Darksider wrote:How did BOBW "ruin" the borg??? they were unstoppable, they tore through a starfleet armada like tissue paper and they were barely stopped before they assimilated earth.
They ignored a hostile starship. They ignored a shuttlecraft sent by said hostile starship. They ignored the crew of said shuttle sent by said hostile starship until they actively started damaging the cube, after which they responded by having a few of their drones approach very slowly with shields down and make no attempt to use ranged weaponry. They gave a single drone complete access to the cube's entire crew's regeneration cycles.
TNG ruined the Borg. Voyager just marked the point when people started to realize it.
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Originally posted by Drooling Iguana:
The Borg were ruined in Best of Both Worlds and First Contact
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Umm dude... TNG Started the borg, The borg was ruined in FC and Voyager collapsed it like a skyscraper hit by an airplane.
You wanna set an example Garak....Use him, Let him Die!!
Darksider wrote:How did BOBW "ruin" the borg??? they were unstoppable, they tore through a starfleet armada like tissue paper and they were barely stopped before they assimilated earth.
They ignored a hostile starship. A starship that couldn't touch them; why waste the energy to deal with them unless they're ready to surrender? They ignored a shuttlecraft sent by said hostile starship. IIRC, the antimatter spread was meant to be a distraction, and they shut down the shuttle en route in order to evade detection. They ignored the crew of said shuttle sent by said hostile starship until they actively started damaging the cube, after which they responded by having a few of their drones approach very slowly with shields down and make no attempt to use ranged weaponry. "Shields down"? They "retuned" the phasers beforehand, the Borg wouldn't have adapted to them yet. Where ever did you see any evidence of personal ranged weapons in Q Who or BOBW? When did you ever see a drone move quickly in Q Who/BOBW? I'm not seeing any inconsistency. They gave a single drone complete access to the cube's entire crew's regeneration cycles. Er, not just "a" drone, "ALL" drones. It's a collective consciousness, so each drone makes up part of the consciousness; we're not talking about users on a mainframe.
TNG ruined the Borg. Voyager just marked the point when people started to realize it. Maybe the Borg weren't quite so great to begin with, and maybe what was "ruined" was the potential for greatness... which isn't exactly an exclusively ST area of fuckups.
