The biggest engineering thing that I see repeated that doesn’t make any sense is when they are fighting the Borg. They set their phasers to randomly change frequencies to avoid them adapting. They still adapt.
What the fuck? This should only work a couple times before the Borg know how to counter every frequency the phasers can use but it happens literally every time they fight.
Maybe it’s not that the Borg adapt to every frequency, but rather they figure out the random generation algorithm so that they can anticipate the next frequency used. Reach time they need to use a new method of generating their randomness.
The borg seem to not be able to adapt to everything at once which is why holodeck bullets worked that one time and phasers initially work, so presumably between encounters with starfleet they fight other things that force them to adapt away from resistance to starfleet weaponry and starfleet in kind change their phaser frequencies so the borg can’t just re-implement the resistance they gained last time.
Wasting that much power and hardware for complete invulnerability at all times would detract from achieving perfection. A more perfect system would instead adapt to achieve an acceptable level of fault tolerance with a minimal level of interruption.
I think more of it as knowledge. They wouldn’t need to have it on all the time; but since it’s a tactic commonly used by the Federation, you could use it when encountering them at least, because they know this and have all the past experience to be prepared.
They do kinda explain that this is essentially what they do. They don’t really waste time or energy on minimal threats. And yet that ends up also being not so cool for the Borg in the end, just letting a few Starfleet people wander around their cubes setting bombs and shit. 🤷🏻♂️
The biggest engineering thing that I see repeated that doesn’t make any sense is when they are fighting the Borg. They set their phasers to randomly change frequencies to avoid them adapting. They still adapt.
What the fuck? This should only work a couple times before the Borg know how to counter every frequency the phasers can use but it happens literally every time they fight.
Maybe it’s not that the Borg adapt to every frequency, but rather they figure out the random generation algorithm so that they can anticipate the next frequency used. Reach time they need to use a new method of generating their randomness.
The borg seem to not be able to adapt to everything at once which is why holodeck bullets worked that one time and phasers initially work, so presumably between encounters with starfleet they fight other things that force them to adapt away from resistance to starfleet weaponry and starfleet in kind change their phaser frequencies so the borg can’t just re-implement the resistance they gained last time.
Wasting that much power and hardware for complete invulnerability at all times would detract from achieving perfection. A more perfect system would instead adapt to achieve an acceptable level of fault tolerance with a minimal level of interruption.
I think more of it as knowledge. They wouldn’t need to have it on all the time; but since it’s a tactic commonly used by the Federation, you could use it when encountering them at least, because they know this and have all the past experience to be prepared.
They do kinda explain that this is essentially what they do. They don’t really waste time or energy on minimal threats. And yet that ends up also being not so cool for the Borg in the end, just letting a few Starfleet people wander around their cubes setting bombs and shit. 🤷🏻♂️