The Ships Of The BORG Armada - Star Trek Explained!

[@thanqualthehighseer]

the differences in crew compliment could be due to the age of the ships. a newer borg cube has less drones so it has room to add new species and ship crews via assimilation.

[@davidlivingston9169]

At Wolf 359, the Borg used Picard's knowledge of Starfleet Tactics and Technology to deadly effect, and a lot of those ships were refit designs from Kirk's Golden Years!!!

[@HistoryVideoGamesMiscStuff]

I have one of those books that detail the ships of Star Trek and the commentary on the Tactical Cube was great. They were discussing what the Borg heavy combat ship should be before settling with the "Borg Cube with a flak jacket" look, where there said it simultaneously tells you nothing about the ship, while telling everything about it.

[@90lancaster]

You know its a Star Trek video when someone talks about the Future in the past tense.

[@Captain.AmericaV1]

The *Borg Diamond* was part of a Task Force Operation on *Star Trek Online,* and its one tough bugger to take down!!

[@Voltaic_Fire]

I like to think that the Borg have a reserve fleet somewhere, stacked upon one another like Lego.

[@thedeergod435]

Maybe they’re stacked together like Fusion cubes from Star Trek armada 2

[@AshrafKhan-dl3ut]

The narrator sounds like Kelsey Grammer to me, which made me feel like Fraser was talking to directly to me. Therefore, I love this video even more. Subscribed!

[@FizzleFX]

8:35 it was the *science vessel in STAR TREK ARMADA 1+2* ... which was, hands down, the best fk RTS Star Trek series to this day. 9:05 hah...

[@videotramp97]

I called the supersized cube from Picard season 3 a hypercube. It seemed like the best word at the time 😊

[@McAster99]

No love for the Borg Arctic One from Enterprise? Sure it didn't last long, but it made an impact showing how any ship could slowly be transformed into a Borg vessel.

[@barrybend7189]

It wasn't being Cubed but turned into the Borg Probe ship.

[@kevreid82]

Supposedly the plan was for it to snowball and get more sphere like as it assimilated materials and crew, but there was no budget for effects.

[@ssjcybersonic9255]

The Collective must grow.

[@AndersonNeo12]

When i hear Fusion Cube, i instantly think of the game Star Trek - Armada II

[@LRK-GT]

In my head canon, the Cube(s) sent to assimilate earth, were a form of Fusion Cube. They were bigger, more powerful, and more foreboding than the 'run of the mill' Cubes that Voyager and The Raven encountered.

[@brother_bear_one7340]

@@AndersonNeo12 1 year later, the Fusion Cube has returned in Star Trek Online as the final boss of a TFO.

[@idahobeef]

In the official Star Trek book Vendetta by Peter David had 5 Borg cubs attacking the Federation, and a Planet Killer takes them on. WELL worth a read!

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

I hope will see Jurati's Collective again in the future, I was disappointed that Jurati and her Collective was never mentioned in Season 3 of Picard.

[@LoneTiger]

That kind of annoyed me a little in Picard S3, they had a Borg "ally" to call upon, I think it would have been the ultimate irony, for a Jurati-Borg fleet of cubes to arrive to Earth, and help defend it against the controlled 1st fleet

[@DeaconBlu]

Agreed 100%. This is what I expected, tbh. I’m ok with how it went…to be sure, but it would have been a great twist & great continuity to have the above happen. 😎👍@@LoneTiger

[@farshnuke]

@@LoneTiger Well they do need to establish a new big bad if the borg are gone or allies so having Jurati show up later to reveal her good borg fleet is all but gone thanks to the new big bad that she was holding off while Picard and co were dealing with the bad Borg would make sense

[@LoneTiger]

@@farshnuke In space, just like the ocean, the same rules apply: 1. There's always a bigger fish. 2. Once you step in the ocean, you are part of the food chain. And don't forget the "kill all organics" specie at the end of S1 living outside the galaxy, somewhere. Though, if ST needs a quick evil guy, just bring up Armus. 😹

[@farshnuke]

@@LoneTiger There's still that Ferengi that wants revenge on Picard right? What if he gave Armus a starship?

[@cainabel6356]

Star Trek Online has the Borg Cylinder. It is bigger than a Tactical Cube ship.

[@peterq1978]

my Star Trek Adventures character knows the Borg personally, he was at Wolf 359. he was also onvoard the Lakota, during the martial law incident, but that was scrubbed from my record. i tranferred to the ship, then told it never happened.

[@kennyhagan5781]

Frankly, I would much rather deal with the Borg than that lunatic Q. The Borg would grow weary of me after a point, but Q, he's able to resist any of the things that would prevent my assimilation by the Borg....I'd be toast as soon as I tried anything. I mean it, he doesn't even need a ship to get things done.

[@DanBen07]

You missed a ship. The Borg scout ship from TNG I Borg. Apparently it was a smaller ship. A lot of people think it was just wreckage from a cube and don't include this as a separate ship but I would look into it and determine if it is a separate ship.

[@GrandmasterDevo]

Not really worth including since we never see it whole and intact, just in pieces after its crash. The Enterprise crew didn't even analyse the wreckage to see what it would have looked like.

[@DanBen07]

@@GrandmasterDevo Yeah.

[@SparkyGaming212]

You forgot the Borg Assimilator from Star Trek Online. Cool Design. EDIT: Nevermind. Didn't realize you were sticking to Alpha Cannon.

[@NoFormalTraining]

1.04 "Oh look, it's the borgussy." "... the hells a borgussy?"

[@CASA-dy4vs]

1:04

[@roberthenryscott8176]

Great video!! Please create a video for the other Borg vessels from other sources!! The Pyramid seems very interesting.

[@TrekCentral]

Thanks for the suggestion Robert! We’re thinking of doing other videos for “extended” ships :) - Jack

[@jpm265]

Yer defo inc the cylinder the disk , the quad cube , fusion cube , etc from armada add ons thou i think some of them were custom made lol

[@jdadon2000]

I love to think of lores captured borg ship as alien in origin. It was seen as a tactical weapon to target borg unimatrix ships in borg space. But the borg captured it and used it purpose as a weapon to serve their needs. It make it easier to swallow if you think the borg had time to duplicate the technology then start using it as a mine ship in voyager. So it was already assimilated technology that had rogue borg taking over it in on tng. Then it had it appearance in voyager years later.

[@Iceflkn]

10:18 of course they can ALL time travel, they are Borg!

[@1959Edsel]

Imagine the Borg slowly but inexorably assimilating the Dyson sphere.

[@Iceflkn]

11:16 On Voyager, when the Borg suggested a mass destruction weapon to stop species 8472, I noticed the configuration of the weapon was the same as a ship that was used by Hue and his faction. Did Hugh and his Borg take on the shape of a weapon of mass destruction, so others will leave them alone?

[@DanBen07]

Yeah they did reuse the image for that episode.

[@briantonkin7737]

For in universe, the borg probably repurposed the hull of an assimilator to make it into the super weapon

[@Iceflkn]

​​​​@@DanBen07I feel it's reasonable that Hue and its faction did use a weapon of mass destruction as a ship. Think about it, who's going to attack them when you can wipe them out in return, guaranteed? The Borg might have simply said, "Ain't with this shit!" Lol

[@Iceflkn]

​​@@briantonkin7737that is certainly possible but I feel it's reasonable that Hue and its faction did use a weapon of mass destruction as a ship. Think about it, who's going to attack them when you can wipe them out in return, guaranteed? The Borg might have simply said, "Ain't with this shit!" Lol

[@CrimsonGuardian]

Beware the fearsome and deadly Borg Rhombus

[@EliseKehle]

my pet theory is that, as Lore's borg were using unusual weapons that Riker and Worf thought were Ferengi in origin, their ship was a prototype built by Ferengi arms dealers like Gaila, that was then stolen by Lore and co.

[@StarshipEternity]

The pyramid and obelisk types are interesting. Star Trek Legacy, the computer game not the series everyone is rooting for, even created earlier designs for the Borg. Having a look as to what they might look like in the ENT and TOS/TMP eras. I think we need more designs for them to pop up too at some point. At least give verification or not that every ship is built upon and "grows" over time like what was planned and hinted at in ENT.

[@Onno_Inada]

To show just how evil they were, they stole the only toilet on the enterprise during their first encounter.

[@stevenclark2188]

I'm not even sure the Borg have models. So not only might the sphere small enough to fit inside a cube and the sphere big enough to swallow the Voyager be different sizes, but maybe each cube and sphere is a slightly different size and composition from the others.

[@themachanic6416]

The Star Trek rogue ship I would say was an assimilated ship because that particular ship was shown in a different episode of Star Trek that had nothing to do with the Borg

[@GrandmasterDevo]

You say that cubes that have been rendered largely inoperable continuing to function hasn't been seen, but that's not entirely true. In Scorpion Part 1 and in Imperfection, Voyager encounters cubes that have been mostly destroyed, but large intact portions still have breathable atmosphere and artificial gravity. Had the drones aboard not all been killed, they could theoretically, and given enough time, conduct sufficient repairs to make their chunk of scrap mobile again.

[@brandeni1785]

Ah the “voice” of Trek Central is back. Bravo. Cheers

[@briantonkin7737]

Here's hoping for the tactical borg fusion cube from armada

[@dennisud]

I was wondering when you all were getting to the Cyborg Collective, and Adam is the one voicing it, Goody! BTW, I like your Sponsers today, though I'm happy with what I got. I'll recommend this to my friends & family! Given the aging of the Next Gen Crew I see a Borg Civil War in the future of at least one of the current OR Future series!

[@Sierra0331]

Personally I’d love more coverage of STO’s ships in general. Lots of awesome designs there.

[@chronus4421]

Good video, you might consider one on the borg-upgraded voyager

[@Marius8]

as long as there is a collective, the queen survives..

[@JackSterlingUK]

Theoretically the Borg Sphere should have the been the strongest ship in terms of shield and hull integrity, due to its geometry.

[@TheNuclearAtomizer]

The singularity seems as a version of the Borg who are rather nicer than what we know. "They only assimilate those who chose to be assimilated". This seems so out of place but I welcome something like this.

[@humzaibrahim2953]

the future tech voyager brought back to the alpha quadrant were totally forgotten about in the star trek picard series, its like voyager never got home

[@LRK-GT]

To be fair, Section 31 / Department of Temporal Investigations would've likely locked that stuff down the moment Voyager was in drydock. By post-return depictions, Voyager was stripped down back to 24th Century 'spec' *immediately* upon its return.

[@darktear099]

Swedish muppet Chef “Borg, Borg, Borg”….”Borgie, Borgie, Borg”

[@deathgnomes]

It'd be cool if you did a follow-up covering the Borg vessels in other not-as-yet canon sources like STO.

[@SirMCraftalot]

What about the Hi'Tak.?

[@rosendorodriguez7256]

This might be a weird question to ask about music what is it the one close to the very end of this video I want to know what that song is.

[@WolfeSaber]

What about the Cube from the Mirror timeline, where they were a part of the Borg Kingdom, and they measure 10x10x10 kilometers each.

[@DanBen07]

I think they were only doing canon on screen ships

[@Kayleighfair]

The singularity gives very heavy Iconian aesthetics as well (from Star Trek online canon)

[@shanenolan5625]

Cheers adam .

[@saphirefoxirl]

I'd love to see a video on the non-cannon borg ships.

[@DanBen07]

Me to. I would also like to see one on the concept art ships there were a lot of designs that didn't get used.

[@remirez2k3]

its not technically canon as it is a ship specifically used in star trek online but the gorg unimatrix vessel something many STO players mockingly call the borg space pickle

[@CrashCraftLabs]

always a fan of the borg sphere

[@brightlord-ov7cm]

Victor of Borge was the best Borge!

[@jonathankalyniuk7017]

Grest video like always 👏

[@Colipop52]

word of the day = MASSIVE :D

[@Yvario]

Oddly I like the “torpedo” or obelisk type Borg ship, and the Singularity is awesome.

[@ApexwithDavin]

LT COMMANDER ADAM!!!! YES!!!

[@DeathBYDesign666]

The ship used by the queen at the end of Pickard was actually the unicomplex that was partially destroyed in voyager. It's basically the enitre mass converted into a borg cube. We know the ships themselves can repair themselves without drones so this is likely to be the end result, plus its where the Queen was when the virus hit her. If I had to guess I would put it around the 50km range in size. Even the Necrons would back off from that monstrosity unless it's the silent kings ship who could flick it like a fly. Huh I wonder what would happen if their nanoprobes and nonoscarabs interacted with one another? One is designed for repair and the other is for repair and assimilation. Speaking of we should get a discussion about nanobots in star trek. There actually is a variety to choose from.

[@failomas1443]

to m the gigantic borg cube of season 3 of Picard to me remain the Death Star, the Enterprise D being the Millenium Falcon that travel inside to destroy it; change my mind

[@stevenewman1393]

🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely well done and executed and informatively explained in every way shape and form provided on this format and subject matter on the various different types of ships and vessels of the Borg armada and of their fighting abilities and battle tactics and weapons systems and shielding availability and of their trans warp capabilities and so forth and so on indeed!,👌.

[@LRK-GT]

Easily argued that either A. The OG creators of The Borg left-in that limitation. Perhaps to prevent a Grey Goo/Von Neuman Machine scenario (it went sideways, anyway, ofc) B. The Q seemed to 'fear' The Borg's potential. They may have 'handicapped' The Borg at some point, to keep them from becoming (effectively) omnipotent.

[@jamesdietz29]

Personally, I'm waiting on the Borg Small Stellated Dodecahedron.

[@josearenas4200]

the borg have your armada

[@starblaiz1986]

We are the Borg. Lower your shields and prepare to be assimilated. You biological and technological distinctiveness shall be added to our own. Your culture will adapt to service our own. Resistance is - and always has been - futile.

[@JackSterlingUK]

You were inaccurate about the type 033 being as long as a Galaxy class ship. The type 033 was way larger than the Galaxy class.

[@martinjaser2725]

the next generation desk killed me😂❤

[@purestrain3099]

was that picard episode supposed to bring in mulitversal borg like sto just did?

[@Buddy74656]

I still think they should have had a pyramid ship, just to complete the old UPN logo.

[@DanBen07]

I've seen pyramid ships in concept art and Star Trek Legacy video game.

[@deadronin47]

Borg type 03 or renegade ship hands down my favorite borg ship

[@LRK-GT]

Ah, Yes. The Borg Assimilator (In Beta Canon)

[@mackenziebeeney3764]

I presume the Cubes are so variable because they’re completely automated, so they don’t need crews, and they add crew as they assimilate more. And the Diamond is probably a cut down sphere with only some of the weapons, the shields, engines, and minimal crew. It might only have a crew enough to repair the ship.

[@12oshinko]

Never really understood how the borg didn't reach their goals. Seems like they could have become fully synthetic/digital/energy at any time

[@kevinpresley3136]

The Octahedron is my favorite Borg ship.

[@kaidenshepard8446]

Lieutenant Commander Shelby was not forst officer under Captain Riker when she mentioned the fact of the 78% damage to a cube and it still being able to function, she had been left behind by Admiral Hanson, this was before she was reprimanded by Riker for not taking a break when she wanted to continue with ways to try and come up with a defence with the current systems, and to work with Data who did not require sleep.

[@skyfire9294]

You missed the Borg Rhombus from ST: Armada... It primary use was as an Assimilator.

[@traviswebb5094]

Borg spheres also strangely resemble the Death star.

[@jamesdietz29]

Only in shape, really. Their functionality is way different.

[@DanBen07]

Yeah the one ship that really resembles the Death Star in Star Trek is the Xindi weapon from Star Trek Enterprise season 3.

[@davidponseigo8811]

Is it just me or does the sphere remind everyone of a certain Death Star from another Star Sci-fi series of movies and shows.

[@MrAnimal1971]

We are Groot! I have Dendrophobia.

[@mm-yt8sf]

i'd like to see the borg combine their various shapes to form cute balloon animals/characters

[@jamesdietz29]

Unicron could show up dressed as a clown to assemble them.

[@formattmusic1359]

You missed one unofficially. ironically pulled from the Star Trek "Armada" 2 video game that came out early 2000's and was considered canon. Its called a Borg Trapezoid, used to assimilate a planet quickly.

[@ooftaZone]

could crew complement be offseted by baby drones stored in drawers?

[@MRPAULelmskol]

why when i click on your discord link does it say invalid or expired?????

[@DanBen07]

With discord when you send a link it will expire unless you go to settings and change it so it never expires but you may have to do that each time you send the link.

[@bradameerbeg2154]

Where does the extra 1 cubic km com from?

[@turbopokey]

He missed one. There was a tiny little one that was basically a sort of shuttle that only held 4 drones. Voyager found a crashed one once and it was recreated for the StarTrek: Armada video game.

[@DanBen07]

What episode of Voyager? I know they missed one from TNG I Borg which is supposed to be a Borg scout ship which is smaller.

[@turbopokey]

@@DanBen07 you know I take it back, I believe I was thinking of the TNG episode where they found Hugh. For some reason I was thinking 7of9 was there but am misremembering.

[@DanBen07]

@@turbopokey yeah the one I mentioned is apparently a different ship but most people just think it was part of a cube.

[@christopherbrandt3703]

I perfer the singalrity myself we know all about the other cubes and have been iniside of them I would want to know more about the ship and its interior.

[@talan123]

As for the lack of a triangle shap? The French aliens objected to it after they were tongue tied.

[@TroysMilitaryHistory]

28 square kilometres? 3 × 3 x 3 = 27? Great video!

[@Meritania]

It’s bigger on the inside…

[@LutherMcgee]

I of course like the cube, and the " Lore" ship the best. The sphere comes 3rd. The one that looked like a giant metallic snowflake, not as much.

[@BillBadMule123]

I Like🥰😍🤩🥳💯💢💥💫👍 them All I Love everything Star Trek

[@paulkirby2761]

The Borg ended when Data destroyed them. Anything Borg after that went rapidly downhill and they lost their fear factor, becoming little more than just another dangerous species like the Romulans, Klingons etc. When we were introduced to them, the "original" Borg, it was as a spiteful lesson by Q who wanted to both humble Picards "We'll be ready to face whatever we encounter without your help!" brag, and to force Picard to admit he was wrong about being ready for what's out there and needing Q's help. To that end, we were introduced to the Borg. A seemingly emotionless, uncompromising, unreasonable species that assimilated other races and species as a way to grow and learn, that in doing so has becoming almost unstoppable with technology far greater than anything else the Federation had encountered. Apart from the classic and bs Enterprise plot armor which repeatedly spared it being destroyed by the Borg, they were just that, unstoppable and rendered all weapons and tactics useless by "adapting" technology and assimilation to learn the new races technology. So ya, unfortunately after that the Borg quickly became just another "dangerous but we always beat them cuz Starfleet are best!" species. There's no fear factor there anymore. Shame, but popularity insisted on their inclusion. The Voyager scenario was interesting but again Voyager plot armor again reduced the fear factor to zero as the ship survived hits even from a species that casually destroyed Borg cubes for fun.

[@mm-yt8sf]

hey borg why aren't your ships phallic? all our ships are phallic, just not based on human parts 🙂

[@jamesdietz29]

Cause the Borg be all about math, not hormones.

[@georgecoons6872]

lets see what 100 cubes can do to the dominion jem,hadar ships.

[@Emanon...]

Surely the cube was 3x3x3=27, not 28 cubic kilometres in volume?

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

cube pi minus some dug out space for corridors and equipment.

[@robeson1070]

the Borg were much scarier when they were a monolith as they were first introduced, rather than an insect colony full of specialization & unique indivuals and factions.

[@kentaroo.7759]

I guess the Klingons, Romulans, Cardasians, Ferengis, Breen, and other species were unworthy of being assimilated.

[@DanBen07]

But if you watch Star Trek you do see some of those species in episodes have been assimilated.

[@danswoluk5403]

I thought the add was for "Flexi-spock"😅😂

[@James-hs3tu]

Hmm. What about the Voth. Voyager. Looked like a toy. In there ship.

[@TairnKA]

In the first encounter with the BORG, after the Enterprise crew is able to escape the tractor beam and fly off, the cube "turns" and pursues the Enterprise. Why does it need to turn? Disregarding the fact, having the BORG cube face forward makes filming easier (more support), I've always thought the cube should be corner forward so more weapons, tractor beams, etc... could be available, plus no need to "turn". ;-)

[@Hierachy]

you actually see that in first contact, the cube is heading towards earth edge first.

[@DanBen07]

If is the ship is damaged or regenerating maybe it turns that part of the ship away from its target so it doesn't take more damage or time to regenerate there.

[@heatherharger9709]

There are the two supercubes, one armored for battle. Both are in ST: Armada II. Both can outgun even a Starbase.

[@DanBen07]

I think this video was just for ones on screen.

[@canis2020]

I hope we get to see a mobius strip ship from yhe future past borg that are around but not.....

[@afham_farooqui]

the singularity is in my opinion the best

[@brandondowning6243]

The Borg are ludicrously illogical. They have virtually unlimited resources and unanimous resolve to get things done, but they send ONE cube at a time to do something. If it works, fantastic! But, the Borg seem to be absolutely fixated with assimilating the Federation to the point of freaking time travel...instead of just sending 100 damned cubes and crushing the opposition. Which leads to one conclusion...the Borg do in fact have the resources to do what they wish to accomplish and they just don't...which makes them idiots. 🤷‍♂️

[@brettnelson7048]

10:32. Death Star vibes anyone?