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 * In the episode 'Home Soil', the entire crew register shock at the prosprect of an example of intelligent non-organic life. Even Data. Someone please explain to me how an android, built largely out of artificial materials and brought to life by his creator, with a genius-level intelligence of his own, can possibly be shocked by discovering that, hey, guess what guys? Non-organic life can be intelligent!
 ** Because it apparently evolved naturally, unlike Data. Still, you wonder why they didn't consider the Horta, that beast discovered in the mining caves by Kirk, which was definitely sentient.
+*** Was the Horta sentient? It was ''intelligent'', but I don't think that was the same thing. The thing with the Horta was that it had been believed to be just mindlessly attacking the miners, but was actually merely trying to protect itself and its nest... which is still animal behavior, just understandable and sympathetic animal behavior. I don't think the Horta was upgraded from "monster" to "person", just "monster" to "benign animal". If not, the fact that you can have a baby one as a pet in Star Trek Online is a little disturbing. It also seems to have been something of a one-off... it's shocking that even one species like it exists, two was staggering. Probably once they started getting into double digits of naturally-occurring inorganic lifeforms it would have stopped being surprising.
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