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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] "With the holodeck safeties off, even holographic bullets can kill." - Picard, First Contact. Picard's holographic bullets were nothing more than 'smoke and mirrors', backed up by a forcefield. It was not an attack with a projectile weapon firing bullets with kinetic energy . . . it was a crafty forcefield attack that the Borg had obviously never encountered before, and had therefore not adapted to. The Borg were aware that they were in a holographic environment . . . not only was one of the drones Picard shot an assimilated ensign, but one of the holodeck characters was disrupted by some sort of scanning beams. Some might suggest that Starfleet officers are all stupid, and that no one ever thought of trying to shoot the Borg with bullets. I suppose it is possible that no one ever tried to bring a gun to a disruptor fight (Borg drones, after all, are frequently armed with disruptor attachments, as observed in "Descent"[TNG], "Drone"[VOY], and "Scorpion"[VOY]). But, let's look at the evidence: 1. We have never seen projectile weapons used against the Borg. 2. Starfleet has access to modern-design projectile weapons, and can evidently recreate old ones. (reference: "Field of Fire"[DS9], "A Private Little War"[TOS], "The Big Goodbye"[TNG], ST:FC, etc.) 3. Starfleet has studied operational drones and their technology, has extracted technology from former drones, and has studied non-operational Borg equipment. (reference: "Best of Both Worlds"[TNG], "I, Borg"[TNG], First Contact, "Scorpion"[VOY], "Drone"[VOY], "Unimatrix Zero"[VOY], "Dark Frontier"[VOY], etc.) 4. Several Starfleet officers and personnel have spent time as Borg drones, giving them detailed information on Borg technology. (reference: "Best of Both Worlds"[TNG], First Contact, Seven of Nine, etc.) 5. Phasers are particle weapons (reference: Picard in First Contact, Malcolm Reed in "Broken Bow"[ENT], Tuvok in "Endgame"[VOY], et cetera) 6. Borg drone shields stop phasers. (reference: Every Borg episode since "Q Who"[TNG]) 7. When Starfleet needed a weapon that would work in conditions where phasers wouldn't, they looked to a projectile weapon. (reference: "Field of Fire"[DS9] TR-116 backstory) 8. Borg drone shields do not stop physical attacks, such as hands or knives. (reference: Every Borg episode since "Q Who"[TNG]) 9. The Borg drones are capable of interacting with their environment. (reference: Every Borg episode since "Q Who"[TNG]) One could argue that all Starfleet officers are idiots, but I don't think that's the best, most reasonable conclusion to draw from the above data. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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