I know I know this has probably been done a thousand and one times but please humor me; lock the the thread after the answer but please help me out.
As the title says, what's the size. I have a trekkie Borg friend who says its 5km (Got it from some ST magazine) but I have heard 3km more often (Around here and some fanfics, yes I know they aren't canon). I did a search here and I did not find it, I do admit that I did not search through that hell of a lot pages though.
the 3km figure is from the Voyager episode "Dark Frontier", during the flashback scene when the USS Raven (the ship that Seven and her parents were on when they were assimilated) first encountered a Borg cube. Seven's mother stated the ship had a volume of "28 cubic kilometers". When you do the rather simple math, that comes out the just over 3km on each side. This is the only figure from canon dialogue as to the dimensions of a Borg cube, so that what's usually used.
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evilcat4000 wrote:Tactical cubes appear to be same size as regular cubes visualy. Their only visible difference is the added armour.
I've heard some (non-canon) sources state that TacCubes are specifically designed for ship-to-ship combat, and sacrifce most of the assimilation facilities found on "normal" cubes for their added firepower and protection.
The M2HB: The Greatest Machinegun Ever Made.
HAB: Crew-Served Weapons Specialist
"Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope." --P.J. O'Rourke
"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." --J.S. Mill
evilcat4000 wrote:Tactical cubes appear to be same size as regular cubes visualy. Their only visible difference is the added armour.
I've heard some (non-canon) sources state that TacCubes are specifically designed for ship-to-ship combat, and sacrifce most of the assimilation facilities found on "normal" cubes for their added firepower and protection.
Which we know means diddly squat.
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Voyager, one lonely ship stood up to the Tactical Cube for a long time. Much more then 40 starships did in the battle of Wolf359.
It must be due to several reasons:
1. Voyager is a more powerful Federation starship then the older models.
2. During the series the ship has undergoing extensive upgrades, the most of them probably to the 29c Borg drone who upgraded Voyager's systems.
evilcat4000 wrote:Tactical cubes appear to be same size as regular cubes visualy. Their only visible difference is the added armour.
I've heard some (non-canon) sources state that TacCubes are specifically designed for ship-to-ship combat, and sacrifce most of the assimilation facilities found on "normal" cubes for their added firepower and protection.
Yes, and its weapons have odd effects on enemy ships.
Such as: when it was fighting Voyager, it collapsed her forward shields, as reported by Harry, then in the very next space shot, her forward shields were functioning quite well.
Hmmm, interesting.
Voyager summed up in 1 quote:
Neelix: These people dont appreciate what they have! This ship is the match of anything in a hundred lightyears, yet what do they do with it?
(fake voice) Oh, well lets go find some space anomaly today that'll rip it apart!
Voyager, one lonely ship stood up to the Tactical Cube for a long time. Much more then 40 starships did in the battle of Wolf359.
Voyger did have help from a Borg sphere. Still taking a direct hull hit from a Borg torpedo and surviving is impressive. It can be argued that Voyger was more powerful than average Federation ship. However it is hard to believe that Voyger was stronger than 40 Federation ships.
I have to tell you something everything I wrote above is a lie.
