> Could that story possibly be inspired by the scene in "Star Trek: First Contact" where Picard is having a nightmare? He looks in the mirror, and suddenly a lump forms on his cheek and a Borg attachment bursts through...and he wakes up screaming.
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> Gri"or perhaps that scene was inspired by the story"shny

I heard that story in various forms YEARS ago (I read one in a book of horror stories when I was like 12). The story may have prompted Picard's scene, but not the other way around... Either way, I'm convinced that it is an old urban legend.

Don "The Monkey'Skeptical'man" Jackson