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The Borg, as we know, is a race of assimilating beings that are a menace to the Federation, and basically life as we know it. There have been many debates about how to destroy a drone, but no one seems to agree on an answer.

In The Next Generation, it is established that the Borg can adapt quickly to anything that attempts to attack it. Once you shoot them with one type of phaser, you need to change the frequency band to kill another. It’s that fast. But, what they don’t realize is that later on Voyager, the Borg has adapted to even that! Think about it, the Federation has known of them, and they us. Obviously we’ve tried to go drone hunting more than once, right?

Being that it is the 25th Century and life is dandy, they consider our own current type of weaponry primitive. A typical 357 has the range of 50 yards, which is basically a quarter of a mile. Now what’s the range of a type 3 phaser? Not very far. A phaser, or any type of weaponry the Federation would have is on the construction of electricity. When fired, it will shoot a high concentration of power, which is essentially electrocution.

Everything in fact is based on electricity. Shields of any type are of fluid metal and time electric coils. Whenever you see Riker or Janeway fire at a drone and that ‘square’ appears, or just a light zap, that’s your shield. The way it works is the little electrons in the metal are floating freely around in the body shield. Computer controlled, when it detects any sort of penetration, it tells the electrons to quickly ‘hold hands’. (Yes is this is actually possible today.)

Thus preventing the electrical shock through. Now, these shields were designed for electrical currents and whatever the Federation was currently using as hand guns. But that’s what a it was designed to do, not to stop a speeding bullet. See, metal can pass through the shields because the electric current flows through the lead.

Consider this, if a Borg is an organic life form, despite the technology, they’re alive. What happens when you shoot something in the head? It explodes into bits. Something we refer to as a ‘Kill Shot’. When shooting at close range, or any range, a Borg CAN NOT adapt quickly enough, or at all. Which asks the question; Why don’t they just use Tommy Guns instead of stupid phaser?

Or consider this, on a Borg Drone, there is a common design. Borg Transceiver that connects with the Collective to receive orders from the ‘Hive Mind’. Also, spatial acuity percentiles, or in common words, an advanced eye to perceive things like a single mind. But, there is one donning trait on every Borg. There are connecting tubules all over a drone that run nanites and technological fluids throughout it’s body. Though people aren’t that comfortable being close to Borg, but with a certain amount of gusto, you can kill one without a gun.

Knowing well enough that a knife can cause damage to anyone, a simple cut or severed artery, it is possible it could effect a Borg. Slicing a single tubule could disable one into disorientated stumbling and twitching around for a moment or so then dieing. Sab one in the throat, collapse the inner structure , violá, dead Borg. Yet the question is valid; Why don’t they just switch to ‘primitive’ weaponry?

Which also bears the question, What’s wrong with theses Federation people?

How would Starfleet kill a drone? Panic and run around screaming for the first act at the sight of a Cube. After calming down, they would postulate a theory about what to do. Q may appear, smile and wave at the Captain and watch the crew’s ignorance. Deciding to attack the drones, a team is assembled and phasers remodulated. In the end, a few people may be assimilated, a lesson learned, as well that ends well. right? No. It was the ignorance of the crew that caused the entire episode.

But the answer is clear. They have the replicators to re-create any sort of handgun or rifle. There is the obvious problem of having to reload, but a magazine clip preloaded would be an obvious answer. Though you would have to retrain your crew to not shoot each other, there is a slight disadvantage of flailing bullets. In short, Starfleet has ignored the idea of the that their ancestors created to assist them in time of need. Of course, the answer is of an opinion, Why didn’t Starfleet just replicate guns and knives to kill Borgs in close combat instead of their primitive phasers?

Description
The Borg, as we know, is a race of assimilating beings that are a menace to the Federation, and basically life as we know it. There have been many debates about how to destroy a drone, but no one seems to agree on an answer.

In The Next Generation, it is established that the Borg can adapt quickly to anything that attempts to attack it. Once you shoot them with one type of phaser, you need to change the frequency band to kill another. It’s that fast. But, what they don’t realize is that later on Voyager, the Borg has adapted to even that! Think about it, the Federation has known of them, and they us. Obviously we’ve tried to go drone hunting more than once, right?

Being that it is the 25th Century and life is dandy, they consider our own current type of weaponry primitive. A typical 357 has the range of 50 yards, which is basically a quarter of a mile. Now what’s the range of a type 3 phaser? Not very far. A phaser, or any type of weaponry the Federation would have is on the construction of electricity. When fired, it will shoot a high concentration of power, which is essentially electrocution.

Everything in fact is based on electricity. Shields of any type are of fluid metal and time electric coils. Whenever you see Riker or Janeway fire at a drone and that ‘square’ appears, or just a light zap, that’s your shield. The way it works is the little electrons in the metal are floating freely around in the body shield. Computer controlled, when it detects any sort of penetration, it tells the electrons to quickly ‘hold hands’. (Yes is this is actually possible today.)

Thus preventing the electrical shock through. Now, these shields were designed for electrical currents and whatever the Federation was currently using as hand guns. But that’s what a it was designed to do, not to stop a speeding bullet. See, metal can pass through the shields because the electric current flows through the lead.

Consider this, if a Borg is an organic life form, despite the technology, they’re alive. What happens when you shoot something in the head? It explodes into bits. Something we refer to as a ‘Kill Shot’. When shooting at close range, or any range, a Borg CAN NOT adapt quickly enough, or at all. Which asks the question; Why don’t they just use Tommy Guns instead of stupid phaser?

Or consider this, on a Borg Drone, there is a common design. Borg Transceiver that connects with the Collective to receive orders from the ‘Hive Mind’. Also, spatial acuity percentiles, or in common words, an advanced eye to perceive things like a single mind. But, there is one donning trait on every Borg. There are connecting tubules all over a drone that run nanites and technological fluids throughout it’s body. Though people aren’t that comfortable being close to Borg, but with a certain amount of gusto, you can kill one without a gun.

Knowing well enough that a knife can cause damage to anyone, a simple cut or severed artery, it is possible it could effect a Borg. Slicing a single tubule could disable one into disorientated stumbling and twitching around for a moment or so then dieing. Sab one in the throat, collapse the inner structure , violá, dead Borg. Yet the question is valid; Why don’t they just switch to ‘primitive’ weaponry?

Which also bears the question, What’s wrong with theses Federation people?

How would Starfleet kill a drone? Panic and run around screaming for the first act at the sight of a Cube. After calming down, they would postulate a theory about what to do. Q may appear, smile and wave at the Captain and watch the crew’s ignorance. Deciding to attack the drones, a team is assembled and phasers remodulated. In the end, a few people may be assimilated, a lesson learned, as well that ends well. right? No. It was the ignorance of the crew that caused the entire episode.

But the answer is clear. They have the replicators to re-create any sort of handgun or rifle. There is the obvious problem of having to reload, but a magazine clip preloaded would be an obvious answer. Though you would have to retrain your crew to not shoot each other, there is a slight disadvantage of flailing bullets. In short, Starfleet has ignored the idea of the that their ancestors created to assist them in time of need. Of course, the answer is of an opinion, Why didn’t Starfleet just replicate guns and knives to kill Borgs in close combat instead of their primitive phasers?