• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Do you mean they should all have been spheres? Because they did have spheres, one gets launched in First Contact when the cube gets destroyed.

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      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

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        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.

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        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