Scott was an inspiration

"In a way, he was." the Doctor replies. "You could say he was their godfather, more than anything else."

"Care to explain that, Doctor?" human Janeway said patiently. While it was good to be back up on the Bridge for a while, as it were, she still didn't have much paience for beating around the bush.

"By doing a thorough, and well safegaurded, scan of Scott's memories, we found something . . . . that would be what I'd call a racial memory, almost." The Doctor says. "It seems that an early version of Scott, Scott Prime for lack of a better word, somehow visited the Borg homeworld while it was still in it's non-assimilating infancy. There, he met, and impressed what would become the Borg Queen with the new technique of the mass mind process he had come up with."

"You ARE kidding me." Scott drawls. "Considering how weird things are with me befor I came aboard here . . . . . the Queen must have been on DRUGS . . . . Uh, pardon."

"Don't worry Scot, we understand." Janeway says, smiling.

"There was something else, Doctor?" furry Ensign Wildman asks.

"Actually, yes." the Doctor continues. "As Scott was getting at, the experiment of this mass mind technique, along with a duplication process that was garbled beyond recovery, went downhill afterward. The Borg Queen decided that she liked the initial results of Scott Prime's labors, but didn't want to crazy things that happened after a while with that technique and. . . . went the cybernetic route to 'perfection.'"

"At least that's part of the story of the origin of the Borg." Scott says as he leaves after being dismissed. "I just had a thought though, in some of those dreams, some of those Scotts got cut off from the chaos energy, or had that energy dampening material, would they be developing independantly also?"

"Could be." Samantha says, heading for the turbolift. "It WAS the chaos energy that made this mass mind thing work.

"We've got to warn them about those other crazy Scotts." Scott says, stopping in his tracks. "I don't think that they want to be 'assimilated' in any kind of nutty collective as much as I don't want it."

1. A bit latter . . . .

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