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	As of this episode, the Borg's signature line, "We are Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile," is slightly ammended to "We are the Borg..."
	The hologram of Da Vinci is right-handed as he fixes his mechanical arm, but the real Da Vinci was actually left-handed. Both the Voyager computer/holodeck and Janeway should know this, and have created the hologram accordingly.
	While it is asserted that the "computer core" in the biological starcraft of Species 8472 is based on the binary system, anyone familiar with the tenets of computer engineering will tell you that the binary system is a terribly inefficient way to store data and commands, but is the only universal method currently available to us. However, recent advances in the field of genetic engineering create the possibility of such things as biological memory, in which a single celled organism (such as yeast) can be stimulated electrically, causing it to produce certain physical characteristics. In this way, a single cell can be used to "store" or represent one of a nearly infinite number of values. This is leagues ahead of our current binary system, in which a microscopic transistor (significantly larger than a biological cell) is used to store a binary digit (or bit), which has only one of two possible values. Not only that, but these transistors must be arranged linearly, whereas the organic cells do not. And so, biological storage does not have to be binary in nature, and indeed ought not to be, as it can easily be far more efficient.

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