The Borg in Star Trek?

[Eternal_Freedom]

Well we know the looted transwarp coil was able to take Voyager 10,000 light years before failing, after it took the Delta Flyer to the unicomplex and back, and that's with the thing being unmaintained.

[Borgholio]

Right but how quickly did it accomplish that? Would a conduit have taken Voyager that 10k LY faster than the coil? I'm not sure that is ever actually explained.

[Eternal_Freedom]

True, it said nothing about speed, but it does give an idea of the range before it needs refuelling and/or maintenance.

[Borgholio]

That raises another interesting question. So much is made of the Imperials being dumped into the Milky Way and having a difficult time supporting themselves due to a lack of maintenance depots, spare parts, fuel, etc...

Without waving the magic "Borg can build and assimilate anything with nano probes" wand, wouldn't a cube eventually run into the same issues? Regeneration could only reasonably be able to go so far before the cube needs to restock on raw materials, fuel, spare parts, etc... Could they acquire that on their own simply by assimilation? Would the Borg be completely self-sufficient or still require some level of external support?

[Batman]

Insufficient data. Raw materials are to be had aplenty without them ever running into a single soul and a Borg cube (or at least the typical 3km a side one) is plenty big enough for at least limited resource extraction and refinement facilities, as well as manufacturing. Problem is I don't think we're ever actually told they have them. And without those, yeah, they face the exact same problems as the Imperials, except a billion times worse, because at least for a while, the Imperials get to blithely blow anything that opposes the out of the sky with impunity. The Borg...not so much.