United Muscovite Nations wrote:I need one of you guys to help me figure out something with Star Trek. Do the Borg adapt communally or more on a smaller basis? I'm not sure if there's any elaboration in the show or movies, but if the Borg adapt as a species, then First Contact has something that kind of undermines the idea of Borg invincibility, and that's that several Borg drones are killed in the movie in melee combat, whether by Data with his fits, or Worf with some Klingon knife (don't think it's a Bat'leth, could be wrong though). If they can't adapt to melee combat, it also stands to reason that they can't adapt to being shot with kinetic weapons like bows or guns. And, if that's the case, then the Federation is totally stupid for not issuing their crews with guns and bayonets.
Considering Picard killed a borg with a holo-machine gun, I’m gonna say that a real gun could work as well. The reason the Federation doesn’t arm their crews with these weapons is presumably that kinetic weapons are far worse than their standard armaments against their other, more common foes. Perhaps they should have a Borg Assault Protocol which allows kinetic weapons such as firearms to be created at a replicator to better combat drones.
I’m willing to bet that Borg ships have kinetic shielding however, unlike the drones, so ship based kinetics seem unlikely to be so effective. However, presumably kinetic weapons can’t be adapted to by the ships, so they could, potentially, still be useful in some capacity.
Edit: Just realized I didn’t really answer your question. To that I’d say, definitely collectively, starting at the cube level and then working it’s way through the collective until it reaches every drone.