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echo: startrek
to: ROGIER VAN EETEN
from: MIKE HONIG
date: 1998-03-23 01:27:00
subject: Borg

*** Quoting Rogier Van Eeten to Mike Honig dated 03-22-98 ***
> Op 21 Mar 98 om 16:48:59 schreef Mike Honig heel gelukkig aan Rogier Van 
> Eeten:
> 
>  MH>>  MH>>  No, the Borg can't assilimate shapeshifters.
>  MH>>  MH>Now just a moment...
>  MH>>  MH>Where and when has that been established?
>  MH>>
>  MH>>  How can jou put a nano-probe (If I understand that correctly, 
> haven't
>  MH>> seen
>  MH>>  Scorp, yet) in something that's not solid?
>  MH>>
>  MH>Then the "non-assimilability" of shapeshifters is more of an 
> inference on
>  MH>your part.
>  MH>
>  MH>It could be argued that, since adaptation is the hallmark of Borg
>  MH>technology, the nanoprobes might very well adapt to shapeshifter 
> biology
>  MH>and assimiliate them more or less like they do any other lifeform.
> 
>  Still, what would happen if a Founder shapeshifts to the nice 
> computerparts.
>  :-)
If the BORG components adapt, they may acquire the Founders' shapeshifting 
ability and simply follow along.
Nicht wahr? :)
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