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[–] 7 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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!"

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    I actually wonder sometimes why they don't use swords against the Borg.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    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.

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