Trek Wars : How to win the battle of Wolf 359 

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Slam a romulan warbird into the cube and let the singularity drive do its job. Check mate.

If everyone gets assimilated then technically, they're on the winning side.

Your plan could work, but it would never be implemented. Wolf 359 was the "hubris moment" for the UFP. They had managed to essentially subdue and ally with the Klingons, force peace with the Cardassians and hem in the Romulans. The pre-359 UFP had essentially defeated all comers, economically, politically and/or militarily and had no reason to expect that this new threat would be any different. I have little doubt that virtually everyone at Wolf 359 thought the battle was a foregone conclusion. Sure, they'd lose some ships and take losses, but victory was inevitable in their mind. I mean, what single force could resist 40 FEDERATION STARSHIPS and (maybe) some Klingon allies? That the battle would end with an undamaged cube and all but one (?) of those ships utterly destroyed was inconceivable to the UFP leadership. Of course, that is just my opinion and great work on the video!

I love the idea of using an Oberth and Connie as fire ships with the phase cloaks. Hell, Oberth's explode randomly anyways, MIGHT AS WELL, RIGHT?!

Fusion power is used because it lasts almost FOREVER. A couple of tons of fuel and the fusion reactors will produce more than enough power for the station to last millennia. Stations do not need the huge punch of a Matter Annihilation Reactor (no warp drive) and can do just fine with a synthetic star at its heart.

With evidence seen throughout Star Trek, I'm 99.9% sure there exists a parallel universe where Admiral Janeway went back in time to change the outcome of Wolf 359.

I feel the battle of wolf 359 was a needed wake up call for the federation. The federation was getting comfortable and allowing families to live on starships compared to the days of kirk(TOS). I watched a review about how the federation was getting comfortable as in no new threats and it made alot sense.

The botg started off being seriously strong in TNG, becoming laughably weak by Voyager onwards. Borg got hit by the nerf hammer hard.

Small problem with your plan. The Borg are indeed aware of the Klingons, Locutus wakes up in sickbay in Best of Both Worlds Part II and says "Worf, Klingon Species, you too will be assimilated." While their knowledge may only come from Picard, Picard is quite aware of Klingon cloaking devices and disruptor pattern weapons, also the Borg had already attacked and presumably assimilated Romulan outposts in the Neutral Zone and might have gained additional knowledge on both disruptors, cloaking devices and the Klingons generally from this source.

I would have used mothballed ships as battering rams on remote control set to explode as soon as they hit the cube

Weren’t Quantum Torpedoes created after Wolf 359? I don’t think it would be likely they’d have any prototype last either since peace was on the minds of Starfleet not war

4 Borg drones disliked this counter-attack strategy.

I find the Borg to be the most intimidating and actually scary villians in Star Trek. They represent our relationship with technology taken to the Nth degree, which is what makes them scary.

It always the next cube you have to worry about. The one who is now aware of the last clever trick you pulled to defeat the last one. The Borg don't care too much about an individual cube. The next one will do the trick. Or the one after that.

One problem with the retreating picket lines. The Borg Cube is faster.

Quantum torpedoes are not yet available at the time, Commander Shelby said the new weapons (QTs) were projected to be available in 24 months from, when Geordi said he didn't believe they could be ready in less than 18 months.

The evacuation of civilians in such a short amount of time is simply infeasible on this sort of scale and would be a waste of precious assets. The teleportation strategy seems like the way to and i am certain that there are more powerful things the feds could employ using that technique especially if they coordinated with the klingons i am sure you would find more then a few of them willing to be beamed aboard with explosives strapped to them so they would spread around causing havoc and looking for places to set some of those explosive or just go full on "its a good day to die"

So Picard/Locutus analyses your ship movements and deduces that it would be advantageous to draw your forces into battle and destroy them before they are ready. In order to do so he diverts to Drylax, Alpha Centauri and Babel (just looking at your map) and exterminates/assimilates everything there. The Feds, being good guys and desperate to avoid mass civilian casualties are forced into a fleet action at one of those places and are annihilated.

"If it bleeds, we can kill it!"

Quantem torpedoes we're not developed at the time and the phase cloak tech was lost with the Pegasus.

Fusion vs. Antimatter: well, Fusion turns easily available Hydrogen into energy. Antimatter has to be made, that takes at least as much energy as you get out of it. The former is a source of energy, the latter a way of storage. Now one could assume that the reactors of the station are used to make antimatter to replenish a ships stockpile faster then its own fusion reactors could. There might actually be a superweapon in the rough in there...

As far as I know, quantum torpedoes were not yet developed by this time

I would love to see the Genesis Device used against the Borg.

Phase cloak was OP to the max! So glad it was not forgotten!

Nice plan, but there wasn't time for anything so elaborate, even if it would have worked - which, as the massacre at Wolf 359 illustrated, it would not have. That's not to say the Borg were "untouchable" - Admiral Janeway's transphasic torpedos proved spectacularly otherwise - but they were impervious to anything Starfleet could throw at them in 2367.

I just don’t see how you could evacuate Earth that quickly. Other population centers in the solar system perhaps, but not the homeworld. Its population was already nine billion in “Terra Prime,” and since then it’s become the capital of a federation of dozens of Class II civilizations. The UFP’s post-scarcity economy imposes none of the upper bounds on its population size that we’re used to thinking about today, it should be well on its way to turning into Trantor. (A quick Internet search did not give me the Earth’s population in the Trek universe, but I can’t conceive of a scenario in which it would not number in the tens of billions.) As long as Earth is there, the Borg will not be interested in the space dock. Ten billion potential drones present a far more attractive target. And that’s going to put a tremendous strain on Starfleet discipline. Most officers have loved ones down there, and history is full of battles large and small where combatants who’d been in an advantageous position disobeyed orders and broke ranks because their families were threatened. There’s no reason to assume that Hanson even knew about the transphasic cloaking device, let alone had one on hand. That line of research was abandoned after the _Pegasus_ was lost. Continuing to tinker with it when it did not offer a likely avenue to success was way too risky, considering the catastrophic consequences that would result from Tal Shiar agents learning about it. The Borg referred to Klingons as Species 5008; to humans as Species 5618. We’ve seen assimilated Klingons, so the Borg did not pass them over as they did with the Kazon. That means they’ve known quite a lot about Klingons since long before they assimilated the _Raven._ It’s possible that the first Klingons they assimilated did not yet have cloaking technology, but Picard knew they had it by the time of BoBW. Hell, it was general knowledge in the Alpha Quadrant, so the Borg would have known about it since they got the _Raven_ at the very latest. And since they assimilated at least one Romulan colony offscreen in “The Neutral Zone,” they presumably know quite a lot about cloaking technology. I wouldn’t count on your cloaked Klingon fleet catching them completely by surprise. Beaming armed torpedoes on board is how Archer defeated the Borg in “Regeneration.” This cube is heading to Earth in response to a hail from the ship that Archer destroyed. I don’t know whether that means the Borg will know about that tactic, or whether they’d be able to defend against it if they did. It could well work, but it has been tried before, against the same notoriously adaptable enemy.

That scenario is Sisko level brutal and I love it. I subscribed today and am currently binge watching all your videos and love your work.

I used to imagine similar scenarios when I was a kid playing with my micro machine Star Trek ships.

Nice! Also on the 'in formation' bit, remmeber how close the Starfleet vessels were to one another - when the Borg would grabone with a tractor beam it would literally almost be slammed into another. I'd keep them at least several dozen to hundred kilometers apart while doing strafing runs - you shouldn't have your craft at risk of collission with one another.

Use the oberths as cruise missiles or a suicide run..... Ramming speed!

Klingon's and Interphasic Cloak i'm sold on the plan right there! Spacedock used as a distraction almost or at least a last gasp chance at victory if all else fails! Good plan and most importantly a desperate plan!

If the Borg hadn't established shield use at this point, you don't need to worry about hammering a hole in the side to get torpedos in - just pull as many spare Anti-Matter canisters each ship carries, set the magnetic fields to collapse after, say, fifteen seconds, then beam them aboard. As seen in other episodes, if you're not seen or acting as a threat aboard a Borg ship they don't react to you. It would take time for them to analyse what had just come aboard, if the even bothered to, which should give you time to start escaping away before things hopefully make a big boom. If you're comcerned that they would have time to analyse and remove the cannisters, then beam them abouard before beaming *just* the cannisters back, leaving the Anti-Matter behind...

The Klingons use disruptors and plasma torps that are similar to, slightly more or less advanced than, Romulans (their photon torps are worse than Federations ones...)....Romulans (a few colonies, maybe even ships and crews) had been assimilated by the Borg previously...that negates the Klingons right there, both in weapons AND cloaking...it may outright spell trap for Locutus... Locutus may not notice the main trap (even the captain of the Flag wouldn't have access to ALL the secret info o Starfleet), but certain patterns he could and would end up noticing. Like when he noticed Riker was trying to trap him. I didn't see you adding that particular argument here. The reason Wolf 359 was so fucked up WAS the result of Locutus being there. Without him, the assimilation process would've been less... efficient... No, Quantum torps were NOT fully developed at the time (but if they were enough so, they'd still be in testing phase with little to no ships capable of using them in large numbers or even adapted to them). They WERE in development for the future engagement with the Borg, with Starfleet and the Federation thought it would be years away still...If I remember correctly one of the first ships with the modifications to actually launch the Q torps was the Defiant (that at this point wasn't even off the designer's datapad...). There are other points I think are too simplistic to work/the Borg ARENT (at least not before the BS in Voyager) that stupid to fall for. But. hey, who knows...I like to conjecture, but were flying in some heavy fanfiction here. The Borg were meant to be the bogeyman of the universe, but someone in the control of things though they would be too hard to write for and things got the way they ended up.

You just gave the borg earth.Your forces are too thin and you are fighting in your front yard.

that would be a sic plan to watch play out!! can you imagine those ships phasing into the cube then Boom! that would have been an epic battle to watch...i love it!😂

I would definitely call myself a Borg fan boy, but sill you present a good argument and battle plan here.

I actually would like to hear a follow-up peace to this. How does this shift in the timeline effect the Federation and the timeline leading up to DS9? Phase Cloak usage in the Dominion War?

The only major flaw which I see is the assessment that the Federation ships would attack swarm style. This strategy was developed after the abysmal loss of Wolf-359, thus without anticipating this, they would use typical Federation tactics of sending waves of ships at the enemy, then getting them to fall back, then sending the next wave. Against the Borg, all it does is allow them to adapt to any and all technology star fleet has, whilst taking minimal damage.

Excellent strategy! Very clever!

Once we had episodes on the phasic shields and Borg (what came first?) I always thought that having photon torpedo's with phasic shields would be perfect to take out the Borg. Best of all the Borg wouldn't be able to adapt because they'd not know how they were destroyed (hopefully).

Self-destructing fleet of Oberths is the answer!

I think you already called it when you said you might be overestimating the gullibility of the Borg. Remember they had Picard everything that was Picard was part of the Borg. I doubt they could be fooled so easily. The Klingon idea is brilliant though. I don't think Picard would see that coming, and you're right during Enterprise's first encounter with a Borg cube they took huge chunks out of it before the Borg could adapt. That is a brilliant strategy as the Borg wouldn't have ever seen Klingon technology.

even though my lore levels are low i want you to know your videos are fire!

One of two tactics for this encounter for the easy win.first automated fleet of old starships ready for the scrap yard to approach and engage to the cube.Programmed for all ships to get as close as possible in a formation and let go with simultaneous warp core breeches. Second option use a ship that should be unknown to the Borg to approach and beam aboard.Do so with sealed antimatter containment case cut the power and boom no more cube.

As we all know from Birth of the Federation, the only defense against a borg cube is a horde of cloaked ships. I wish they would make a sequal to that...

Have that Oberth ram the cube at warp speed. Done and done.

I dont know why starfleet dint just mass produce oberth class ships and swarm borg cubes with thousands of these formidable warships

Really enjoyed this video and the ideas behind your thinking. I think I would have included the arrival of a Romulan fleet as well though. As Admiral Hanson did mention that they were thinking of opening up channels with the Romulans.

My main thoughts is two things: 1) How would you fool Borg Sensors from scanning the ship? If they detect nothing different about the Starbase, then they should suspect a trap. Personally, I would actually adding something to Starbase like new phaser arrays or even an actually Gensis torpedo to get them to come. 2) Do you think any plan you make would work? For what made the Brog dangerous in the Best of Both Worlds is the fact Picard had intiment knolwdge of not only Starfleet technology, but more importantly favorite tactics of many of its officers. He knew many of the admirals personally if not all of them, and was fimilar with most of the captains and he himself would be a pretty good tactician. So how would you ensure he would not see a trap in order to fool the borg. I don't think any plan would work as long as Picard was still assimilated. For if he is not a drone watching the battle, then the Borg would be less likely to know having to sort through the information they have.

You could also use the Oberth Class for something else it would probably succeed at. Pack the Oberth with as much mass as possible and turn them into RKKVs (Relativistic Kinetic Kill Vehicle). The extra mass could be easily harvested from asteroids, comets, scrapyards. Fill every livable section of the ship. The more mass the more kinetic energy the thing will have at light speed. If the cube somehow survives the first, have a second and third waiting to finish it off.

We are the borg, resistence is.. " We are the federation and we got plot armor.

Excellent tactical plan, NICE use of the Phasecloak! I hadn't thought of that one yet. Huh... Come to think of it, now I find myself wondering of Torpedoes or indeed mines could be retrofitted to use that particular technology... Doesn't even need to carry an explosive charge, just some antimatter containers; let the mass of the target serve as catalyst.

Warp ram the Supremacy, oops wrong franchise.

I'm not sure I understand the point of this scenario. If I understood it correctly, instead of losing an entire fleet of 30-40 old Federation starships at Wolf 359, you're proposing that we sacrifice Spacedock, Picard, and (an indeterminate number of) Klingon and Federation ships. Your plan seems like it would be more costly. You're still losing a good number of ships and personnel but Spacedock would take far longer to replace than say building modern era (smaller, stronger) ships to replace the large clunky ships destroyed at Wolf 359. Not to mention, you're opening up a can of worms by not saving Picard. His participation was crucial for stopping the 2nd Borg invasion attempt. From the way I saw it, Wolf 359 was a bargain. For the defeat of the Borg Cube, starfleet lost a small fleet of old ships and those Jupiter planetary defense crafts. What they gained was a more modern fleet to replace the ships that were lost plus what was learned about the Borg by capturing and probing Locutus. This reminds me of Annorax and his time ship trying to change history thinking he could do better.

How to win the battle of Wolf 359: have Janeway bring this week’s plot device.

DUde this is SO COOL!!! i wish they had done this in canon. im subbing. keep up the awesomeness

1 ship...even an Oberth....close range.....High warp. Only real way to win. Starfleet ships were far too weak to be effective given the number of ships they could muster to the area. Spacedock has no weapons and doesnt need a warp drive so no warp core. Fusion reactors dont really explode, they are very safe methods of power generation. Riker was going to try this before they figure out the shutdown.

sounds like a good plan to me -i would also add some tricobolt devices if they where at hand and also i would suggest that the 3rd picket line use antimatter sprays like they did in the show to have shuttles fly through the subspace field and use the emergency transporters to dump as big an antimatter bomb as can be managed

New here, thanks for get me into the lore and Star Trek again :)

I am one of those people that believe the Borg are untouchable simply from what is seen. I also believe the Klingons wouldn't arrive in time assist the Federation. Next it would take forever to evacuate Earth, the moon and Mars. I mean look how long it took evacuate New Orleans during hurricane Katrina. However I do like the idea of using the Genesis device as a weapon of mass destruction. However we have no idea how long it takes to build a Genesis device. If a Genesis device could be built in a reasonable amount of time the second problem with the Genesis device is that it needs to prime. And while priming it releases a huge amount of energy the Borg would detect and avoid. The Borg are a tough match since only species 8472 has been able to manhandle the collective. Anything else is almost wishful thinking.

I would pull a star trek online and launch a warp core at the borg cube.

You're missing a vital component: The Borg have NEVER adapted to hand-to-hand combat. Victory is simple. Boarding actions with bayonets fixed.

This seems like an interesting time to take all you know about the Borg and feed it into the 'purchased' Echo Papa 607 weapons system and command it to defend against the Borg. You like to adapt? We got just the right weapon for you... hold my beer.

It’s not a bad plan but hindsight is 20 20 you know things they didn’t

Quantum torpedoes were not yet developed at Wolf 359. They were developed at the same time as the Defiant. Best way to win it with no loss of life, would be an old navy tactic. FIRE SHIPS. get a fleet of old starships, pack them full of explosives and have them simultaneously warp into the cube. Riker was about to do it with the Enterprise at the end of Best of both worlds pt 2. The force of one warping ship hitting the Borg cube alone would be enough to cripple it. Let alone several, and packed with explosives. The battle would have been over before it started and they would celebrate with a huge piss up in Space dock.

That's a great strategy. Would love to have seen that one played out.

Brilliant!

While the Federation is militaristic in it's organization they are not a war fleet. Their ships are designed with science and diplomacy, and it's logical to think that federation leadership lacks the warrior mentality and military tactics necicary to beat the borg. That's why they lost at wolf-359, not because the fleet wasn't powerful enough to destroy the cube, but because their combat tactics where primitive, and all pretty easily countered. Especially when someone who knows each and every one of those tactics are assimilated. My point is, if the federation where run like a military, they have the technology and weapons to defeat the borg. Just not the mindset or the tactics. There are a number of ways Wolf-359 could have been a victory. Like the "Combat Cone" formation used in the Lensman books, or focus fire tactics.

When a ship goes to Warp, it does not really "dematerialize", does it? It's still a physical thing, just encapsulated within a spacetime bubble. So have a ship, any ship, set on an autopilot Warpspeed collision course with the Borg Cube. That way, it essentially becomes an RKKV, a Relativistic Kinetic Kill Vehicle. Don't even bother calculating how much kinetic energy it'll have, because as objects with mass approach lightspeed, their kinetic energy already tends towards infinity (something as small as a paperclip going at .9999% the speed of light, on impact, will release the same energy as 67 Hiroshima bombs), so even at Warp 1, your ship has already broken the scale. On impact, within milliseconds, it'll blast the individual _atoms_ that make up the Borg Cube apart into their elemental particles, creating a ball of superheated plasma that is so bright the human eye couldn't even register it even if it weren't so brief that it wouldn't be able to see it in the first place (so basically, if you were looking at the Cube when the ship impacted, one moment it'd be there, the next you'd be blind and you'd never know what happened). Also it would disintegrate the crust of any terrestrial planet in close proximity, so perhaps do this while the cube is outside of a solar system. There's a lot of fun things you can do with FTL. A lof of sciencefiction authors tend to forget that...

The one thing I would add would be to use the previous-generation ships primarily as warp-speed impactors. Their weapons probably won't be powerful enough to be effective, but mass times velocity squared is still your friend if you can pin the cube down enough to keep them from ducking. The borg subspace shielding is effective because they don't waste power blocking things you're not throwing at them, so hitting them with a kinetic impactor that will decompose into energy across the entire available spectrum is likely to reduce that advantage significantly.

1 re-align and retune every subspace array in the sector 2 heavily disrupt subspace communications around the cube as it enters the wolf 359 system. 3 intensify & randomise subspace interference in the system to disrupt the cubes sensors. 4 continue escalation to heavily desrupt subspace in the region, making it impossible to form a stable warp bubble within the wolf 359 system 5 continue to amplify subspace oscillations in the system to the point that the wolf 359 star destabilises. 6 beam over to the USS Winchester, have a nice cold pint and wait for the whole thing to blow over.

Never got why only one cube is sent. Send 2000 cubes.

I like it! It's probably unfilmable outside of a feature length budget, but I would love to see that!

I’ve always thought an auto piloted ship could just suicide at warp into the cube and it would solve the problem. A warp core explosion and the momentum of a ship at warp should be more than sufficient to destroy a cube.

Nice job! I really like that one. It makes sense ;)

I actually love this. Inventive AF.

Even if the phase technology wasn't used you could just kamikaze those Oberth and Constitution class filled to the absolute brim with quantum and photon torpedoes. Now they're useful!

I appreciate your tactics. Very thoughtful. I'm not sure if you realized this but you thought like a borg several times. Except in the "real" situation you would be stressed out and wouldn't have time to plan such a well thought out plan. Also, you're making a plan based off everything you know about the borg but in reality you would only know as much as Enterprise did up to that episode. It's still great though!

This may have been stated somewhere below, but there is some evidence that the Borg had encountered at least some Klingon tech well before Wolf 359. Two pieces of that evidence were 1) The Klingon's "low" Borg species designation number and 2) In the Voy Episode "Scorpion" where 7 has flash backs of assimilating a D7/K'Tinga.

I'm reminded of tricobalt warheads, which create tears in subspace. *If* the Federation was already using this kind of weaponry it seems it would make for an effective defense against a Borg cube prior to adaptation. Punch enough of a hole in their defenses, then launch a salvo of tricobalt torpedoes. Pieces of the cube will literally be removed from regular space, effectively eating the ship from the inside out. The regular damage from the explosion itself is just a bonus.

I'd get the Oberths, Mirandas and Connies and use them as remote control kamikaze craft to ram the the cube at warp 8 or warp 9 with their warp core set to explode as soon as impact is made. It exploits the Borg weakness to kinetic impacts and stops the Borg adapting to the Federation and Klingon weapons

Dragging out the battle with delaying actions only gives more opportunity for the Borg to adapt prior to meeting the main force. Applying maximum firepower with all available ships in one location all at once is a better plan. Choosing a spot near a space station is a good idea if you can use the station defenses to add to the available fleet firepower. Choosing a spot near an inhabited planet however is not such a great idea since this provides the Borg with an opportunity to turn the fight into a protracted ground war simply by transporting a small team down and assimilating the locals for reinforcements.

I'll add my two cents regarding this. some of it has merit such as the borg not being adapted to klingon weapons aspect. but if the borg ship is making a beeline for earth knowing that it is practically inviulnerable to the federations weapons at that time thanks to its encounters with the enterprise and picards knowledge etc, they wouldnt even bother stopping to destroy the picket lines you set up. they would just carry on at warp speed through them. robbing you of the time you need. The enterprise wasn't able to go to warp for a considerable while after doing the deflector beam attack on the borg ship hence why it missed the battle at wolf 359, i beleive it would still be trying to catch up by the time the borg made it to earth the stardock class base is HUGE, it would take days to evacuate a station that size even of just the civillians, never mind ALL perssonel same with earth, mars and luna. the same size factor makes moving the starbase out of earth orbit practically impossible. even with 40+ ships worth of tractor beams (minus the ones in your picket lines) additionally almost no evacuation ever goes off without problems/panic/chaos. if you're evacuating three planetswith populations in the billions and starbase that could in in the region of 50,000 people where are you putting everyone? your ships would need to carry them somewhere. Regarding the part about the phase cloak - you really think they'd have the time to set something like that up. you'd have to find 2 phase cloaks (most likely prototypes as the technology is unproven) from somewhere, get the ships into the space dock (that you''re in the middle of evacuating) in order to fit them which will take time that you aren't likely to have.

I think I'd make sure the ships had skeleton Crews on them if they were damaged Beyond repair evacuate but make sure you log in the cube ramming target into the computer before evacuating the ships and remove any safetys from the worp cores if they are going down they might as well do some damage before going down.

I would say aside from just filling them (constitution and oberthas) with torpedoes may as well have the self destruct go off to that's a pretty big bang to be added in.

Warp one ship, loaded with 400 armed torpedoes, directly into the exit hole of the borg cube

A lot of people hated it, but I found myself really liking the episode of Enterprise that featured The Borg. It was a *great* use of movie canon to play around with the Enterprise Series. It was also a good way to introduce The Borg into the series without completely rewriting TOS, TNG, and Voyager canon.

Ram a small ship with a Genesis bomb on board (because you just KNOW section 31 built some new Genesis weapons) and turn the Borg cube into a giant ball of unstable ice or maybe a goldfish. Assimilate that.

One drawback Admiral Hansen had no knowledge of the phased cloaking technology.

Awesome video. Only problem i see is how to get a Klingon fleet o earth in time? Qo’noS is over 90 light years away which would take months at warp 8

These scenarios rock lol takes me back to child hood fantasies

I have countless problems with your plan, not the least of which being that it invites the borg to earth and relies on them being idiots, but the most glaring one is that fusion reactors don't simply explode. When they lose stability they just switch off and cool down.

How about ; 1) Nanites 2) Von Numan machines that will eat the borg's outer hull until they are at risk of assimilation - then they blow up. If they are slightly out of phase they'd be able to eat or convert the matter to energy but not be assimilated immediately. 3) Use the Federation's ships deflectors to generate a subspace field that is counter varient to the Borgs so their shield stop working. 4) Use the same technique but use the technique make one part super light and other parts super dense so the borg cube tears itself to pieces. 5) Same technique to make a hole in the shield you then dump a whole cargo bay full of cloaked mines inside and run like hell 6) You surround the ship with ships that all hold the borg in place with tractor beams - they then send con-variance signals down the tractor beam to try to scramble their internal power nodes and communications - moments later you drop the beams and everyone warps away mean while a robotically controlled junker Ambasaddor class or old coloony ship warps in and smacks into them while their systems are disrupted while still at warp. 7) You project a subspace field using as many ships as it takes around the Borg that is equal to or greater than their own normal field swamping it - and effecting their shielding or their ability to go to warp - you then give it a nudge with Tractorbeams and push it as fast as you can so it smashes into the moon. 8) You use the starbase as bait but you use it somewhere else either another base in a less important location or you move the base to the sun - you then (hope the borg don't have Hyper advanced shielding) and use tractor beams and magnetic fields contained in large supspace bubbles projected from the ships deflectors to magnetically attach the sun chronosphere to the cube and start a pull that draws plasma off the sun (perhaps by delatching one of the coronal loops) so that a loop of plasma big enough to eat the earth hits the borg cube if you are lucky a suitable loop will be near detaching as choronal mass ejection and will only need a little nudge. The base would get blown up too and likely be used as the means to keep the Cube immobile in some way.. It's quite tricky to think of things that are usable with earlier 26th Century tech though. I don't think they'd be able to replicate the whale probe signal for example. Or V'Ger's Matter disassembler beam. But the temple of Apollo weapons might be something that could be replicated eventually. There is a lot of weapons, tractor beams and the like that were used against the NCC-1701 - at least some of which would work. Failing that they could go get the Doomsday device's dead hull and tow it to the vicinity and just shove it tail first into the Borg ship like a giant Neutronium shiv.

If I was designing an anti-Borg weapon, I think I would do something like this... Wesley's warp bubble experiment later in the series suggests that the UFP had been working with warp bubbles before. I would use one to pinch off (but maintain compression) of about 1 cubic cm of neutron star material. The warp bubble would lack any great mass. You move the closed aperture to where the Borg are, and drop it on the cube. Look up the detonation force. This would utterly dwarf an RKKV weapon in most cases.

its said that it was possible for weapons to be installed on spacedock in emergancies such as this Wofl 359 battle once installed Spacedock would be armed with weapons and begin launching a coorodinated attack on the Borg cube along with an allied defensive fleet here at Sector 001 against the cube.

Pausing at 1:48 - the Borg are much faster than any other ship in the Alpha quadrant. The Enterprise barely kept up with them, and the only reason they didn't just speed away was because Locutus told them not to.

The flaw in this is the engagement close to Earth and the possibility for the Cube to simply crash into the planet or the oppertunity to deploy troops. Ideally, all Federation hands on deck call to battle would be needed. Given the multitude of various weapon systems deployed against the Cube, they could not adapt fast enough. Additionally, several old unmanned ships could have been loaded with various explosive capabilities to impact or explode in proximity to the Cube. Of course, if the transphasic torpedos were used say on the Akira Class cruisers it might have been effective as well.

If the battle became truly desperate then they could just ask the ship captains for volunteers for a warp speed ram into the cube. Depending on exactly how warp drive worked it would either slam the ship into the cube at relativistic speeds and annihilate both ships, or warp the structure of the cube as it passes the warp bubble making it more likely for the ship to plow into the middle of the cube and detonate the warp core when containment is breached... nothing like a good old fashioned anti-matter explosion in a confined area to totally wreck your day.

Also I should mention that Earth Space Dock is abosloutley massive and cant be flung at the borg. I mean even starfleets biggest ships arent even close to its size, space dock would be over 2x as large as the cube and took 30 years to build