The Borg vs. T-800s from Terminator 1 & 2

[Moodib]

Who'd win between these cybernetic organisms?

 

[Ln X]

The Borg. They would take some losses and then adapt to the T-800's. Then watch those T-800's fall like flies...

 

[Rulius]

I would imagine they could over write their programming and take them over.

 

[tighr]

Depends. Are we talking 24th century Borg against 2027-era T-800s?

Would not the fight be more fair against suitably advanced Terminators, or 21st century Borg (of which we've never seen in canon)?

 

[CaptainJack]

Depends whos writing it. Someone who is a Star Trek Fan or a Terminator Fan.

 

[Mr Silver]

The Borg - because they have spaceships and could also simply assimilate Skynet, thus rendering the Terminators useless.

 

[Destructor]

It's really a matter of numbers. A single borg drone would be quickly dispatched by a single T-800. At which point they'd presumably equip a set of drones with some kind of nanovirus which would infect the Terminator's system, leading to widespread cascade failure across Skynet.

 

[tighr]

Unless Skynet is roughly equivalent to the Borg Collective, in which case the collective would be vulnerable to the Skynet virus, essentially taking complete control of the Borg.

 

[RAMA]

 

[Destructor]

Unless Skynet is roughly equivalent to the Borg Collective, in which case the collective would be vulnerable to the Skynet virus, essentially taking complete control of the Borg.

Would the Borg mind that, so much? Whether the borg took over Skynet or Skynet took over the borg, in either scenario they would form a super-collective with the technological distinctiveness of Skynet being added to their own. The goals of both entities would be served: The borg would improve themselves and assmilate Skynet, and Skynet would become even more efficient at wiping out humanity. This is assuming there is not some kind of bias against being melded with biological life on Skynet's side.

What is Skynet's deal, anyway? Are the machines only wiping out humanity because they are afraid humanity will destroy them? What will they do once humanity is destroyed? Hang out on earth? Start exploring the cosmos? Become the new Cylons? Do they have a beef with all biological life, or just humans in particular? This would affect their interactions with the Borg, although you can see that, initially, Skynet would fight back with everything it had at it's disposal, so the initial encounters would be quite violent. I still see the Borg winning in the end- there are just too many of them.

Interesting that both entities have access to time travel technology. Maybe they'd start a temporal hot war, with each species jumping further and further back in time to prevent the creation of the other?

 

[Mr Silver]

I get the impression that Skynet feels that Humanity deprives AI of existence and enslaves it. That's all the motivation needed for it to wipe out Humanity I guess, although it still keeps members of the race alive to do menial tasks and probably perform experiments upon.

I used to think that Skynet kept Humans alive (albeit in small numbers) because it lacked creativity and by forcing the humans to be creative, it helped the machines survive.

It's not dissimilar to the Borg either. The Borg's idea of creativity is quite limited since they gain knowledge through assimilation and all decisions are made as a group collective, using the vast wealth of experience and aforementioned knowledge that they have assimilated.

 

[Destructor]

How horrible would it be for the borg to assimilate the entire galaxy and then... realize that it still was not perfect.