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The omnipotent Borg - revised

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Excerpt from the baen board about how the Borg could take over the Death Star with one drone. Any comments :D Or should I just include the entire SD net as a cite :lol:

On 1/9/2005 1:46:22 PM, Tim Arthur wrote:
>AFAIK The _only_ Star Wars
>weapon that would even tickle
>a Borg Cube is a Death Star's
>planet killer beam. I figure
>one Borg drone that got aboard
>(_without_ the ability to
>assimilate recruits) could
>capture (by wiping out or
>driving off the crew) or
>destroy a DS singlehanded,
>being immune to the SW
>personal weaponry.
>Image of a Star Destroyer
>stopped close alongside a
>stopped Death Star, firing its
>main battery lasers _into_ the
>DS in an attempt to kill the
>sole drone boarder. Meanwhile
>the drone is raising hell,
>slaughtering the DS's crew and
>dodging the Destroyer's fire.
>
>And if a properly equipped (a
>dozen drones, an assimilator,
>a transporter, a replicator, a
>power source and a shield
>generator) Borg boarding party
>got aboard..... Recall the
>Enterprise E's near fate.
>For purposes of this exercise,
>I'm assuming the Borg have to
>replicate and surgically
>implant their hardware in
>their recruits, rather than
>growing them in the recruits
>from a quicky injection of
>nannites.
>
>
>
>On 1/9/2005 12:48:27 AM, Jonathan Caro
>wrote:
>>I don't see any Imperial (Star
>>Wars) vessels, or Borg cubes
>>(Star Trek)
>>
>>I just happen to know a few of
>>those figures, incidentally:
>>
>>Star Destroyer: 1,600m
>>Super Star Destroyer: 8,000m
>>
>>If I remember correctly, the
>>diameter of the death star was
>>100km. I might just be making
>>something up though.
>>
>>Basically, even regular Star
>>Destroyers are MUCH bigger
>>than any Federation starships
>>(almost 3 times longer than
>>the Galaxy-class
>>Enterprise-D). But while the
>>Star Wars Galaxy has the
>>technological edge on the Star
>>Trek galaxy in a lot of
>>mundane areas, with the
>>exception of lightsabers,
>>Federation weapons technology
>>is much more advanced than
>>Galactic technology.
>>
>>I figure that the Enterprise D
>>could probably easily take on
>>a super Star Destroyer, maybe
>>even the death star. And a
>>single Borg cube could
>>assimilate the entire Old
>>Republic before they had
>>massed the techology and
>>forces necessary to stop it.
>>But then I'm prejudiced
>>towards Star Trek.
>>
>>So why weren't those ships
>>shown on the website? :(
>>
>>Jonathan Caro
>>
>>"As a matter of fact, I DO get
>>paid to think."
>>
>>"Philosophers do it Deeper"
>
>
>
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Just bog standard style over substance and proclaiming one's opinion as fact.

It's funny to read them I'll admit....to a point.
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The first quote at the end made it funny for me.
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Heh heh. Hehehe.
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............there's just.....no words....

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Even I feel queasy reading that shit...
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Kuja wrote:............there's just.....no words....

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You don't, but I think Robert does.

Rober Walper wrote:
Even I feel queasy reading that shit...
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Robert Walper wrote:Even I feel queasy reading that shit...
Wow. It's a miracle! :lol:
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Re: The omnipotent Borg - revised

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Okay, so most of this is the usual uber-Trek wanker yawn-fest bullshit that's been refuted a million times. One piece of idiocy in particular is giving me a fucking headache, though (emphasis is mine):
Meanwhile
>the drone is raising hell,
>slaughtering the DS's crew and
>dodging the Destroyer's fire.
What. The. Fuck. :wtf:

The same clownshoe cyborgs who walk slower than my 7-month-old niece crawls are now dodging large-scale artillery bombardments like Indiana Jones outrunning temple traps?! :roll:

I can understand how they arrived at most of the crap spewed in that quote simply by virtue of poor critical thinking (most notably the No Limits and Style Over Substance fallacies), but how the fucking fuck do they "dodging the Destroyer's fire"?

Did they see the slow-ass Predator outrunning an explosion for the last ten minutes of the abysmal Aliens vs. Predator movie and figure a powerwalking Borg drone could escape a large bombardment the same way?

Those cocksuckers. Those goddamned smooth-brained illiterate monkey-fucking pricks. Their stupidity has cursed me. I know that for the next fucking week the thought of this will rise up at random intervals as my brain tries to calculate how the hell anyone could come to a conclusion so grotesquely at odds with all available evidence.

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Praxis wrote:
Robert Walper wrote:Even I feel queasy reading that shit...
Wow. It's a miracle! :lol:
(j/k)
I meant I felt queasy because there's unveiled truth in the guy's words, and you're all blind to it!! ;) :P
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When I read this kind of stuff, the only thing it comes in my mind is a line from a commercial for Milka chocolate:

"And the marmot was wrapping the chocolate in tinfoil"


PS: I must admit this quote has become in Romania something like "wussup" was for US.
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Comosicus wrote:When I read this kind of stuff, the only thing it comes in my mind is a line from a commercial for Milka chocolate:

"Yeah, sure ... And the marmot was wrapping the chocolate in tinfoil"


PS: I must admit this quote has become in Romania something like "wussup" was for US.
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Robert Walper wrote:I meant I felt queasy because there's unveiled truth in the guy's words, and you're all blind to it!! ;) :P
Obviously the fever has passed and Robert is on his way to a full recovery. Glad to see it, pal.
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The man is a damn genius get him rght away on achieving other impossible goals like that perpetual motion machine......
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Petrosjko wrote:
Robert Walper wrote:I meant I felt queasy because there's unveiled truth in the guy's words, and you're all blind to it!! ;) :P
Obviously the fever has passed and Robert is on his way to a full recovery. Glad to see it, pal.
On the contrary, my rage is merely tempered, ready to be blown out into full power at a moment's notice. Will be most useful at any future point where I feel tempted to be a "nice guy". :twisted:
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Did this guy even WATCH Star Wars?
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drachefly wrote:Did this guy even WATCH Star Wars?
I do (and love it) and still think the Borg would whoop it's ass. ;)
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Robert Walper wrote:
drachefly wrote:Did this guy even WATCH Star Wars?
I do (and love it) and still think the Borg would whoop it's ass. ;)
Yes, but that's just because you maturbate to pictures of Borg drones. Everyone without this little ... problem ... can see that it's a cakewalk for the Empire.
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Darth Wong wrote:
Robert Walper wrote:
drachefly wrote:Did this guy even WATCH Star Wars?
I do (and love it) and still think the Borg would whoop it's ass. ;)
Yes, but that's just because you maturbate to pictures of Borg drones.
Seven of Nine...maybe. The others...um...no.
Everyone without this little ... problem ... can see that it's a cakewalk for the Empire.
Ah...but you fail to consider the power of Trek. Continuity is optional, as is predefined weaknesses, strengths and abilities. :P
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What exactly is the baen board? They don't appear to have ever heard of SDNet.
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SancheztheWhaler wrote:What exactly is the baen board? They don't appear to have ever heard of SDNet.
Erm-as Baen is a publishing company and their board is consequently intended mainly for discussing their books, why in Valen's name should they?
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Batman wrote:
SancheztheWhaler wrote:What exactly is the baen board? They don't appear to have ever heard of SDNet.
Erm-as Baen is a publishing company and their board is consequently intended mainly for discussing their books, why in Valen's name should they?
How do you people find these singular posts on obscure boards halfway across the internet? If only you used your investigative skills for good!

You'd cut the crime rate in half!
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Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba wrote: How do you people find these singular posts on obscure boards halfway across the internet?
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Halfway across the internet? That's... like doing the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs.

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drachefly wrote:Halfway across the internet? That's... like doing the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs.

"Uh, yeah, he means that the number of bit flippings to turn one IP into the other is half of the maximum possible."
Umm... Are- are you making fun of me? :? :lol:
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