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[@awesomehpt8938]

The Borg like to multiply themselves by their original number three times. That’s why they’re cubed.

[@t.wcharles2171]

For those who haven't learnt math it's Borg X Borg X Borg.

[@camg6400]

Don't make me math

[@Arashmickey]

I like saying "Borg" Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg Borg

[@wangchung2157]

​@@t.wcharles2171bbbooorrrggg?

[@Robert_Douglass]

Now there's something. The Borg got so mathed, they out-greened every Hulk in Earth-616.

[@ImperatorZor]

"We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is Futile." The standard Borg hail is not a brag, a boast nor even an attempt to intimidate. It is simply the Collective explaining how things are in all likelihood going to go down.

[@nicadi2005]

@ImperatorZor "It is simply the Collective explaining how things are in all likelihood going to go down." - Hmm... Didn't quite "go down" as expected with Species 8472, did it? 😉

[@stevencoardvenice]

We have analyzed your ships defenses, and determined that you cannot resist us. If you attempt to defend yourselves. You will be punished

[@Enterprise-D666]

The Borg: We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

[@generalgrievous696]

Phrasing 😂. I think you meant add*

[@nsr-ints]

Not today, ye bastard! All squadrons, break formation, shoot at will.

[@1jotun136]

You know, the "resistance is futile" line is borrowed directly Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

[@alton19pinto]

they invade our space and we fall back assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back Not Again. The line must be drawn HERE this far, No Further.

[@ElysiumCreator]

The first time I saw the Borg Cube in “Q Who,” an animalistic shudder crawled down my spine, incredible ship design that breaks every rule ever set out by Star Trek before, it terrified me more then the voice or drones did

[@caedmon6225]

That might have been influenced by the music in that scene. Seriously creepy.

[@Robert_Douglass]

Indeed, the Cube appeared quite monolithic. It looked like Juggernaut's Carriage after a fashion, didn't it?

[@vasp99]

Indeed. I actually felt alarmed and concerned for the crew of Enterprise !

[@beerasaurus]

I love that the first borg cube was made with layers of warhammer sprigs

[@rubaiyat300]

It’s the only thing in the galaxy that will be numerous enough to make Borg cubes out of.

[@Robert_Douglass]

That is quite interesting, I'd like to hear more about that. Necrons, Space Hulks, or what?

[@alton19pinto]

what a perfectmeans to bring grim dark to the Star Trek Verse

[@BluegrassKnight]

Thought they looked like 2 particular 40K factions!

[@Robert_Douglass]

@@alton19pinto Forget the promise of progress or understanding, for in the grim, dark future WE ARE THE BORG YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED RESISTANCE IS FUTILE! Necrons: INGGA please!

[@JimmyMcBimmy]

Always thought it was hilarious how menacing the Borg are, but you can easily beam aboard, poke around, pass by dozens of drones, etc, without setting off any alarms, lol

[@molybdaen11]

It's like a subprogram on a busy computer. As long as it sends no interrupt signals, it's mostly ignored by the operation system.

[@Grathew]

I thought that added to their eldritch horror side. The sense of, you are too insignificant to be bothered with.

[@niklasulrich4725]

you need to see the borg as a complete organism, it just doesnt matter for them. They for sure study the guys who beamed in. And if they can kill 1 cube, the Borg will notice and assimilate them and improved. They let you come on purpose to see if you are valuable.

[@bluegold1026]

"They'll ignore us until they consider us a threat." -Capt. Picard, Star Trek First Contact

[@jamesday1295]

Resistance is futile unless you're just visiting. Donations are appreciated. Please don't poke the sleeping drones.

[@mattwilson8298]

I like the idea that Borg cubes were assimilated vessels that the Borg continually modified and built up till they were the 3 km beasts we see.

[@pietervanderzwaan4295]

in the mirror universe they are said to be even bigger

[@KingOfMadCows]

Kind of weird that Borg ships are kept warm and humid. You generally want to keep things cool and dry with so much circuitry and technology.

[@TheHarimir]

if i had to gues it has to do with a tradeoff in drones versus instruments. the borg very mutch is its drones. the technological parts: ships, weapons, stations and resorces are all tools so priorety nr 1 is effektivenes of drones. also if systems are designed from ground upp to work in an enviroment like that they tend to be rather robust, again a halmark of borg utlizarian design folosofy

[@RadChild13]

Presumably the Borg are not relying heavily on electronics so they wouldn't have that constraint.

[@avollant]

I think it is more to do with the biome of the original species. IMO.

[@Jpeg.g]

@@TheHarimirwhere did you learn to type? Under the bridge?

[@KingOfMadCows]

​@@RadChild13I hope they aren't using any of that bio-neural gel packs like Voyager or they might be defeated by cheese bacteria.

[@dracosamm]

According to my knowledge of Star Trek spaceships, the Borg cube almost functions as a intergalactic beehive

[@wangchung2157]

Lol thats a hilarious but accurate way of describing Borg ships

[@Robert_Douglass]

How can you say intergalactic when it's not even known if the Borg have ventured outside the galaxy? The more appropriate term might be intragalactic, yes?

[@t.wcharles2171]

​@@Robert_Douglassinterstellar.

[@BackgroundSpace]

@@Robert_Douglass If they can casually yeet a cube towards Earth and time travel, they've at least tried going across the galactic barrier. That said, given what we've seen in TOS of what happens when you try that it would be interesting to see what happens to a hive mind when that happens.

[@Robert_Douglass]

@@BackgroundSpace Discovery actually managed it in 3190.

[@rustyshackleford234]

The borg cube is the second most dangerous cube in fiction, the first is obviously the magma cube in Minecraft, they have killed me too many times.

[@henrybenjamin7606]

Same

[@pillepolle3122]

dont forget the cube in the movie the cube which was basically a killing machine.

[@TBKOTOROB]

The most powerful IRL cube is the eldritch cube of Rubix for he who solves it shall become a God amongst mortals.😂😂😂

[@louisthompson8642]

​@pillepolle3122 maybe the one from hellraiser. Cyno-borg may be fun to draw.

[@ynkybomber]

That falling block from Mario enters the chat

[@Seven35888]

it’s crazy thinking about how these vessels were the dread of the delta quadrant for centuries. imagine a family at warp coming home from a vacation and all of a sudden they run into a cube and are hunted down. Or some cargo ship and it’s crew doing runs. The Borg and just their lore from a story-telling standpoint are something else.

[@blackmondayy1]

Odds are that the Borg would not have even bothered with simple civilian ships .... would have been like some bugs sitting next to a lion. What baffles me is how is it that Borg never decided to cloak their ships. I mean from all the thousands of species and civilizations they assimilated one should have had cloaking technology...

[@Seven35888]

@@blackmondayy1 well-to-do civilians probably had some advanced ships tbh who knows

[@jedithenoooblet2680]

As Driven Assimilators ourselves, we appreciate the Borg's highly /UTILITARIAN/ aesthetic.

[@jodrakhanthewonderful1642]

I liked the original Borg, no queen, just an all consuming technological blight on the galaxy... A force of nature.

[@christopherg2347]

The Borg are a fully fleged, Zombie Apocalypse in space. That adapts to your weapons and tactics.

[@stuartemmanuel3735]

Except physical weapons like Swords, Axes and Spoons

[@christopherg2347]

@@stuartemmanuel3735 Once those matter compared to phasers, they simply start shooting you.

[@occultatumquaestio5226]

The Borg Cube is simultaneously a simple yet revolutionary design. One that earns its place as a starship that invokes fear & dread to those unfortunate to come across an active one. And one which may in the shadows of space, return, adapted, and in greater numbers. 9:54 ; Yeah with how big that one cube was I was thinking that was an "ultra-fusion cube" like in Star Trek Armada. An interesting Borg double feature this week is.

[@mawnkey]

When ya think about it, the Federation's two most dangerous enemies (the Borg and the Founders) both possessed a similar hivemind arrangement. The Founders just retained their individualism when separated from their hivemind.

[@ericmorang3903]

Fight does not go well, Enterprise! Attempting to withdraw and regroup. Rendezvous with fleet-

[@housecoatgaming]

11:10 You finally said it. THe Collective is NOT DEAD.

[@starsilverinfinity]

I always found the Borg vessels to be my favorite in Trek, and after this video I suppose its because of how much they just. . .exude the nature of their faction. The other factions are always conflicted with what they see themselves as and what they want to be, but the Borg's vessels have no such issues - they are what they are and know what they want to be, across every individual and every instance. There is no disharmony, only unity

[@walorianfederation666]

After investigating star wars for 3 months i see now the templin institute can never escape anything with "star" in it

[@thegreenmanofnorwich]

I assumed that cubes probably had various thrusters and warp coils and the like distributed throughout the structure. I found a tractor beam that would drain shields really scary. You cannot go anywhere and you will quickly be totally defenceless. It will cut you to pieces, a little bit at a time.

[@Sirenensang]

i love the voice reading us these great summaries, and sometimes, it's just poetry. That last line was haunting, had me shivering. Great work!

[@KatrinaLeFaye]

It was a physical representation of Star Fleet and the United Federation of Planets, nothing more that a fun house mirror that while the image was distorted still showed a reflection.

[@TheMilitantMazdakite]

I can't help but notice the WH40K BFGA2 soundtrack.

[@dragonweyr44]

I've read in Star Trek novels that, if needed, 16 cubes could lock together to become mega cube or even more cubes could come together, as many as needed

[@georgemangco2526]

Which is kinda weird, since 16 is not a cubic number They'd have to go down to 8 or up to 27 cubes to make a mega one

[@dragonweyr44]

@@georgemangco2526 I don't know the exact number but however many cubes it takes to make a bigger cube

[@thekingzhaul5914]

For a Cube. That thing can "fly" pretty good.

[@mho...]

*float?! 🤔 i dont think a cube can enter a gravity-well/atmosphere really🤷‍♂ thats what probes/spheres are for

[@SuperWotman]

Were they ever inside an atmosphere? In space it doesn’t matter

[@GrandmasterDevo]

@@SuperWotman Seven of Nine landed the Artifact on a planet in Picard Season 1. Gravity and atmospheric reentry can do a lot of damage to something that big. That cube wasn't going to fly again after that.

[@PaiSAMSEN]

"The cube hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

[@appo9357]

Fusion Cubes were my favorite in the Armada game.

[@GrandmasterDevo]

*builds tactical fusion cube* I win, motherfucker.

[@molybdaen11]

They were fun but unreasonable hard to assemble since every ship near them distracts them. Sadly we never got a star trek armada 2 (aside from that sins of a solar empires mod). One of thr few games where you could not only trade with your partner but also play the same empire together.

[@appo9357]

@@molybdaen11 that’s why I always assembled them at my base alone.

[@wgdavidson9669]

The Borg failed because their new queen had eyes that were only 2 inches apart. They had no peripheral vision, and couldn't see further than their own nose.

[@Damien_N]

The only thing I think the Star Trek writers missed about the Cube was that their armament looked similar to that of the other powers in the galaxy. To better differentiate them they could have gone for something completely different in fashion, pulse guns, phasers that crackle like lightning, single shot but high damage etc etc

[@mattt9278]

TBF, no one else used a prolonged cutting beam

[@ASNS117Zero]

Probably wasn't possible when they were introduced, due to special effects limitations at the time. Especially with only having a serial TV show budget.

[@smoore6461]

I always thought that the temperatutre inside a Borg Cube was strange. Given that computing is more effective in the cold, and since the borg drones coult pribably be adjusted to cold pretty easily, it alwats struck me that the colder the better. Ive wondered about that for a long time now.

[@molybdaen11]

But the drones are alive and need less energy when the environment is warm.

[@jonleonard1555]

5:40 Just thought about how silly it would realistically be with how the USS Voyager gets tossed around as the Borg Cubes rush by it. They're in space, not in air or water. I wouldn't think there would be anything dispersing around them to cause that reaction.

[@Fuzzy9001]

Not defending it by any means (because it is silly looks cool but is silly) but i suppose you could say something along the lines of the sheer size and amount of cubes made such an effect in subspace that it affected voyager, the same way it got pulled out of warp before the scene began

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

@@Fuzzy9001 The video also pointed out at 6:07 that they're projecting a SIF ahead of them...stands to reason that field could swat Voyager out of the way if enough of them were rushing past it.

[@t.wcharles2171]

I like the cube but they could do so much better: a Borg Dodecahedron or a Borg Hexagonal Prism

[@Jpeg.g]

Biblically accurate borg

[@generalsanis3612]

The dodecahedron is a ship in star trek armada i think

[@LordDarthHarry]

@@generalsanis3612 Not in the base game. It's ina a Mod for Armada 2 and in "Armada 3" which is a mod for Sins of a Solar Empire. Also the various support probes in Star Trek Online are similarly shaped.

[@Decrepit_biker]

THE BORG WILL ADAPT. THE BORG WILL RETURN. IT IS INEVITABLE. RESISTANCE IS TEMPORARY. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.

[@Searly255]

I think the lack of nacelles is why we see borg ships spinning in flight sometimes, maybe they can create a circular warp bubble that way? and maybe better than the nacelle route. I know in certain episodes they don't show that but it seems the logical way to do it without external nacelles

[@thecopperiris]

I really need a cool and calming voice like this to natrate my inner monologue 😂😂

[@therealjoshuacaleb4873]

My only complaint about the Borg is when encountered the overwhelming majority of drones are human.

[@cmdraftbrn]

well its not like they could use vulcans and klingons

[@cr90captain89]

@@cmdraftbrn to be honest, that's less of the drones being human & more of the collectives uniformity + most intelligent life in the galaxy being humanoid from a common ancestor.

[@rustyshackleford234]

It’s probably because there’s a lot of humans in that area so there’s going to be a majority of human drones. I’m not sure though as I’m not a Star Trek super fan, I just find it neat.

[@molybdaen11]

They were originally designed as one of the rare 8nsect species in star trek. Unfortunately the budget was to slim so we got humans again.

[@TheTheDarkWolf86]

I always assumed (past budgeting restraints) the region the Borg Cube was found highlighted the majority of the species that were in that region. If the Borg Cubes are around the Alpha Quadrant, you would see Humans, Klingons, and so on. If you were in the Delta Quadrant, you would primarily see the species located there. Its more of a theory and the premise of the cubes traveling through the trans warp conduits counter my thoughts.

[@georgehilty3561]

the borg will be back, they're like ants, there are always more. and even if they are all gone, some moron scientist still go to far in their experiments and recreate them.

[@nizam5568]

Could you do Amestris from full metal achemist?

[@deanverstraeten3850]

When I saw it for the first time, I just got chills down my spine

[@nicktechnubyte1184]

RESIST THE BORG

[@Decrepit_biker]

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.

[@mho...]

The Cubes are Iconic & Cool, but i like their (tactical)Spheres more!

[@crusaderman7432]

I’m not even a fan of Star Trek, but the concept of the Borg is very interesting. I can see why Stellaris just stole the driven assimilators empire type from them.

[@thekingzhaul5914]

_Ahem_ The right word _legally_ would be _inspiration._

[@Phil-D83]

Never understood why they kept the temperature high, pressure high, and very humid.

[@bros1183]

DAMN IT, OUR WEAPONS ARE INEFFECTIVE *RAMMING SPEEEED!*

[@OverlordMalarkey]

I would like to see The Templin Institute cover the Borg of the mirror universe at some point, the Borg Kingdom. According Certifiably Ingame, the Borg Kingdom is far more aggressive than the Prime Timeline. They have a King instead of a Queen. The Kingdom dont assimilate to seek perfection, they exterminate life through assimilation, they are more combat focused, selected borg units to become Stratagems (a unimatrix commander), most drones even maintain their previous personality. Exterminate or assimilate intruders on sight, wrist mounted weaponry, some borg in combat units have a backpack device that regenerate and revive fallen drones within minutes maybe seconds. They even assimilated Jem'hdar/Dominion tech and the ISS Voyager with 97% of the crew assimilated. They even conquered former Terran territory after Spock's rebellion. "We are the Borg, surrender to our authority and prepare for assimilation. Resistance will be annihilated."

[@wtfa2910]

You can have the biggest ship or the smallest ship but if you see that ship run and don't look back just run

[@MajinOthinus]

The damage Voyager has done to Star Trek is incalculable.

[@AncestorEmpireGaming]

The first both cube: C Montgomery Burns’s car being turned into a cube.

[@sapstups]

The collective is threatened. To much information as been assembled. New targed aquired. Dispatching vessels. Charging transwarp coils. Prepare for assimilation. Resistance is futile!

[@andrewwest3204]

Interesting how you don't mention Picard's attack in First contact (but you do show it a 8:40). A major weakness of the collective is overlooking areas they consider redundant or non-essential. He destroyed the cube attacking earth by exploiting this weakness.

[@starsilverinfinity]

I would say its more Picard basically took advantage of how the borg route power through their ships - they have a decentralized grid and power system, but need to collect it in certain areas to force regeneration - Picard basically saw them collecting energy for htis purpose and popped it before it gould be diseminated and no longer a weak point

[@JRDIXON34]

@@starsilverinfinitythat’s an amazing theory. I always assumed the Borg allowed Picard to hear certain “thoughts” to allow the remains of the Borg cube to send a message to them as per star trek enterprise. Thus completing the bootstrap paradox

[@starsilverinfinity]

@@JRDIXON34 I couldve sworn that its a drone that was recovered from the remains of the Borg Sphere that the Enterprise blew up in the past that sent the signal?

[@shzarmai]

I just hope more* Non-Euro-American interstellar civilizations are created in the future e.g. imagine a spacefaring civilization that is inspired by the combination of Elam and Mitanni. That would be ingenious and quite interesting imo.

[@CrazyNights1015]

The music from that TNG scene in the first few seconds adds 100% more gear to the borg

[@ericsmith9461]

Humanity also has a Borg-like type species. Only we call them missionaries.

[@feralprocessor9853]

A time when a simple shape was the greatest threat galactic peace.

[@211inprogress]

Resistance is Fultile.

[@jean-camilgirard]

Awesome love yours videos about Star Trek!

[@barrywhite6060]

I would think having a high humidity level would mess with the electronics of the ship, especially when the internals of the ship are exposed to the air and not covered.

[@CharlesUrban]

I don't care if the Collective is offline--one curious moron could board a Cube, flip the wrong switch, and start the terror all over again. The advanced technology that you could get from derelict Borg spacecraft isn't worth the risk of bringing them back.

[@servit0r]

When the Borg appeared even I would watch some Star Trek

[@shzarmai]

I would like to see Inter-planetary/ Interstellar, space-faring Mexico, Brazil, China, Japan, India, Russia, Ukraine, Argentina, Ireland, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, UAE, Malaysia, Morocco, Algeria, Kenya/Tanzania, Australia, Canada, etc in Sci-Fi tbh. tbh

[@jorgefigueroa4712]

AWESOME!!!

[@Noctazar]

Non-cubism is futile.

[@feralprocessor9853]

Pretty adaptable design when the ship recieves heavy damage.

[@exsanhart9286]

I know in STO (which is confirmed cannon) the birg have returned. The Starfleet opening missions involve the assimilation of Vega colony

[@Jazkal-V420]

Hehehehehheehhehehehehhehehehehhe, the Funni metal space cube.

[@mingchoi8369]

The Borg cube: a defining symbol of the horrific power of the Borg. Still, one must ask who would win in a fight: Borg cube or Dalek flying saucer?

[@GrandmasterDevo]

I'd say the cube, mainly because its capabilities have actually been largely explained and we've never really seen Dalek ships fight anything of similar size to themselves. They've got missiles and a bunch of laser turrets, but the Borg cube has all that and much more of it.

[@cr90captain89]

@@GrandmasterDevo to be fair, those lasers aren't just lasers, they are disrupters/ disintegrators. "infantry grade" dalek weapons can destroy & utterly erase a tank. starship grade dalek weapons following that premise +scaling allows them to erase entire starships of larger calibers.

[@molybdaen11]

There is no way the borg could beat up the darleks. Both are cybernetic organism which are highly adaptable. But darlek go to to toe with the time lords and are able to treat ever being in existence over many different dimentions. The best the borg could do is conquer half of the milky way until they draw to much attention and encounter a species the can not adapt to (what already happened in voyager multible times). Yes they are also capable of rudimentary time travel and open portals to other dimentions, but it's still crude compared on how easy the darleks do it.

[@cr90captain89]

@@molybdaen11 hell the daleks survived an eternal time war (still raging & contained somewhat) & multiple attempts to utterly wipe them from the timeline across multiple universes. we've already seen how an cyborg organism (the borg / cyber men) would fare against daleks. they get bodied pretty hard.

[@rottenroads1982]

Before Time began, their was *THE CUBE*

[@richardthompson438]

The first most dangerous cube is the rubix cube.. that's right i said it

[@rottenroads1982]

The Kipu-Men race, in the Star Trek universe, will find Abandoned Borg Cubes, weld them together into 1 by 2 by 4, or 1 by 3 by 6 Rectangular ships, and then use them as their Home Ships, traveling the Galaxy and living their peaceful nomadic life style. They make official Living Quarters, Medical Bays, Command Bridges, and other facilities in their new found ships. Some of them will even streamline the Edges of their new ships, adding rounded edges to make sure their ships are more distinct from the simple cubes they were constructed from. Despite the small size of the Kipu-Men, being from 1ft 11in to 2ft in height, they are masters at engineering and building. Some Kipu-Men Clans, Tribes, or Factions don’t use Borg Cubes they welded together as their home ships. They sometimes use ships they built completely on their own. Kipu-Men are naturally pacifistic and don’t like being in conflict. If they encounter a threat, they usually run away, however, if they are cornered and their is no escape, they will take whatever means necessary to defend themselves. The Key component of Kipu-Men culture & society is relationships with Others, especially friends and family, and a Kipu-Men who possess a Deep desire to protect his Friends, Family, and Clan/Tribe/Faction as a whole is elected as the Clan/Tribe/Faction’s Chief.

[@JonathanLundkvist]

It seems fitting that the same music is used in this video as in the Tyranids one.

[@Captainkebbles1392]

🐐 sci fi faction What happens when you try and use the ideals of the federation but use force to persue them

[@OptimisticSturmtruppen]

Borg-er cube Foot lettuce.

[@paulkirby2761]

The Borg concept was brilliant, especially when we consider their introduction in "Q Who" was 1989. I myself was raised on a diet of TNG, DS9 and Voyager. The problem for the poor Borg was always the insane levels of plot-armor for the Enterprise, Voyager and the main characters which eventually killed off any sort of fear factor, reducing the plots to Lord of The Rings levels of invulnerability which ultimately makes it boring doesn't it?... just like seeing the main characters running through tens of thousands of Orcs without even a scratch while waves of armor-clad Orcs just casually die even when struck by a stone? Not to worry though, because thick plot-armor and reducing the "technology beyond our understanding" unstoppable Borg to just another bunch of dim witted, zombie like morons that keep being outfoxed by lowly stupid humans was saved by a rather sexy 7 of 9 and that hot Borg phantasy did work for anyone with a pulse and went a long way towards glossing over the hefty amount of bs going on with the Borg themselves. But sexy Borg sexdrones aside, there was just no getting around the fact the Borg had been reduced from unstoppable adaptable assimilators beyond our understanding, to rather average tech with rather dumb drones that would have made Skynet proud, but hey, we always knew Captain Janeway and Picard with a side order of Data were far smarter than the entire collective. Oh... and lets add a "Borg Queen" because why not, "But they're like a sort of hive, so we should add a Queen just like a beehive cuz..." Om*g lol, they were supposed to be a one minded collective just like the USSR(I jest) but ya, adding an emotional Queen that was basically just a regular flawed person with wants and needs and failings was again, derailing the point of the Borg that were supposed to have evolved beyond all of that and just reduced them even further. Sadly, she wasn't hot like 7 of 9(subjectively speaking I suppose)), so her obvious failings were not saved by hot curves and a great combo of T+A. So there we have it. The Borg, a great idea, ruined. Add some more shapes out of a childrens learning box such as spheres and triangles and all sorts in between, have "tactical cubes" featuring Robocop armor bolted onto the original Borg crushed car cube from a scrap metal recycling facility, but sadly as mentioned, the Starfleet plot-armor was far superior than anything the Borg could rustle up, and in the end they never had a chance did they?

[@molybdaen11]

Was it ever explained how exactly the borg adapt to incoming fire? Surely it can be bypassed since different weapons need different counter measures. And every change on thr design on the fly most likely need energy and emit heat. So of you force them to adapt over and over again they will either melt or run out of fuel.

[@VoeladTheRememberer]

I always thought the Suliban pod ships were more intimidating. Tiny craft which were hard to hit that could simply overwhelm by number.

[@reeceemms1643]

Day lost count of a follow up video for the Halo UNSC armoured division for a UNSC or Covenant fleet battlegroup

[@Sephiroth144]

Man, the only thing missing was a bit of Prodigy footage (especially if it dropped near the end, during the derelicts part...)

[@Atreid3s]

102F and 92% humidity? That's worse than assimilation tbqh

[@Kaiju-Driver]

They are the voice in the void, the machine flesh, hollow souls waiting for the brave, stupid, or curious to fill there switchboards.

[@HeaanLasai]

10:00 That's the space-vajayjay.

[@wedgeantillies66]

The borg cube was one of the most deadly and menacing warships to ever haunt the star trek galaxy. That any race would have a shiver of fear run down their spine at the sight, unless it was species 8475 or star fleet once they had the anti Borg task force up and running.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

Ronald D. Moore suggested that the vulnerable spots on the Borg cube in Star Trek: First Contact were waste extraction.

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

A simple shape. One representing the impossibility that is the Borg.

[@ewc58]

Blackrock

[@kbrich-nn8od]

Those ominous Borgers'/!!!

[@12oshinko]

The Borg seem tired as a concept. Their stated goal of achieving perfection by incorporating technology from other species and leaving behind organic forms suggests an evolutionary path of digitizing consciousness and assimilating technology by observation and exchange rather than violence, which sets up its own dead end. Basically, it's overdone and needed to evolve twenty years ago.

[@baseballboy4494]

I feel like since the end of Picard and the Lower Decks series latest season, might have put more info towards the 2400 part of the ranking video you did way back.

[@justnormalthings1599]

The borg fears the power of the endermen

[@jime6688]

One thing that’s bothered me for awhile, I guess every civilization has some kind of symbol associated with it and I’m assuming these are all created by said civilization. Starfleet of course has that swept wing shape, Klingons have that three pointed blade thing. The Borg have a clawed hand. That doesn’t seem to hold to the idea of the Borg being uninterested in aesthetics.

[@nahuelleandroarroyo]

I hate that Starfleet does not implement ballistics weapons after the first contacts with drones, they have the capacity to manufacture human sized tools in seconds but they wont use firearms or coilguns (or railrifles). Even a very good crossbow would do the trick

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

Apparently, someone at the Institute has gotten on a Star Trek binge lol

[@thecopperiris]

The borg need to turn some AC on.. id be a miserable drone working at 39.1C😢

[@j_fantajay]

2nd try: please do the ADVENT administration?

[@alfredpeasant5980]

The futility of resistance embodied

[@impicker3027]

The borg? Are they Swedish?

[@ahmadhadi177]

Would it be ok If you can make a video about the Pacific Federation from Project Wingman?Project Wingman is inspired by Ace Combat.

[@Predator42ID]

Replicators next please since they are the other mechanical menace of doom.

[@feralprocessor9853]

I wonder you guys are gonna do the Pyramid fleet from destiny?

[@Orginal_Sinner]

Damn I gotta stop speed reading , I thought the title said "Drug Cube" Star trek

[@multiyapples]

I find The Borg to be interesting.