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First contact assimultion

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OK in First Contact the borg start going around the ship assimulating it.Has anybody thought WHY they would do so? Me personally I think its because it was the closest .most easily available resource for the borg to use .Any comments?
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Because the Borg are morons, they could have beamed most of their strength down to the planet, and sent half a dozen drones over to the Enterprise to cause a warp core breach.
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consequences wrote:Because the Borg are morons, they could have beamed most of their strength down to the planet, and sent half a dozen drones over to the Enterprise to cause a warp core breach.
The Queen wanted Data. That, and maybe the E-E's transporters didn't work.
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pecker wrote:
consequences wrote:Because the Borg are morons, they could have beamed most of their strength down to the planet, and sent half a dozen drones over to the Enterprise to cause a warp core breach.
The Queen wanted Data. That, and maybe the E-E's transporters didn't work.
Why wouldn't the transporters work? The ship wasn't badly damaged, it had lots of transporters, and the Borg controlled Engineering.
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The transporter wasn't damaged.

The borg wanted the deflector dish to contact the Borg that is still in the delta quadrant. That's the main reason i think the borg wanted the ship.

I would agree that the borg should've went down to the surface....but with ppl carrying guns and all.......

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Typhonis 1 wrote:OK in First Contact the borg start going around the ship assimulating it.Has anybody thought WHY they would do so? Me personally I think its because it was the closest .most easily available resource for the borg to use .Any comments?
The writers are total idiots, and the plot doesn't even work.
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pecker wrote:
The Queen wanted Data. That, and maybe the E-E's transporters didn't work.
Why did the Borg Queen want Data again? Didn't they describe him as a primitive attempt at AI or something like that when they first scanned him on the show?
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Mark S wrote: Why did the Borg Queen want Data again? Didn't they describe him as a primitive attempt at AI or something like that when they first scanned him on the show?
Needed him to break the encryption on the main computer- probably to continue their bombardment (if you can call frag grenade level explosives 'bombardment') of Earth

The best part of the train wreck that is the First Contact plot is that they went back in time, thus eliminating the technology they're interested in in the first place.
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Mark S wrote: Why did the Borg Queen want Data again? Didn't they describe him as a primitive attempt at AI or something like that when they first scanned him on the show?
Needed him to break the encryption on the main computer- probably to continue their bombardment (if you can call frag grenade level explosives 'bombardment') of Earth

The best part of the train wreck that is the First Contact plot is that they went back in time, thus eliminating the technology they're interested in in the first place.
I don't think the Borg queen was really interested in Fed technology any more by this point. I think she decided she had a personel vendetta against Earth because of how Locutus was taken from her.
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Alyeska wrote:I don't think the Borg queen was really interested in Fed technology any more by this point. I think she decided she had a personel vendetta against Earth because of how Locutus was taken from her.
While I won't rule out a personal vendetta, I always thought it was just a case of deciding that these humans could be really dangerous if we give them time. Which she proceeded to do of course.
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Needed him to break the encryption on the main computer
Circular reasoning.

Q: Why did the Borg want the E-E? A: The Queen wanted Data.

Q: Why did the Queen want Data? A: To get the E-E's encryption codes.

Q: Why did they want the encryption codes? A: To get control of the E-E.

Q: Why did the Borg want the E-E? Etc. etc. etc.

I think the underlying question is "Why didn't the Borg send a message to the collective the instant they arrived back in time?" Of course, this is immediately followed up by the ever-popular "Why didn't they travel back in time ten light years from Earth and then travel to the Sol system?"
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Heh, I wish the Borg HAD sent most of their strength down to the surface. Weren't the people down there armed with Uzis and whatnot? :twisted:
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GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:Heh, I wish the Borg HAD sent most of their strength down to the surface. Weren't the people down there armed with Uzis and whatnot? :twisted:
Sufficiently pointy sticks and rocks would be enough. But there was at least one rifle.
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Sea Skimmer wrote:
GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:Heh, I wish the Borg HAD sent most of their strength down to the surface. Weren't the people down there armed with Uzis and whatnot? :twisted:
Sufficiently pointy sticks and rocks would be enough. But there was at least one rifle.
Which would be more than enough for all of them to get killed. So maybe they weren't so dumb to invade the Ent-E.
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Which is my point the Queen knew that if she wanted Earth she needed resources and new drones .Where were the closet ones ? and tech she could use to attack Earth
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Typhonis 1 wrote:Which is my point the Queen knew that if she wanted Earth she needed resources and new drones .Where were the closet ones ? and tech she could use to attack Earth
I don't think closet drones even exist...
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Eleas wrote:
Typhonis 1 wrote:Which is my point the Queen knew that if she wanted Earth she needed resources and new drones .Where were the closet ones ? and tech she could use to attack Earth
I don't think closet drones even exist...
Maybe he means drones that haven't yet accepted that they're drones.
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