Borg are just capital. Of course they fuck up cable management
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Bro, have you seen your own internal cable management?
Giraffes have the same thing.
My cable management is not a mess, it's just natural evolution!
It seems disadvantageous to have all your blood vessels so close together.
maybe, but cold adapated animals have a similar arrangement where they used closely packed vessels for countercurrent heat exchange. probably not useful for hot environment. or maybe it allows more attachment for muscle or other organs, making you hard to kill. somewhat like a TAKARAN.
I haven't, no. Why can I see theirs?
I haven't, no. Why can I see theirs?
Yeah, but I'm not going to snag my carotid on a bulkhead.
Because you're a coward.
they are not "advanced" they are just an amalgam of all the civilizations they absorbed. Therefore, no other civilisation has good cable management. I mean, look at you, all your cables are a mess, nerves looping, arteries, veins, lymph nodes, and a big one for poo? figure out them cables before complaining.
i have been arguing to human cloacae for decades. why three hole when one do
Borg have no concept of elegance!
You would destroy the Borg with four Daleks?
WE WOULD DESTROY THE BORG WITH ONE DAAALEK!
That weird bolted trash bin?
gasp
EXTERMINATE!
Exterminate with what? That toilet plunger?
Plunger of death! It will suck you off. Honestly surprised Russell T Davis didn't invent the alien considering he likes to suck
apparently those balls on the dalek is used as a energy filed to self destruct.
The drones aren't the most advanced part. That lies in the interconnection of the hive mind. Drones are little more than some rusty old reused parts slapped on a biological frame. The attachments should be easily installed, replaced and removed. As long as the drones can move and operate their attachments they're good enough.
Cable management is irrelevant
No, but seriously, this is what the drones of a cybernetic hivemind with proper cable management and standardisation look like:
They apparently sacrificed cable management for... abs. Just take look at Hughs abs! Those are committed drone abs.
That’s just what it looks like when you continually rotate your cable frequencies.
You reversed the polarity of their cardiopulmonary system? What did you expect to happen Mr Welshie
Because the Borg aren't an advanced race, they're shambling body horror zombies, except they're in Star Trek so they have to be technological shambling body horror zombies.
Proof the Borg don't make sense: Seven of Nine has two tits and one eye.
Say humans, whose eyeballs have blind spots because the optic nerve needs to punch through them
Nobody accused humans of being advanced
UGLY UGLY GIANT BAG OF MOSTLY WATER mood
at least the blindspot is replaced by implant that can detect cloaked individuals, disruptions in spacetime.
I just always assumed it was hydraulics. Where else would they have gotten their superhuman strength from?
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I assumed the parts of their brains which process pain were repurposed during assimilation, allowing them to easily surpass the safety limits we employ due to the pain of over-strenuous activity. Paired with the ability to plug back in and get all the healing nutrients they need pumped straight in
I kind of assumed something like that.
Your name still makes no sense.
It was probably good to start with, but every species they assimilate makes it a little bit worse each time, as each species's technologically distinctive lack of cable management adds to the mess
"Holy cow that borg has an absolutely huyuuuuge-"
"No wait, that's it! Hugh!"
Honestly, if you'd imagine the amount of botch wiring you'd have to do to turn a human into a fully integrated drone with long range wifi, this ain't a half bad job.
be me
costume designer
hard to get work
it's 1986
get a job on some zero budget nerd shit
need to make the bad guys look like robots
idk put cables and wires on them i guess
nearly forty years later
nerd show still using my design
i only got paid $200
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The real cable management was the friends we assimilated on the way.