Energy Dampening vs Borg

[Granitehewer]

Does anyone here think that the Breen energy dampening weapon would be able to take out a borg cube or does the weapon only operate on one frequency/wavelength etc/whatever?

[Mikey]

It didn't seem to require much effort to adapt to a particular target, whether it was Starfleet, Klingon, etc.; so I'd imagine it operates on a pretty wide band.

[stitch626]

Though the Borg would probably adapt to it after a little while.

[Teaos]

I think the Borg would adapt to it pretty fast.

What i wonder is if it would take out a whole cube or just chunks of one.

[Mikey]

It seems to be a general effect, rather than a localized one. I wonder if it is enough to affect a ship of the apparent power generation capability of a cube.

[Teaos]

Not only that but we know cubes are de-centeralised. Maybe the effect wouldnt spread beyond a certain point.

[Mikey]

I'd think the dampening weapon would affect the entire power grid of a ship, but who knows?

[Sionnach Glic]

Given how quickly the AQ powers adapted to it, I'd say the Borg could.

[stitch626]

And then we would have a lot of Breen drones.

[Mark]

I'd say it'd be good for a one shot deal. I could see it taking out a Cube. But the Collective itself would adapt after that. And if they didn't manage to destroy the Cube pretty quickly after disrupting it, it would recover rather quickly.

[Captain Seafort]

It's debateable if the weapon would even be effective against a cube first time round - we never saw it used against a target that big or that powerful. The fact that a simple adjustment (not a modification) to the Klingons' engines was enough to protect them from the weapon suggests that the Borg's frequency-based optimisation would also be effective.

[Deepcrush]

Lets face it. Without the EDW, the Breen are just fodder. I'd think the Breen might take out the first cube they come across. Then the Borg would own then from there on out.

[Mikey]

Exactly as Seafort mentioned. It would be an accelerated version of the Breen's history in the war; shock and surprise at the dampening weapon, lots of early losses to the Breen (or, in this case, maybe one cube,) then the enemy figures out how to defeat it and the Breen are hosed.

[Sionnach Glic]

I'd agree with that.

[kostmayer]

An even worse result would be the Borg assimilating a few Breen and then adapting the Energy Dampening weapon to their own needs. It would be the perfect weapon for assimilating new races - one blast and the ship is disabled, but with the technology intact and the crew ready to be turned into drones.