The Borg (Star Trek) vs The Wraith (StarGate Atlantis)

[Dr. Boskov Krevorkian]

Alright, Star themed match up time.

Full on space battle, between the masters of Adaptation and the Swarm.

Discuss.

[The Internet]

The Borg in a massive curbstomp, tech wise and tactic wise they overwhelm the wraith. And one assimilation = borg wraiths.

[blacklusterseph004]

Yeah the Borg take this pretty easily. They can transport through shields, their ships self repair, and their shields are probably too strong for Wraith weapons to even penetrate. They can win this without even assimilating anyone.

[Lemonade]

The Borg in a massive curbstomp, tech wise and tactic wise they overwhelm the wraith. And one assimilation = borg wraiths.

Exactly, thats what I think so.

[Wesley]

The Replicators would have been a better match up, since they're the all consuming assimulators of Stargate, but then again the Wraith are still something of a mystery. They're the only race that ever defeated the Ancients, who at the height of their power had gained pretty much all the knowledge of the Universe.

At the present day, the Wraith are in galactic terms a big fish in a small pond. They've been feeding in one galaxy for far too long. They'd be in hibernation for increasingly longer periods of time when the Atlantis expedition had been launched, with their feeding grounds dimishing with every century, and with less food to go around, they started killing eachother off.

However, there's enough information about them available that we can speculate quite abit about their formidability.

For one thing, Wraith grow stronger the more they have to feed on and how recently it was they had last fed. And on whom they'd fed. For example, a wraith that chowed down on a couple of young to middle-aged scientists obtained a healing factor that rendered it essentionally immune to bullets and resistant to even low yield explosives.

And these guys operate in numbers.

And it's true that comparatively speaking Wraith ships don't seem to be up to snuff. For one thing, their ships use point defense and some kind of bio-organic hull. Even the largest Wraith ships don't seem to be particularly durable. As an example, two Wraith Hiveships together can't destroy a Dadelus-Class Battlecruiser, an Earth Vessel that has a strong but quickly exhausted defense, handiedly, yet those same Hiveships can waste eachother in a matter of seconds.

On the other hand, the fact remains that these guys essentionally went from bottom-feeding parasites to the one race to have ever defeated the single most advanced civilization that had ever existed, all within what may have just been a handful of centuries.

It's my guess that the present-day Wraith are starving and don't even compare to the power of the Wraith at the height of the war with the Ancients, but at the present time we just don't really know how they really operate on a grand scale with ships full of humans to chow down on.

We can't even say for sure if the Wraith won by overwhelming numbers via advanced reproduction and construction methods or if infact the Wraith ships themselves become proportionally stronger, tougher, and more destructive with how well and recently the crewers had fed.