Hi Paul,
 PA> Just a few thoughts on the Borg...
 PA> 1) The Borg claim in _First Contact_ that they are the greatest lifeform 
in
 PA> the Universe, combining the best features of organic and machine. So how
 PA> come they can't reproduce themselves?
 PA> 2) Why are there no non-humanoid Borg?
 well concerning races, there are a lot of strange views and explanations in
 Star trek but when You look at this scene in this TNG episode where the
 Enterprise team beamed on that borg ship and found the babies, which were
 prepared to receive first transplantations You can see why they are mainly
 humanoid; and they do   not seem to assimilate any kind of physical 
"details",
 just any kind of thinking, behaviour and tactical knowledge as You could see
 when they assimilated Picard!
 But I AM still wondering about their origin!
 Is there a home planet of the borg somewhere or are there just a few or 
aybe
 one big borgship and some smaller one to explore space??
 And why do they look so "familiar"; was there (maybe) a time on earth 
thousands
 of years ago when there was a civilisation starting into space and later de-
 veloping to this biomechanical way of life or did they really start in the
 Delta Quad?? Well...
 Achim
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