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Post by Trip on Jul 11, 2010 2:42:27 GMT -6
Why did the Borg need to open the time riff at Earth instead of opening it where there wasn't an armada waiting for them and travel to Earth in the past? I doubt the International Space Station will be up to the challenge.
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Post by Arkroyal on Jul 11, 2010 20:51:06 GMT -6
Hmmm...fridge logic.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jul 12, 2010 7:40:08 GMT -6
I can think of a couple of possible reasons.
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Post by Arkroyal on Jul 12, 2010 13:39:35 GMT -6
I suppose they risked encountering another possibly difficult species that they may not have known of - it is unclear how much they know of this time period. Equally they wouldn't want to travel too far but to prevent an armada they would have to stay outside Federation space really.
Also, is it clear whether they know exactly how to get to Earth? I know it sounds strange but they're always asking to be "escorted to Sector 001" as if they don't know where it is. I'm guessing they do but they may be using Earth's signals and so on as a guide which would not be possible several hundred years earlier when it was not a noisy planet at all!
I don't know whether they sound all too logical or not!
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Post by shakfar on Jul 13, 2010 22:22:53 GMT -6
mabey the borg was just trigger happy and wanted to get in some killing XD... not really but if i were borg and i was confident i could fight off an armada i would definatly fight and destroy the armada instead of risking an entire armada getting away
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Post by Luke on Jul 14, 2010 11:31:10 GMT -6
Better than fuzzy logic or is it the same thing. Excuse me but are we talking about Best of Both Worlds? The battle of Wolf 359?
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Post by Arkroyal on Jul 14, 2010 12:40:47 GMT -6
Better than fuzzy logic or is it the same thing. Excuse me but are we talking about Best of Both Worlds? The battle of Wolf 359? No, First Contact so Battle of Sector 001. And fridge logic is some thing that only hits later, also known as a Jellybean moment like in the film E.T., if E.T. can make the bicycle fly at the end, why doesn't he use it in the beginning of the film to avoid pursuit?
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Post by shakfar on Jul 14, 2010 16:11:04 GMT -6
Better than fuzzy logic or is it the same thing. Excuse me but are we talking about Best of Both Worlds? The battle of Wolf 359? And fridge logic is some thing that only hits later, also known as a Jellybean moment like in the film E.T., if E.T. can make the bicycle fly at the end, why doesn't he use it in the beginning of the film to avoid pursuit? ya know i have never realy thought about that before but now that i think of it it makes sence that he could of done that
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jul 16, 2010 7:56:23 GMT -6
Also, is it clear whether they know exactly how to get to Earth? I know it sounds strange but they're always asking to be "escorted to Sector 001" as if they don't know where it is. That is a logical deduction. It seemed to me that they didn't know the exact location of Earth or how important it was to the Federation until they assimilated Picard. At that point, however, they would have all the needed to know. But that cube was destroyed. Did the necessary information get back to the Borg Queen?
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Post by Luke on Jul 21, 2010 11:35:54 GMT -6
Okay First Contact. The time field was generated by the little sphere that came out of the cube, right? I thought it was pretty obvious that the sphere had limited range. It wasnt warp capable so it had to be delivered to Earth by the cube, which meant fighting their way past the fleet.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jul 23, 2010 7:42:13 GMT -6
That seems pretty reasonable. Or the time distortion itself could have only a limited range.
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Post by Arkroyal on Jul 24, 2010 14:10:48 GMT -6
Considering of all the Starfleet ships in the area ONLY Enterprise was caught in the time distortion this seems entirely likely.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jul 26, 2010 7:27:23 GMT -6
So how about it, Ensign Plinkett? Have we answered the question to your satisfaction?
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Post by Luke on Sept 1, 2010 11:49:53 GMT -6
Or how about it was new technology and they weren't sure it was going to work. FAce it, if the Borg had unlimited time travel, they would already have conquered the galaxy. Think about it.
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Post by Arkroyal on Sept 1, 2010 16:16:11 GMT -6
May also be why it apparently wasn't used again.
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