C-3PO is easily scrap, from either party.
So would ONE or possibly TWO Borg drones from the Cylon. But any more and any Cylon is SOL. Resistance is Futile!

Remember that even though Picard disengaged the holodeck safeties, the 'bullets' were still force-field projections of the holodeck, and NOT real projectiles. The Borg didn't have time to adapt to the energy patterns. If bullets are the 'magic bullet' against the Borg, why isn't Starfleet arming themselves with TR-116's[1] on every ship?

Stopping real bullets would only be a matter of deploying their personal shields. Their shields apparently adapt to whatever weapon is used on them. (phasers, etc). Although for whatever reason they are less effective hand-to-hand, if there was some real vulnerability to Borg personal shields to projectile weapons, Starfleet would be crankin 'em out (see above). Contrary to commenly held belief, it is difficult to believe that Starfleet is that incompetent! So either everyone in Starfleet is an idiot, or there is an actual reason they don't use bullets! Picard took the Borg off guard and got lucky. A Cylon might not be so fortunate.

EDIT:
[TR-116 comes from 'Field of Fire', a DS9 episode mentioned later in the thread by cdrwolfe. Thanks, btw]

Well, the reasoning behind using phasers instead of guns for handheld weapons comes from the same reason you wouldnt fire a gun in a submarine, you wouldnt want to accidently have the bullet ricochet, and hurt someone, or possbly breach the hull. If there was a stray shot with a phaser inside a ship, it would hit a wall, and make a scorch mark, whereas a bullet might pass into someones quarters, and possibly hit them, or hit a critical system. It could also concievably pass through the outer hull. Maybe not on one of Starfleets 'current' ships of the line, but on ships with Enterprise or TOS tech, I could see it happening. And no, I didnt just make this up, its in one of the Star Trek tech manuls.

Also, guns with bullets lack that all important stun setting

plus it takes away from the dramatic effect of the borg if all u have to do is shot them with a bb gun in the eye,,,

Projectile weapons do exist, remember one was used in DS9 by a Vulcan to kill people. the bullet was "teleported" in but still a bullet none the less.

The only guns i've seen in trek was when Picard shoots tonnes of Borg in the Holodeck with Lily in First Contact.

Tonnes being 2?

The DS9 episode "field of fire" we see the gun with transporter bullets.

Ok, in the TNG episode 'The Finest Duty' Wesley and his academy buddies attempt a maneuver in a training excercise, with some bad results.

1. What was the name of the maneuver?

2. What made it so dangerous?

3. What was the name of Wesley's squad?

4. Who was that squads leader?

5. And which semi-famous ST gardener makes an appearance in this episode?

1) The Kolvoord Starburst

2) It involves flying in a *very* tight formation at high speed and the igniting of plasma trails

3) Nova Squadran

4) Nicholas Lacarno

5) Boothby


Rwar.

Is it a TNG episode where there's some Cadets in a shuttle near Saturn and one of the ships gets destroyed and someone dies? Or is that the same episode?

That sounds about right. I think it was called 'The First Duty'. Its basically a Weesley Crusher episode where the Cadets try and cover up the death but get found out. Interestingly, Robert Duncan McNeil (Tom Paris from VOY) played Locarno.

Thats the one, thanks

Depends on the setting of the phaser. I find it really hard to believe that bullets pack any more punch than a phaser set higher than stun! Ricochet is a risk, but more for the targets, and probably about the same overall risk as wearing a yellow shirt in a 'repelling boarders' situation!

I suppose that the risk in TOS is very real, as you said, but by the movies and later, forcefields have been developed to deal with hull breaches relatively quickly. I also can't imagine hull materials not improving over that time as well.

EDIT: I wish I could insert this messasge farther back in the discussion....

I don't think thats a good idea! A Phaser higher than stun would hurt a lot, a couple notches up and your dead

Yeah. And the maximum setting could ruin your whole day.

You wouldn't even know about your whole day

But seriously, folks....Any trivia ideas?

Jeez people, cant y'all think of some questions? Well, heres one.

In the DS9 episode (cant remember the episode name, but it is the episode that comes directly before "The Die is Cast') Bashir tells Garak the story about the boy who cried wolf. Garak came up with a different interpretation of the story than did Bashir, what was it?

Which episode in DS9 did the actor who played Tuvok in Voyager appear. And what was his character in ds9 for bonus points

Uh-Oh, DS9 is not my strong point! All i know about Tuvok is that he's played by Tim Russ and he's TO onboard Voyager and appears in ST-Generations as TO (i think)

Dont know about the Ds9 episode, but how about naming the episode of a Tim Russ appearance in TNG. Bonus points for what he, and the group he was with were trying to do.

The episode with the barium sweep on the ship, his group (whos name if they had one escapes me) tried to steal stuff from the warp core, probably anti matter (you can tell i didnt google this) Tim Russ was part of the group, and picard bagged him in a duke nukem style killing spree... very starfleet

I just saw the episode the other day, they were after trilithium resin, which the warp core makes as a byproduct, to use as explosives.

He played the mirror universe version of Tuvok in "Through the Looking Glass". He only said a couple of lines, as a member of the Rebellion fighting against the ebil Alliance.


And here's another question along the same lines:
Which four DS9 regular characters appeared in the Next Generation?

Got them

bashir
worf
o`brien
dukat (played a romulan commander in an episode, the one with the cryogenically frozen people from the 20th century)

ohh wait i just re-read your question, dukat never appeared in character, 4 th ones got me

The fourth one is Quark. Haven't got a clue what episode it was, but I remember him being up on the viewscreen.

Quark did not appear in a ST movie. He appeared at least one time in TNG:

- When the Enterprise was searching for L'ursa and B'Thor (TNG: Firstborn)

In the TNG episode where they first introduce the ferengi, (you know, the one where the ferengi jump around and act like monkeys) the actors who play Quark and Rom are two of the three ferengi there.

Quark, Bashir, O'Brien and Worf is right
Matress and Mark got them in a joint effort