs, and holographic ones at that?"
Don't go there, it starts to spill over on the "Stormtrooper"-paradox from there...
Stormtrooper armor is designeed to attract blaster fire and spare valuable equipment from being destroyed by stray rebel fire. I'd say I was being sarcastic, but it is the Empire and if you'll notice, the officers don't wear armor. The Borg's exoskeleton as aquired from intercepting old Frankenstien movies and they just thought it would be efficient psychological warfare on the humans: A far better tactic than their original plan to flail their arms and yell "Crush, Kill, Destroy!" over and over.
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So.......... the borg will get toilet plungers as mechanical appendages!?!
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quote:Originally posted by David Templar: Only if they started assimilating large metal garbage cans. [/QB]
Well, they are going to try to assimilate NX-01 are'nt they?
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