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Trek Central's Lieutenant Adam dives into the BORG Collective's Most POWERFUL ship, the Borg Tactical Cube! This impressive vessel could handle itself against many other ships, even taking on the USS Voyager in the Star Trek: Voyager series.
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Title: The Borg's Most POWERFUL Ship! - Star Trek: Explained!
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"A Borg Cube wearing a flak jacket" I can't think of a more perfect description.
"A quadrupedal personification of the word 'nope'". 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I still play Star Trek Armada 2 and love that Tactical Fusion Cube, is just so overwhelming you almost feel bad for the enemy fleets.
Link it with a diamond with the shield invulnerability attack for a short period of ultimate death
Did you try out Star Trek Armada 3? It’s a mod for the vanilla game sins of the solar empire rebellion.
@@1985slipstream dont forget to steal a Shadows Class Phase cloak, to give the very nice line "Tactical Fusion Cube decloaking at the port bow"
The Tactical Fusion Cube was a fleet in and of itself, let alone if you sent support vessels for cover.
Deadliest cube Janeway: are you sure about that
Janeway had some kind of death wish God complex against the borg. She couldn't get enough of killing borg.
6:20 “…personification of the word nope.” Roflol
Ah the borg tactical cube, I did love how it looked when I first saw it, too bad the whole mood when seeing it was ruined when Voyager engaged the tactical cube in a pretty long fight and survived with what was much lower damage than what should have been
Yeah... I just assumed that the Queen was making the cube "pull its punches" out of curiosity as to why Voyager was attacking and not wanting to kill Seven. I doubt the Queen really considered Voyager to be much of a threat at that point and I think she still had plans for them. Because really there's no way Voyager could have escaped their first encounter with the tactical cube if the Queen had really wanted them destroyed or captured.
@@darongw I've also thought this too since the Queen always had a weird obsession with 7 of 9. Would she really want her killed?
ST: Voyager de-fanged the Borg, more and more with every Borg encounter. Well, ST: TNG did that with episodes after their initial meeting but they just did that to stop the Borg from being utterly unstoppable... making them go from beatable to just a *nearly* unbeatable cube against one ship is a hell of a downgrade.
@@That80sGuy1972 Daron's comment makes a whole lot pf sense where he states that The Borg Queen didn't want to destroy voyager killing 7 of 9.
@@AdmiralStilesSciFiGaming I'm not disagreeing. That's another part of how the Borg are de-fanged... the Queen picking a favorite. The Queen can make another 7 of 9 if she wished, just download her pre-separation mind (copy of it) into another drone. That would be a Borg thing to do. What the Borg became is quite... Romulan, but without the ability to be as cold as a machine when it comes to sacrificing assets. Every aspect of the modern Borg is kind of a pathetic shadow of what they were originally created to be. In my opinion, when they went from a collective to a hive mind centered on a Queen, that was the final nail in the coffin. ST: VOY just finished them off.
Adam is a great narrator! Love the Borg as the ultimate Baddies! Imagine them invading the Dune Universe! ;-)
That would be cool!
Some legends say they already did, but the advance party they sent got addicted to Spice and lost all contact with the collective....
@@xedanis101 Hense those lovely Fanfics on the subject! ;-)
Shouldn't be an issue as long as they only borgify poor people.
The idea of more platonic solids for Borg structure would be pretty cool, and I always felt we didn't more math and topology stuff , with structural folding of their ships The tactical fusion cube is kinda goofy , but is kinda cool too
I loved the tactical cube. I also thought it absolutely ridiculous that the plan was to allow arguably 3 of the most important members of the voyager crew to be assimilated. Then when it works, they somehow retain NONE of the massive amount of information they should have had!
To be fair only tuvok was actually connected to the hive mind. The others had suppressors so as to not be connected
Gotta love how they sacrificed the delta flyer instead of their endless supply of shuttles
Whats more scary is when the enemy ship arrives and say "we have been here to reach you for your ship extended warranty"
First Contact would have been a very different movie if the Borg had sent two or three Tactical Cubes rather just another single standard Cube..
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@@stenchofjustice The Sponsor is 90 seconds long xx Theres just content before hand. As an employee i think i speak for both myself and Adam when i say we would like to get paid when we help Jack make these videos. Thanks - Troy.
@@comfi_monkee6239 that’s fair, keep doing what you do.
Excellent Video! Tactical Cube is a awesome ship and a formidable one. Trek Central is the go to spot to get high quality content!
dont get me wrong tac cube was powerful but the decahedron from STO actually dwarfs the power of this ship and thats not to mention the unimatrix ships as well
The deheckwhat?
The Tactical Cube is cool and all, but I really wanted to see smaller, pyramidal swarm ships that combine into an armored Icosahedron! (20-sided cube) Now THAT would be cool to see. 😁🤣
One of those highlights when the fusion cube appears in Armada 😁
A close-up of one side of that cube looks like the inside of my smartphone, or any other modern electronic device for that matter.
Oh, man... The snark! The references! The Borg d20! I'd keep a Crown Royal bag full of em! Oh, c'mon! If you don't have a CR bag full of dice, you're not doing it right! Lol! Anyhoo, great presentation on the TacCube! Love it! Can't wait for the next one (and to paraphrase CDR Jack Ransom) with even MORE snark! 🤣 Be safe, ya'll! LLAP! 🖖😎
*WE ARE THE BORG. WOULD YOU LIKE A CUP OF TEA, FATHER? YOU WILL LOWER YOUR SHIELDS AND HAVE A CUP. GO ON.*
Mrs Doyle was the real borg queen all along.
That central plexis will get you every time
Now though it's lower your shields and prepare to be cuddled... goddamn Picard Giradi-borg.
It’s so efficient you only see it ONCE! You’d think they’d have more of these things.
The tactical cube made perfect sense to me. It is in my opinion perfectly borg! They have taken an already powerful yet existing design and just optimised it for combat and tanking. Very efficient 🤣🤣
Ha ha ha - extended warranty! By comparison, the Borg are far less fearsome predators!
I would rather self destruct the ship than hear "We have been trying to reach you about your ships extended warranty" over comms
Just found this channel today. Its awesome. Thank you for the insights.
Glad you enjoy it!
so an intresting note here. as he said its called a Class IV Tactical Vessel by the Borg making me wonder what other cube or tactical vessels the Borg has to make it a type IV
Requests: Borg vs Daleks, Borg vs Cybermen, Borg vs DC, Borg vs Marvel, Borg vs Earth, Borg vs Aliens, Borg vs Battlestar Galactica, Borg vs The Power Rangers, Borg vs The Transformers
Borg Pyramid ships were stolen by the Goa’uld to make Ha’tak motherships.
I'm sure someone else has said this species 8472 is tripedal not quad
I could say something about the leg not shown on screen because of children being in the audience... but that would be silly. Instead I'll just apologize and move on. 🤣
@@xedanis101 lol all good
Hahaha captain jean luc Charles Xavier 🤣🤣
Lieutenant Adam, Sir !! 😄😃❤️❤️
That clip of the Crew of Voyager looked absolutely fantastic! How did you get it to look that good?
Clip resumes at 3:42
I never liked how the extra armor on the cube was so symmetrical. I think it would have looked cooler to be random
Damn I remember Star Trek armada.
Its coming back on gog
Wasn't there a diamond or prism. They looked real purty
There was indeed a diamond! It was one of my favorite looks too :D
@@xedanis101 i liked the xindi aquatic ones
Jean Luke Xavier 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Love the video!!!
Cheers Adam
There are races with way more powerfull weaponry than Federation's. Voth or Bethans. So having more armored cube as response is giving sense, while cheaper(dronehours) cubes serving as expendable scout ships.
the TFC's in STA2 were ridiculously OP, it'd be fun if they made it canon
Love this Menacing Dreadful Borg Cube....
A Borg pyramid would be scary as fuck
You sound like TheYamiks that reviews and talks about Elite Dangerous and other games..... its awesome!!!
Species 8472, kicked the shit out of the Borg.
On star trek online I enjoy taking on the borg.
Yes an the dice one as well.
Borg tactical cubes need more dakka
Dang. Where did you get that introduction voyager footage. It's HD crisp as F---!
I get an advert while you are in the middle of an advert 😂
I'd like to see you do something on the Hydran or Lyrans from Starfleet Command. :)
Whoa high def
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I would’ve loved something like an obelisk for the borg’s tactical ship. The tactical cube always felt kind of lazy to me.
It would be awesome if one Borg tactical cube vs, one Species 8472 bio ship.
Any borg ship that has 7 of 9 on it is already more powerful than it was to begin with.
What and where did you find that "Borg" d20 at the end of your video?
I know that looked sick !!!! 🖖🏻🖖🏻🖖🏻
I kinda wish they had the pyramid because if it landed… it better land on a Egyptian pyramid (stargate)
One of those Borg heads look just like Data
I thought that. I wonder if they reused a prop from TNG or one of the movies. Hmm . . .
in star trek online we delete tac cubes in seconds.
I think since the Borg first appeared with a cube ship they were already "breaking" stereotypical ship desines...so...I think they be of any polygonal or geometric shape...we already have the sphere, and there was that misfit Borg Ship that was atypical of any geometric or polygonal shape...so any shape would work in my book...besides, the Borg may need a specialized design and shape to travel more effectively in fluidity space so they can invade Species 8472...the Borg are an amalgamation of flesh and machine...their Ships could easily reflect that as well...I think the next iteration of the Borg should show their ships in different shape designs to indicate advancement...if they did go "Nat20" in shape then that could indicate great improvement in offensive and defensive capabilities as well as improvements in propulsion and shields also in their rapid repair capabilities...regenerative ablative shields would be quite useful when tied in with double the repair speed or halve the repair time and efficiency...more "faces" in the shape could enhance weapon arcs and emplacements...the Borg have the best potential for ship designs that will be more Organic in appearance...and also be quite mechanical...bring designs that reflect their assimilation of the many species...since they keep saying they will add the distinctiveness of the races they assimilate...the ships, I think, should look like they literally added their technology both internal and external...another amalgamation that would be more similar in construction to themselves that would lend to the interesting various shapes according to resources...the ships should look more Borg...the ships would be amalgamations instead of specific design standards...that would make them appear much more Barbaric...because they Are Barbaric...
There was also the Octahedron ship the Queen used. It was only marginally larger than a Sphere.
The borg was hampered by plot armor, if the borg wanted, why not send thousands of cubes into the federation and just crush them Only time they came close was the novels
Hello what is that amazing dice we can see at the end please ?
The Tactical Cube is just the Borg being dickish. Most civilizations can barely beat one cube and the Borg go..."you know what? Let's put armor on a cube."
Species 8472: HAHAHA
@@arvintob I think they did it BECAUSE of Species 8472.
64,000 is an army, not a crew...
First I would like to say SORRY THAT PEOPLE WHO WATCH THIS DON'T RESPECT YOUR WORK IN MAKING THIS INTERESTING VIDEO. I PLAY ARMADA l l and I never like seeing super cubes. BUT what about the Romulan Shadow ship NOT BAD. Thanks for sharing this video with us the fans.
The "tactical cube" was always a frustrating invention of Voyager - it suggested specialization for Borg ships when they were supposed to be philosophically decentralized and uniform.
That just isn't true TNG established that Borg Ships are cubes and also spheres and whatever shape Hugh's ship was. This was long before Voyager ever aired. Borg vessels have always been a centralized group think collective. The borg queen just became a hub for all information the borg collective takes in but, she is under the control of the hive as well. The queen also is solely does all the research the borg does. They even made Locutus special within the collective during their first encounter as he processes information like the queen. "We are the Borg" completely centralized.
@@xineohpinakc264 I don't know what isn't true about what I just said. The Borg can have whatever shapes necessary, but a specialized cube that is bigger and badder than a standard one just defies the design aesthetic. (It makes sense in some respects, as the Borg do not have infinite resources, but it just doesn't fit.)
@@bjorn00000 It fits fine. A tactical cube would be necessary against civilizations with a lot of hardened armor technology. Borg Spheres serve as larger scout ships, The borg queens interface ship and When I mentioned Hugh's ship it reminds me of the probe ship from Voy. that was about the same size and firepower as an Intrepid.
@@xineohpinakc264 We know next to nothing about Hugh's ship, including its shape. The only thing that TNG (including First Contact) suggested was that there would be different sizes and later shapes but they would still be decentralized and serve the same functions (just at larger or smaller scales). As I said at the top, anything more than that was just a stupid Voyager invention.
Dude I love star trek! I'm like the biggest fan and when I first saw that tactical cube I was like "freakin Aye mate!" that was like 20 years ago I like to draw my own concepts of borg tactical vessels. I want to host this show! I love star trek and know everything about the show. Can I send you my resumé?
You sound very passionate, maybe consider uploading some content of your own
Wauw wath a nice cube
Just one question remains: What stopps a ship from aiming between the armor plates?
Tldr: engineers designing ships for our universe with the show dumbing down combat to be considered cool and flashy Speed, manoverability, and range? Likely electronic warfare. Trek was designed way ahead of it's time and set the rules for the universe before we started theorizing actual orbital combat. Consider the safety box around the iss? I think I read somewhere that any object approaching within 14,000 meters (I'm unsure of this number) is considered a imminent collision and requires the station to manover out of the way. So I read in a book that 50,000 meters distance would be considered close combat and suicidal with combat mostly being experienced within 300,000 meters using guided munitions. Phasors and disruptors would be too slow as the light you are seeing of the other ship would be seconds if not a minute of old data... Combat in space would more be like a 3D version of battleship where you are guessing where the enemy is going to make a hit that makes for very slow (boring to some) combat scenes more remisent of submarine vs fleet combat then anything else. Pretty hard to fit "spaceship porn" on the tv screen with combat taking place at those ranges. Then you factor in that Star Trek doesn't really get into orbital mechanics other then occasionally saying geosencrinous orbit. Attacks would take place in a tenth of a second if that. Then waiting for hours or days or sometimes weeks as they try to manover into a more advantageous orbital plane, lots of waiting only to be vaperised in a tenth of a second for a single mistake. The ships would be passing each other at orbital speeds in something resembling boom and zoom. Sorry gotta keep going I find this topic so fascinating. The old adage that if you see it you can hit it doesn't work at these distances. You are dealing with the speed of light. At the distances we are talking about a puff of thrust from the enemy ship could be the difference of thousands of meters off your target.
A borg cube is what nearly single-handedly defeated a Dominion War-era fleet of Federation warships. A tactical cube is what the Borg build when they're serious about fighting and in a single engagement with an Intrepid-class starship it's the suped up borg warship that is limping away repairing it's engines. Oh, Voyager...
Voyager (intrepid class) isn't even a tactical ship. It's a science vessel
@@bjornjoseph eh, I would argue it's a combat vessel that doubles as a science vessel, similar to many other post dominion war era federation ships like the sovereign-class. But we might be splitting hairs.
8472 is tripodal not quad lol
The Borg would be more scary if they didn't constantly get beaten
there are mods armada 2 and they add even scarier wersion 8 fusion cubes marge to mega super fusion cube.
Tactical cubes are mentioned as being used at the battle of Wolf 359
That wouldn’t make sense, as only one Borg Cube was present at the Battle of Wolf 359. - Jack
@@TrekCentral but if you listen in a couple of the other episodes you hear one of the Admirals claim it was a tactical cube and if you look at the background of the wolf 359 episode you see at least 2 cubes in the background being attacked
We see it one more time. One almost hits Voyage when it's in the nebula with the transwarp hub.
small nitpick - species 8472 are tripedal not quadrupedal
First thing I wanted to say.
Borg rod would be good. Somehow link it to Star Trek 4
Borg tactical cube was no match for plot armor :p
I personally would love to see a Q series where John de Lancie just goes through every BS Ex-Machina plothole like star trek's personal Cinemasins and just fixes them all. Complete with sin counts.
And it couldn't even finish off an explorer vesssl. Gunners must have been on lunch that day.
The federation should build a maga ship or two to dwarf the bird ship, with a generation family like with thousands of crew and hundreds of phaser cannons and photon torpedos 10 warp cores and 4 slipstream drives. Inter galactic capable. Self sustaining.
See I have more questions then answers on the borg sure there's a missing movie that should have been made by now would be I threshing Firstly if all where assimilated who was the first ? There had to be 1 The and my personal preference the hot Queen of the borg who chose her to be the voice she was herself assimilated but there had to be some sort of decision and why her also she had an independent mind There just seems ro be many questions missing on the borg those are just a couple that keep popping in my head ona list Any answers ?
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Here's an idea to defeat the federation.. Send two ship's.
Somewhere in the Delta Quadrant, the queen is blowing her stack for not having this idea.
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I feel that normal borg cube is the most scary as it's simple design yet deadly as fuck, there was no need to add anythingg else to them if they just kept to the original lore of them they'd been still just as scary of a threat, but after voyager and giving them a 'leader' the borg became less scary and more of just another enemy
i always thought the tactical cube was to adress enemies that cannot be assimilated, and they send the tactical cube, wich has 1 purpose, annihilate enemies
Now I like star trek voyager and I like the Borg eps but they nerfed the living feck out of them. A cube is a fleet destroyer in voyager it has problems taking down an intrepid class 🤦🏾 bring the Borg back to full power like in tng.
I wonder what would happen if the Borg D 20 rolled a nat. 1?
Little known fact; in endgame, the janeways' plan didn't do anything. It was one borg d20 already in the network that rolled a 1 when trying to exit the network. Talk about lucky timing.
@@xedanis101 lol
Seven = next Borg Queen.....
Armada 2... tactical fusion cube. Thing was over powered
At 5mins i hear hay .
Irony is" we've never witnessed any other species assimilated by The Borg than human, such as: Klingon, Vulcan, Romulan, Cardassian, Ferengi, Changeling, Talaxian, etc. For some similar reason they too can't be assimilated" just as species 8472 can't be assimilated.🤨
wouldnt a tac team with a nuclear warhead be enough to fry the drones from explosion or emp
lmao a borg icosahedron.
to be honest while I can imagine the Borg sticking to their tried-and-true designs it doses defeat their purpose as well wich is to adapt wich is to get better they are in a since are ai or computers with bioengineering so just the cubes makes um predictable so I would of liked to see their design change to become adapted to the new tactics were they use to be formidable now they seem to be no more than nuisances. Still nice to see the star trek universe being built upon so it not the end of the world.
Fuck it, the most powerful Borg ship is, in Star Trek Online, multiple Borg Spheres with Tachyon beams that eat away your shield, even if you have very high DrainX point.