I never understood why they didn't just use guns with bullets. They had a prototype rifle with transporter capabilities in DS9. Replicating a 24th century automatic weapon should be a piece of cake. Picard had that tommy gun on the holodeck and it worked beautifully. They have force fields in case they shoot a hole in the hull of the ship from inside. Never made any sense to not use machine guns. They would have a never ending supply of ammo as they would only have to continue replicating.
@Seattlecarnut Before they introduced those shake-and-bake assimilation tubules in First Contact, I seem to recall that the few glimpses of we had of assimilation chambers were filled with screams in the background, so I reckon assimilation is anything but a pleasant experience. Not that it matters in the long run, of course, since any assimilated being is essentially a mindless bionic zombie afterwards ;)
@MrSinister1979 They screwed up the original concept in the movie. In "The Next Generation" series, the Borg were all equal parts of one group mind; leader and follower simultaneously. In the movie, they turned them into brain-dead zombies under the command of a puppet master. That's a shame, because they were one of the most unique Star Trek races before someone had the bright idea to introduce a ruler.
Fail: unless they were using a copper token ring network to communicate, they should have adapted to the "phase" of the phasers shortly after the energy burst left the weapon.
Yeah, lets see you Borg adapt to a punch in the chops. :) Funny, when they first appeared the Borg had to kidnap people, take them back to their ship and operate on them. Then later they came up with the injection things in their hands and they could start converting on the spot.
You see Children, this is why you resist the microchip. It is not to regulate finance or your heart rate. That is what mother nature and hearts and electromagnetism flowing in harmony through your DNA is for.
@squidman22 It is frightening and it is unnatural and it is happening on earth.
Don't believe me? Proteus chips on pills. New strips to monitor your heart rate. Chips you can put in your neck to observe blood pressure. Bio chips for finance. Biologists calling some of our dormant DNA "junk".
The greatest and most horrible things that have ever happened on Earth were because of obedience. Not disobedience.
@squidman22 P.S. I have nothing against China / NK ... or anyone specifically cause we're a global family. But you gotta admit - that is one HELL of a standing army. Look how much 'unity' is there. *vomit*
You know what's even better than 'unity'? Synergy. Everyone looks a little different but even more is accomplished.
@Alyatigerz What a coincidence. Anyway, the easy way to end conflict is to replicate a Bat'leth to Worf and have the rest of the crew go and replicate some lembas.
When you're assimilated you get access to unlimited phone and texting as well as all the HD channels and slipstream internet for free. Can't beat that sweet deal!
In the Assimilation process they also put you an anal/urethral prove to prevent you shitting and pissing. Being borg is quite boring, most of the time when you are not in battle you just stand still doing NOTHING all the time. Just a few borgs drones are allowed to walk around upgrading or repairing the ship (or cube).
Why do the borg waste their time with crappy mechanical implants when they have Nanite probes? They could just as easily use the Nano-probes to create seamless biological mechanical upgrades to living tissue. The whole Mechanical Cyborg Borg never made sense to me.
Efficiency man, the borg Drones are simple, effective, efficient, and modular. Most Borg functions are controlled by the hive mind, command, ship control, resource allocation, etc. Drones are simply an extension of that control and most of the time simply add to the collective computing ability. The technology isnt crappy either. Its super advanced, most drones are like heavily armed shock troops that become to immune to fire after 3-10 shots. Drones are awesome, I blame drugs, yay
@Agent01101 Still if they have all that computing power as you say wouldn't it be more useful to have borg that have more organic movement who could handle hand to hand? Just seems to me that cyborg borgs are not that great an improvement over regular humans without the implants. In some cases the "improvements" seem more of a detriment to the collective good. As hyperadvanced as the technology of the borg is they seem to misuse the technology that they have making clunky mechanical augments.
melee combat if against small numbers of drones or if you are klingon. however, if in small numbers, drones can be taken out with phasers as several vollys are required before adaptation. In large numbers, klingons with melee weapons and humans with firearms or other ranged weaponry using transfer of kinetic energy rather than focussed light or electrical energy since the borg are equipped with energy dispersal fields but not personal deflector arrays......... yet.
hmm did u notice that "Voyager borgs" have fewer wires than previous generations? I wonder if they all became wireless as current technology improved (art immitating life)?
the only 2 things i learned from this are the 2 most important things ever. 1. assimilation looks very painful.2. melee combat may be the best way of fighting a drone at close range.
@admiralackbar999: Well of course having nanorobots injected into you and start to rewrite your DNA and create cybernetic implants inside you. Along with that you have the option of having robotics stuck in your eye, having your arm chopped off, having your vocal cords scraped and implanted or having things shoved in your head is not entirely going to be as relaxing and painless as a massage
@admiralackbar999 One problem I noticed with their fighting. Energy weapons are no use to the borg, you're right, or Species 8472. What they need are solid shot kinetic weapons like assult rifles., or melee weapons as you said.
@TheLegolasguy As my best friend said, "They need UZIs!" However, one has to wonder....is an ENERGY weapon more powerful than a solid shot kinetic weapon? Would BORG armour repel 9mm? 7.62mm?
I always wondered why star trek dudes try to use phasers against the borg over and over. The best approach would be to whip out blades and go in hacking and slashing!
@TheOne1945 because the are for the most of the part too "Civilized" for that unlike the klingons..hmm klingom with sword in room full of borgs he he.
@TheOne1945 Because using ranged weapons makes you to kill enemies from afar?? Also, using blades is not adequate for stretch places or very close combat. (if you are talking about swords or similar. Also with blades, being surrounded by Borgs, you will not get much a chance to survive.
Ummm, the whole point is that the Borg adapt to energy weapons quickly, rendering them useless. A blade would be much more effective than a non-working phaser in any situation.
@TheOne1945 But if you had seen some Star Trek episodes, you could know that it's possible to change the phasers energy frequency so the Borg had to adapt again to the new frequency. Once this happens, it's only a matter of change frequency again, and problem solved.
Yes, it is posisble to the change the frequency of phasers, but this only slows down the Borg's adaptation process. Remember, in First Contact Worf set the phasers of the Enterprise's security team to a rotating frequency, but even so, the Borg adapted very quickly; after about 3 shots.
@TheOne1945 ya and risk getting infected with nanoprobes, don't forget that drones are stronger than normal dudes ;) worf hacked one drone because he's a klingon and klingon are stronger than humans
@TheOne1945 Well I think the best approach would be to use parts of the environment. The Borg are so clumsy that in a planet situation, it's enough to vaporize a trench to basically incapacitate them.
Indeed. The Borg would most likely have to devastate the planet from orbit and drastically reduce the number of defenders that way. The first time the Borg are mentioned in STNG it's suggested that the Borg can scoop up entire cities and assimiliate them that way, but in any case it seems likely that guerilla resistance on a planet with a large population would continue for a long time.
@admiralackbar999 melee combat a drone and you'll get assimilated if you don't manage to overpower it ;)...drones are tougher and stronger cause of all those implants
@admiralackbar999 Exactly. If they hadn't bothered with phaser rifles and started replicating axes, they could have hacked the borg invaders to pieces. Guess it wouldn't have been a "12" rating then though.
@admiralackbar999 Well, melee combat would be the best way for a Klingon. Humans, on the other hand, aren't so lucky.
I would imagine assimilation is very painful. Maybe that's why they inject the nanoprobes. Those things do take over the nervous system, most likely so that they can paralyze it. It's more efficient if the soon to be Borg isn't struggling and screaming on the assimilation table.
freaking space zombies
SupremeLordReptyle 2 days ago
say good bye to your sex life
MrRagingbovine 1 week ago
Borg-Resistance is futile!
Dalek-Exterminate!
Grox-Does not compute.
zillafire101 2 weeks ago
I never understood why they didn't just use guns with bullets. They had a prototype rifle with transporter capabilities in DS9. Replicating a 24th century automatic weapon should be a piece of cake. Picard had that tommy gun on the holodeck and it worked beautifully. They have force fields in case they shoot a hole in the hull of the ship from inside. Never made any sense to not use machine guns. They would have a never ending supply of ammo as they would only have to continue replicating.
FriendofDaishonin 3 weeks ago
beware the cyberzombies
warbossgrotsmasha23 4 weeks ago
(1:38) I want that arm!
horaciosi 1 month ago
Fascinating! I've always wondered how the assimilation takes place. Some of the techniques look rather painful.
Seattlecarnut 1 month ago
@Seattlecarnut Before they introduced those shake-and-bake assimilation tubules in First Contact, I seem to recall that the few glimpses of we had of assimilation chambers were filled with screams in the background, so I reckon assimilation is anything but a pleasant experience. Not that it matters in the long run, of course, since any assimilated being is essentially a mindless bionic zombie afterwards ;)
MrSinister1979 1 month ago
@MrSinister1979 Indeed.
Seattlecarnut 1 month ago
@MrSinister1979 They screwed up the original concept in the movie. In "The Next Generation" series, the Borg were all equal parts of one group mind; leader and follower simultaneously. In the movie, they turned them into brain-dead zombies under the command of a puppet master. That's a shame, because they were one of the most unique Star Trek races before someone had the bright idea to introduce a ruler.
TheProtronic 3 weeks ago
@TheProtronic Agreed! The borg were so much more scary before they introduced a ruler
Tazraz8 1 week ago
Fail: unless they were using a copper token ring network to communicate, they should have adapted to the "phase" of the phasers shortly after the energy burst left the weapon.
lvl69engineer 2 months ago
I see ASSimalation
bovb902 2 months ago
I like it !!!
;)
MrJM1803 2 months ago
The Borg are kind of the zombies of space, aren't they?
heystupidopenthedoor 2 months ago
Yeah, lets see you Borg adapt to a punch in the chops. :) Funny, when they first appeared the Borg had to kidnap people, take them back to their ship and operate on them. Then later they came up with the injection things in their hands and they could start converting on the spot.
LibraGamesUnlimited 2 months ago
They can fly in frkn space ships but can't figure out they need lead to hit 'em up?
TheRacistsMustDie 2 months ago
You see Children, this is why you resist the microchip. It is not to regulate finance or your heart rate. That is what mother nature and hearts and electromagnetism flowing in harmony through your DNA is for.
Love ya'll.
sketch2k 2 months ago
@sketch2k
Oh. That was clear...
TheOne1945 3 weeks ago
I admire them for their "unity" and 'harmony" but the idea of losing all individuality is frightening.
squidman22 3 months ago
@squidman22 It is frightening and it is unnatural and it is happening on earth.
Don't believe me? Proteus chips on pills. New strips to monitor your heart rate. Chips you can put in your neck to observe blood pressure. Bio chips for finance. Biologists calling some of our dormant DNA "junk".
The greatest and most horrible things that have ever happened on Earth were because of obedience. Not disobedience.
watch?v=OHZIUdHm6b4&feature=related
Love ya. Sleep tight.
sketch2k 2 months ago
@squidman22 P.S. I have nothing against China / NK ... or anyone specifically cause we're a global family. But you gotta admit - that is one HELL of a standing army. Look how much 'unity' is there. *vomit*
You know what's even better than 'unity'? Synergy. Everyone looks a little different but even more is accomplished.
Peace.
sketch2k 2 months ago
Priority. Do it right.
snowsun100 3 months ago
I am a self. Caste. Differentiation. Exclusion. Nice to meet you. Wisdom.
snowsun100 3 months ago
Ash from "The Evil Dead" could easily beat dozens of Borgs using a double barreled shotgun and a 149 $ chainsaw. Low technology, but very effective!
End of story LMAO
TheKoster1978 3 months ago
This tells me absolutely nothing about the Borg assimilation process.
backinthecrystal 3 months ago
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34 people have been assimilated
awesomness1234567890 4 months ago
34 people have been assimlated
awesomness1234567890 4 months ago
The Borg are a beautiful species.
MickScarborough 4 months ago
@linkieloos hahaha yeah right
Gordontrek 5 months ago
This is how the US "assimilates" other countries on a daily basis.
linkieloos 5 months ago
@linkieloos this stuff was going on before the Roman empire and always will
russ9356 5 months ago
Aragorn, take the other sword you had in the first two movies, we need Anduril NOW!!!!
DarthRushy 5 months ago
@DarthRushy lol i was just listening to the lord of the rings when i saw this coment for the fist time lol
Alyatigerz 4 months ago
@Alyatigerz What a coincidence. Anyway, the easy way to end conflict is to replicate a Bat'leth to Worf and have the rest of the crew go and replicate some lembas.
DarthRushy 3 months ago
Okay, I don't wanna be Borg. Creepier than it looked in Star Trek: Borg.
DarthRushy 5 months ago
The Borg. An Alternate Reality version of the Cybermen.
LawrenceOlaf 5 months ago
When you're assimilated you get access to unlimited phone and texting as well as all the HD channels and slipstream internet for free. Can't beat that sweet deal!
TheProtronic 5 months ago 24
@TheProtronic the future of P2P sharing!!
bads06 3 weeks ago
@bads06 What, you haven't joined yet? Wait there, we will send one of our "representatives" over to give you the "hook-up"!
TheProtronic 3 weeks ago
In the Assimilation process they also put you an anal/urethral prove to prevent you shitting and pissing. Being borg is quite boring, most of the time when you are not in battle you just stand still doing NOTHING all the time. Just a few borgs drones are allowed to walk around upgrading or repairing the ship (or cube).
BiohazardCrow 5 months ago
I'm a Voyager fan, could someone tell me which episodes are the clips (besides the one with Janeway) from? Thank's. :)
Charmteaser 6 months ago
OMG, THEY HAVE LEDs
lvl69engineer 7 months ago
Whats the music from?
And you'd think they would start carrying around swords or something...
Sephlock 8 months ago
@Sephlock The music is from Star Trek: First Contact.
Shadai2540 8 months ago
Assimilation looks like it SUCKS
nuggets2go 9 months ago
If only they'd had these graphics in Voyager
nuggets2go 9 months ago
Why don't they call it Borgification
TheJediJeep 10 months ago
Das ist star wars ne dreck dagegen
chapman6908 10 months ago
Ive always loved the part that Worf kills the drone using his phaser rifle.
michaelhviper 11 months ago
Why do the borg waste their time with crappy mechanical implants when they have Nanite probes? They could just as easily use the Nano-probes to create seamless biological mechanical upgrades to living tissue. The whole Mechanical Cyborg Borg never made sense to me.
NoogLeader 1 year ago
@NoogLeader
Efficiency man, the borg Drones are simple, effective, efficient, and modular. Most Borg functions are controlled by the hive mind, command, ship control, resource allocation, etc. Drones are simply an extension of that control and most of the time simply add to the collective computing ability. The technology isnt crappy either. Its super advanced, most drones are like heavily armed shock troops that become to immune to fire after 3-10 shots. Drones are awesome, I blame drugs, yay
Agent01101 1 year ago
@Agent01101 Still if they have all that computing power as you say wouldn't it be more useful to have borg that have more organic movement who could handle hand to hand? Just seems to me that cyborg borgs are not that great an improvement over regular humans without the implants. In some cases the "improvements" seem more of a detriment to the collective good. As hyperadvanced as the technology of the borg is they seem to misuse the technology that they have making clunky mechanical augments.
NoogLeader 1 year ago
1st contact is INCREDIBLY depressing!!!
asuch874 1 year ago
The Borg still scare the crap outa me. After all these years.
startrekkin1701 1 year ago
melee combat if against small numbers of drones or if you are klingon. however, if in small numbers, drones can be taken out with phasers as several vollys are required before adaptation. In large numbers, klingons with melee weapons and humans with firearms or other ranged weaponry using transfer of kinetic energy rather than focussed light or electrical energy since the borg are equipped with energy dispersal fields but not personal deflector arrays......... yet.
randomface54 1 year ago
Mr Worf, I need 2 borrow your blades!!!!
asuch874 1 year ago
hmm did u notice that "Voyager borgs" have fewer wires than previous generations? I wonder if they all became wireless as current technology improved (art immitating life)?
RavenBlaze 1 year ago
Had to watch this in my world history class... o-o
MeepingDino 1 year ago
die borg voll cool
RatedREdge2196 1 year ago
guess it tickled then
xsupamonkeyx 1 year ago
First contact is a good movie
shurtugal81 1 year ago
@ManaTatsuX: I think you misread what I said. I said "is NOT entirely going to be as relaxing and painless..." It was a bit of sarcasm
TheSmithersy 1 year ago
fuck man, star wars vs star trek. giant sphere vs giant cube
ricemuncherzilla 1 year ago
@ricemuncherzilla The "giant sphere" is over 100 kilometers in diameter, the "giant cube" is under 5.
PivotPiAnimations 1 year ago
LOL Epic music. Haha
MissSayWhhaatt 1 year ago
I wish the Borg had REALLY assimilated Janeway
It would have been the ultimate irony
welker831 1 year ago
@welker831 That did assimilated Janeway fully tho although she did keep her invitingly. =/
44971719785648751978 1 year ago
*cough* shotgun *cough*
hymijr 1 year ago
It Looks A Bit Kinky
jamiejjd 1 year ago 31
@jamiejjd lol how?
TheJoker7392 1 year ago
@TheJoker7392 Well getting two big things stuck into your neck...
jamiejjd 1 year ago
@jamiejjd lol
Sphonemanz 8 months ago
I feel sorry for them if they were to assimilate me... mostly because it wouldn't be me becoming borg, it would be borg becoming me ^_^
PinkProgram 2 years ago 4
the only 2 things i learned from this are the 2 most important things ever. 1. assimilation looks very painful.2. melee combat may be the best way of fighting a drone at close range.
admiralackbar999 2 years ago 49
lolz
blazethekiller11 2 years ago
@admiralackbar999: Well of course having nanorobots injected into you and start to rewrite your DNA and create cybernetic implants inside you. Along with that you have the option of having robotics stuck in your eye, having your arm chopped off, having your vocal cords scraped and implanted or having things shoved in your head is not entirely going to be as relaxing and painless as a massage
TheSmithersy 1 year ago
@admiralackbar999
Yeah if melee works then so should bullets. Where are the SMGs in the Enterprise's armoury, seriously.
LordOfTheGnus 1 year ago
@LordOfTheGnus Ye but that'd only work for so long :O
wbmc1 1 year ago
@wbmc1
Worf kills Borg with a /knife/ for Pete's sake. If energy weapons are useless, use projectile weapons.
LordOfTheGnus 1 year ago
@LordOfTheGnus True but Im sure other races tried and failed/ Cant be that simple
wbmc1 1 year ago
@admiralackbar999 take a big sword and cut em in half
AcidBlades 1 year ago
@admiralackbar999 One problem I noticed with their fighting. Energy weapons are no use to the borg, you're right, or Species 8472. What they need are solid shot kinetic weapons like assult rifles., or melee weapons as you said.
TheLegolasguy 1 year ago
@TheLegolasguy As my best friend said, "They need UZIs!" However, one has to wonder....is an ENERGY weapon more powerful than a solid shot kinetic weapon? Would BORG armour repel 9mm? 7.62mm?
Tigerman1138 1 year ago
@admiralackbar999
I always wondered why star trek dudes try to use phasers against the borg over and over. The best approach would be to whip out blades and go in hacking and slashing!
TheOne1945 10 months ago 28
@TheOne1945 Thats why the klingons would win
SpartanB269 1 month ago
@TheOne1945 better yet, just whip up some good ol' fashioned ballistics (guns) with a replicator... geezzz people in the future are dumb...
chaosami2 4 weeks ago 2
@TheOne1945 because the are for the most of the part too "Civilized" for that unlike the klingons..hmm klingom with sword in room full of borgs he he.
MaxNght 3 weeks ago
@TheOne1945 Because using ranged weapons makes you to kill enemies from afar?? Also, using blades is not adequate for stretch places or very close combat. (if you are talking about swords or similar. Also with blades, being surrounded by Borgs, you will not get much a chance to survive.
despisel 3 weeks ago
@despisel
Ummm, the whole point is that the Borg adapt to energy weapons quickly, rendering them useless. A blade would be much more effective than a non-working phaser in any situation.
TheOne1945 3 weeks ago
@TheOne1945 But if you had seen some Star Trek episodes, you could know that it's possible to change the phasers energy frequency so the Borg had to adapt again to the new frequency. Once this happens, it's only a matter of change frequency again, and problem solved.
despisel 3 weeks ago
@despisel
Yes, it is posisble to the change the frequency of phasers, but this only slows down the Borg's adaptation process. Remember, in First Contact Worf set the phasers of the Enterprise's security team to a rotating frequency, but even so, the Borg adapted very quickly; after about 3 shots.
TheOne1945 3 weeks ago
@TheOne1945 ya and risk getting infected with nanoprobes, don't forget that drones are stronger than normal dudes ;) worf hacked one drone because he's a klingon and klingon are stronger than humans
warbossgrotsmasha23 3 weeks ago
@warbossgrotsmasha23
Defintely. It would be a crappy situation, but I'd rather have a blade than a non-working phaser...at least I would have a chance!
TheOne1945 3 weeks ago
@TheOne1945 If physical attacks work, why not use a tommy gun like picard did...
Sephlock 3 weeks ago
@TheOne1945 or Guns
bads06 3 weeks ago
@TheOne1945 Well I think the best approach would be to use parts of the environment. The Borg are so clumsy that in a planet situation, it's enough to vaporize a trench to basically incapacitate them.
symbolt 2 weeks ago
@symbolt
Indeed. The Borg would most likely have to devastate the planet from orbit and drastically reduce the number of defenders that way. The first time the Borg are mentioned in STNG it's suggested that the Borg can scoop up entire cities and assimiliate them that way, but in any case it seems likely that guerilla resistance on a planet with a large population would continue for a long time.
TheOne1945 2 weeks ago
@admiralackbar999 grab a buster sword or masamune and run into them
Olennex 10 months ago 3
@admiralackbar999 melee combat a drone and you'll get assimilated if you don't manage to overpower it ;)...drones are tougher and stronger cause of all those implants
warbossgrotsmasha23 7 months ago
@admiralackbar999 yeah, if your a klingon, most humans i see going hand to hand wiht a borg on these shows/movies don't do well
joevil2025 6 months ago
@admiralackbar999 Exactly. If they hadn't bothered with phaser rifles and started replicating axes, they could have hacked the borg invaders to pieces. Guess it wouldn't have been a "12" rating then though.
LoneRookRS1 5 months ago
@admiralackbar999 Well, melee combat would be the best way for a Klingon. Humans, on the other hand, aren't so lucky.
I would imagine assimilation is very painful. Maybe that's why they inject the nanoprobes. Those things do take over the nervous system, most likely so that they can paralyze it. It's more efficient if the soon to be Borg isn't struggling and screaming on the assimilation table.
DarkXaven 4 months ago