A machine culture, not specified as the Borg. I suspect the Borg suggestion is fan imaginings, wanting to tie everything up under a neat bow of known boxes.
Wrath of Khan questions
A machine culture, not specified as the Borg. I suspect the Borg suggestion is fan imaginings, wanting to tie everything up under a neat bow of known boxes.
Ryujin
Legend
Fell into a "black hole" and emerged on the far side of the galaxy, where it was discovered by the inhabitants of a planet of 'living machines.' Roddenberry commented in an interview that it 'might have been' the Borg homeworld. That tells me that there was no firm plan that it was.
Still a highly improbable situation. I would call random confluence of improbable events a hallmark of Star Trek.
Its a hallmark of many interesting stories.
Eltab
Lord of the Hidden Layer
A neat speculation (as noted above), but the first thing Enhanced V'ger does is turn the machine home planet into a databank entry. I don't see the Borg sitting still for that.
tomBitonti
Adventurer
Then, they have near perfect inertial positioning? It didn’t seem that there was much to use for reference in the Nebula.
They seem to have some read on each other, so they can use those to stay close ... but how would the stay in the same plane?
TomB
Erekose
Eternal Champion
On reflection, I think this is much more straight forwards and links into the premise that Vulcan's never lie. That is, Khan takes Spock literally because he is a Vulcan.
Savik addresses this directly with Spock. The dialogue is something like:
Savik "You lied?"
Spock "I exaggerated."
I suspect Spock was able to bend the rules for Vulcans because he's half-human
