There has been a long time speculation about the organic technology able to make the space trip. We know that viruses are raining down from the sky due to our studies. Our minds has imagined wonderful things, but it's still a stretch of imagination to encounter a space-flower and it taking down an advanced vessel. You could assume that we have moved away from the Dilithium crystals and Chief Engineers, to more delicate era.
What I don't get is how? How an organic matter can develop so powerful energy field that it'll cancels electronics?
I thought it was the flower, which turned off the implant in JL's head, because in my mind, he has one and that is the thing Borg's and ExBorg's identify. But still, being able to render a Borg cube inoperable is a thing that we have no seen before. We have seen them demolished and cut in pieces, but not completely incapable of doing anything.
Oh, how the mighty has fallen...
It surprised me to find out Artefact in ruined state, but still running, and even having ExBorg's lurking in its great halls. We have never seen them doing a completely atmospheric entry or even assimilating whole world. Just heard about it. But when you think about it, either they use teleporters for all business or then the Borg Cube is capable of doing an atmospheric entry.
To be honest in my mind it would be more logical if they had dedicated vessels for that business and the space operations are handled by the Cubes. In that Pitch Black 3 they showed Necro's using planetary landers for the invasion business. It's more sensible idea than using one Cube for everything. After all one of them cannot assimilate billions of subjects, because the numbers are too high.
Hence I assume they have some sort of harvesters for that business once the resistance has been eliminated.
In theory one cube could fight 200+ strong Romulan armada and win, because back in the day the mighty StarFleet was in such a trouble everything they appeared. Today, after time has passed and Romulan's has had their fingers in the pie, I doubt it'll happen.
At first I thought why can't they be something other than humans, but as Picard's crew ventured in and encountered the organic synths I was beaming. More so when Old Man Data walked in, as that too made sense on this last voyage. None of us however could figure out that he was alive, but in a totally different form.
Almost everything that they were practising made sense. The only problem I had was with the mind melt. If the biomechanoids are able to do that then surely they are able to do other psionics. In fact, with the rate Data's offspring should be able to learn, teaching them techniques in a breakneck speed wouldn't be a problem.
It's just I don't get why to abandon everything without putting up a proper fight is beyond me. Sure, we learned that the message that had driven the Romulans mental was actually intended for the synthetic lifeforms. It was a twist that none of has guessed. Yet, it makes sense. The whole manufactured solarsystem with the artefact on its surface is kind of more plausible, when you link synths into it. What I don't get is the message... how they were able to do that? To see the definite future instead of the fluctuations?
How is it possible?
It took me till the end to figure out that the Old Man Data was actually Doctor Soon. I believed he was dead. When he made the twist and accepted synth's plan over Picard, I was reminded about the classical trek. How it too had end up in these sticky situations that are on border of good and evil, and how often the participants could see the truth because they were too close to see the bigger picture.
Thing is, are there really synthetics gods other than the Borg, and why the Borg hasn't heard about them before? Why nobody has?