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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Triton: [QB] I can understand why you might pose this question. But I don't think that there is a connection between V'ger/Decker and the Borg. Remember that for some unfathomable reason the V'ger/Decker hybrid became a shimmering light like the non-caporeal Medusans, Companion, or Organians at the end of TMP. So I guess they were trying to convey that it became a "higher form" of life that was pure energy. You know how they loved to have "advanced" alien species who had no bodies in the orignal series. Ewww physical bodies, how base and primitive. :) "Eww the body, I have no time for your flatulents and orgasms." Robin Williams as King of the Moon in [i]The Adventures of Baron Munchausen[/i] I don't think Spock meant that the next step in our evolution was an organic/computer hybrid like the Borg. Also, V'ger, because it was improved by the planet populated by living machines, also had the prejudice that carbon-based units (life as we know it) are not true lifeforms, so I don't think it would be interested in joining with its creator to create a cybernetic being. The Borg, IMHO, are a really a twisted spin on the Bynars and are really about the angst some people feel about the inhumanizing effects of prosthetics and computer technology on human beings. The original species who began the Borg did it to themselves. Its the same lame question "Is a human being with prosthetic parts still a human being? Or is this person starting to lose his soul/humanity and become a cold and heartless machine? How much flesh do we need to lose before we are no longer human and become cold and calculating?" A theme I think that was already beaten to death by the Roger Korby character in the TOS episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of." (An idea that I do not subscribe to by the way.) V'ger would probably have reduced the Borg it encountered to "data patterns" and then go on its merry way. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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