So, the husband and I were going off on a bit of a tangent the other day, and for whatever reason, we happened to be discussing the Borg (yes, we are geeks, in fact we were watching Deep Space 9 season 5 at the time, so there), and he brought up the interesting question as to whether or not the Borg would be able to assimilate Changelings. After some debate, we decided that they could not, but we both agreed that they could and would assimilate the Jem Hadar (spelling???) if they ever got the chance.Anyhow, this led to the even more interesting (in my opinion) question of what the consequences might be of the Borg finding themselves exposed to the zombie virus. At first, we felt that what with the Borg nanoprobes and such, that they might be able to maintain remote control over the zombie Borg, despite their zombie-ism. The infected Borg would become zombies, but the collective would maintain control over them through the nanoprobes and their linked consciousness.
The more I thought about that though, the less sense it made. Maybe, the nanoprobes could succeed in destroying the virus, but assuming that they could not, I think that the virus would cause the infected Borg's conciousness to be severed from the link with the Borg collective. What seems more likely, would be that an infected Borg (in the early stages of the infection) would probably spread the virus throughout the cube when it tried to link up with its friends (kind of like spreading it through a blood transfusion), and once the virus took over completely, their link with the collective would be severed and they would start feasting on whatever brains they could get its hands on.
Probably, the rest of the collective would realize that something had gone terribly wrong, and use their linked minds to set the infected cube on auto-destruct or something. Or else they would just destroy it with weapons, since the zombie Borg wouldn't be able to operate the cube and what with being in outer space, they would be rather effectively isolated. It would be cooler if the virus could be spread to other cubes, but that somehow seems unlikely. So anyhow, yes, this is the sort of thing that we sometimes like to think about.
