[Marek]

Okay, if a Borg Cobe and the Deathstar were in a fight, which would win?

(Extra points for the first member to post schematics!)

[Erwin_Br]

What's a Borg Cobe?

...sorry

--Erwin

[Kingzjester]

Originally Posted by Marek

Okay, if a Borg Cobe and the Deathstar were in a fight, which would win?

(Extra points for the first member to post schematics!)

You are a freaky little man, you freaky little man.

[Jake]

They have a lengthy panel dedicated to just this discussion at the San Diego Comic Con (well, they also discuss various other sci-fi ships and how they'd fare in fights). Granted, I didn't attend, but its kind of awesome that someone thought to include that the Con. Kind of hilarious.

[mag]

Couldn't the Borg assimilate the Death Star?

mag

[amishler]

It's been a while, so I don't remember if the Borg Cube's shields work the same way as a Borg personal shield. If they do, it takes a while for the shields to adjust to a cycling frequency of weapon fire. So the Death Star might be able to take it out in one shot before the shields adapt. If it's more than one Cube vs. the Death Star, I like the Borg's odds.

Whoa. I think I need to spend some time in a nerd detox clinic now.

[tabacco]

Which Death Star?

[remixor]

I don't know anything about Borg Cubes. They're pretty small though, right, I mean in comparison to a Death Star? If a Death Star can blow up a planet, why not a Borg Cube? Bear in mind, I have probably seen no more than a dozen episodes of Star Trek from all the series combined, so I have no idea what I'm talking about.

[Marek]

Originally Posted by Jake

They have a lengthy panel dedicated to just this discussion at the San Diego Comic Con (well, they also discuss various other sci-fi ships and how they'd fare in fights). Granted, I didn't attend, but its kind of awesome that someone thought to include that the Con. Kind of hilarious.

Hahahaha, that's great. I bet there was a high turn-up, judging by the amount of forum threads on these topics that float around the web.

They can really go in-depth, you know. Even pitting the Borg Queen up against Darth Vader. It's really entertaining when you're bored.

By the way, this thread was wholly inspired by this article, which I thought was hilariously accurate: http://www.st-hypertext.com/misc/art...nfessions.html

[Erwin_Br]

Originally Posted by remixor

I don't know anything about Borg Cubes. They're pretty small though, right, I mean in comparison to a Death Star? If a Death Star can blow up a planet, why not a Borg Cube? Bear in mind, I have probably seen no more than a dozen episodes of Star Trek from all the series combined, so I have no idea what I'm talking about.

I think they're pretty much the same size. Maybe the cube is a little smaller?

I couldn't find any schematics of a Borg cube, but I did found one of a Borg Sphere, does that count too?



--Erwin

[Marek]

Originally Posted by remixor

I don't know anything about Borg Cubes. They're pretty small though, right, I mean in comparison to a Death Star? If a Death Star can blow up a planet, why not a Borg Cube? Bear in mind, I have probably seen no more than a dozen episodes of Star Trek from all the series combined, so I have no idea what I'm talking about.

As far as I know, the Borg don't have to blow up planets because they can just beam over one Borg and like a mean little parasite he'll slowly convert the whole planet to Borgness. Sure, it takes longer, but it saves on that energy bill.

[ysbreker]

Originally Posted by Marek

Hahahaha, that's great. I bet there was a high turn-up, judging by the amount of forum threads on these topics that float around the web.

They can really go in-depth, you know. Even pitting the Borg Queen up against Darth Vader. It's really entertaining when you're bored.

By the way, this thread was wholly inspired by this article, which I thought was hilariously accurate: http://www.st-hypertext.com/misc/art...nfessions.html

That was one interesting article Out of curiosity, how many closet trekkies do we have on our forum?

[Kingzjester]

Sometime in mid nineties I was channel-surfing one day and found that Star Trek TV show with the rotating space station and that pug-ugly fellow with silly ears. I watched a whole episode; it was something about a chess-like game that draws actual people in or something. Well, then somebody walked in the room and I jumped up flabbergasted as if I've been caught jacking off...

[Kingzjester]

... so, uh, does that mean I am a closet trekkie, or merely bi-curious?

[Marek]

"Allemaraine, count to four. Allemaraine, then three more!"
Erm. Yeah. So that's about the single worst episode of Deep Space Nine you could have ever seen. Pure, utter, sci-fi dreck.

The rest is awesome though, especially the later seasons. I suspect that you'd like it a lot. Especially the character of Garak. You'd love his wit. You shouldn't touch the other Star Trek series with a 10-foot pole though.

Ah, Deep Space Nine... so good. So good. OK I will stop typing, starting now

[Marek]

Did I mention Deep Space Nine is awesome?



Oh, crap.


I'm really going now.

[Wormsie]

TV. Tylsävulgääri. (Notice the ä's.)

[Jake]

I watched a lot of next generation, but none of the other star trek shows have really seemed worth watching, despite mareks repeated please that I watch deep space nine ("especially the later seasons")

[Henke]

I have no idea what you guys are talking about. Do you mean the deathstar in Star Wars (big and round ship that can blow up planets)? What in gods name is a Borg Cobe? Something in Star Trek , or what?

This discussion is scary. You guys are scary :eek:

[mag]

Originally Posted by Marek
As far as I know, the Borg don't have to blow up planets because they can just beam over one Borg and like a mean little parasite he'll slowly convert the whole planet to Borgness. Sure, it takes longer, but it saves on that energy bill.

Right. That's why I think they could just beam over a couple of Borg to the Death Star and start assimilating it like they did to the Enterprise in Star Trek: First Contact. Even if the Death Star then blows up the cube, it won't matter because it will soon be one giant Borg Death Star.

Originally Posted by Marek
The rest is awesome though, especially the later seasons. I suspect that you'd like it a lot. Especially the character of Garak. You'd love his wit. You shouldn't touch the other Star Trek series with a 10-foot pole though.

You think so? I've always considered DS9 to be kind of the beginning of Star Trek's downfall. Overall, the series was quite good. But especially toward the end you started getting a lot more really bad episodes. Fortunately, at that time DS9 had the whole Dominion War arc going on, and that was good enough to counterbalance their few crappy non-arc episodes.

If you look at them as a whole, though, I would say that the Next Generation was the best series. I liked the mood of DS9 better, and I really liked their story arc. But TNG had more really solid episodes. It was good much more consistently.

The only Star Trek series I would say was really bad was Voyager. That thing was just a big seven year piece of crap. Every week I would turn it on thinking it couldn't possibly get any worse, but somehow they always found a way to pull it off.

Enterprise is much better, especially this season with the Xindi story arc. There are still moments were they seem to lapse back into Voyager-esque episodes, and I just think, "What the heck are they thinking?" But again, overall it's pretty good.

Now that I've betrayed my Star Trek geekness I think I'm done.

mag