Star Trek: 10 Secrets About The Borg Cube You Need To Know
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"Sir, the coordinates you have indicated to not appear to be a vital system."
"Have you ever set off a cherry bomb in a toilet?"
"No, sir. I can honestly say, I have not."
"Trust me, Data."
Commander Riker hides his smirk.
I had an apartment about ten years ago that had been roughly retrofitted, so a lot of the pipes and wires were actually on the walls instead of inside. I put cable covers over much of it and painted it so that it looked like the inside of a Borg cube. I added some lights and devices for effect and it was pretty creepy. I might be a Trekkie.
Any photos? 'Cuz that sounds like it'd be awesome to see..
..Well, except for whatever poor non-Trekkie got the apartment after you ;)
*you in effect enhanced the apartment and made it worth more to the landlord who could then use that modification to charge more to the next resident as it was a Star Trek "themed" set for doing online blogs*
That’s pretty cool
@@scottmantooth8785 Only if the next resident was a Star Trek fan. Most likely it was rented to someone who was all "eugh get that stuff outta here'😖😣😨 Then they repainted the whole apartment in some bland beige colors.
And are you still single?
Cetacean Ops was yanked out of Enterprise-D along with several decks of the Saucer Section during their first encounter. Now there are assimilated dolphins with laser pointer head attachments.
Dolphins with fricken laser beams
This might be where Jones came from in Johnny Mnemonic.
@@Chris-et2fm
Curses! You beat me to it by only *checks time stamp* two hours!
You guys never heard the tragedy of the dolphins? Apparently the dolphins got into the BBQ deck and were turned into dolphin brisket sandwiches by the great great great great great great grandson of Guy Fieri. They replaced them with gerbil ops but that ended when the ship ran into Richard Gere who was apparently a Q but still.had a gerbil fetish.
Lolol
Just so you know, they also assimilated some ill tempered, mutated sea bass (they were Cetacean Ops Security on Enterprise).
I always suspected the model kit frames as how they constructed it. It's not only cheap, but being made of polystyrene, you could easily do the regeneration effect of the Borg cube by melting it with a hot air gun, and playing the footage in reverse.
same thats exactly what i thought of when I first saw it lol
My theory on the borg's Propulsion is that it is gravity based maybe creating some sort of micro singularity ahead of the ship to basically pull it along. That would explain why the cubes seem to speed off in any direction at any time. It would also explain why in the voyager episode where they introduce species 8472 when the more then a dozen borg cubes go speeding past voyager it gets bounced around like a boat hitting the wake of other vessels.
I just flew into the area where the Borg cubes are in the Star Trek fleet command game for the first time last night. I got to say it was kind of a scary prospect flying one of my spaceships into an area with Borg ships, even if it was just a game.
Star Trek Starfleet Command 3? Or the new game?
@@mrbuck5059 it's a Scopley game called Star Trek Fleet Command. It's fun for a few levels, but it quickly devolves into player-versus-player nonsense and you either have to wage war against other people over the Internet or it takes until the end of time for you to actually level up enough to build the cool ships. There are protective Shields you can get to prevent players from attacking you, but you have to finish the daily goals every single day in order to get those. It doesn't have a mode for people who have a life.
I always thought that the fact that "it does not appear to be a vital system" was the very reason it was a weakness. You hit it once you've essentially made a big hole and hit it again and you have a bigger hole and so on and so fourth. It's not heavily protected therefore it's weak spot. Safe to say you can only exploit this weakness once before they adapt, the borg are inherently logical but they always adapt to new situations.
No one ever learns to protect a small thermal exhaust port. :-) (and it was devastating because _everyone_ fired on it.)
The amount of air quotes at the end was "utterly amazing" 😂
"The iconic like circle thing that sits above them and it's got the energy flowing through it and it's got like this green crackling light thing" ... CLASSIC!
I still have one of those old Luminglas thingamajigs laying around somewhere from way back when. And I was ten when the first Borg episode aired and I already knew about these things. But I'm from Germany and I guess the UK wasn't that informed about anything in the world back then in the 90s.
I also have a couple of these old 'magic' plasma globes lying around. These would have surely baffled englishman back then as well... _Witchcraft_ I say!
I saw those things long before Star Trek used them. Science fiction using SFX toys you could buy at a store was not at all new... but before the Borg alcoves in TNG and after, it was something Star Trek abandoned for better special effects.
@@dvdemon187 There's one in "Remembrance of the Daleks" (1988). So we were well aware of flickery light globes back then. 🙂 Maybe even before our Teutonic friends...
I would only worry if you heard the collective say We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile. Then I'd worry. I'd also invest in some vitamin d because Borg clearly don't get out into the sun unless they have to. 😂
@@brianlipensky1722 Borg: We are the Borg. We are the most badass. Species 8472: Hold our fluidic beer.
I remember those lighting discs being sold in Spencer Gifts for years before they appeared in Star Trek. I was typing this right as you started talking about it, lol.
There was a Borg Tetrahedron too that made it into several extended universe things (Star Trek Attack Wing, Star Trek Online), but was never seen in cannon. It was used as the Borg Queen's command ship.
Do Borg assimilate the dolphins and whales in Cetacean Ops when they take a Federation vessel with them onboard? I can't believe that thought has never crossed my mind before.
They assimilate the viruses so that what the viruses assimilate will slowly become borg. Our people are becoming more and more borg. Our children are attached to their smartphones which is connected to the collective. Resistance is futile.
@Oona Craig Resistance is inevitable.
Resistance is futile... but welcome.
@@user-nf9xc7ww7m Explains my watching this with a VR Headset.
I think you forgot one small thing: Picard heard the Borg Queen ordered the Borg to initialize repairs for a shield location. The Location he ordered the fleet to attack, so it wasn't actually vital system, but a weakness in the shield due to battle damage.
Source?
@@wattsvilleblues Have you ever read the book "Star Trek: First Contact"? It's in the book plain as day.
Long Story short: When he orders the Borg vessal on screen, He hears the chatter of the Borgs Hive Mind, then a One rises above and orders the repair of a section of Shield, then it goes silent.
He had some information that no one else had, so he used it!
@@bcsviewer1 I read the novelisation in 1997, don't remember that part but thanks for the heads up 🙂
7:08 -- Agreed, Adam! As a general rule, practical effects definitely trump CGI.
Okay...dude just told us how to do a DIY Borg cube. That's quality content.
My name is Paul Sutherland, I work in the film industry, and I can't get over how one of my favorite lunch-break CZcams channels has a writer named Paul Sutherlin on staff. The rest of the world doesn't care, but boy it feels good to finally get that one off my chest. I really should have thrown my name in the hat when these guys were looking for an editor a little while back.
the rest of the world MUST care
@@paulsutherlin We are bringing together the best of both worlds, after all.
Something to think about: Some of the Borg can move about in space, without space suites, at least for a while. That, coupled with their ability to go into a kind of stasis, would mean that, those Borg blown out of their ships, could continue to "Live", floating about in space, until re-animated. There might be billions of Borg, drifting about, alone or intentionally holding hands to remain as a group, waiting for a cube to come along and scoop them up and restart them. Sounds like a good plot element to me.
We are the Dolphin Borg. You will lower your shields and give us all your fish. Your culture will adapt to feed us fish. Your biological and technological ability to catch fish will be added to our own. Resistance is annoying, we're hungry.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
You wouldn’t know that. To us that message would look like triple backflip thru a metallic ring while whistling the star spangled banner...
Now we need to go back in time to get a pair of dolphins to talk to the borg probe.
@@user-nf9xc7ww7m god damn you, now I have to watch Star Trek IV again. Iiiii eschew you, and Iiiii say "screw you!" 🖖
Happy to be the 50 the like for this hilarious reply!
The Voyager production using the Borg Playmates toy for the Annika episode is a nice parallel to TOS using an AMT model kit Enterprise to create the USS Constellation for “The Doomsday Machine”
IIRC, TOS also used the AMT model in The Trouble With Tribbles to depict the Enterprise outside the office windows of the station commander.
"That's not a toy" was also what my dad said when he saw the Borg Cube in a Micro Machines pack I got as a kid.
Those Iconic like circle things that sit above them are my favorite
I've had a blue one of those for about 20 years. Hint: don't put it near any sensitive electronic device. It is real electric discharge through a vacuum between two glass plates.
here in the states, ( for those who really do not know.) upn, which stood for United Paramount Network was the station family that broadcasted star trek shows in the 90s'. they were mostly cbs affiliate stations. ( for the younger people what's now known as sub-stations.)
Adam...you learning about Spencer's is just the greatest thing lmao.
I wrote my comment before reading your's! 😆
Great minds! 🖖
And his description was spot-on. Dog poo, t-shirts, and sex toys. Such a weird store to put in every mall when he says it like that.
And for the rest of the world: the sex toys are not in a special area. They are on shelves right next to the lava lamps and as a kid, I found myself accidentally in that aisle many while looking at the cool lights. I’m glad there wasn’t internet in my hand back then, because I’d have definitely been searching some questionable vocabulary.
Well well well
@@on1yadam lmao
IDK man the way he said "stores" had me rolling.
I owned one of the lumiglas. I loved it. It eventually cracked and burnt out.
The upsetting thing is you can only seem to get them now in a form about the size of a grapefruit. Getting one the size of a hubcap is nigh on impossible now.
Borg Alcove thingy - Mate they're common in the uk too, used to sell em at Maplin search for plasma plate
*64 years young and have been a non-addicted 24 hr. treckie but loyal viewer of the series have to thank your staff on all and any information whether factual or HOLLYWOOD!* 🖖
"Where's the cube's weak spot?" "Shoot it in the a$$!!!" Lol. 😂
Adam Clery, you sir, are a gem!
Those Spencer's electric light things. Whenever i see it on the show i get sent back in my mind to my late 90's early 2000's mall ratting.
This has truly become one of my favorite CZcams channels. Love you guys.
Okay, the "long road" joke at 9:20 -- and Adam's reaction to saying it -- made me laugh. Well done.
I absolutely love the American accent. "Stores" hahaha🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, I had a big stupid laugh at that one
Lol no "shops" were better.
He has an Australian accent to me. I am American.
He’s doing a Midwestern accent
Adam gets a big 👍🏾⬆️ for his accent!
Adam discovering the concept of Spencer gifts is why he's one of my favorite presenters. 😆
Like "Hi, Hello there. Come to America ye Britons! We've got Spencers!"
We had an equivalent: Hawkins Bazaar. no crackling light dish thingies though.
I laugh so hard when you say you are so old. I remember seeing the commercials for Star Trek on NBC back in the 60s. I have shoes older than you. You could easily be my grandson.
Adam, it is funny that you had number 2 as the weak spot of the Borg ship being waste reclamation because number 2 also means poop.
Adam you got yourselves a video i want to see - reversed effects in Star trek or best practical effects in Star Trek.
It is explained why The Artefact has gone dormant, though its not expanded upon much and more hinted at. When the Borg assimilated the Romulan crew they also got the memories of the Zhat Vash operative who went insane from seeing the visions of the Admonition. The Borg have precedence with two things: they struggle to process conflicting data, and they severe connection to potentially dangerous Borg. So the Borg started analysing the Admonition and couldn't reconcile what it was showing (because despite being mostly machine they still aren't), it started driving Drones insane at a rapid pace (namely the other Romulan drones they just assimilated) and they quickly cut connection to it to stop the spread to other vessels. Without being connected to the Hive Mind the Cube deactivates, stranded far from the Collective.
The main question is why they didn't order it to self destruct. Perhaps there wasn't enough time, or enough Drones had already been incapacitated to successfully initiate the destruction.
the cube in Picard was dormant because the borg assimilated the Romulan ship with the woman who had seen the vison of the synthetic Armageddon, it overloaded them and the cube was cut off from the collective, this was stated on screen
That shows story can be hard to keep track of and remember to be fair. Most of the story I figured out only when it mattered and the cube didn't factor into the story as super important until the last few episodes
It wasn’t hard to keep track of, it was clearly stated why it was sat there. It’s not rocket science. The vision drove romulans mad and terrified the Borg enough to cut the cube loose.
@@youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan8419 nah I get what they mean friend. The show wasn’t as memorable to some as it was to others. Just be glad your not alone in keeping track and enjoying. I loved this series
Borg at the battle for Earth: What if we reroute main power through the bathroom? Oh and store our torpedos there too. No one will think to look there
For that after the fatal design flaw in rhe Death Star is described in the film as an "exhaust port for waste heat." Because you *know* the Superlaser produces a *lot* of it. The Second Law of Thermodynamics strikes again! D'oh!
Until Picard show up
"The iconic like circle thing that sits above them and it's got the energy flowing through it and it's got like this green crackling light thing" is essentially an "Argon bulb", we messed around with those in the 1970s as some of the better head shops sold them, (absolutely great for when you were tripping on good acid).
The original ones were a large round bulb with argon gas inside powered by a small Tesla Coil, so these arcs of energy would shoot out from the coil & the argon gas would cause them to change color.
But when you laid your fingers on the exterior surface of the bulb the enrgy would arc towards your fingers, I used to know the "why" of that, but don't remember right now, but I still have my original argon bulb, plus a couple of the flat disc versions that I purchased long before STTNG or the Borg became a part of Trek......
I always pictured Borg Cubes tapping into Dark Energy.
Practical effects will ALWAYS be better than CGI.
I made many many models of almost everything when I was a kid! The first thing I noticed about the Borg cube, was all the plastic model frames everywhere! 😃
Wait a second, if even California class vessels have cetacean ops then it should be safe to assume that Miranda class and Exelcisior class ships do as well. Seeing as these class of ships were lost at Wolf 359 with many losses and assimilations (as confirmed in Voyager) then it should be safe to assume the borg would have assimilated this unique technology and biological entity. Ergo there ARE Borg dolphins!
I am spending the rest of today imagining what a dolphin Borg looks like.
@@MrCookieCat do a search for 'Mechawhale'. It's the closest thing I can think of.
Lots of interesting info and really good fun too! You’re doing a great job - especially while we are in this Trek desert time. Thanks!
I used to work at Spencer's and those lights are great! I actually have the smaller sized one here at my place. It's also green.
Your explanation of what Spencer's Gifts was at my local mall was spot on. And that accent made my day.
The irony being that the "aerodynamic" look of Federation vessels is impractical for space flight, while the Borg cube is more functional and closer to probably what is needed. But the magic used to describe the future tech is the only thing that matters for Star Trek. But there are many, many, many things that are impractical about Federation vessels. Then again the designs also seem to translate to alien vessels as well.
You guys are really doing a great job. Many thanks to the TrekCulture team
I've actually got one of those Luminglas discs (and YES it's green!). There used to be a Spencer's Gifts in Crawley many years ago and so I was able to get one from there. It still works even to this day and is perfect at Halloween.
I love watching your videos. Your presentation is always refreshing.
I wish I had that Borg cube. But I did give my son a Lucutis action figure that I'm sure he still has, so there's that.
Very nice video. I should be working, but I couldn't tear myself away
I had one of those crackle glass light things, bought from Spencer Gifts in my home town. I'm British btw, so not sure where he got the idea that we didn't have them in the UK 🥴
There is a north south divide (it was massively greater even a couple of decades ago) in retail brands, until about 2000, we hadnt even heard of Wilko (Wilkinsons) in London. Theres a few other stores, but the only other one that come to mind is The Entertainer toy shop. Didnt have those until maybe mid-noughties.
A friend of mine (at the time) had a Luminglass BEFORE 1st Contact came out. Also, as a side note, in an episode of TNG, Picard is seen in his ready room packing away a bunch of PADs into a diamond-like container. Well that container was actually a CD case and my sister got me 1 for Christmas about a year or 2 before it appeared on The Next Generation
Star Trek's ability to turn common household items and appliances into iconic sci-fi props and set dressings is just unparalleled. Sure it's easy to look back and say "it's cheap and dated" but it just adds volumes to the visual charm of the franchise. I'll take a salt pot as a tricorder scanner thingy over that weird sex toy looking thing from the Picard S1 finale any day.
I may or may not have went to Spencers and may or may not have touched many of the electric discs and globes... I do miss walking through that shop in the malls. We had one in my hometown mall where I grew up. Good times.
I love your videos. So interesting and it's surprisingly what I learn about Trek.
Great video! I'm hoping to see more of them in the upcoming Picard season. Cheers!
I never really wondered what the weak point of the cube was, I always wondered why if Picard knew about this weakness, he never thought to tell anyone.
I think it did not come to mind until he was put in that situation.
It's possible that it was only the weakest point at that time. Other ships had already been shooting at the cube and had softened it up. If the battle was just beginning, Picard may have suggested a different strategy.
@@bazzokzwattom2655 That was always my assumption. When he arrived and attuned to the whispers of the hive mind, he could hear the status of the cube and knew to direct the fleets fire there.
Even if it was not a weak spot having the entire fleet hitting the same spot would cause massive damage.
*possibly there was still a part of him that felt an oblique sympathy for the drones as they were not actually responsible for the loss of their humanity or whatever species that might have once been only reacting to the hive mind or mob think of the collective*
Enjoying this post-Picard and amazed at your prescience in number 4's title.
I used to have a mini version of those glass lightning things, I bought it BECAUSE of star trek lol. I couldn't afford the big one at the time. Really enjoyed that fascinating look into all things Borg :) Thank you, and the American accent.. cool lol xx
Jeri Ryan is SOOOO fine in Picard .. she is like wine gotten better with age
Shame they ruined her character though
It propably was the wine which made her better with age 😅
She has pockets now! And self confidence! And a mission!
Yeah she has gotten better. I used to resent her addition to Voyager (especially given her outfit) as a cheap ploy to increase ratings through sex appeal but.....
as she put it, "Resistance is futile" and I grew to love her strong feminine character.
@J Hemphill How can a character be a proper role model if they're not flawed? Personal growth in the face of adversity is what makes people role models. We need to see that these people can have their flaws, but still rise to the occasion.
The part about the Borg cube's weakspot was very interesting to me. I always interpreted the szene simply as "focus your firepower, duh" xD
When you said it'd been a long road for those drones I choked on my drink 😆
I like the info on the Borg Cube you presented and you also presented it making me laugh - well done
Plot twist: TC filmed this awhile back and waited to publish it when they actually hit 100k.
Nice to see you BACK on this channel and that was Cubily Enjoyable! ;-)
"it'd been a long road..." Adam.
A video on the Krenim Timeship would be cool
Spencers=The epitamy of what mankind is truly capable of when left simply to our creative devices with no intent of anything we make actually being functionally usefull!!:D Man I love that store!!
I had one of those Lumiglas things. I didn't see one until after First Contact came out, so of course I had to have one when I saw it at Spencer's. It was the coolest thing... for about a week.
Good to see Adam back in a studio!
“…it’d been a long road.” Aaaaand I just spit my drink all over. 🤣🤣🤣
The waste extraction explosion thing reminded me of Corporal Jones in Dad's Army. His catchphrase of "they don't like it up them!" (referring to his bayonet - it makes more sense on screen) seems to be rather appropriate here.
And Adam, if AOL's chatline makes you feel old, I saw Dad's Army on its first release, I learned all the imperial weights and measures, and the old pounds, shillings & pence (and the following year the country went decimal/metric & I had to start afresh! Though that's probably why I can do rapid exchanges between them mentally!), my first computer was a Spectrum 48K and now I feel _really_ old!
Love this episode! Please do more other non-hero ships!
Since we got ST:Picard, I kind of thought back to First Contact and made the assumption that the spot Picard orders the fleet to focus on was the location of the Queen's Cell, or rather damage enough material around it and then lob quantum torpedoes at it which he knows the borg have not yet encountered so they will be effective. Kind of more a desperate lashing out at his previous abuser than a real tactic. The Queen was already installed in the sphere however for part 2 of their plan. I always assumed and still do, that the cube was critically damaged by the quantums but actually self destructed to try and clear a path for the sphere to time travel. STP made that sequence make more sense imo. Also it was a top quality VFX 👌
Love watching your videos.
Clery!! Solid work 👍
I specifically wanted one of those Lumiglas things from the store in the mall (Gadgets & Gizmos) because of the Borg. My parents got it for me for my birthday or Christmas one year.
I think I'm gonna go to Spensers tomorrow, now that you've talked about it ;D
I had always assumed that in the scene in First Contact where Picard tells everyone to fire.on a specific coordinate was, in fact, a meaningless place as Borg Cubes are supposed to be decentralised. But everyone firing in the same place enough would cause a chain reaction through the ship. Whereas they were all just firing randomly all over it attempting to defrost it with attrition which it's designed to negate.
Defrost?? We know the Borg are foul, but does that make it a giant space chicken?? Cook from frozen???
If there had been a Borg pyramid, the Stargate SG-1 people could have complained because the Ga'ould ships are pyramids, as was established in the original Stargate film.
“I swear to god, Paul” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love the shots of the cube in first contact. Even though computer effects are great and amazing these day shots like the model in first contact can still give it a more real look.
And speaking of the borg, i hope we get to see more of them in picard season 2. I was a bit of a tease showing seven take control of the and then to flush them all out the ship a second later 🙁
Plasma discs are quite common over here in the UK too & have been for years. You used to be able to get them in Argos.
Fascinating video, yet again. God, I miss Star Trek
I had a "Borg alcove lightning circle" before they appeared in Star Trek... and yes, I got it at Spencer's.
My favourite part about the Borg cube was how, for the interior set in Q Who, the production team clearly just glued a bunch of "technical looking" objects to the walls; including a number of faceplates from 5.25" floppy disk drives...
I was born in Czechoslovakia and I remember almost the same "borg crackling circles" from 90's or early 2000's (maybe even older toy) from a shop too. It was expensive thing in DBK or that much bigger shop in Prague.
By the way, the shop DBK looks Borg made.
@06:33 Well they had the _Millienium Falcon_ making a guest appearance (sort of) so why not the other iconic Star Wars vessel. Then you can have Picard be like "target the thermal exhaust port, fire quantum torpedoes".
Great video
I remember seeing those crackly glass things in the Gadget Shop in the MetroCentre years ago.
This is cool..never knew about it..
First contact was damn near perfect Star Trek.
I think that was my favorite movie.
I don't think I really needed to know these things, but they might come up sometime in a trivia game.
100% accurate about what was inside of a spencers store ... plus so much more - all of it weird
there's still one open in the mall of america in minnesota - selling the same stuff as always, every day
Adam Clery take a bow, i love your videos mate, yery entertaining !
OMG! I knew all this, I Have the Playmates Borg toy cube, and the Spencer Luminous Disc crackle plate, and I too recall the AOL chat room Star Trek, lol still have my AOL account too!! Dear Lord, I'm a bigger Star Trek Nerd than I thought....OH WELL! I suppose there are worse things I could know about, at least this is good clean sci-fi fun. Thanks thumbs up I still enjoyed the post!
haha yes Paperclips in the First Contact cube, among tons and tons of etched brass parts... I talked with one of the model builders on TheRPF about it. As im going to be making a first contact cube soonish... (50CM^3)
With that shooting of the cube's weak spot, I also wondered what that was. I first wondered if it wasn't much like with the Death Star in Star Wars , the propulsion system.
In the UK, we may not have had the disks that crackled but we had plasma balls that you put your finger on and the plasma was attracted to your finger. It had a pinkish/blue colour.