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So, why now would the Borg use cloaking devices?

shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
edited August 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I mean, it's not like they didn't have the technology before, to use cloaking devices!

Why now, are they figuring it's such a brilliant idea?

I figured, they thought the technology, was futile and inferior!!!
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  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,825 Arc User
    Kinda a spoiler :P

    Well they did say the Borg made advancements in tech...maybe they couldn't make cloak work before?
  • medalionemissarymedalionemissary Member Posts: 612 Arc User
    For the sake of story telling... what classic technology do you associate with Romulans, other than with Klingons... CLOAK... oh yeah... they assimimlated them... that's their iconic tech.. Can't be much more than that honestly.
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  • foxrockssocksfoxrockssocks Member Posts: 2,482 Arc User
    They already assimilated Romulans in the "original" timeline, and Klingons. It doesn't make any real sense.
  • rmy1081rmy1081 Member Posts: 2,840 Arc User
    foxrockssocks wrote: »
    They already assimilated Romulans in the "original" timeline, and Klingons. It doesn't make any real sense.

    well, remember Hakeev was also monkeying with borg tech. In khitomer ground we learn the romulan borg drones are faster and smarter than normal borg. One could assume these borg joined the collective when they invaded romulan space.
  • medalionemissarymedalionemissary Member Posts: 612 Arc User
    Well if you wanna get technical... when the Borg assimilated the Klingon carrier in one of the earliest Borg STFs, it uncloaks... as well as the assimilated Scimitar
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  • farranorfarranor Member Posts: 559 Arc User
    Obviously because it makes them harder to see. And that's awesome.

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  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,825 Arc User
    edited August 2015
    medalionemissary wrote: »
    Well if you wanna get technical... when the Borg assimilated the Klingon carrier in one of the earliest Borg STFs, it uncloaks... as well as the assimilated Scimitar

    Yeah...they use the cloak on Romulan or Klingon ships...all I can figure if maybe without their *uberness* they didn't have the tech to make it work properly on their own ships?

    Maybe they couldn't cloak something as big as a Cube and they figured cloaking Spheres or Probes wouldn't be super effective?

    Maybe cloaking technology was incompatible with Borg tech without this advanced tech they assimilated?

    Just spit balling a little...
  • woodwhitywoodwhity Member Posts: 2,636 Arc User
    lianthelia wrote: »
    Yeah...they use the cloak on Romulan or Klingon ships...all I can figure if maybe without their *uberness* they didn't have the tech to make it work properly on their own ships?

    Maybe they couldn't cloak something as big as a Cube and they figured cloaking Spheres or Probes wouldn't be super effective?

    Maybe cloaking technology was incompatible with Borg tech without this advanced tech they assimilated?

    Just spit balling a little...

    Pretty much this. It was stated several times in Canon that cloaking big ships with normal cloak would distort space, which would be inefficient, since this distortion could be tracked down.

    The other reason is of course: Plotpoint.
  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    foxrockssocks wrote: »
    They already assimilated Romulans in the "original" timeline, and Klingons. It doesn't make any real sense.
    It appears they don't always learn everything there is to learn from them. They might have needed more than the basic tech to improve it to cloak their bigger ships, and that required Romulans that had the knowledge or skill to do that.
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    Before, they didn't care for cloaks because their M.O. is to inform the target of their desire to assimilate them and them break down their defenses. In the alternate timeline, they've decided to take a sneakier route.
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  • aesicaaesica Member Posts: 736 Arc User
    You do realize that the Borg are the same folks that often ignore you (at first) when you board their ships and structures. Then, when they do decide to attack, they bleep and bloop as they activate right in front of you, stepping out of nearby alcoves to begin to lumbering toward you as they spout off assimilation propaganda.

    The Borg have never been a subtle group, so even if they had cloaking tech all along, it probably got filed away as "irrelevant" because it can't directly blow things up or assimilate more efficiently. The Borg utilizing cloaking ships (a signature Romulan ability) in this episode was probably the devs' way of showing us that not only had the Romulans been totally dominated, but that the Borg had also gotten smarter.
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  • timelord79timelord79 Member Posts: 1,852 Arc User
    The influence of a race of billions of cloakets suddenly being assimilated.
    They also assimilated their fashion sense.
    Did you see Borg Hakeev still sporting his giant shoulder pads?
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  • aesicaaesica Member Posts: 736 Arc User
    timelord79 wrote: »
    The influence of a race of billions of cloakets suddenly being assimilated.
    They also assimilated their fashion sense.
    Did you see Borg Hakeev still sporting his giant shoulder pads?
    When I played the episode for the first time and got to the borg ground part, I actually muttered something along the lines of, "so when does an assimilated Hakeev crawl out of the shadows?"

    So predictable. :D
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  • mainamaina Member Posts: 430 Arc User
    edited August 2015
    woodwhity wrote: »
    lianthelia wrote: »


    The other reason is of course: Plotpoint.



    This, it separates this version from our version. It is pure "Trek". It is no different from space gangsters, Goatees on mirror Spock, Space Romans, etc, etc....

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  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    edited August 2015
    shadowwraith77 wrote: »
    I mean, it's not like they didn't have the technology before, to use cloaking devices!

    Why now, are they figuring it's such a brilliant idea?

    I figured, they thought the technology, was futile and inferior!!!

    They assimilated cloak-capable ships before. Cloaking tech isn't a big deal for them. But all the sudden it is in the new FE.

    I also laughed a little when Jarok said that the Klingons stole cloaking technology from the Romulans. Because the Klingons got it in a trade with the Romulans back in Kirk's time. The Klingons got cloaks while the Romulans got badly needed D-7 hulls and better power sources. It seemed Romulan shipbuilding had fallen behind by TOS timeframe, as well as power plants. Their Warbird in "Balance of Terror" had all kinds of limited power issues that led to its downfall. Next we see the Romulans, they're sporting a bunch of D-7 Cruisers and not having those technical problems the ship had in "Balance of Terror."
    timelord79 wrote: »
    Did you see Borg Hakeev still sporting his giant shoulder pads?

    I barely could tell it was Hakeev much because we were busy vaporizing him.
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