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The year is 2019. Mankind continues its fight for survival against the threat of annihilation at the hands of Skynet, with John Connor leading the Resistance. In a desperate attempt to erase his existence and alter the course of future events, Skynet sends another Terminator backwards through time to assassinate John Connor as a child in the 1990’s. Only this time, a malfunction leads to the Terminator being transported into an alternate universe, one where Earth is already being shaken to its core by a global conflict called The Eugenics Wars, and John Connor was never born.
Aware of what has happened and unable to terminate itself, the Terminator allows itself to fall into human hands. At the precise moment this happens in the 90’s, a Borg cube from the 24th century emerges from a temporal vortex and enters Earth’s orbit in the year 2063, intending to find and destroy Zefram Cochrane, the man who invented Earth’s first warp drive engine. Only when they arrive, they find that Earth has been completely taken over by machines and the human race long extinct at the hands of Skynet, which was created by none other than Khan Noonien Singh after he gained possession of the Terminator in the 1990’s.
A single detachment of Borg drones beams down to the surface to investigate and comes face to face with a menacing force of Terminators. Immediately, the Terminators recognize the Borg as a threat, since many of which are assimilated humans, and instantly receive orders from Skynet to destroy them. The Borg on the other hand recognize that this “Skynet” has rid the galaxy of humans and the elite Starfleet of the future, a huge favor for the Borg. But beyond that fact, there is simply no use for an entire planet of robots that possess no means to evolve the way the Borg do, especially ones with plenty of good working metal parts that would make fine additions to their own. The scene descends into utter chaos, as the two sides open up on one another. Now… our question to you is: who would win? The fate of either side depends upon your imagination!
EXTERMINATE!
Well, obviously the Daleks conquer all (except the Doctor).
Skynet: Arnold Schwarzenegger would be BACK with a vengeance. The Borg wouldn’t stand an ice cube’s chance in hell.
S K Y N E T
I’m going to have to play Devil’s advocate and go with the Borg.
Skynet’s defenses involve brute force, like melee weapons, and the Borg have shields that rapidly adapt to those tactics. If lasers can’t hurt them, what hope do other projectiles have? Also, they increase their numbers by assimilating their enemies, which also serves to decrease the opposition. The Borg would recognize Skynet and its Terminators as an immediate target for assimilation, because they automatically retaliate against hostility, which is what the latter are programmed to do once they see a human (or human-like) entity. Assimilation takes only seconds upon insertion of the nanites, which would work like a computer virus and rewrite the coding on the Terminators, effectively reprogramming the Terminators (and Skynet’s servers) like what happened in “T2.”
The Borg also have the advantage that they are using advanced technology collected from multiple alien races, while Skynet is limited by the systems that were available on Earth. The Borg are used to encountering foreign technology; Skynet isn’t.
Bottom line, the Borg are very quick and very adept at adapting to offensive or defensive tactics used by their targets, and they take away their enemies by assimilating them and bolstering their own ranks at the same time. They’ve got the edge over Skynet, period.
Awesome answer. THIS is what I meant when I said that the fate of either side depends upon your imagination. So far, the Borg are outnumbered, but they’re kicking the living snot out of Skynet.
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.