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If I remember correctly Data said "It is highly unlikely that the Borg will be able to break it."
I watched FC just a few days ago. Don't ya think that the timing between the screen displaying the words "Encripted" and his typing in the code are way off?
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quote:Kosinski had a square pip on his collar in "Where No One has Gone Before" TNG. Interestingly, he also wore a gold starfleet uniform, but no communicator.
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quote:I suppose the only thing it could reasonably be is an early attempt at a non-com uniform?
I don't think so. Kosinski didn't wear the Starfleet insignia and he was very disrespectful to superior officers (Riker and Argyle). I assume that he's a civilian and that Starfleet gave him the provisional rank of Lt. JG for the duration of his assignment.
The Maquis rank insignia used rectangular bars too.
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Perhaps this was a foray into warrant officer grades? As demonstrated by his behavior towards the Commanders, Kosinski obviously isnt regular military, but everyone says he is an expert in his field. Perhaps SF granted him a warrant grade for his service to them.
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quote: More seriously, how are we to know that "secure channel" is really secure?
As in real life, presumably never, at least not with absolute certainty.
That was proved in Conspiracy. Keel wouldn't talk to Picard on Code 47 becuase of security reasons.
Actually, it HASN'T been proven, Defiant. Picard was the "security reason" Keel spoke of. Keel was afraid Picard might already have been corrupted. He wanted a face-to-face meeting so he could be certain Picard was still "one of us."
You know, it seems to me Starfleet should issue MP-5 sub-machine guns chambered with the 10mm round. Can the Borg deflect bullets? No as evidenced by First Contact.
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Would the Borg be able to activate their little forcefield whenever they want? If they can, then they can stop bullets. But that's if they were even expecting attacks from bullets. As shown in FC, I think that once attacked from bullets (rather actually hit by them) with their forcefield down, there's little or no chance of activating them.
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Why do you need bullets when you have the double-barrel rifle? Forget bullets, even a Borg can't deflect a hit upside the head with all-american steel, I tell you what.
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Ah, the experienced opinion of Defiant ... LOL. Yes, but it helps if you can shoot them from a distance and stay out of range of those wicked mechanical probing arms of theirs.
You go club 'em with the rifle.
I'll stand back and empty a magazine or ten into them.
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The borg always move like the mummy anyway, so it would be easy to get close and smack one. They never did try projectile weapons did they, perhaps the old killing technologies were the best. And Snay you have been very gun happy lately, you get mugged or something?
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