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It did? Had the probe taken damage? Do we know it actualy had shields (it was a probe, after all)?

I cant rememer exactly but I know it was beamed on and destroyed the probe. I do think it had taken a few phaser blasts but not a lot. It should have shields, it was big enough.

True, but it was a probe. It wasn't meant to go into dangerous situations, so a shield would be inneficient given its objectives. The fact that they were able to beam a torp onto it, yet not against ships like Cubes, would seem to confirm this theory.

Borg shields seem to be set off and away from the hull, as we've seen that a shuttles can fly inside of the sheild wall and transport persons to and from.

How does a shuttle get through a shield?

Teaos wrote:How does a shuttle get through a shield?

Carefully.

Teaos wrote:How does a shuttle get through a shield?

with epic amounts of testosterone, anything can be accomplished.

Seriously, though, I'd chalk that up to technobabble of the day. We know the Borg Cube had KE shields (otherwise it wouldn't have stopped the torps), so there's really no excuse for the shuttle to have been able to get there.

I believe techinically it was an "EM Field" blocking transport. I think so at least, it's been a while since I watched BOBW but it seems familiar. So it wasn't a "shield" in the sense of a combat shield, but a transporter blocking field.

That would work, their shields may not block transporters very well.

That's a possibility, but why would their shields not be able to when all other races' can?

IU - the Borg only act to what they as a whole think is a threat and boarding isn't a threat.

OOU - Because the writers are just that pathetic in their meanless lives that they have to screw something so simple that a 5 year old could do.

So the answer, in both in-universe and out-universe, is stupidity.

Well there's a surprise.

Deepcrush wrote:IU - the Borg only act to what they as a whole think is a threat and boarding isn't a threat.

Excellent point, Deep - if the Borg don't care about you wandering around their ship, why would they bother trying to stop you from getting aboard?

And the Borg can't tell if your beaming over some meaningless snoops, or a whole warp core. Hey, come to think about it, Enterprise could have beamed over a dozen or so photons instead of that crap with the deflector dish, and Wolf 359 may never have happened.

Writers, worse than temporal mechanics