I just found the pertinent chapter of
Dark Victory online (
in French, of all things) and I can correct a couple of details in my post. First, it was actually Spock
and mirror-Spock together who looked into this issue. Second, humans have encountered the Borg in the MU -- and by "encountered" I mean "wiped the floor with." They were aware of the threat sooner and prepared for it better. As we saw in last night's episode, the Terran Empire focused far more heavily on weapons than on anything else, like safe warp core design; we also know the Borg haven't been around as long as one might guess, since the Vaadwaur were the Delta Quadrant's big shots 900 years ago. With that information in mind, it's not too big a stretch that the Empire could have overpowered the Borg in, say, the early 2200s.
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FiveMinute.net: because stuff is long and life is short
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FiveMinZeke: Galactica clearly needs the advanced technology of
scissors, which get around the whole "yanking on your follicles" problem.
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IJD: cylons can hack any blades working in conjunction