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echo: startrek
to: EVIL DOCTOR
from: MIKE HONIG
date: 1998-02-03 08:44:00
subject: Borg Thoughts

*** Quoting Evil Doctor to Jean Halverson dated 01-30-98 ***
> Having confronted Dr. Evil, Jean Halverson, International Man Of Mystery,
> exclaimed:
>  
>  JC> What would be interesting would be if they beamed one tribble over
> to
>  JC> the  Borg cube.... I don't think they are sentient so there 
> wouldn't be
>  JC> the  problem of consent and the Borg would ignore them initially
>  JC> because they  don't appear to be a threat and they aren't sentient
>  JC> anyway. 
>  
>  ED> Biggest problem?  The Tribbles require food in order to
>  ED> reproduce,  there is no food present on a Borg ship.
> 
>  JH> What if the tribbles  could  be  genetically  engineered to 
> consume
>  JH> wire?? 
> 
>      More likely consume the material that the Borg and their ships are
> 
> mostly composed of.  However there seems to be a prohibition in the 
> Federation against such genetic alterations, and producing a 
> destructive 
> breed of nanites would accomplish the same effect.
Nano-Berzerkers?
--- T.A.G. 2.7 Standard
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