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On the subject of aerodynamic spaceships: I love the Borg cube ships. They know there's no air in space, they don't need aerodynamics. If they did, they could easily replicate the best aerodynamic forms, but no. No air in space, so we make our ships these big honking cubes. Respect.
The only dumb thing about them is the spherical Borg ships they keep inside the cubes. Looks cool, but realistically the Borg wouldn't do that. They're all about practicality and efficiency. It's much easier to fit smaller cubes into the big cube, that's what they would do. Either that or they'd make their ships like Rubik's cubes, with the various squares able to break off so one big cube could become many smaller cube vessels. Be harder to fight a bunch of smaller cube ships than a single large cube ship.
Honestly my only problem with the Borg is they don't value consent. If they were a hive mind consisting of only volunteers and never forcibly assimilated anyone, never hurt other civilizations except in self defense, they'd be the coolest and best civilization in the whole Trek storyverse, IMHO. Honestly, there's a lot of times I would volunteer to be part of a hive mind and get away from the suffering inherent in being an individual.
The only dumb thing about them is the spherical Borg ships they keep inside the cubes. Looks cool, but realistically the Borg wouldn't do that. They're all about practicality and efficiency. It's much easier to fit smaller cubes into the big cube, that's what they would do. Either that or they'd make their ships like Rubik's cubes, with the various squares able to break off so one big cube could become many smaller cube vessels. Be harder to fight a bunch of smaller cube ships than a single large cube ship.
Honestly my only problem with the Borg is they don't value consent. If they were a hive mind consisting of only volunteers and never forcibly assimilated anyone, never hurt other civilizations except in self defense, they'd be the coolest and best civilization in the whole Trek storyverse, IMHO. Honestly, there's a lot of times I would volunteer to be part of a hive mind and get away from the suffering inherent in being an individual.