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Article wrote: On several occasions members of Starfleet reflect on the similarities between their own objectives and the assimilationist motives of the Borg. In the Star Trek: Voyager episode 'Scorpion', Captain Janeway and her crew enter into an alliance with the Borg. In exchange for safe passage through Borg territory, the crew agree to give the Borg information on how to assimilate another species, known only as Species 8472. Species 8472 has up to this point been impossible for the Borg to assimilate. Janeway acknowledges that she is making a pact "with the devil" but she is unrepentant. Other crew members express a fear that the pact blurs the line between the Federation and the Borg. Commander Chakotay, second-in-command of Voyager notes: "The Borg have assimilated thousands of species. By enabling them to assimilate 8472 we [the Federation] would be guilty of colonization". The Borg are no longer beyond communication, no longer wholly Other. As Janeway comments, the Borg "are no different to us - they are just trying to survive". It is the arrival of still more alien Other in the form of Species 8472 that enables the Borg to be reclassified by the Federation. The recognition of similarities is taken further in an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. A former Starfleet officer, Ettington rejects the Federation and joins a renegade group known as the Maquis. When confronted by the space station's captain, Ettington disputes the sanctimonious position of the Federation, stating (facetiously):
Everybody should want to be in the Federation. Nobody leaves paradise. In some ways you're even worse than the Borg. At least they tell you about their plans for assimilation. You assimilate people and they don't even know it.
