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…
Yeah agreed, the cube shape makes total sense from the production standpoint!
maybe their ship yards just extrude borg ship out of a square tube, and they cut them up on the conveyor belt
In this case, I’d still expect more like a cylinder, but I love the idea! Borguccini? Borghetti?
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
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.
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I love Biscoff cookies, but had never had them outside of a snack on a plane either. First time I realized they sold them at stores was when my local Costco started carrying them in giant boxes, which is a little like being Sir Gallahad the Chaste, and stumbling into the castle Anthrax.
Aldi has a pretty goof knockoff version in normal size packages if you have problems with moderation 😉
But to answer your question, a long time ago, my wife and I did the “Love you”, “Love you too”, “Love you… three?” thing, and apparently got up to 5 before we decided it was silly. Many years later, “Love you five” is the normal response to “Love you”.