The borg is a character in the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation, an alien life form that is part human and part machine.

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It is not yet known if it is male or female, but names being suggested included Snowy, Frosty and Alf - related to the TV character which stands for Alien Life Form.

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It starts as a fifties war-of-the-worlds pastiche: an alien life-form arrives in a meteor and quickly mutates, threatening to destroy Arizona as we know it.

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