/strek/ - Star Trek

Spheres are because they are the most efficient space maximizing volume for a given surface area. Cubes… dunno. Probably because all the drone alcoves form neatly into rows, and those rows into blocks, and so forth.

>>14940

Spheres would be the easiest to build, but cubes would be the easiest to use and manage. While you can argue that the Borg could find a way to efficiently and easily organize a ship made of a the most retarded angles and planes possible why would they do that when geometric shapes already give them everything they need whilst also being easier to build?

A giant bumpy cube is what the Next Gen model builders came up with. Then when the model makers on First Contact needed to come up with an escape pod or whatever the fuck that was they thought "sphere". They come from Next Gen writers who were originally going to make them giant bugs but couldn't afford it so covered some mimes in rubber hosing and lazer pointers.

>>14951

In First Contact it was originally going to be some sort of Prism or Space Pyramid. Before turning it into a massive Cube.

Borg were result of a Spergout by /r9k/

Were the Borg overused?

Didn't they have an origin story in Voyager? Something about a species losing a big war, and the last few hundred survivors seeking refuge in some sort of VR facility.

>>15162

that was a voyager ep but it wasn't about the borg.

sounds like you actually combined the thaw and dragons teeth.

What does the TS:E episode say? I remember they find something about their origin but not exactly sure what.

>>15170

All I remember them saying is that the awakened drones were sending a message to the delta quadrant.

I thought it was a closed timeloop. In Enterprise, we find that some of the drones from First Contact survived in the past. It's been a long time since I saw that episode, so don't quote me on that.

>>15174

That merely is how humans come into contact with the borg, not from whence they came originally.

Wait, there was one Voyager episode where they talk about Seven of Nine's origins and I think there is some stuff in that, iirc anyways.

EU makes them sound like they've been several times when the Borg have existed, even fighting the Preservers. Others have their origins as being the Voyager Probe. So they could range from being hundreds of thousands of years old to a couple of centuries. But because the Trek EU is a massive bag of trash I wouldn't take any of this on board.

>>15162

They make a mention with one species which was like the third or something assimilated, some thousands of years ago or something. But nothing really concrete; it's just enough to establish that they're much older than previously thought.

>>15161

They only had six episodes total in TNG, and four of those were two two-parters. They were overused in Voyager, but Voyager is shit by default.

>>15186

I haven't read much of it, is the STEU worse than SW's?

>>16181

It's basically licensed fanfiction.

>some alien race relies on technology and shit

>virus like sigma from megaman x infects all the technology

>forces them to do its bidding

Judea

>>16181

If it was before, it isn't anymore.

>>15233

>They only had six episodes total in TNG, and four of those were two two-parters.

Descent already "ruined" them even before First Contact and VOY had a chance. Nice job having your entire ancient quadrant-threatening empire subjugated by one guy with zero resources, faggots.

>>14939

Probably started as a military weapons, just a Internet on steroids. Things escalated slowly. then VERY VERY quickly.

>>16247

But then the standard drones would need to be more combat focused with at least some distance weapon as part of the default equipment.

I'd say the most logical origin would be a civilization in the middle of the dive into idiocracy: highly dependent on competent engineering but with a degenerating population producing far too many mouthbreathers. In such a situation linking the few competent minds to an army of bodies might be the best option you have left.

>>16241

>nice job having your entire ancient quadrant-threatening empire subjugated by one guy with zero resources

I sort of got the impression it was only Hugh's cube that was fucked, otherwise we should have seen a lot more fallout from that. And probably alot more drones hanging around Lore's base.

Imagine the Swole Collective?

They are the Jabroni Collective.

>>16181

If it was before, it isn't now

>>16181

SW doesn't have an EU now.

ST on a whole has a problem. Scifi has this great device where aliens are a twist on human society: this works if you get to DESCRIBE the internal logic of their mindset, like in the longest arcs about klingons and cardassians.

However, the premise falters if the principle is COMPARED to human society: it defines aliens by their trait, and implicitly states that this trait doesn't belong to humanity hence is unthinkable and irrelevant to us. Which is why no humans would ever join or create their own cyborg collective: it's just a weird alien thing, we only care about space communism.

>>16502

>Gatalenta

How did that ball of shit survive two death stars?

>>16577

Everyone knew it was going to happen for a long time. Star Wars attracts too many normalfags. Not nearly a large enough autism crowd for it to drive others away.