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To offer a nice nonlethal pinko alternative to firearms, may I suggest trapping irons? Not only will a Borg Drone most assuredly stumble into those, it will be far too clumsy to bend over and remove the things from its ankle.
In a cinch, a chain hung about waist high across the corridor will also stop a Borg invasion just fine. Just make sure to have the floors strewn liberally with pieces of chewing gum, each one containing one of those miniature Romulan assassination devices, so that when the Borg try to defeat the impenetrable defenses by transporting across them, they are dispersed to a fine mist.
Oh, well. At least the Borg can negotiate stairs...
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Concering Snay's suggestion that the crew of the Enterprise used projectile weapons aginst the Borg, if the Borg have trouble adapting aginst them how come nobody tried to use the TR-116? How come it reamins a failed prototype? (besides the obvious reason that the TR-116 wouldn't be invented for two years)
Oh and Timo the borg can bend over, one must have to be able to bend over otherwise how could one reach under the door and grab that ensign?
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1. Heat can of Cajun Baked Beans. 2. Add 45 onions. 3. Eat the beans. 4. Find Borg onslaught. 5. Bend over and let her rip! (that'll kill anything)
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Assuming that Starfleet has an IQ of at least room temperature they would make Latin a required language to speak at the academy, unless of course the federation itself is less intelligent then a fruit fly. Although I could imagine a fruit fly taking over the Federation, they were after all infiltrated by a parasite...
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Um... right. And would you care to explain WHY Starfleet Academy should be required to waste time teaching Andorians a language that no one's spoken on OUR planet for a couple millenia?
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When fruit flies are fruitfully, do they multiply?
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Not to try and make some crazy sense from this crazy argument, but I imagine the Borg were killed by Picard because they weren't expecting to be hit with Tommy Guns. If everyone had been using them, they'd have deflected them as easily as phasers.
I think it's not that the Borg come automatically equipped to deflect most weapons, but that they send a few in to see what weapons the enemy are using, and then adapt the rest of the drones to that. As Picard only used the machine gun once, we never saw if the other Borg adapted to it.
And the Borg have shown the ability to stop physical attacks, as far back as "The Best of Both Worlds" when both Worf and Riker had a go.
And I'm agreeing (shockingly) with Omega here. Why on Earth would Starfleet want it's students to know Latin?
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quote: Assuming that Starfleet has an IQ of at least room temperature they would make Latin a required language to speak at the academy, unless of course the federation itself is less intelligent then a fruit fly(chaged from fruitfully). Although I could imagine a fruit fly(chaged from fruitfully) taking over the Federation, they were after all infiltrated by a parasite...(stupid word program,(not to metion me,(i wounder how long i could do this for,(i dont know but it seems pretty dumb to me,(shut up both of you!!!(OK!)(OK!)))))
What. The. "fuck".
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I have to agree with UM here. Some people need to just smack themselves around and spare us the trouble.
Of course, its possible Starfleet wants everyone to know Latin so they can recognize it when the Romans From Outer Space return and conquor the Federation.
Random Paragraph with the word "Starfleet" randomly inserted in:
"With the rights to broadcast both the Starfleet and the Triple Crown races, Starfleet aired the Preakness shortly after Starfleet, and then began its telecast of the Starfleet game at 6:30 p.m."
This is what that silly lad wrote:
"Assuming that Starfleet has an IQ of at least room temperature they would make Latin a required language to speak at the academy, unless of course the federation itself is less intelligent then a fruit fly(chaged from fruitfully). Although I could imagine a fruit fly(chaged from fruitfully) taking over the Federation, they were after all infiltrated by a parasite...(stupid word program,(not to metion me,(i wounder how long i could do this for,(i dont know but it seems pretty dumb to me,(shut up both of you!!!(OK!)(OK!)))))"
Coherency level == same.
Why latin? Why would that be an acceptable defence against the Borg? What's the shit about fruit flies?
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Well that was an interesting paragraph... Anyway, I would think that Latin would be easy for the Borg to decipher since the Collective has assimilated information onboard Federation starships. Even the Navajo language would be in the Collective's database by now, unlike back during WW2. And that fruitfly thing is strange. I don't even know where to start on that.
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