Would You expect them to replicate real machine guns?
“We are an advanced race of super-intelligent networked computers. We have solved the problem of your primitive laser pistols by creating a deflection shield that can be tuned to the frequency of the beam within a few minutes of its use.”
“Okay, but I’ve got a high velocity shard of metal that I can launch through a long tube.”
“Does not computer! Does not computer! We are defeated!”
How else do you expect to use it against the Borg?
Would You expect them to replicate real machine guns? Are you crazy?
Picard out here making ghost guns.
I love the term ghost gun
“We are an advanced race of super-intelligent networked computers. We have solved the problem of your primitive laser pistols by creating a deflection shield that can be tuned to the frequency of the beam within a few minutes of its use.”
“Okay, but I’ve got a high velocity shard of metal that I can launch through a long tube.”
“Does not computer! Does not computer! We are defeated!”
It’s the Stargate’s replicators logic… That I’m sure is a joke about the Borg.
Meanwhile over on DS9…
Now imagine putting a localised emitter on a t1000 terminator type program on an enemy ship