Ah, right. My apologies.Captain Seafort wrote:No, we were told that they had an extremely powerful immune system that meant they couldn't be assimilated. Their combat effectiveness, both ship-to-ship and hand-to-hand, was down to BF&BI.GrahamKennedy wrote:And we were told that the reason for this was that 8472 has special cells or some damn thing that made any adaption to anything they did impossible.
Well in any case, there's no reason they couldn't shield against physical attacks if they wished. So I would presume that what we saw was one of very few physical attacks 8472 came out and the Borg never bothered.