Borg Sphere

[Starscream]

Behold! The almighty Borg Sphere. It appears to be larger than DS9 and holds thousands of drones. But I wonder, how was Picard able to destroy one in Star Trek: First Contact with a single quantum torpedo? The obvious answer is that the borg wanted to appear to be destroyed so that they could infiltrate the Enterprise. This whole senario doesn't make sense for several reasons. One is that the borg is is larger, has more firepower, and has better sheilding than the Enterprise. Why would the queen wish to transfer to a clearly inferior ship? If it was to make sure the Enterprise wouldn't interfer why didn't the queen simply destroy the Enterprise? Another thing is, why wasn't Picard suprised by the fact the he managed to destroy a larger, more advanced ship with a single torpedo? Perhaps it was his own arrogance, because I think that any rational person would see that something was afoot right away.

[Master of Ossus]

I think that an alternate explanation is also possible.

The Borg Sphere was an escape boat, and it was a highly specialized one at that. It had the ability to go back in time, which would have taken up a heck of a lot of internal space and power. It is possible that the Borg sphere in ST:FC was not as powerful as a fighting ship as it is assumed in the first post of this thread.

[Howedar]

I woulda sworn it was 4 torpedos...

[David]

Actually it is four torpedos, but I can see what Sun Crusher is saying, even with four QT's, how could the Enterprise destoy this vessel. I've personally never though that ST gave enough credit to the size of the Borg ships.

[Tsyroc]

Actually it is four torpedos, but I can see what Sun Crusher is saying, even with four QT's, how could the Enterprise destoy this vessel. I've personally never though that ST gave enough credit to the size of the Borg ships.

Perhaps the Borg had assimilated entirely too many Federation and Alpha Quadrant personel and now their own tech was compromised with whatever
it is that causes all of those warp core breaches in post TOS ships.

[Cpt_Frank]

Perhaps they didn't have sufficient time to 'adapt' to the torps.

[Master of Ossus]

Perhaps they didn't have sufficient time to 'adapt' to the torps.

That seems possible but somewhat unlikely. Maybe the Borg should watch out for Picard's little dune-buggy in Nemesis. After all, they have yet to adapt to it.

[David]

I saw a preview for Nemesis in the theatre. I though it was pretty coll lookin' until it got to the dune buggies.

[seanrobertson]

Sun Crusher,

There are at least two different sized spheres. The one in "FC" is
about 470m wide. If you can find a decent image of the "FC" cube,
especially a schematic, measure the circular escape hatch relative
to a cube's width (3.04 km).

Other spheres are really big, like the one in "Drone," which was
trying to tractor VGR inside IIRC. And the ship in "Endgame" was
largish, too, capable of pulling VGR deep inside. Subjectively,
I'd say the large spheres are at least two kilometers wide.

The big sphere easily outclassed VGR with its fancy armor and
new torpedos, but the little ones are usually not considered much
of a threat. Janewad was even ready to run one down in "Dark Frontier,"
though it was damaged.

Sean
Analyst http://www.babtech-onthe.net/

[Mr. B]

Whoever said the Borg were rational especcialy with B&B at the helm. OR maybe those were the uber torps DorkStar likes.

[Alyeska]

Seeing as the Enerprise's shields were down, so might the Borg Sphere's shields. We all saw in BOBW what phasers could do to the Borg ship with no shields. So imagine what vastly more powerful Q-Torps would do to an unshielded sphere that is a fraction the size of the larger cube. And with the firepower of the sphere's weapons (pretty much shuttlecraft power level) one would wonder if that was indeed a Borg escape ship.