JC>Mind you any Hortas beamed aboard would have to be volunteers, they are
  >people after all and I think a mission like that would be a suicide 
ission
  >for the Horta in question. I wonder if there are any Hortas in Starfleet -
  >I would like to see one!!
I imagine they are much too wise and content to want to go star-trekking
across the universe.
JC>What would be interesting would be if they beamed one tribble over to the
  >Borg cube.... I don't think they are sentient so there wouldn't be the
  >problem of consent and the Borg would ignore them initially because they
  >don't appear to be a threat and they aren't sentient anyway.
Now that would be a plan. Who said that Star Trek has run out of
stories? Of course the Borg cubes would end up resembling nothing more
than gigantic fuzzy dice, suitable to hang in the windshield of the
gods.
Jack Ruttan
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