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echo: startrek
to: EDWARD EADE II
from: MICHAEL MAREK
date: 1997-06-13 07:35:00
subject: Scorpion

 MM>> The Doctor mentions that as the beginning of the assimilation
 MM>> process, the Borg take over red blood cells.  Does that make sense?
 MM>> Why do the Borg want to control the distribution of oxygen to the
 MM>> tissues of the body they are assimilating?
 EEI>         Seems like a fairly efficient way of getting the micro-devices
 EEI> through the body quickly?
Traveling through the blood stream, yes.  Attaching to red blood cells
and presumably somehow modifying them?  There's not much to modify in a
red blood cell.  White Blood Cells would make more sense, since they
would attack foreign material in the blood stream.
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