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		| [b][i]Beck said:
 
 I thought it was quite a downer that those conquering insect parasites from "Conspiracy" in season 1 were never reused.  I always wondered where the story was going to go.  As I understand it, they were supposed to be the Borg, but then the show went with a more technological menace as the evil hive for the Borg.
 
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 Those were brought back in some of the DS9 novels that take place after the 7th season of DS9. Apparently (as the novels explain) they are like a evil off shot of the Trill (the symbiot) or they were Trill, just evil, banished from the homeworld ones.