The answer to the age old Star Trek vs Star Wars geek debate, “Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?” has been answered by none other than the Stargate fandom! But who do you think would win in a Borg Cube vs. Death Star fight?
Let us know in the comments below who you think would win, Borg Cube or Death Star?
I agree that the Death Star would one shot the first cube. I’m less confident that the next cube would be immune though. The examples we’ve seen in Star Trek are of weapons damaging but not destroying the cube with the first shot. The Borg in the surviving areas have time to analyse the threat, develop a counter measure and communicate it out. If the cube were completely destroyed in the first shot (remember that this is a weapon that destroys planets and a Borg cube is much smaller than a planet) then they probably wouldn’t have time to analyse the threat, let alone communicate details to other cubes. The key question is probably whether there is another cube close enough to observe the destruction of the first and analyse the threat before being fired upon itself.
I would go so far as to say that given the demonstrated destructive capability of either Death Star 1 or 2 (one-shotting an entire planet) and the size and mass of a Borg cube relative to a planet, that there would be no way that any Borg cube, whether it’s had a chance to learn about a Death Star superlaser or not, could withstand a superlaser hit. The cube is just too small and it’s been demonstrated to be vulnerable to certain precise attacks by conventional Star Trek starships (e.g., Enterprise-E in First Contact). The Death Star’s destructive capability dwarfs most things we’ve seen in Star Trek canon. Now, put the Death Star up against V’ger (ST:I) or the Probe (ST:IV) and I think we have potential for interesting cases of planet-altering apparatus matchups.