Oh come on, don't make fun of Hue (Hugh?), he's like the coolest Borg!
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I said coolest, not necessarily sexiest.
Though you do have a point.. 👀
No, no… Hugh is also sexiest, ~~I’m~~ we’re afraid.
We are BORG, you do not have the identity of 'I'
if we are borg, and if hugh is also borg, does that mean that we are also the sexiest?
Hey, he's clearly rocking a handsome 7 pack there 👍
I hear some of us BORG get a 9 pack, if we serve the collective without intrusive thoughts from other species..
is there a little bit of hugh in all of us?
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!
so maybe there are good in-univerese reasons they are cubes.
Two ideas:
- it'd be simpler to build/keep track of
- maybe their ship yards just extrude borg ship out of a square tube, and they cut them up on the conveyor belt
Borg assimilated Wombat.
maybe their ship yards just extrude borg ship out of a square tube, and they cut them up on the conveyor belt
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...
Bad cable management doesn’t matter because Borg don’t go on a lot of away missions.
Look I have a 138 point IQ, and this looks on pare with the rats nest under my desk. On send thought, this is better than my desk.
Look all I am saying is at a certain point you learn that not everything needs to he cable managed.
STOP JUDGING ME!!!
yeah don't look behind my tv neither
They dont really care about individual borg. If you are close enough to unplug the adapter you are close enough for assimilation. It’s a strategy
but it's a working hazard, what if they trip and pull out a tube? or someone trips on a tube on someone else, it could cascade!
Where is the body workers union??
This is the ideal cable management. You may not like it, but this is what peak perform looks like.
No, this is what peak performance looks like:
No denying that seven of nine was an awakening for many of us.
also pulling one of those tubes or whatever can permanently disable a drone too. im guessing the borg hasnt run into many species that would do hand to hand combat with them. thats why non-energy based attacks work on the borg.
Because aesthetics don't make you more advanced
Because it was built on legacy hardware with bad management?
Maybe this one is just a slob?