No not too techy, just accurate. I was being silly. They do assimilate more than colonize, though it is never said that they don't colonize at all. At least one Voyager episode had them with a gargantuan deep-space space station they clearly built themselves (or expanded until it had less than 1% original material, which is nearly the same thing for SE4 concerns).
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