Title: Cosmopolitan
Author: nostalgia
Rated: G
Summary: Doctor Phlox meets and greets.
The Rest: First one to say "continuity" gets a slap, OK?
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He loves meeting fellow 'aliens'. The humans are charming enough - and fascinating - but it's easy to feel distanced, to feel - as they say - "out of the loop". Of the other non-humans on the ship, one can't talk to him and the other won't.
But these new people are friendly. Explorers, they say, from so very far across the galaxy, seeking a cure for the plague that is killing them. Their technology is impressive, but the people themselves are falling apart. They survive through replacements and nanotech.
He wonders what will become of them, this dying race who call themselves 'Borg'.
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