I really don't know if this would work against the Borg or not. Load an old ship that Starfleet has decommissioned or something with pods of antimatter. Fill every room and corridor with the pods. During the attack, launch the ship. The ship would be computer controlled by another ship. Don't let it attract any attention. Have a few other ships near by for cover. When the Borg aren't looking go warp 1 into the cube and all the Starfleet ship get out of the area maximum warp.
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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
We're ALWAYS looking.
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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
Or, you could just send a huge bomb along their way.
BTW, going to warp 1 wouldn't help...you'd need to be going a sufficient "real" speed for momentum to have an effect.
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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Hey, don't you be dissing Mista Bj�rn, dog!!!
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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
They never got around to using those Naanites suggested in BoBW..........
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Posted by Cargile (Member # 45) on :
Possible ways to fight the Borg are what we do best here at the Starfleet Military Reserves Fleet. The biggest weaknes the Borg have is that to understand a technology, they must assimilate it, and once assimilated they may transmit that knowledge to the Collective. Preventing that assimilation and transmission is the key to defeating the Borg. How do we do this? Thanks to technology brought back by the USS Voyager, we can know detect and calculate a transwarp conduit being used by the Borg. The next trick is to both get the Borg out of transwarp and prevent communication back to the Collective. The best way to do this is with an unstable Omega Molecule (exotic matter made from strange and charmed quarks or some other equally bizzare prion particles). Sure the Omega molecule caused great subspace damage, and I'm sure you are wondering how to control such a devastating explosion. Easy. The explosion is yielded with a collasping subspace bubble that can control the destruction to a radius a fraction of an AU. Of course, the explosion not only destroys subspace, but will take out a few cubes as well. Some cubes will survive. They always do. So fire a nice volley of Nemesis Devices--Genesis Devices not geared to create anything out of what it disentergrates. If that is not enough, an Artificial Quantum Singularity missile should suck a few to God know's where. For damaged Cubes that don't require an overkill of firepower, the regular quantum or photon torpedoes will do the trick. And rememeber! No suspace means no transporter action (or at least it should), this means no Borg can get on your ship. The Borg's only hope is to maneuver to a non-null zone where they can use subspace based technology. Our job is to shake our fingers and say, "No, no you don't. You should have stayed home in the Delta quadrant baby!"
You don't need any new technology to stop them, just use the technology you have in innovative ways.
Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
Why bother with anything else after the Omega Molecule? It was established that drones are interconnected via subspace signals similar to transporter beams in "The Best of Both Worlds." If transporters don't work, wouldn't those drones that survive be freed from the Collective?
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Not necessarily. First Contact gives us a glimpse into the Borg's contigency plans in such an instance. That is, they are capable of establishing a new Collective providing they have the proper "nexus." At least, that is my interpretation. There was a Queen proxy on the cube in FC, which allowed the Borg to maintain the Collective when they were thrust into the past.
So, while knocking them out of subspace is a good start, it's really best to make sure you finish them off.
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Posted by Coddman (Member # 10) on :
I don't think that would work Commander Paris, because you would be basically building one BIGASS torpedo. And the borg have adapted to Federation Matter-Antimatter-Explosion weapons like torpedos. ...... Just a thought *L*
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Posted by Black Knight (Member # 134) on :
...*bullets*...*bullets*...
Just thinking
Of course, only for drones.
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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :
Well, since the Borg have personal shields that can adapt to phaser fire, could they not just used them as conventional shields to a torpedo when it's personal shields to a bullet?
That time in First Contact just caught them by suprise, really.
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Posted by HMS White Star (Member # 174) on :
Ok Elim your telling me in the 1 billion year history of the Borg no one has ever fired a mass driver weapon at them, that makes no sense, mass drivers should be the most common weapon in existance, maily because they are so simple to consturct, maintain, and repair. Also with fun tech like superconducting magnets you have the KE of a round nearly match the KE on an energy weapon. Honestly either the Borg can't adapt to this weapons (unlikely), or it was a writer's ignoring a "minor detail" because it would look cool (highly likely).
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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :
I'm not telling you a thing. Berman, Braga, Moore, and Frakes were telling you that.
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Posted by JEM on :
Or maybe the're not.
Think of it from the Borg's point of view. They are only interested in assimilating 'advanced' species. Such cultures tend to use energy weapons. As these are what the Borg encounter most often, that's what they are designed to be most resistant to and what they can adapt to most readily. Perhaps adapting to new weapons is not such a trivial matter as it appears, its not that the Borg cannot adapt to projectile weapons but they don't regard it as being an efficient use of resources. Picard kills two with a machine gun and Worf gets one with a bat'leth, but loses like these are a minor inconvenience to the Borg as a whole. Should KE weapons become a serious threat or obstacle then they will adapt to it, other than that they're not worth bothering with.
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