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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.

3km is the only canon figure. Another one (not vastly different I might add) came from a script or something.

Borg cubes are slightly larger than 3 KM each side I read somewhere.

3030 m x 3030 m x 3030 m, to be exact.

Ah thank you very much, now I can finally prove to him that he is plain out wrong...he has become annoying with it.

Are tactical cubes the only ones that are a different size?

Tactical cubes appear to be same size as regular cubes visualy. Their only visible difference is the added armour.

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.

Ma Deuce wrote:

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.

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.

Ma Deuce wrote:

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, 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.