The Borg have transporters, unless the Death Star has a way to stop them, they're going to beam in.
Well the death star does have shields, but the Borg have already demonstrated that shields don't really do a whole lot against their transporters lol
The death star has a force field if we take everything literally, and those don't stop transporters. Plus, it only has it when it's near Endor's moon... Emitted by an unprotected installation.
I'm a huge Star Wars fan, but I have to agree with the owner here. It would only take one shot for their shields to adapt.
HOWEVER, would their shields be able to withstand such a powerful beam even if it synchronizes with its frequency?
The scenario as phrased suggests the Borg as a whole, not one cube. To which the answer is The Borg, obviously.
I think the main weakness the Death Star has in the scenario where it goes up against just one cube is that its weapon takes a significant amount of time to fire.
The Borg don't have empathy or a worry about planets being destroyed, so the death star is not a compelling weapon against them.
Plus, the death star can only fire one beam and then had to recharge. During that time the Borg could assault the surface of the death star and their shield definitely would adapt to the short range canons.
It all comes down to whether the death star uses a force field to defend itself and how much power it can generate vs the borgs assault.
How would the Death Star hit the cube in the first place though? It can travel faster than light, whereas the Death Star is meant for stationary or nearly stationary targets and has a long recharge time. Everything else – the fighters and the turrets – the cube would adapt to immediately. The Death Star 2 is shown to have a shield around it projected from Endor, but the first Death Star is never shown to have such a shield. So unless the cube gets in firing range of the main cannon, it just adapts immediately to everything and starts neutering the station's defenses before beginning the assimilation.
Doesn't even need to go faster than light. It takes over 10 seconds to fire the Death Star's laser based on this footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g77WN6obk4
You could probably get out of the way if you were traveling at 20th century Earth probe speeds.
The borg wouldn't really defeat the death star, they'd assimilate it. It's too much of their kind of geometric ship not to. It would be fun to watch them with the stormtroopers. On one hand the stormtroopers aren't the brightest, in the other hand, their armor would probably be a little better against borg nanite probes. But would eventually all get assimilated.
I like the idea of the Borg figuring out midichlorians. You know what would make the Borg nightmare better? Force lightning. Mind control.
It only takes one drone landing on the death star to make the station slowly fall.
