Star Trek: Rare Borg Ships | Extended Breakdown 

Great channel, love the content. The Fleet Command game however is not very good. If you enjoy the lawlessness of EVE ONLINE, you might enjoy this past lvl 5.

cant say this game is fun..completly pay-to-win,theres no balance in pvp what so ever. Dont play if u dont wanna be wrecked and raided by dudes wich spent +1k...+100k

You forgot the borg ship we see in the last season of Picard.

@@darma3944 I guess as much. Won't be playing.

@@dennishall3469 I tend to phrase it as "non-consensual PVP." And yeah, that's a good description of the game. Might have been interesting without the PVP. Alas.

Stuff like this is why they are one of my favorite species in Star Trek. Really fits the eldritch abomination feel they have. Like any time you escape them it’s either by the skin of your teeth or because they let you go.

The Intrepid isn't a top end warship, though. That'd be something like the Akira or Defiant.

The Intrepid class mainly a scout ship, relying on its engines instead of weapons to survive.

I figured that it was established Voyager had been highly modified and upgraded by that point of the show. Janeway has that line about their crazy big boomer weapons then they pull a Stargate and beam a nuke on board lol

My understanding is the Intrepid class was a ruggedized science and exploration vessel designed for areas that you wouldn't want to send your regular survey ships. Long range survey and exploration of hazardous regions of space (such as the Briar Patch). The ship was probably green lit because the demands of this role are very closely aligned with the demands of "forward fleet recon". It's not designed to slug it out with anything, but it is designed to be able to survive stumbling onto a dangerous spatial anomaly (such as a Romulan Warbird), and escaping (Intrepid is very fast). Federation leadership sees a ship finally able to answer questions about known navigation hazards. Starfleet planning nods and asks if they can have more Prometheus class, gets rejected, and frowns with sad face. Competing powers ask why the science and exploration frigate has quantum torpedoes. Civilian leadership soothes, stating that those are multi-role launchers and could launch anything, like probes! Romulans, anything? Starfleet nods and smiles to the Romulans, anything the scientists of the UFP might come up with, but really it's the scanners that do all the work for...science. And thus wars are deterred and science gets done.

They added a bit too many genetically prone to extreme alcoholism to the collective... ( ...the more i think about inebriated borgs the funnier it gets (

Fusion cube was awesome :)

A Borg Pyramid? They must have assimilated some Goa'uld.

I believe you're correct. Its also used places like Star Trek: Conquest the old strategy game for the Collective itself.

@@InvictusByz the Armada games as well.

You can also see it used in STO for various Borg factions.

@@Corbomite_Meatballs Forgot about STO, that's probably the strongest example so far, outside the shows. The run WILD with older material, but they're definitely incredibly familiar with it.

Rewatched that episode a few days ago, I was quite surprised to see the symbol there. I was actually under the impression that it was established in Descent, but they had it back then.

A new generation of Borg ship designs created by AI image generators? Yes please!

Or not much of a specific shape at all... Basically a blob of systems and modules.

Not just any geometric shape, though. Spheres are excellent because they are the single most efficient shape for a ratio of surface area to volume. Cubes are also good for maximizing useful volume (spheres are technically more efficient, but obviously give up a great deal of volume to curved rooms that wouldn't likely be useful). Probably the single ideal shape would be a stepped quasi-spherical shape (think the Stepped Pyramid as compared to the regular ones). Keep the shape as close to a sphere as possible, except each deck should be kept intact without a curved wall. So basically the sort of sphere you'd build in Minecraft.

@@reliantncc1864 Thought hexagons were the most efficient.

@@logicplague Hexagons aren't even 3-dimensional. They have a volume of zero. A solid with a hexagon-shaped cross section would be great for stacking, but not so great for spaceships.

Except if you Species 8472. Then no. Perish.

​@@doom7ishoh yeah the species that they for whatever reason can't assimilate

I'm sure the Borg would have figured out how to do that eventually.

@@thestanleys3657 eventually; eventually there would be no Borg left to assimilate shit! Species 8472 was about to wipe them and all the galaxy out of existence! You follow Star Trek?

The Line Must Be Drawn Here!!!!! Captain Picard!

they did Star Trek: Borg Cube | Extended Breakdown 198,573 views Aug 24, 2021 Spacedock delves into a detailed breakdown of the intimidating Borg Cube and it's counterpart the Tactical Cube

One point of note, the Doctor in this case was a fully trained and rated Command Officer.

@@3Rayfire Still, the captain's place is on the bridge, not leading away missions I get why they did it, plot, but still. Also, what if the doctor is needed in sickbay for a major emergency?

LOVED the first Armada game!

I literally posted this just now... before I noticed your post. :P *deletes post* My headcanon is that Hugh and the other drones were on a suicide mission against the assimilation-resistant Federation in the type 03/mine. Fortunately luck and treating others with humanity (letting Hugh go to spread his individuality) might have unwittingly saved the alpha quadrant.

@UCE5-3GEYM7TTD_8eLWW99tw lmao thats actually a funny take

The Type-03 also appears in star trek online and is in star trek armada 2 as the assimilator

That's a big effing mine. In reality they just reused a computer model thinking no one would notice. Or maybe an easter egg, who knows.

Easter egg, definitely, but in-story the thing *was* designed to spread nanoprobes across *light years*. ;)

It was only encountered in TNG though, being shown on a viewscreen is NOT an encounter. Nor is it the same as "seeing" the vessel outside of the TNG Encounter.

i always considered that to be just crappy writing or laziness ( or even a budgetary necessity ) on the part of that episodes writers.

Now we need a full video break down of this small vessel, lets goo

Wasn't it a probe like the one mentioned? Crew compliment lines up.

@@logicplague It does, but I think it was a different ship. I don't have time to watch the entire episode now, but judging by the shots, it looks like it was actually a cube with a width of about 5-10 meters.

I was going to mention this 🙂 I remember they said it was the Borg equivalent of a shuttle.

While they were fun just to mess around with, I hated trying to get them to actually fuse or move in a fleet. I'm pretty sure they were right around the vertical height cap for the maps and most of the time they would get stuck trying to move up or down

@@codec862 Yeah, I mostly used them in custom maps against the AI.

The Tactical Cube was covered in the previous Cube breakdown. - hoojiwana from Spacedock

@@hoojiwana Ah, ty!

@@hoojiwana still, it's part of the topic of the video, and no mention of it. It should have been there.

I'm just glad they didn't bother including the space vagina from Picard that once again looks like someone is trying to rip off the Shadows of Babylon 5.

@@darwinxavier3516 God, that show is an abomination.

Yeah the Borg diamond is absolutely overpowered

I like it design wise, but I hate it's role. The idea of a borg queen never really sat right with me, much less the need for specialized transport to move her from place to place. I'd rather the design have been for something like that borg probe, to be honest.

@@kevingriffith6011 I mostly agree with you

I agree.

They could have used diced for inspiration if they wanted to stick to hard geometry shapes. The D20 or D8 would make a decent looking ship. The Narn space station in B5 sort of looks like a D8.

@@readhistory2023 They already did the d8. I point you to the diamond.

I can see repurposing them in a pinch, like on Enterprise, but it makes more sense to dissect them later for raw materials and useful tech. Especially given their original nature pre-Queen. That would have been cool though to see that first cube pull up to Earth with half of the Wolf 359 fleet assimilated.

@@logicplague That would have been cool. Like have parts used to shore up holes in the exterior structure that gradually get dissolved and replaced by the Borg plating. Like the crew that get absorbed into the Flying Dutchman in the 2nd and 3rd PotC movies.

That's why the Type 03 is that number, first was the cube, then the scout ship. - hoojiwana from Spacedock

Star Trek Shipyards - The Borg and Delta Quadrant - hoojiwana from Spacedock

So a box

Afaik they only exist in games like Armada.

It's all bullshit , nothing I didn't know from watching the show, even less from spacedock channel!!!! Cringe 😬

The Tactical Cube was covered in the previous Cube breakdown video. - hoojiwana from Spacedock