Star Trek Online/Fridge

Fridge Horror

• In Star Trek Online, there is a way to get an assimilated tribble. It's cute and hilarious, until you realize that tribbles breed exponentially. Imagine if the Borg incorporated that trait into the Collective. Imagine they already have...
  • Borg don't reproduce/replicate, they'd find that trait too 'imperfect'. The Borg's quest for perfection tends to lead away from messy biological processes. Plus, just imagine "Who put the Borg drones in the quadrotriticale?"
    • Then explain the borg babies the Enterprise crew found in "Q Who"
      • the borg assimilate infants too (their placed in maturation chambers to develope faster after the first stage). them being baby borg was a wildmassguess based on what they saw
      • Borg do replicate/reproduce. We just don't see much of it.
  • Early Installment Weirdness or they assimilated an entire culture, children and all.
    • Assimilation as it is known now did not exist until First Contact, which subjected the Borg to massive Flanderization. The Borg reproduced biologically and put implants into their babies surgically. The assimilation planned in "The Best of Both Worlds" was likewise going to be a gradual process with some poeple (probably only children) being assimilated and the Borg gradually slowly suberting all aspects of the Federation, as they could not just grab people and assimilate them on the spot like in First Contact. Picard was the first to be assimilated, as his authority and stature made him a good candidate for an intermediary representing the Borg's influence as they conquered the Federation. Their attempt to assimilate the Federation was also shown as exceptional (perhaps due to the Federation's higher technology levels than any of its Alpha and Beta Quadrant neighbors) and that the usual modus operandi was that the Borg showed up in the space of any civilization that had an interesting technology they wanted, took the technology in question, and exterminated the "irrelevant" people making up the civilization. First Contact with the rapid assimilations, Queen, etc. turned the Borg into a caricature of their original selves.
      • Sure, buddy. We totally believe you.
  • The above wall of text, while having some points, is pure YMMV (as is this post). In some other's opinions, it only made the Borg more terrifying, not flanderized or caricatured in any way.
  • Actually at first maybe the Borg were not interested in assimilating people, probably because they didn't need them. Only in First Contact where the Borg are really low on numbers do they begin assimilating the people. Now that they are fighting the Undine they probably really need people and are grabbing anyone they can. This is more of a WMG though.

Fridge Brilliance

• Why doesn't the Tactical ability Security Escort work in Boldly They Rode? You're completely alone on Deep Space 9 surrounded by hostile Jem'Hadar and your ship is a long way away. There's no reinforcements coming.