MM>How many years would it take the Borg to contact 8,400 species, do you
MM>think?  Some people believe that the Borg have been around for tens of
MM>thousands of years, meaning an average of well under one species a year.
MM>Other people believe what Gene Roddenberry once speculated about -- that
MM>the Borg grew out of the machine world that created V'Ger, 3-400 years
MM>before the events in Scorpion.  This would yield around 25 new species a
MM>year.
MM>Which do you think would be more realistic for the wide-ranging Borg?
MM>:-)
        In order to answer this, you'd have to define a couple
of variables. How fast do the Borg travel? How common are
intelligent species?  I assume here that the Borg would write of
non-sentient species as "irrelevant".
        These are elements that have never ever been specified in Trek.
Jay P. Hailey 
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