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cable management will not be assimilated (quokk.au)

submitted 2 months ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/sigh_fi@quokk.au

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[–] dmention7@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm hardly a lore expert, so maybe there are good in-univerese reasons they are cubes. But if you think about ships being assembled organically, I'd expect a more spherical shape once you get past a certain size.

It's been a long time since I've seen any of the movies, but now that you mention it I do seem to recall that spherical ship... Now I wonder if there's a tetrahedron borg ship out there somewhere

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If it's a tetrahedron you're looking for, you'll want the Goa'uld of Stargate 😁

The Borg Queen ship gets kinda close as it's diamond shaped.

Buy yeah I get what you mean. I presume a cube or really any of their geometric shapes, were picked just because it's so contrasting to anything we'd expect (not lore wise, like production wise). It's not streamlined at all (like the classic saucer ships) nor aerodynamic (granted in space doesn't make sense, other than maybe to keep the deflector shield small, but probably done because it just looked good). Try to make them as alien as possible, even when contrasted from like the Kingons, Romulans, Cardassians, etc.

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah agreed, the cube shape makes total sense from the production standpoint!

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

so maybe there are good in-univerese reasons they are cubes.

Two ideas:

it'd be simpler to build/keep track of
maybe their ship yards just extrude borg ship out of a square tube, and they cut them up on the conveyor belt

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Borg assimilated Wombat.

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

maybe their ship yards just extrude borg ship out of a square tube, and they cut them up on the conveyor belt

In this case, I'd still expect more like a cylinder, but I love the idea! Borguccini? Borghetti?

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

How long to cook a borg cube to al dente?