t is canon that people with expertise believe it will. Why will you not show your counter-evidence from the canon, instead of speculating endlessly?
How about you present canon evidence first that it definitely works? There are numerous occasions where Federation personnel had access to the Borg collective's nervous system (like Unimatrix Zero), why don't they ever try to insert their Funky Image then? If it was such a game changer surely every Fed ship would be given it just in case they'd stumble upon the Borg, no?
Also, if this really worked as advertised, simply displaying this form over the viewscreen whenever a Borg ship comes a-hailin' should be enough. Obviously this is also never happens.
Necron Lord wrote:There is no reason to presume the Dominion develop technologically slower than the Borg.
Yes, there's plenty. The Founders are xenophobic and distrusting or actively hostile towards anything that behaves outside what they've set as norm. You can't see how this attitude would hinder innovativeness? Want evidence? Section 31, a clandestine organisation managed to develop a lethal bioweapon against the founders, yet the Dominion with its entire wealth of resources could not come up with a cure, despite the fact that this cure was simple enough that a human being could remember it from scratch. This is simply pathetic.
The Borg Probe, which is roughly the same size (the script has it that it's half the length of voyager though obviously being a solid shape it's bulkier anyways, the ship as shown on screen is roughly the same size) as Voyager, and the borg have been around for hundreds thousand years.
This is based on fallacious reasoning. Size and firepower do not automatically go hand in hand. A modern missile destroyer weighs less than a battleship yet the former could easily sink the latter. Also, since the probe is a most probably a recon vessel of some sort, we might as well say that much of its interior is taken up by sensory equipment instead of weapons and shield systems.
CHAKOTAY:
It was only a probe. Next time, we might not be so lucky.
Against cubes and spheres they are however chanceless as seen in The Drone where a single sphere overwhelms Voyager easily and even counters their techbabble silver bullet without effort.
The Dominion has been around for at most ten thousand years and is stated to have superior weapons to the Feds, and indeed, any other weapon the Feds have encountered before - even borg weapons don't slice right through UFP shields:
The Dominion has been around that long yet loses its technological edge over the Federation before open war even begins, keeping only their superior industrial capabilties. During the second Borg incursion in First Contact you can hear panicked shrieks over radio over warp cores breaching and stuff blowing up only seconds after the cube is engaged. I think that handily proves the firepower of a Borg ship.
There is no reason to presume the Dominion develop technologically slower than the Borg.
Here's the list of things the Dominion develops over the course of the war: Alpha Jem'hadar which have practically no effect on the war and plasma rifles to replace the polaron guns. Presumably because they're cheaper to manufacture since they lack the whole anti-coagulant effect. They don't even find a solution to the Ketracel White shortage caused by Sisko's sabotage and have to import it from the Son'a. The battleship is an arguable case since that might as well be a design from the Gamma quadrant.
Bonus points: Rotating shield frequencies doesn't work on Dominion phased polaron beams. Demonstrate from the canon (show evidence) that the borg will be able to block Jem'hadar ships' weapons. The evidence I am aware of shows that the borg 'adapt' by adjusting frequencies, and that this is useless against the Dominion's weapons, therefore, there is no reason to think that the Dominion could not continue shooting straight through Borg shields with absolute impunity.
The Phased Polaron Beam is said to be devastating to Federation shields, not shields in general, as Weyoun states during the attack on DS9. It's also a techbabble weapon the Federation eventually counters without even having to majorly overhaul their ships (unlike what they had to do to counter the Breen dampening device). You're also wrong about Borg adaption, in Dark Frontier, their adaption to the modulating phaser weapon is to:
SEVEN:
Triaxillate our shield geometry to absorb their phaser pulses.
Doesn't sound like they just changed frequencies to me. Also, if it's just frequency shifting that gives the Borg their invulnerability how come the cube in Q Who also managed to completely nullify photon torpedoes which don't work with frequencies?
Additional: Jem'hadar fighters are equivalent in manouverability to the Defiant, roughly, and the Defiant is shown in First Contact to be capable of evading borg weapons and pouring fire on it. Why is a Jem'hadar fighter, with its ability to punch through shields on the first shot, rated so poorly against the Borg when the Defiant is obviously highly effective?
The Defiant has an overpowered engine and is way more stable than a bugship, and still it is on the verge of destruction and has to be bailed out in First Contact after one direct hit, that doesn't scream "highly effective" to me. Bugships often die after only a few direct hits. DS9 swats them out of the sky with happy abandon and I don't see them performing any fancy evasive maneuvers there (or ever, they'd rather kamikaze).
That by the by, is the Borg Queen convinced that she can't defeat the Federation without Seven of Nine's help. IE, she gets Seven, states on screen that she needs her to help with sneaky things, she loses seven, and then the sneaky things never happen.
Easy alternative interpretation, she's playing mind games with Seven, she's been at it for the entire episode. The Borg could destroy the Federation at any point just by deploying more than one ship. They did so with Arturis' species after all when they proved to be a worthy target. Humanity is low on their priority order and yes, that's stated in the same episode. Nothing says the Borg never lie.
Using wide-scale dispersal of nanoprobes wasn't even an idea the borg came up with on their own; that was something Janeway showed them earlier! And they still need a human's help to implement it!
Or it's just the Borg Queen trying to break Seven by forcing her to commit atrocities against heir former allies.
No, one statement overrrides another only when they contradict. The borg started the war with 8472 by invading fluidic space. The borg assimilate, not invent. These do not contradict; "The borg assimilated the knowledge of how to access Fluidic space from an unknown third species" is a postulate that retains both statements as true, therefore it is the correct answer.
No one before the Borg could access Fluid Space. Evidence? The 8472/Undine would have reacted with an invasion to purge our space if it had happened before just by the fact that they consider our whole universe by its mere existence to be a threat of defilment to theirs, even if the Borg hadn't attacked them. Saying that maybe those former incursions into their space went unnoticed are rejected because Voyager, upon entering a completely random spot of Fluidic Space is almost immediately beset by its inhabitants. They obviously do notice when someone comes visiting.
If your reject this logic, I want direct canon evidence of the mysterious third party the Borg supposedly took their knowledge of Fluid Space from, please. I also wouldn't be so relying on Voyager crewmember's statements as facts. They fear, hate and despise the Borg so lambasting them over their supposed lack of innovation has to be taken with a grain of salt. Direct refutation of that statement can also be found in their research of the Omega particle.
