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I think Sternbach has said (like, three or four years ago... it was around the time of Scorpion IIRC) that cubes (and presumably other designs) grow as they assimilate more shit. So the Borg might cut them loose from some sort of growth platform when they're say a kilometer and a half a-side, and they can grow up to say 5 clicks a side. Then they get trimmed back down, and the trimmings are recycled into a whole pile of daughter cubes. Sorta like cell mitosis... once they reach a certain size there stops being advantages to being so big and so the collective is better served with 27 smaller cubes rather than one huge honking one.
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Andrew: He was saying that the cube is 28 cubic kilometers, so take the cube root of that (raise it to the one-third power) to find the length of an edge.
Anyway, in general, I would say there is no uniformity to Borg ship sizes. Probably every one is different...
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How about another possibility for the ship in Descent. What if it is a ship from a race recently assimilated by the Borg? This would explain the unusual design of the ship, and why we do not see anything like it in other episodes. When using this approach it would have been the "last assignment" of the cube before Hugh infected it. As to what happened to that cube I suspect it would follow the same pattern seen in other disabled and unrepairable cubes in Star Trek.
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I've heard the idea that the odd-shaped "Descent" ship might be an assimilated ship before. It would explain its asymmetrical shape, and is in my opinion the most plausible idea around.
BTW, the 28 sq km dimension implies a size of 3.030 km, to be precise.
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