>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 
irth
 >to the Borg as they are known by Picard et.al.  This is of course mere
 >speculation, but what if.....?
That would require time-travel.
Messy, especially, since the planet would no longer be the Machine World 
encountered by Voyager 6 anymore, when Voyager 6 arrives at the planet. So, 
you've built yourself a temporal paradox.
(ofcourse StarTrek is full of them, that somehow get resolved)
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