Would You expect them to replicate real machine guns?
“We are an advanced race of super-intelligent networked computers. We have solved the problem of your primitive laser pistols by creating a deflection shield that can be tuned to the frequency of the beam within a few minutes of its use.”
“Okay, but I’ve got a high velocity shard of metal that I can launch through a long tube.”
“Does not computer! Does not computer! We are defeated!”
The Borg have blasters of their own, so it’s not much of a fight unless the Federation recruits some Jedi.
Even then, the general “solution” to the Borg is to outsmart them or exploit a weakness. So many of the Borg end-games tend to be some combination of computer virus and propaganda counter-programming, turning their habit of assimilation against them.
If you’re fighting them straight up, you’re almost guaranteed to lose.
They also just sort of stand around until provoked, so you could transport a few hundred sword welding soldiers over on a cube and count of three, lop their heads off all at once.
“We are an advanced race of super-intelligent networked computers. We have solved the problem of your primitive laser pistols by creating a deflection shield that can be tuned to the frequency of the beam within a few minutes of its use.”
“Okay, but I’ve got a high velocity shard of metal that I can launch through a long tube.”
“Does not computer! Does not computer! We are defeated!”
I actually wonder sometimes why they don’t use swords against the Borg.
The Borg have blasters of their own, so it’s not much of a fight unless the Federation recruits some Jedi.
Even then, the general “solution” to the Borg is to outsmart them or exploit a weakness. So many of the Borg end-games tend to be some combination of computer virus and propaganda counter-programming, turning their habit of assimilation against them.
If you’re fighting them straight up, you’re almost guaranteed to lose.
They also just sort of stand around until provoked, so you could transport a few hundred sword welding soldiers over on a cube and count of three, lop their heads off all at once.
Don’t Borg Cubes have over 100k drones each?
We’re gonna need some more Starfleet vessels.
Up to the end of Voyager, touching a Borg drone is basically instant assimilation. So melee weapons are out.
In Star Trek Online, I do use swords against the Borg!
It’s the Stargate’s replicators logic… That I’m sure is a joke about the Borg.