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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] [QUOTE] I have a question... Weren't ships like the Akira, Steamrunner and Sabre part of the Defiant/Intrepid Borg Buster line? [/QUOTE]The general concensus in fandom is that no, they weren't. While the theory of "the higher you go with the NCC numbers, the newer the ship it is" has plenty of holes and contradiction, it is the theory that some of the show's tech writers wanted to go with and tried to stick with. This means, therefore, that the Akira, Steamrunner, Norway and possibly Sabre classes were around some time before the beginning of TNG. The most obvious hole in this logic is the one the most of the anti-chronological NCCers like to point out: if all these ships were supposed to be around before the Enterprise-D, then why hell have we never seen any of them before "First Contact"? Put simply, within the context of the show they simply weren't seen. For example, the Soyuz-class USS Bozeman was around during Kirk's time but not once did we see one puttering around in the background. There's a difference in that they explicitly mention the service time of the Soyuz class, but the analogy holds true. We've debated NCCs to no end here before, but in short there's little to prove that the Akira, etc. are post-Wolf 359 designs. Some enterprising (sic) authors who didn't do their homework (notably, the bunch of guys who wrote the "Official" histories of these ships for the recent RPG) have mangaed to slip through this more popular logic, and as a result this is one of the more common things we debate about. Now, I know the Akira writeup in the Starship Spotter goes with the Akira = new sentiment. While the writeup itself is more than feasible, it ignores the "NCC Intent" theory in favour of making the Akira way newer than most people think it should be. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Mojo: [qb]Even if the Borg adapted to your phasers (or other energy weapon), couldn't you still just shoot them with a machine gun? I'd like to see them adapt to good, old fashioned, high-velocity lead. I always thought that every time in the original series someone magically waved his hand and made their phasers stop working, Kirk should have pulled out a revolver...[/qb][/QUOTE]Revolver, nuthin. I'd like to see someone in Trek carrying around the equivalent of the M-41A pulse rifle from "Aliens"! Now THAT's a gun! :) [QUOTE][qb]Certainly the Borg's personal shields are based around adapting to and stopping energy weapons... and hand to hand combat it still effective... so I gotta figure a good shotgun would be pretty hard for them to adapt to! Mojo[/qb][/QUOTE]Presumably the Borg have yet to come up with a suitable defense against good ole' kinetic force. For whatever reason, sci-fi seems to equate energy weapons as more powerful than lead, thus this is possibly why no one thinks of carrying around something that CAN'T vapourize a target. However, if you're thinking about Borg adaptations, you might consider the makeover of the Borg within the context of TNG to be one such adaptation against projectile weapons. We see in "Q Who?" that the majority of Borg walked around in simple body stalkings covered with technological doodads. However, by "Descent" everyone had rubber suits and full body armour. Concievably, this stuff is a heck of a lot more resilient to a bullet (and a bunch of other stuff) than some wool overgarment. :) Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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