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Honestly, I disagree. The shields may adapt, but you're still talking about a weapon made to destroy a planet being pointed at something that's maybe 4 or 6 times the size of a star destroyer (don't really fell like calculating that precisely, but memory alpha lists the cubea as roughly 3 cubic kilometers while a star destroyer, from memory, is about 1.6 kilometers long and much less for height and width; for comparison, the first death star is listed as 120 kilometers diameter and the second as 160 on wookieepedia)
I think a better head-to-head would be a Borg cube vs a super star destroyer like Executor (8 kilometers length, powerful but not planet cracking weapons)
It's like if the Enterprise were to shoot phasers at a single drone on the ground. I don't care how much those shields adapt, that's simply too much raw power for a shield generated by a humanoid sized suit and set of implants. I don't remember specifics but i vaguely remember at least one instance in Star Trek where they managed to overpower a Borg's shields. They are not perfect, no matter how good the tech is it still runs on energy and it still uses energy to absorb energy.
And for my biases: I love both, but I've always had a preference for Star Trek. My opinions on this aren't based on a preference for Star Wars at all.
Are you forgetting about The Executor's main super laser? Sheeve had that thing run the entire length of the ship, it's not a planet killer, but it can do the same thing the DS1 did in Rogue One and wipe out a city, or a capital ship, in one shot.
Same on my preferences, it's just that Admiral Thrown designed some ridiculously overpowered weapons. Like The Sun Crusher
Executor does not have a superlaser. The Eclipse Super Star Destroyer did.
You're correct, I confused The Executor with The Eclipse.
The Executor Vs a cube would be a relatively fair match, but if Lord Vader isn't present, I suspect the Borg cube would just barely win while taking extreme damage.
If Lord Vader is present, He wins, not the Super Star ~~Battleship~~ Destroyer.
I'm going to assume you meant Grand Admiral Thrawn, but he had nothing to do with the Sun Crusher or the Maw installation it was built at. That was Admiral Daala, and the Maw installation was built by Grand Moff Tarkin.
Thrawn, meanwhile, was not a fan of super weapons. He didn't need them. In practice, they're impractical outside of generating fear, but they can't be everywhere.
Thrawn could probably defeat a Borg cube with a standard Imperial Star Destroyer, though. Although... the Borg lack anything you could consider "art", but they're not particularly creative in their tactics, relying more on their superior technology and adaptability to overcome adversaries, so i don't think he'd find them overly challenging from that perspective