All the Starfleet ships are bilateral, and all the borg ships are symmetrical. So how did we end up with 1 nacelle having an "assimilated whale crawler" on it and 1 engine (relevant point when there are more then one engines on the ship, such as the Prometheus) showing assimilated tech while giving off the green trail?
This is what I'm talking about.
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h314/Dahm_photos/borg-2.jpg
And just to take this a bit further...the rest of the borg tech appears bilateral, even the aegis set follows this trend. Not sure if this is intended, an oversight, or just me

Oh and another point further then the last, I am not an expert at all when it comes to space travel, (I would say I'm way lower then an amateur). But wouldn't an engine that is putting out way more energy then its "brother" engine, cause the ship to veer off to weaker engine's side? I am not sure if gravity is the cause of this, but I would think that it has nothing to do with it.
(The "brother engine" is the unassimilated engine that is producing less power then the assimilated one. No idea what the engine should be called, but brother gets the point across).
Final thoughts...
I know that you can turn the visuals off, no need to remind me

I am a sucker for symmetry, all men can relate to this...I'll leave this here to prove the point
( 0 Y o) or ( o Y o ) Hope that isn't against tos on the forums

The assimilated whale crawler nacelle thing doesn't bug me, its the fact that it isn't on any other nacelle that does. Also, if the nacelle part was removed and both engines just had the little assimilated tech on it plus the green trails, that would be fine. Actually it would be pretty damn awesome.
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Probably because some ships may have only one "engine port" - I dunno.
Is'nt the assimilated freighter from enterprise a-symmetrical?
I had assumed a secondary borg kit would come out..but doesnt look like it......
I would much more prefer a symmetrical layout....that way i wouldnt forever have the visuals turned off..not a big fan of wonky ships
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But all borg ships are symmetrical...it must be relevant. I think Data said something as to why this is or would be.
I mean, can't I paint my assimilated stuff a better color?
It was suggested by the fx artist that had the ship been left alone, it would have eventually formed into a borg cube. Albiet small at first.
The Assimilated Engine is different in 2 ways:
1: We have no idea from where this engine came from a borg ship, it could have been part of a larger array.
2: We already know that a lot of Borg tech on Starfleet ships tends to be McGyver'ed on the first place, so its probably a method of convenience rather than having to build a new engine housing. Also, perhaps if you earn the engine twice they can crafted into a symmetrical set?
Besides, if the Borg were doing the mods on our ships we'd be flying around crashing parties and whipping out our tubules every chance we got and rambling on about how our new cult is THE BOMBZ!! and how everyone should join, no really everyone should join, seriously everyone MUST join...
It'd be a total drag. Asymmetrical is fine.
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This one.
And it was enhanced mainly on just one side.
Fair point. but the dish, shields, and console are symmetric. So...why not the engines?
Pretty much.
I perfer the haphazard look to the borg set because it makes you ship look like its been partially assimilated. It looks like similar to the upgrades performed on voyager just "kicked up to 11". Their are plenty of examples of ships that have been assimilated with asymmetrical designs.
The Arctic One, Revan Rogue Borg Ship , and the partial assimilated Voyager are all good examples of non symmetrical borg design and I think tats what the devs were going after the most.
but further down the article you referred to it says it would have eventually turned into a cube
I just bloody said that! lol No one listens to me.
Actually, a sphere. And that would happen if they got the resources to 'feed' the assimilation of the ship further along. On a starfleet ship, the tech isn't alive, its just welded on wreckage, so it won't grow into a symmetrical shape like natural.
We can't really judge from the dish and shields as there's only one per ship (and the science ships' extra dish isn't a navigational deflector, IIRC). The console is really the only piece that's remotely symmetrical, and even those aren't in the exact same positions on both sides. Even if they were it's not actually proving anything. It's just the way the devs made it look.
The closer we look at the visual mods the gear sets bring to our ships the more we'll find "wrong" with them. I seriously doubt they were designed to pass close Treknerd scrutiny. Some of the mods show major structural changes that would take weeks in space dock to complete. Thankfully we don't have to endure that kind of realism. I think the gear mods are mainly for the coolness factor, not to achieve any kind of logic in-genre or in-game (I mean, the Borg engines put what looks like a giant mechanical pill bug on one of our nacelles. WTH is that about?). As always, your mileage may vary.
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The pattern that appears when the shield or console is equipped shows a bilateral pattern though, The dish looks quite bilateral as well. It really is just the engines that are out of the norm.
(I was going to say it looked like a more cylindrical horseshoe crab, but w/e
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I'm interested
Not that I can find. Most of the pics that come up when I Google "Voyager Borg Tech" are actually shots of Jeri Ryan. I guess people aren't as interested in the ship as they are in her.
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Rear view.
It's from Voyager: "Scorpion, Part II".