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Mabye they "scoop" up chunks o' planets to fabricate new Cubes (I cant imagine the borg have traditional shipyards).
The Cube from the "J-System" may have held unique technology that was recently assimilated- that would explain it's appearance and it's subspace field (that the later cubes seem to lack).
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Wasn't it also bigger than the Voyager cubes?
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It just looked larger: the Tactical Cube, for example, is so lacking in detail that it seems like a small child's block.
Or mabye the Borg just diminished so much as a threat as Voyager wore on that the cubes seem insignifigant.
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There are some debatable ship sizes there, though I agree with his KBOP.
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The Borg were handled pretty badly after the next generation. The Best of Both Worlds is the finest 90 minutes if television I have ever seen and the reason I fell in love with the franchise. It (and the Borg) followed the x-files maxim that sometimes what you don't see is more scary than what you do. Having a more limited budget and efects technology than First Contact and Voyager, they depended on the old fashioned technique of great writing. The Scene with Picard pacing up and down, asking worf to set course to intercept, then worf saying "they have already changed cource to intercept us" all the time taking the power to influence events out of the Federations hands. The site of Hanson's bridge shaking before being cut off, and a shake of the head from data was far more effective than any Borg battle scene. Likewise pieces of dialogue like "Its a shot in the dark, but for now its the best we can do." "maybe in concert with the photon torpedoes we can slow them down" "perhaps this is the end of our civilisation?" "I've heard people talkingin ten forward, they expect to be dead this time tomorrow" The Borg and their threat were introduced with scalpel like efficiency by the next gen writers, in stark contrast to Voyager's "fifteen cube's heading this way all looking very big and tough" Or the redesigned Borg with wires hanging from rotting skin, and their resident evil style zombie walks and flashing laser lights... The next gen was high art...
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The Child, Metamorphasis and all of first season are about as far from "high art" as concievable.
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quote:Originally posted by HerbShrump: Only if you take the TOS Enterprise and fly it toward the planet killer while making the "duh duh" music sound with your voice.
Oh, wait...
hmmm... would the SDF-1 transformed... gets stuck?
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