Originally posted by MacTX
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Which replicator are we talking about here? The last time I checked neither of the two had any interest in biological creatures being integrated into their own.
8472’s technology is integrated into their biology so unless the MW or PG replicators were trying to follow in the footsteps of the Borg I don’t see that scenario happening.
Not that it would help anyways if they are able to resist assimilation from the Borg (who is a lot better at the organic assimilation than the replicators are) there’s little hope of the MW/PG replicators doing it.
2. Why would assimilation be a requirement to defeat S8472? In Trek, it was because that species was very powerful, relative to most Trek groups. That's not the case against the Replicators. A single unshielded medusa ship took several direct hits from seven O'neills before exploding... and that didn't even destroy the millions of blocks which rained down on Orilla.
Fluidic space, being full of matter under fluid state, is a virtually endless pool of raw matter for the Replicators to use. I don't see how S8472 could muster enough ships to stop the replicator numbers growing once they'd be swimming in that eternal pool of matter.
Creating Weir and the others were basically copy and paste for the replicator that is of course having had access to the originals.
Borgs don't replicate specimen element by element, they capture them, and then have them reproduce sexually, to implant the childs with more nanoprobes.
Replicators can either implant nanites or plug themselves into the spinal cord of humans to control them. They can do this with basic materials or with neutronium nanites.
Let's also not forget that the asuran were still greatly limited. The only human who managed to resist, for a brief time, the superior model that Replicarter was was Daniel, and he only did so because the replicators were using their entire collective to assimilate and compute the knowledge of ascension, somehow still printed in Daniel's mind as some kind of residual data.
Weir resisting implants over time and Oberoth, briefly, was less impressive due to asuran severe limitations.
Neutronium hand into 8472 is likely to result in one handless replicator. Unless it’s otherwise revised in the series, it’s assumed that any chemical, biological, or technological attack on 8472 on the cellular level would result in immediate neutralization by their immune system.
No bioligical component can crush neutronium.
Because the beam more than likely just grazed the ship… voyager would likely not survive a direct prolong beam hit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wivplBVrxeM
Evidence from?
I don’t recall ever seeing a bioship being hit by missile and the one bioship that collided with the cube shows up in a later episode with only minor damage.
There isn’t much info about the species.
I don’t recall ever seeing a bioship being hit by missile and the one bioship that collided with the cube shows up in a later episode with only minor damage.
There isn’t much info about the species.
We see a bioship exploding on contact with a Cube, and other bioships destroyed by one single charge, fired by Voyager (likely a very specific upped charge, probably with help of Seven).
They're not invincible.
EDIT: Borg casualties:
8 planets destroyed.
312 vessels disabled.
4000621 Borg eliminated.
EDIT2: a good sum up of the two Scorpion episodes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V0XktZfE3I&NR=1
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