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Aratech wrote:Plus didn't they blow it, as Mr. Wong would say, 'into very small non working parts?'
ENT stopped worrying over continuity with the very opening episode so what's the problem?
And while I thankfully haven't seen that episode the Sphere explosion in FC wasn't depicted in enough detail to positively preclude largish portions of the structure and a number of drones remaining in one piece.
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Gah, the newb's still at it.

Under more intelligent circumstances, I might actually admire his ressiliance. However, he is seriously trying my patience.
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That's the Vs debated for you.
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God in Heaven! Now he's claiming that the ISD won't be able to destroy cubes efficently because
Kinkade0001 wrote:Talk to me once you've ploted a fireing sollution to shoot 72 seperate vessels at once with weapons designed to broadside, not fire independantly
Did this guy not watch any of the movies?
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"A firing solution?" :lol: Does he really think that computers advanced enough to achieve sentience cannot compute firing solutions on 72 targets? Or perhaps he's figuring that a fucking Imperial Star Destroyer has less computing power than C3-PO.
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Well, I think he's either getting more desperate or more stupid, if his last reply is any indication. (note, this isn't mine, it's to another guy)


Reaper's statment
Transporters: A big advantage to be sure, eliminating shuttlecraft, but they can be jammed by anything larger than a clock radio. In a military engagement they are of limited use since the empire makes a massive show about creating the largest ECM field you have ever dreamed of. It would be useful for sneak attacks etc. but during tactical engagements I seriously doubt they could be of any use.

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Your doubts are irrelevant; you will be transported to my cube and assimilated fanboy.

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Pros - Eliminates the need for shuttlecraft, near instantaneous.
Cons - Can be jammed by any number of conditions, even including the weak EM field of planets. Transport errors result in possible instant death or grievous injuries. Having them means that the Borg have no shuttlecraft, or at least none that I have ever seen. This means if they cease to function or are jammed the borg cannot launch boarding actions or escape their vessel in other ways. Overall the disadvantages outweigh the advantages here.

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We have never seen an enemy that could jam a Borg transporter beam.


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I highly doubt they could adapt to blasters effectively enough to render them useless.

Noob
Again your doubts are irrelevant; all beam weaponry operates on a frequency of some kind, even your blasters. You will be assimilated and sent to a re-education camp where you will be forced to listen to recordings of your self drone on and on about the supposed might of the empire until your head explodes.



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Cons: Does not work in real life, and creates an alternate timeline in trek. Not that useful.

Noob
On the contrary, time travel is extremely useful. But I must admit, I never thought I’d ever get you to admit that something here wasn't (Gasp) REAL.



I think I'm gonig through reverse osmosis debating this guy and just by reading his posts, I can feel my level of idiocy increasing.

On a simliar note, as you've probably seen I've having some problems stacking quotes. Have I missed something key with the ["quote"] tags?
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:roll: :roll: :roll:
Regardless of whether or not you believe Fluidic space contains the materials necessary for construction, the point was that the empire could not attack the Borg there.
Note, the borg can't attack the Empire from fluidic space either. So if the borg are going to HIDE in Fluidic space, they he's just admitted that the borg lost.
On the other hand, Locutus did have a personal shield because he wasn't expendable.
And we saw this personal shield when exactly? Not when Worf was wrestling with him on the cube and it certainly didn't prevent the Feddies from taking Locutus back to the E-D with them.

Don't you just love these insane leaps in logic from trekkies? This idiot somehow things "not expendable" means "has personal shields".
Yet the Collective has not encountered a species that effectively employed slug thrower against them
Lie. Picard's tommy gun was rather effective.
Or species strong enough to kill a sufficient number of drones in combat, hence the lack of adaptation to block kinetic attacks.Kinetic shields get in the way. Drones can't deploy them and effectively interact with their environment at the same time. You can't grab someone while the shield is deployed, and you can't interact with the technology of the ship while it's deployed either. That's why destroyer droids can't deploy them in wheel mode.
Just gotta love those excuses for why we have never seen anything of the sort in Trek and which he pulled out of his ass. He actually assumes the drones wouldn't have as great a control over their KE shields as they do over their regular shields.
For example, I'm the Master Chief and you are a Grunt. I am armed with my Battle Rifle (lots of ammo), a plasma sword, and a K-bar. I sneak up behind you and kill you with the knife. By your reasoning, I don't have the capability to shoot you because I used the knife.
Just gotta love the way they try and concoct analogies based on what they WANT to be correct rather than what is most logical.
You're telling me! In fact, the Borg have been so limited here that they have been given no options whatsoever. No tactics, no strategy, no battle plans save for a "die trying to give the speech" approach. You give the fracking Ewoks more credit then you give the Borg. You might as well start handing out the blindfolds now because this isn't a war, it's an execution. You expect the Borg to show up, and do absolutely nothing as the empire magically wipes them from space with a single fracking Star Destroyer. You give them absolutely no credit at all for having conquered thousands of species, for adapting to every weapon thrown at them, and for having a queen that thinks independently and has shown on countless occasion the ability to analyze and adapt to enemy attacks, the tactics and strategy to counter attack, and a willingness to change tactics when the primary method of attack fails.
Heaven forbid we should assume the borg will act the same was against the Empire as they do against various Trek powers. :roll: And there is no evidecne that the borg have adapted to "every weapon thrown at them" especially since an earlier point of this very post was their lack of a KE defense.

Haven't seen much of Voyager and the Queen's supposed abilities but if one little Intrepid class starship can kick the collective's collective ass then her tactics and strategies can't have been all that impressive.
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Twat wrote:Your doubts are irrelevant; you will be transported to my cube and assimilated fanboy.
:wanker:
Twat wrote:We have never seen an enemy that could jam a Borg transporter beam.
Yeah, I guess he never saw STFC, where the Borg were unable to transport onto the E-E until it briefly dropped its shields.
Twat wrote:Again your doubts are irrelevant; all beam weaponry operates on a frequency of some kind, even your blasters.
What an imbecile. Real-life particle beams require no such frequency.
Twat wrote:You will be assimilated and sent to a re-education camp where you will be forced to listen to recordings of your self drone on and on about the supposed might of the empire until your head explodes.
:wanker:
Twat wrote:On the contrary, time travel is extremely useful. But I must admit, I never thought I’d ever get you to admit that something here wasn't (Gasp) REAL.
Gotta love when they "refute" an argument by simply restating their conclusion.

Honestly, if this were me, I would just point out that they're obviously children and leave it at that. They can get back to me when they're grown up and they've had some of the stupidity beaten out of them by life.
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Well, he's started to resort to Ad Homiums, calling me 'an old yellow dog' when I said that I wasn't rapid, merely pointing out the facts that the Borg are literally out of their league here.
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You said you weren't rapid? What does your speed have to do with this?
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Gah! rabid! Sorry. Oy, every moment I continue this debate with him seems to be sapping my brainpower....
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What is it with Borg wankers and "adaptation is the uber"? It certainly didn't save the cube in First Contact from being smoked by the Federation's weapons.
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Darth Wong wrote:"A firing solution?" :lol: Does he really think that computers advanced enough to achieve sentience cannot compute firing solutions on 72 targets? Or perhaps he's figuring that a fucking Imperial Star Destroyer has less computing power than C3-PO.
What's even sillier is that he's forgetting that every gun has at least one gunner. And then there's this. They have teams of people trained in precisely this kind of job. Unlike the borg, Imperial ships have been seen to fire more than one weapon simultaneously. Presumably they're networked, making, even with minimal computer aid, targetting seventy odd cubes rather easy work.
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Imperial Overlord wrote:What is it with Borg wankers and "adaptation is the uber"? It certainly didn't save the cube in First Contact from being smoked by the Federation's weapons.
They just really, really, really want the Borg to win, which is why they're wankers. Conclusion does not flow from evidence and logic for these kiddies; they have their conclusion before they even look at the evidence.
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Slightly off topic, but is this Mith on SB.com the same Mith here who accused several board members of being paedophiles without any evidence whatsoever and used a piss poor apology when he was called on it. Afterwards he got terminated?

I occasionally glance, but rarely participate at SB.com these days and from what I have seen of him he seems to be not only a trek wanker but also a religious apologist as well.
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mr friendly guy wrote:Slightly off topic, but is this Mith on SB.com the same Mith here who accused several board members of being paedophiles without any evidence whatsoever and used a piss poor apology when he was called on it. Afterwards he got terminated?

I occasionally glance, but rarely participate at SB.com these days and from what I have seen of him he seems to be not only a trek wanker but also a religious apologist as well.
It's probably the same twat, although you can't be sure from a username alone (not when it's based on Grand Admiral Thrawn's name, which is bound to be fairly common on sci-fi message boards). In any case, Trek wanking and religious apologism are surprisingly often found together.
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This quote left me in stitches:
One Dumb Twat wrote:No, a super-smart caveman won't be able to figure out the laws of EM by fiddling with a computer, but several trillion of them would have a much better chance.
I spent 15 minutes wiping the Dr. Pepper that shot out of my nostrils all over my keyboard and monitor when I read that.
:lol:

The guy calls himself "Kagh't", but shouldn't his real name be "Kock"?

Kagh't or Kock?
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Elfdart wrote:This quote left me in stitches:
One Dumb Twat wrote:No, a super-smart caveman won't be able to figure out the laws of EM by fiddling with a computer, but several trillion of them would have a much better chance.
I spent 15 minutes wiping the Dr. Pepper that shot out of my nostrils all over my keyboard and monitor when I read that.
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Well by sheer probability they might (Monkeys writing Shakesphere).
That is, if they had trillions of those computers (Which would have to be reinforced to prevent the cavemen from bashing them) and lots n' tots of time :P . [Which ain't the case, obviously enough in a war]

(And yes, I'm lucky I was holding a tissue because I snorted a dman lot from laughing at that) :lol:
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Actually, I had this image in my head of all these cavemen waiting in line to try their luck on one computer.

Here's Kagh't/ K'ock in action:

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Imperial Overlord wrote:What is it with Borg wankers and "adaptation is the uber"? It certainly didn't save the cube in First Contact from being smoked by the Federation's weapons.
Take a good look at Robert Walper when he goes into Borg Mode. Literally he's a classic fanboy archetype of Borg lover.
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Basically, you can tell when someone's a fanboy by his use of the "shifting the burden of proof" and"moving the goalposts" fallacies. Those two fallacies (especially the first one) are almost always found in extreme fanboy arguments, as you can see by their heavy use in religious arguments (religious people are, after all, the first and worst fiction fanboys).

"I don't have to prove the Borg can do that, you have to prove they CAN'T!"

"I don't have to prove God exists, you have to prove he DOESN'T!"
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Mith actually did that once. It was a thread about a IoM retribution class ship being dumped into the Delta Quadrant.

http://img300.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... 4lozo5.jpg

He necroed it and proceeded to claim how the Borg would slaughter the thing... despite the fact that it's almost capable of matching an ISD in firepower, can slip into a seperate diminsion, has onboard forges for making iits own ammo supply, and has shields designed to stop transporter attacks.

Mith promptly stated that unless it explicitly stated the ability to stop Trek transporting, that the Borg would go right through it.
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Darth Wong wrote:Basically, you can tell when someone's a fanboy by his use of the "shifting the burden of proof" and"moving the goalposts" fallacies. Those two fallacies (especially the first one) are almost always found in extreme fanboy arguments, as you can see by their heavy use in religious arguments (religious people are, after all, the first and worst fiction fanboys).

"I don't have to prove the Borg can do that, you have to prove they CAN'T!"

"I don't have to prove God exists, you have to prove he DOESN'T!"
I know the feeling, I was debating some idiot on Startrek.com and the guy was moving the goalposts on the debate when he realised he was losing, and when I called him on it he actually admitted doing so but didn't even try to defend himself and he exepected people to accept his BS
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Darth Wong wrote:
mr friendly guy wrote:Slightly off topic, but is this Mith on SB.com the same Mith here who accused several board members of being paedophiles without any evidence whatsoever and used a piss poor apology when he was called on it. Afterwards he got terminated?

I occasionally glance, but rarely participate at SB.com these days and from what I have seen of him he seems to be not only a trek wanker but also a religious apologist as well.
It's probably the same twat, although you can't be sure from a username alone (not when it's based on Grand Admiral Thrawn's name, which is bound to be fairly common on sci-fi message boards). In any case, Trek wanking and religious apologism are surprisingly often found together.
Actually I believe it was a different Mitth (spelled with two t's) that did the pedo thing; 'Mitth' was a sock which was terminated later after "Mitth'raw'nurodo" was banned. Mith showed up here, made an ass of himself (as Ein observed in greater length); apparently he was on SB before then and just returned or whatever.
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On the issue of the SD's 'firing solutions', can't a modern aegis cruiser keep track of a few hundred possible targets at once? Surely an ISD can keep a lock on at least this many?
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