Chapter 137
"Enterprise number?" Piccard looked at his bridge crew with a strange expression. "Please let me know where to teleport."
"Three meters behind me."
"What an incredible ship, Captain Ian." A large bald head appeared behind Ian. "More coincidentally, the ship is also called Enterprise."
"Lucky-E's name resounded in the heavens and all the worlds." Ian bowed. At least three worlds resounded.
"Wow, that's pretty good...... "Picard looked down at the corpse on the ground." This is impossible, I saw with my own eyes that the Borg people in that area were destroyed, and that Borg cube was destroyed......"
"Captain Pickard, the flesh is just a container, as a Borg, as a group consciousness, as long as you don't block all the signals around you, you don't destroy all the Borgs...... At least to the point where the emergence of cluster consciousness cannot be satisfied, then the body as a container will have to be more or less. Don't be limited by the human mind. Ian smiled. You say yes, Lochota. ”
"You know something, Captain Ian."
"Nothing important, the important thing is that I came here, I had a conversation with them, and Borg gave me a promise that they would temporarily stop their assimilation of other races." Ian takes off his glasses. "Like many traditional films, the Interstellar Federation is about to go into decay, and they will succumb to prejudice and apprehension."
"It's the least likely of all things."
"Don't, they ruled you out of the fight against the Borg a few hours ago, and theoretically you're the human who knows the Borg best. Think about how many casualties the Federation would have paid if I hadn't come? ”
"Significant...... Very significant. ”
"Isn't that enough, since they chose not to let you come, they would rather believe in the risk-averse plan in their hearts than choose you to command this battle to increase their strategic advantage. Sooner or later, they will embark on a point of no return, a rotten point of no return. Ian wiped off his glasses and put them back on. I believe that having a strong and positive enemy is a good thing for the Federation, a good thing for them to keep a positive mindset. ”
"The Federation is already surrounded by powerful enemies, the Romulan Empire, the Klingon Opportunity Clan, the Cardassi Alliance...... There are also many powerful enemies surrounding the Federation. ”
"Unfortunately, none of these countries are enough to give the Federation enough power." Ian spread his hands. "All intelligent beings will compromise, and these countries either don't have too many conflicts of interest, or they are too far apart, or they are about the same strength, and they won't fight a war of total annihilation with the Federation."
"But the Borgs are different, they won't compromise, they won't stop, and they're strong enough to suppress the Federation." Picard understood in an instant.
"Exactly." Ian snapped his fingers. "As you may understand, Borg started to change six years ago, and they were trying to communicate with the outside world on an equal footing. Although the means are a little fucked up. ”
"You so-called fucked up a bit, you mean that eighteen of my crew members died, and I myself was assimilated by the Borgs. We're talking about human life. "Piccard looks super serious.
"The Borgs have taken the first step, and the next step is the turn of humanity. Captain Pickard, many times, sacrifice is necessary. Ian looked Picard in the eye. I can't see that I have been pricked in the eye...... "Do you know how many people my people sacrificed in order to talk to an alien who is absolutely impossible to defeat and who can't talk to at the beginning?" ”
"That must have been a huge sacrifice."
"That's right, a huge sacrifice. From the establishment of a plan for dialogue two hundred years ago to the implementation of the dialogue two hundred years later. The direct death toll is no less than a million, the indirect impact is no less than a billion, and in the end more than half a million people died in the course of the dialogue. If it weren't for the fact that ELS was still powerful, the direct death toll might exceed 10 million. ”
"I gave the Borg people an idea, maybe they will change, maybe they won't. And you, too, need to respond. Or find a way to coexist with the Borgs, or find a way to fight them. ”
"Is there a way to fight the Borgs?!" Picard's eyes lit up.
"Shouldn't you think of peaceful means in the first place? What is the motto of your Federation? We come with peace? Ian glanced at his bald head.
"A drink and a peck have their own providence."
"This phrase should not be used here." Ian thought for a moment. "If you want to say that everything has a cause and effect, emmmmm... I don't know what to use. Suffice it to say that personal grievances are worthless on a racial level. As for more, I know it. ”
"I just want to know, can humans fight the Borgs?"
"I'm sure you can give up the lower limit." Ian tugged at his glasses. Teniang's photon torpedo standard charge 1.5 kg antimatter, 1.5 kg! The theoretical yield of the explosion is 64 megatons of TNT. This is the standard self-defense armament of the research ship here, are you meowing to me?
When I was fighting ELS, I was tired and tired and saved 200 pounds of antimatter, and the use of strategic weapons was already luxurious enough, and the 24th century antimatter was a conventional charge here?
There is also a quantum torpedo equipped with commander-level equipment, which uses space zero-point energy, and is several times more powerful than ordinary photon torpedoes. What is the space zero point?
With enough armed research ships to blow up the planet's crust...... Hehe.
"Actually, I think the lower limit of the commander level is low enough." Pickard looked at his Enterprise.
"I don't understand the Federation's starship design philosophy at all." Ian looked at the Enterprise as well.
"What does that big disc mean? And the support rods of those two ghost animals. Ian looked at the Enterprise. The armor is poor, there are no carrier-based aircraft, and the shape of the hull is irrational. There is nothing merit except that it looks relatively peaceful.
The defense is all about the shield, and the shield is broken and the hull is as brittle as paper. Even though it's almost 700 meters long, can't you strengthen the structure? ”
"All the starships of the Federation are equipped with structural stability positions, and the shape does not affect the structure." Captain Pickard retorted casually. "As for armor, tri-titanium alloy is the hardest substance in the Federation, and the shape is ...... Saucer-type ships are generally scientific research ships, and only the Challenge class is a full-time battleship. Now, it's the boat. Theoretically, it is either a cruise ship or a research ship that is present now.
As for the shape, and those two sticks, it has been discussed within the Federation for a long time. But the lethal radiation produced by the curvature engine can only be kept out of the main hull in this way. ”
Picard sticks out his tongue mischievously. "Although we think that the starship designed in this way is beautiful, we also think that those two sticks look too dangerous, and one day one starship will lose power because it will break the support bar."
I always feel like you're mapping the enterprise number of the previous plane...... Ian suddenly remembered what happened to the Enterprise beyond the star......