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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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[–] armus@startrek.website 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Borg: Resistance is futile
2020: UωU
Borg: Uh.. maybe resist a little bit

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

maybe resist a little bit

You’d like that, wouldn’t you?

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Assimilate me, senpai!

[–] N0body@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Folks, I've been assimilated and put in charge of this wonderful, fantastic cube. We make the best cubes, okay? We do. The Borg will not apologize for our cubes, and we will not apologize for the assimilil... assimalat... the thing we do where we make you us. You're going to love being us! We're the best!"

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago

it is physically impossible not to read this in his voice

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How would they defeat modern earth if they can't deal with guns and generally all the weapons we have?

[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Adapting.

We've only seen projectile weapons work on the Borg once. Well, twice but across two different timelines so it's whatever on that end. A bunch of borg would die, absolutely, but they'd figure out someway of deflecting the bullets or some Doctor Who-y stuff like excitation of the surface of the bullets so they get jammed when fired.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The entire purpose of shields is to deflect projectiles. They wouldn't need to figure anything out. Their shields would make them invulnerable. The purpose of phasers is to overload the shields so that explosive torpedoes can finish the job. Nukes might give them pause, but I think it's unlikely. A Federation torpedo probably has a higher payload than any of our current nukes.

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

Far more than a nuke. A photon torpedo is a matter/antimatter reaction. And a quantum torpedo is something next level. There have been episodes where nuclear warheads and lasers were used, and the reaction from the crew was always, they're still using that? I think the laser one it was mentioned that it didn't even get past the navigation shields.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Need those slow projectiles and blades from Dune.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Rule 34 actually saved us one time?