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HOw many types of borg ships have been identified thus far?
There's the plain old Cube, the Descent Borg vessel, the "probe", a new Tactical cube, and at least two sizes of spheres, one small (like the renegade Klingon drone's) and one very big (w/ a crew of 11,000 drones, if i heard the queen correctly), are there any i'm missing?
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You forgot the borg diamond from "dark frontier".
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We've seen several cube designs: - the TNG 'classic' cube - the Voyager cube - the First Contact cube (Voyager type, with a Borg Sphere hatch).
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I like the internal green glow of the current look.
But as for Cube sizes, do they vary? Take "Scorpion" for example in the scene where a bunch of Cubes fly past Voyager. They rather small. In TNG a Cube made the Enterprise look tiny, so naturally Voyager should look even smaller.
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Don't forget the Borg tetragon as seen in "Dark Frontier."
And where did I read that Ricardo Delgado or whoever wanted to make the tactical cube a pyramid to unconsciously echo the UPN logo? I would've liked seeing a pyramidal shape...
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This is where it would be nice to have my Borg page finished and available for public viewing, wouldn't it?
There are, as far as I know, 7 types of Borg vessels, not accounting for size differences between them, or the difference between TNG and First Contact cubes.
The basic cube. The sphere. The cubelike scout ship. The truncated Twinkie scout. (From Dark Frontier.) The queen's funky diamond. The new tactical cube. The renegade Borg vessel. (From Descent, and seen catagorized as a blankity blank mine in Scorpion.)
As far as sizes go, it might be better to ask if any of them are the same size. We know that the cube from Q Who and The Best of Both Worlds was identical in terms of size, but all the others have varied in stated crew compliments and onscreen size. (Admittedly a dicey prospect for accurate sizing.)
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Seems to have worked. Incidentally, which of the Borg ships are known to have been "series produced" in the end, and which are unique?
The Cube in "Q Who?" was identical to that of "BoBW" because the same model was used - but perhaps it was the very same Cube? The one used in "Emissary" was of course the same as the one in "BoBW". The one in "First Contact" was a distinct design, and so was the Sphere there.
But which Voyager ships are reuses of these original models? And which are all-new CGI creations? There have been several Spheres in Voyager, and several "regular" Cubes, but have these been reuses or distinct designs? Were the multiple Cubes in "Scorpion" identical or not?
In other words, could all Borg ships be unique designs after all? Given their self-repair capability, commonality would probably not be necessary or even desirable.
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Well, lets see if we can come up with some other interesting geometric shapes
-Cube -Sphere -Diamond -Piramid? (if the CGI folks are imaginative enough)
As for the Cubes being of different "design" (the Borg don't have an R&D department after all); this is probably the result of battle experience & assimilation knowledge gained (or, the First Contact design was a one-time modification, since it was a special mission). But the Borg don't strike me as being extremely selective about how they construct their ships, so it is also likely there are more Cubes flying around with Spheres in their inners.
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Why would the Borg need to build their ships in series? I think their production plants are constantly upgrading and enhancing their designs, and that *every* single ship is entirely purpose built for it's specific task.
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I would think each Borg ship would be different, but generally the same. Look at Federation starships like the Defiant Class. They all look the same from the outside and in, except there are differences like the registries, the carpet color, and hardware.
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Hm... I wonder if there could be a sphere inside a cube... inside a sphere... inside a cube... inside a sphere... inside a cube... :-)
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