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I know it's a joke, but they literally assimilate their tech (and the Borg themselves) from the countless existing races they come across. They are a collective free of hierarchy, and therefore no central planning or structure to the way they implement tech, hence why everything is messy and organic (ironically), rather than tidy and organized.
The fact that their ships are perfect cubes has always bugged me in that regard. Spherical ships would have made a lot more sense.
Do you mean they should all have been spheres? Because they did have spheres, one gets launched in First Contact when the cube gets destroyed.
I'm hardly a lore expert, so maybe there are good in-univerese reasons they are cubes. But if you think about ships being assembled organically, I'd expect a more spherical shape once you get past a certain size.
It's been a long time since I've seen any of the movies, but now that you mention it I do seem to recall that spherical ship... Now I wonder if there's a tetrahedron borg ship out there somewhere
If it's a tetrahedron you're looking for, you'll want the Goa'uld of Stargate 😁
The Borg Queen ship gets kinda close as it's diamond shaped.
Buy yeah I get what you mean. I presume a cube or really any of their geometric shapes, were picked just because it's so contrasting to anything we'd expect (not lore wise, like production wise). It's not streamlined at all (like the classic saucer ships) nor aerodynamic (granted in space doesn't make sense, other than maybe to keep the deflector shield small, but probably done because it just looked good). Try to make them as alien as possible, even when contrasted from like the Kingons, Romulans, Cardassians, etc.
Yeah agreed, the cube shape makes total sense from the production standpoint!
Two ideas:
Borg assimilated Wombat.
In this case, I'd still expect more like a cylinder, but I love the idea! Borguccini? Borghetti?
How long to cook a borg cube to al dente?
Why? There's no friction in space and a sphere is an inefficient use of space
Depends on what you mean by "efficient use of space", I guess.
If you are organically building onto the ship or continually lumping new tech together, you're not going to end up with straight, clean edgesor uniform proportions. And assuming intra-ship distance matters for things like power/resource distribution, the natural shape will be spherical.
Now if the borg need to pack dozens of ships into a spaceport or something, a cube starts to make more sense...