Anwar wrote:
Exactly, the Collective really isn't a Collective as it is really a malevolent viral being that infects and contaminates life.
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Well, it was only supposed to be interested in technology originally. Only later did it get interested in life. For reasons unspecified. Maybe they absorbed some tech from a militant species and that was the reason?
In any case, the V'ger planet could have been an offshoot or predecessor to the Borg as seen by TNG.