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Not for twisted medical experiments, of course. But for research purposes. Specifically, if any kind soul has the Voyager episode "Scorpion" on tape, I'd like to know the stated yield for the big Borg explosive device.
Also, if you have too much time on your hands, your size estimates for various Borg ships would be appreciated.
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Which big explosive device? The one they proposed for the naonprobes? *checks script* A "multikinetic neutronic mine" has a 5 million isoton yield which could affect an entire star system and dispurse nanonprobes over a radius of five light-years.
And the Borg Cubes are 27 cubic kilometres, as per "Dark Frontier".
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Oh, and, Sol, wouldn't your request actually require people's ears, not eyes? :-)
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Eyes...er...ears...uh, yes. I need sense organs. Better?
Five lightyears? Holy crap! I thought it could disperse them over a solar system...
Still, I wonder what that means, though. Assuming the explosion propels them at near lightspeed, that would still take more than five years. Plenty of time for an FTL enemy to evade. Hmm.
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And TSN, he did in fact use my eyes as I read it from the scriptbook. Nobody used ears, except for the 27km cubed figure.
Or perhaps it was 28. Not a big difference per side, anyway...
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According to the Star Trek Ships Expanded list, the cube the amazing Magnus encountered measured 28 cubic kilometers. Is that the episode you're getting your number from, Elim?
But I'm sure the cube seen in "Q Who" was bigger still, no?
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Does "high yield" warhead only mean it has a big blast radius or could it also mean a long duration of the explosion, the expansion of shockwaves? Good topic btw
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Well, that "multikinetic neutronic mine" would've been a doozy!
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Altair: If they were, it would've made a bigger bang when they blew it up!
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The mine was probably not going to be used to catch the bio ships with the nanites, but to make it so that they could not enter an area due to the nanites being there. Sort of like a giant mine field filled with lots and lots of very dangerous nanites.
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