> Silly book redeemed only by the fact that most of it was actually written
 > by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens.
As for the authors, are you saying that Shatner isn't?  Are you saying that
he hires ghost writers?  Just for this book or for his "Tek" series as well?
What is your proof?
I disagree that it is a "silly book", although parts of did do require a
stretch.   I often condsided the possiblilty that Vger was modified on the
Borg home world.  However remember that Spock said that the world he "say"
in the mind meld was a world of "machines only".  The logical deduction is
that some organinc form a life bilt the machines, died off for whatever
reason and only machines were left.  The machines implanted the desire to
"merge with the creator" into V'ger, a desire that is probably there own.
Their first attempts at this resulted in the "digitizing" of two biological
lifeforms; one Deltan and one Human.
This "new life form" that Spock and Kirk, and all of us speculate about
*could* go back to the Borg homeworld and the data from the digitized
organic lifeforms is analysed and the machines realize that the organics need
to remain intact and intergrated with the computer forms, thus is born the
Prime Directive of the Borg:  assimilate all intellegent organic life-forms
to incorportate their uniqueness into the Borg collective."
In that respect Kirk, Spock, and Decker, maybe especially Decker, gave birth
to the Borg as they are known by Picard et.al.  This is of course mere
speculation, but what if.....?
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