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I know it's a joke, but they literally assimilate their tech (and the Borg themselves) from the countless existing races they come across. They are a collective free of hierarchy, and therefore no central planning or structure to the way they implement tech, hence why everything is messy and organic (ironically), rather than tidy and organized.
The fact that their ships are perfect cubes has always bugged me in that regard. Spherical ships would have made a lot more sense.
Why? There's no friction in space and a sphere is an inefficient use of space
Depends on what you mean by "efficient use of space", I guess.
If you are organically building onto the ship or continually lumping new tech together, you're not going to end up with straight, clean edgesor uniform proportions. And assuming intra-ship distance matters for things like power/resource distribution, the natural shape will be spherical.
Now if the borg need to pack dozens of ships into a spaceport or something, a cube starts to make more sense...