Manifest Destiny from another perspective

The concept of Manifest Destiny has always actually made sense to me in the same way the theory of evolution does; the best civilization, the most adaptive and the most robust, survives and spreads to new areas, displacing native populations and what not. I don't think that the whole American sense of conquest is positive, but it makes sense overall. The fact that the Borg were also acting under Manifest Destiny amuses me because it brings the metaphor of evolution to a head.

The concept of the Borg versus the Federation strikes me as a representation of whichever wars involved the US going up against powers greater than itself. Not quite the Revolutionary War, because that US wasn't quite at the expansionary level of the Federation, but maybe WWII. In that war, we chose to end it with a nuclear bomb, while Picard could have made his big attack with the virus Hugh was to hold? Well, maybe. This comparing of the Federation to the US, in anxious liberal mode, interests me because of these other parallels that can be drawn.

The issue of two different groups each having Manifest Destiny is interesting to me because of the implications that it would have had for the original colonizing Americans who would have found that concept impossible. Star Trek, by introducing the Borg, shows another, new conflict in which the US is not on top.