Good update. I'd suggest increasing the maximum number on a cube to 180,000, based on the over 50,000 added in "Dark Frontier." Another nitpick: 1500 feet converts to 460m, not 450m (I know, I know...)
As for cubes growing and such -- Data noted that although it is "uncertain" whether the "Q Who" and BOBW cubes are the same ship, the dimensions are "precisely the same." (according to the script, haven't checked the aired version). Either it was the same ship, or there is in fact little variation between Borg cubes of the same variant.
It also occured to me that if the Voyager cube really shares components of this one (as Mark indicated), then they ought to be the same size: 3km.
Also, the Borg scout ship was given a mass of 2.5 million tons in the episode.
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I've always had a problem with the mass given for the scout ship from "I, Borg." It seemed unbelievably high for so small a vessel. Given the size of wreckage on the planet, it would seem this ship had a density of tens of thousands of tons per cubic meter; what the hell was this thing made of, anyway?
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I have no idea what they are made of, but maybe that was just a part of a larger vessel, maybe an escape pod. Or the thing was more heavily damaged than we thought and these were just the remains of the original ship.
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Was 7of9's sphere really small or did it just had a very small compliment?
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Don't know, but it seems a bit ... strange that all the survivors are part of Seven's 'number', in other words two of nine or three of nine. Or maybe there were only nine survivors and the drones assigned new numbers to themselves.
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One wonders whether crew size is proportional to ship size or ship mission...
Perhaps a scout, not tasked with wholesale assimilation, does not actually require much of a crew? A handful of drones could be aboard for the odd maintenance duties. Thus, the "small" scoutships from "I, Borg" and "Survival Instinct" could in fact be very large and simply very thinly crewed. While the Borg are mostly famous for being cyborgs, perhaps they are also good at pure robotics - perhaps their ships don't really need crews?
Then again, we have seen the drones operate the ships "manually" in many a VOY occasion. Do they *need* to press those buttons to make the ship work, or is that just "make-work" to keep the drones busy and happy?
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