the differences in crew compliment could be due to the age of the ships. a newer borg cube has less drones so it has room to add new species and ship crews via assimilation.

At Wolf 359, the Borg used Picard's knowledge of Starfleet Tactics and Technology to deadly effect, and a lot of those ships were refit designs from Kirk's Golden Years!!!

No love for the Borg Arctic One from Enterprise? Sure it didn't last long, but it made an impact showing how any ship could slowly be transformed into a Borg vessel.

@barrybend7189

3 ай бұрын

It wasn't being Cubed but turned into the Borg Probe ship.

I have one of those books that detail the ships of Star Trek and the commentary on the Tactical Cube was great. They were discussing what the Borg heavy combat ship should be before settling with the "Borg Cube with a flak jacket" look, where there said it simultaneously tells you nothing about the ship, while telling everything about it.

I like to think that the Borg have a reserve fleet somewhere, stacked upon one another like Lego.

The *Borg Diamond* was part of a Task Force Operation on *Star Trek Online,* and its one tough bugger to take down!!

In the official Star Trek book Vendetta by Peter David had 5 Borg cubs attacking the Federation, and a Planet Killer takes them on. WELL worth a read!

You know its a Star Trek video when someone talks about the Future in the past tense.

Beware the fearsome and deadly Borg Rhombus

my Star Trek Adventures character knows the Borg personally, he was at Wolf 359. he was also onvoard the Lakota, during the martial law incident, but that was scrubbed from my record. i tranferred to the ship, then told it never happened.

I hope will see Jurati's Collective again in the future, I was disappointed that Jurati and her Collective was never mentioned in Season 3 of Picard.

@LoneTiger

6 ай бұрын

That kind of annoyed me a little in Picard S3, they had a Borg "ally" to call upon, I think it would have been the ultimate irony, for a Jurati-Borg fleet of cubes to arrive to Earth, and help defend it against the controlled 1st fleet

@DeaconBlu

6 ай бұрын

Agreed 100%. This is what I expected, tbh. I’m ok with how it went…to be sure, but it would have been a great twist & great continuity to have the above happen. 😎👍@@LoneTiger

@farshnuke

5 ай бұрын

@@LoneTiger Well they do need to establish a new big bad if the borg are gone or allies so having Jurati show up later to reveal her good borg fleet is all but gone thanks to the new big bad that she was holding off while Picard and co were dealing with the bad Borg would make sense

@LoneTiger

5 ай бұрын

@@farshnuke In space, just like the ocean, the same rules apply: 1. There's always a bigger fish. 2. Once you step in the ocean, you are part of the food chain. And don't forget the "kill all organics" specie at the end of S1 living outside the galaxy, somewhere. Though, if ST needs a quick evil guy, just bring up Armus. 😹

@farshnuke

5 ай бұрын

@@LoneTiger There's still that Ferengi that wants revenge on Picard right? What if he gave Armus a starship?

The Collective must grow.

I think the Borg were severely overused in Voyager, diminishing their threat and the level of fear to be associated with the Collective. Damn shame too.

Imagine the Borg slowly but inexorably assimilating the Dyson sphere.

You missed a ship. The Borg scout ship from TNG I Borg. Apparently it was a smaller ship. A lot of people think it was just wreckage from a cube and don't include this as a separate ship but I would look into it and determine if it is a separate ship.

@GrandmasterDevo

6 ай бұрын

Not really worth including since we never see it whole and intact, just in pieces after its crash. The Enterprise crew didn't even analyse the wreckage to see what it would have looked like.

@DanBen07

6 ай бұрын

@@GrandmasterDevo Yeah.

1.04 "Oh look, it's the borgussy." "... the hells a borgussy?"

@CASA-dy4vs

2 ай бұрын

1:04

I'm not even sure the Borg have models. So not only might the sphere small enough to fit inside a cube and the sphere big enough to swallow the Voyager be different sizes, but maybe each cube and sphere is a slightly different size and composition from the others.

I'd love to see a video on the non-cannon borg ships.

@DanBen07

6 ай бұрын

Me to. I would also like to see one on the concept art ships there were a lot of designs that didn't get used.

On Voyager, when the Borg suggested a mass destruction weapon to stop species 8472, I noticed the configuration of the weapon was the same as a ship that was used by Hue and his faction. Did Hugh and his Borg take on the shape of a weapon of mass destruction, so others will leave them alone?

@DanBen07

6 ай бұрын

Yeah they did reuse the image for that episode.

@briantonkin7737

6 ай бұрын

For in universe, the borg probably repurposed the hull of an assimilator to make it into the super weapon

When i hear Fusion Cube, i instantly think of the game Star Trek - Armada II

@LRK-GT

Ай бұрын

In my head canon, the Cube(s) sent to assimilate earth, were a form of Fusion Cube. They were bigger, more powerful, and more foreboding than the 'run of the mill' Cubes that Voyager and The Raven encountered.

The narrator sounds like Kelsey Grammer to me, which made me feel like Fraser was talking to directly to me. Therefore, I love this video even more. Subscribed!

the future tech voyager brought back to the alpha quadrant were totally forgotten about in the star trek picard series, its like voyager never got home

@LRK-GT

Ай бұрын

To be fair, Section 31 / Department of Temporal Investigations would've likely locked that stuff down the moment Voyager was in drydock. By post-return depictions, Voyager was stripped down back to 24th Century 'spec' *immediately* upon its return.

I love to think of lores captured borg ship as alien in origin. It was seen as a tactical weapon to target borg unimatrix ships in borg space. But the borg captured it and used it purpose as a weapon to serve their needs. It make it easier to swallow if you think the borg had time to duplicate the technology then start using it as a mine ship in voyager. So it was already assimilated technology that had rogue borg taking over it in on tng. Then it had it appearance in voyager years later.

You forgot the Borg Assimilator from Star Trek Online. Cool Design. EDIT: Nevermind. Didn't realize you were sticking to Alpha Cannon.

Victor of Borge was the best Borge!

I always wanted to see a Borg Obelisk. The art for it looked amazing.

The singularity gives very heavy Iconian aesthetics as well (from Star Trek online canon)

I was wondering when you all were getting to the Cyborg Collective, and Adam is the one voicing it, Goody! BTW, I like your Sponsers today, though I'm happy with what I got. I'll recommend this to my friends & family! Given the aging of the Next Gen Crew I see a Borg Civil War in the future of at least one of the current OR Future series!

Personally I’d love more coverage of STO’s ships in general. Lots of awesome designs there.

Good video, you might consider one on the borg-upgraded voyager

What about the Cube from the Mirror timeline, where they were a part of the Borg Kingdom, and they measure 10x10x10 kilometers each.

@DanBen07

6 ай бұрын

I think they were only doing canon on screen ships

Personally, I'm waiting on the Borg Small Stellated Dodecahedron.

Ah the “voice” of Trek Central is back. Bravo. Cheers

8:35 it was the *science vessel in STAR TREK ARMADA 1+2* ... which was, hands down, the best fk RTS Star Trek series to this day. 9:05 hah...

To show just how evil they were, they stole the only toilet on the enterprise during their first encounter.

Great video!! Please create a video for the other Borg vessels from other sources!! The Pyramid seems very interesting.

@TrekCentral

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion Robert! We’re thinking of doing other videos for “extended” ships :) - Jack

@jpm265

5 ай бұрын

Yer defo inc the cylinder the disk , the quad cube , fusion cube , etc from armada add ons thou i think some of them were custom made lol

LT COMMANDER ADAM!!!! YES!!!

always a fan of the borg sphere

Star Trek Online has the Borg Cylinder. It is bigger than a Tactical Cube ship.

the next generation desk killed me😂❤

Grest video like always 👏

Here's hoping for the tactical borg fusion cube from armada

Swedish muppet Chef “Borg, Borg, Borg”….”Borgie, Borgie, Borg”

I still think they should have had a pyramid ship, just to complete the old UPN logo.

@DanBen07

6 ай бұрын

I've seen pyramid ships in concept art and Star Trek Legacy video game.

It'd be cool if you did a follow-up covering the Borg vessels in other not-as-yet canon sources like STO.

Never really understood how the borg didn't reach their goals. Seems like they could have become fully synthetic/digital/energy at any time

Borg type 03 or renegade ship hands down my favorite borg ship

@LRK-GT

Ай бұрын

Ah, Yes. The Borg Assimilator (In Beta Canon)

word of the day = MASSIVE :D

Cheers adam .

The Octahedron is my favorite Borg ship.

Frankly, I would much rather deal with the Borg than that lunatic Q. The Borg would grow weary of me after a point, but Q, he's able to resist any of the things that would prevent my assimilation by the Borg....I'd be toast as soon as I tried anything. I mean it, he doesn't even need a ship to get things done.

my pet theory is that, as Lore's borg were using unusual weapons that Riker and Worf thought were Ferengi in origin, their ship was a prototype built by Ferengi arms dealers like Gaila, that was then stolen by Lore and co.

the borg have your armada

Is it just me or does the sphere remind everyone of a certain Death Star from another Star Sci-fi series of movies and shows.

The pyramid and obelisk types are interesting. Star Trek Legacy, the computer game not the series everyone is rooting for, even created earlier designs for the Borg. Having a look as to what they might look like in the ENT and TOS/TMP eras. I think we need more designs for them to pop up too at some point. At least give verification or not that every ship is built upon and "grows" over time like what was planned and hinted at in ENT.

its not technically canon as it is a ship specifically used in star trek online but the gorg unimatrix vessel something many STO players mockingly call the borg space pickle

As for the lack of a triangle shap? The French aliens objected to it after they were tongue tied.

Borg spheres also strangely resemble the Death star.

@jamesdietz29

6 ай бұрын

Only in shape, really. Their functionality is way different.

@DanBen07

6 ай бұрын

Yeah the one ship that really resembles the Death Star in Star Trek is the Xindi weapon from Star Trek Enterprise season 3.

You missed the Borg Rhombus from ST: Armada... It primary use was as an Assimilator.

Theoretically the Borg Sphere should have the been the strongest ship in terms of shield and hull integrity, due to its geometry.

The Star Trek rogue ship I would say was an assimilated ship because that particular ship was shown in a different episode of Star Trek that had nothing to do with the Borg

The singularity seems as a version of the Borg who are rather nicer than what we know. "They only assimilate those who chose to be assimilated". This seems so out of place but I welcome something like this.

hey borg why aren't your ships phallic? all our ships are phallic, just not based on human parts 🙂

@jamesdietz29

6 ай бұрын

Cause the Borg be all about math, not hormones.

🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely well done and executed and informatively explained in every way shape and form provided on this format and subject matter on the various different types of ships and vessels of the Borg armada and of their fighting abilities and battle tactics and weapons systems and shielding availability and of their trans warp capabilities and so forth and so on indeed!,👌.

@LRK-GT

Ай бұрын

Easily argued that either A. The OG creators of The Borg left-in that limitation. Perhaps to prevent a Grey Goo/Von Neuman Machine scenario (it went sideways, anyway, ofc) B. The Q seemed to 'fear' The Borg's potential. They may have 'handicapped' The Borg at some point, to keep them from becoming (effectively) omnipotent.

You say that cubes that have been rendered largely inoperable continuing to function hasn't been seen, but that's not entirely true. In Scorpion Part 1 and in Imperfection, Voyager encounters cubes that have been mostly destroyed, but large intact portions still have breathable atmosphere and artificial gravity. Had the drones aboard not all been killed, they could theoretically, and given enough time, conduct sufficient repairs to make their chunk of scrap mobile again.

Lieutenant Commander Shelby was not forst officer under Captain Riker when she mentioned the fact of the 78% damage to a cube and it still being able to function, she had been left behind by Admiral Hanson, this was before she was reprimanded by Riker for not taking a break when she wanted to continue with ways to try and come up with a defence with the current systems, and to work with Data who did not require sleep.

was that picard episode supposed to bring in mulitversal borg like sto just did?

What about the Hi'Tak.?

This might be a weird question to ask about music what is it the one close to the very end of this video I want to know what that song is.

He missed one. There was a tiny little one that was basically a sort of shuttle that only held 4 drones. Voyager found a crashed one once and it was recreated for the StarTrek: Armada video game.

@DanBen07

6 ай бұрын

What episode of Voyager? I know they missed one from TNG I Borg which is supposed to be a Borg scout ship which is smaller.

@turbopokey

6 ай бұрын

@@DanBen07 you know I take it back, I believe I was thinking of the TNG episode where they found Hugh. For some reason I was thinking 7of9 was there but am misremembering.

@DanBen07

6 ай бұрын

@@turbopokey yeah the one I mentioned is apparently a different ship but most people just think it was part of a cube.

I perfer the singalrity myself we know all about the other cubes and have been iniside of them I would want to know more about the ship and its interior.

The ship used by the queen at the end of Pickard was actually the unicomplex that was partially destroyed in voyager. It's basically the enitre mass converted into a borg cube. We know the ships themselves can repair themselves without drones so this is likely to be the end result, plus its where the Queen was when the virus hit her. If I had to guess I would put it around the 50km range in size. Even the Necrons would back off from that monstrosity unless it's the silent kings ship who could flick it like a fly. Huh I wonder what would happen if their nanoprobes and nonoscarabs interacted with one another? One is designed for repair and the other is for repair and assimilation. Speaking of we should get a discussion about nanobots in star trek. There actually is a variety to choose from.

I like to call Megacube by name of Mother Cube.

the singularity is in my opinion the best

could crew complement be offseted by baby drones stored in drawers?

You were inaccurate about the type 033 being as long as a Galaxy class ship. The type 033 was way larger than the Galaxy class.

We are Groot! I have Dendrophobia.

i'd like to see the borg combine their various shapes to form cute balloon animals/characters

@jamesdietz29

6 ай бұрын

Unicron could show up dressed as a clown to assemble them.

Where does the extra 1 cubic km com from?

In the first encounter with the BORG, after the Enterprise crew is able to escape the tractor beam and fly off, the cube "turns" and pursues the Enterprise. Why does it need to turn? Disregarding the fact, having the BORG cube face forward makes filming easier (more support), I've always thought the cube should be corner forward so more weapons, tractor beams, etc... could be available, plus no need to "turn". ;-)

@Hierachy

6 ай бұрын

you actually see that in first contact, the cube is heading towards earth edge first.

@DanBen07

6 ай бұрын

If is the ship is damaged or regenerating maybe it turns that part of the ship away from its target so it doesn't take more damage or time to regenerate there.

the Borg were much scarier when they were a monolith as they were first introduced, rather than an insect colony full of specialization & unique indivuals and factions.

yes, look at the other ships, i still have the Armada games.

There are the two supercubes, one armored for battle. Both are in ST: Armada II. Both can outgun even a Starbase.

@DanBen07

6 ай бұрын

I think this video was just for ones on screen.

I hope we get to see a mobius strip ship from yhe future past borg that are around but not.....

How can a cube being 3 by 3 by 3km having a volume of 28km3? 3x3x3 = still 27km3, no doubts about that.

to m the gigantic borg cube of season 3 of Picard to me remain the Death Star, the Enterprise D being the Millenium Falcon that travel inside to destroy it; change my mind

as long as there is a collective, the queen survives..

why when i click on your discord link does it say invalid or expired?????

@DanBen07

6 ай бұрын

With discord when you send a link it will expire unless you go to settings and change it so it never expires but you may have to do that each time you send the link.

I like it

10:32. Death Star vibes anyone?

28 square kilometres? 3 × 3 x 3 = 27? Great video!

@Meritania

Ай бұрын

It’s bigger on the inside…

3Cubelometers

The federation has the mullicular cloaking device

I Like🥰😍🤩🥳💯💢💥💫👍 them All I Love everything Star Trek

To be quite honest the last board cubes should have been the communications cube. And then on top of that. Anything that Star Trek online puts through. I call cannon There are the ones that keep expanding on the Laura Star Trek. And nothing's being said about it

I like the ships from star trek army 2, it's a shame that the Klingons don't eat many camouflaged ships, but why the Cardassians

I guess the Klingons, Romulans, Cardasians, Ferengis, Breen, and other species were unworthy of being assimilated.

@DanBen07

6 ай бұрын

But if you watch Star Trek you do see some of those species in episodes have been assimilated.

I always disliked the First Contact Cube design. Not enough larger pipes like in the BOBW Cube. In my mind. The Borg Cube should look like an oil or gas platform.

Surely the cube was 3x3x3=27, not 28 cubic kilometres in volume?

@bcn1gh7h4wk

6 ай бұрын

cube pi minus some dug out space for corridors and equipment.

Hmm. What about the Voth. Voyager. Looked like a toy. In there ship.