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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 1288943" data-attributes="member: 710">I am not sure if this is entirely correct, if you are talking to the Holodeck scene when Picard shoots them down with a Machine Pistol. As it seems, it takes the Borg always some time to adapt to a certain weapon technology, regardless how often they encountered it. (Maybe they have to download the technical data from the collective or what ever Techbabble we want to use <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ). Since only a few Borg are shot on the holodeck scene, it might be that they were just caught flatfooted (so to speak) and unable to adapt.They seem to have trouble with slower moving physical attacks (like fists and swords), but they can take some punishment. (It seems as if only Data and Worf - both known for a high strength - can harm the Borg really fast.)There is also another incident that the Borg have no real trouble with physical weapons - Photon and Quantum Torpedos are projectile weapons, and the first contact between Starfleet and Borg did prove that at least Photon tprpedos have little effect on a Cube.Just another thing about beaming through shields: I rewatched the Borg Assault on the Starfleet in Startrek VIII, and it seems as if the Enterprise did not have to lower its shield to beam the Defiant survivors aboard (the Enterprise was under attack during that scene and shielded the Defiant against the Borg). They are probably still incapable of beaming through enemy shields, but their own ones pose no problems (or they can lower them partially or fast enough to not pose any threats.)More geek-knowledge later... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Mustrum Ridcully</blockquote>

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