Nah mate. Borg vs. Xenos.
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Look, man, this scenario is about Xenos vs the Enterprise. The Borg, see, that's another fight altogether. One thing at a time. "OK?" buddy? Ahkay.
Polymorphs can't infect Data, and he discovers a frequency they can't stand. He routes the frequency through the main deflector array and bounces the beam off the shield bubble, neutralizing the infection. BOOM! Star Trekked
A-a-aaaa! You forgot to inverse the polarity, and now, suddenly you're fucked. As one of the mutated xeno spawn lunges at Data, he disintegrates it, but it leaves a cloud of extremely corrosive acid sprayed over tens of cubic meters, that DEVOURS everything, including data, leaving nothing but his Terminator like skeleton husk to ponder the consequences of his actions, and there's more of them coming.
I'm just saying. That's how it works. I've seen it happen, many many times. There is no escape. They will always get you in the end.
In the alien franchise they don't seem to have lasers beyond small surgical devices.
As another person mentioned biofilters and force fields would contain the xenomorph also sensors would find them and transporters would send them out into space.. With phasers cutting right through their bodies unlike small arms fire the didn't seem to slow the xenos down much. A team of well armed security locking down floor by floor but staying out of the Jeffries tubes would minimize casualties.
They would still take people out by surprise but
OK I'm willing to give you the transporters, but all I'm hearing is frantic screaming
"CAPTAIN! I CAN'T GET A LOCK ON THEM, THEY'RE... THEY'RE TOO FAST... THEY'RE... THEY'RE.. OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, THEY'RE EVERYWHERE! CONTAINMENT BREACH CONTAINMENT BRE-!"
followed by radio noise.
Look, like I said in another thread, the thing is, sure, the force fields are a problem, but I inhabit a space-time continuum that includes the possibility of a Zack Snyder Aliens! franchise, so postulating that, they could arguably get through the forcefield because they've evolved self-regeneration, so they move through them slowly, getting burned, and regenerating on the spot- remember, they can survive through molten metal, so let's SAY that they make their way through the force fields, then what.
What's this with the biofilters, you say. I mean I get it, Star Fleet is vastly technologically superior to the Weyland-Yutani kind of universe Xenos exist in, so sure, I think it'd be a tough fight, but remember, it's xenooooos. Xeeeeennnoooooos. There's always one left no matter what you do.
So I figure, in the end, it's like, Picard glued to a wall by that plasma or whatever, mouthing the self destruct code to the computer, in a final glorious sacrifice of himself, his crew, and the Enterprise, so that the infestation doesn't spread to Earth and beyond.
BOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
The End.
As a Trekkie, I'd be more mad about that ending than the series finale of ENT. And if the Xenomorph finale turned out to be a holodeck program, I would probably hate it even more lol.
Not throwing shade. As a standalone story or alternate continuity, Id totally read it. But I would be livid if it was the actual finale to TNG.
Also, Strange New Worlds kind of did that with the Gorn.
Spoiler
RIP Henner :(
Thanks for the input, my person in christ!
The modern incarnation of the Gorn are very obviously xenomorph based. They spit a fluid that impregnates instead of using facehuggers but people end up as hosts for their young to chest burst from.
They spit a fluid that impregnates
Clearly human.
I feel like forcefields and the biofilter would render them effectively harmless in short order
But now I kinda want to see Data vs. a Yautja
You know what, I was team Xeno from the start and pushed it, but they're just so technologically advanced in Star Fleet that they'd probably just zap them with a force field, I'm thinking a lattice of cubes like, BUT! If you do that, let's say they infest the cargo bay, and they do that goo thing in there, and that's their base, they evolve quickly and adapt, not like the borg but evolutionarily, we've seen that in a few good films and some bad films and adaptations.
SO let's say that Picard is like
"Mr. Worf. Activate force fields on all the lower decks, maximum energy pulse, 2x2" lattice."
"Sir. Are you sure? That would terminate all life in the lower decks, sir."
"Make it so!"
And ZEP!
BUT!
Now you have fucking Xeno acid blood splattered in EVERY DIRECTION IN ZERO G (I presume it's zero G because), and what must be an a w f u l smell, but, so, it corrodes the fucking walls, everything, AND, and this is a big AND, because, the Xeno trump card is that there is always... One... More...
There are some IPs that cross well, there are some that do not.
After some perusing, I found that I am, in fact, not original. This has been pondered before. Which only lends it validity if you ask me, but whatever hahahahaha!
You could also ask me about my new movie script: "Plot Hole"
Xenomorphs in Starfleet was an active storyline in Strange New Worlds, with the Xenomorphs being Gorn.
Oh no shit! Look I stopped watching after DS9 basically
First I read it as Polymorph and imagined Worf in grey t-shirt "Give quiche a chance" and pipe in his hand ;-)
But this crossover was there already
All I know about polymorphing is Nethack related.
(and that time at the gym ;)
Edit:
BBC Two Red Dwarf Night intro with Patrick Stewart (14 Feb 1998)
<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<4
If you don't know this show its worth watching it!
The scene from S3 E3 I refer to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WgUktfdDy4
Just if anyone wants to watch it, it was filmed ~8years before the previous clip I put here.
Sometimes when I feel down, I put on the Red Dwarf intro song and just vibe.
Edit: Cat is the original Bender
My favorite part is when Riker says "This is Star Trek: The Next Generation\Alien: Acceptable Loses"
Alien: Acceptable Los[s]es
I would like to see this movie.
Its a canceled comic that was an aliens\star trek crossover
Yeah yeah I remember, I read that one. For the articles.
Edit: Yo tho seriously which one?
And then he Riker'd all over Crusher's face?