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I got the first one this weekend in Baltimore, I read and finished it between committee sessions. Now I'm looking for 2 and 3. And Mark, does Picard go all Captain Ahab on them?

Also, does anyone know if there are any plans to tie the DS9 relaunch series into this and/or how they're going to do it?

I do like how they are combining the series and making sure events of one actually effect the other as opposed to the series happening in vaccuum.

me,myself and I wrote:I got the first one this weekend in Baltimore, I read and finished it between committee sessions. Now I'm looking for 2 and 3. And Mark, does Picard go all Captain Ahab on them?

Also, does anyone know if there are any plans to tie the DS9 relaunch series into this and/or how they're going to do it?

I do like how they are combining the series and making sure events of one actually effect the other as opposed to the series happening in vaccuum.

In the third novel, he orders Cmdr. La Forge to modify the deflector to emit a thalaron pulse to wipe out the Borg fleet, but Geordi refuses on the grounds that it would make Data's death pointless.

Interesting that he doesn't refuse on the grounds that it's an illegal order. Starfleet officers do seem to run their careers on the basis of "sod the law, sod orders, I'll do what I think is right". And surprisingly eonugh seem to get away with it time and again.

He actually DOES state that. However, at this point in the book, Picard is given unilateral presidential powers to "act as he sees fit." So, LaForge really doesn't have much ground to stand on. Then acknowledges that Picard can simply relieve him of duty, and have another, more accommodating officer build it. "But it won't be me" he says. Then he offers to walk directly to the brig.

Mark wrote:He actually DOES state that. However, at this point in the book, Picard is given unilateral presidential powers to "act as he sees fit."

Intriguing. Can't say how Starfleet works, but that would in itself be an illegal order in most militaries today.

So, LaForge really doesn't have much ground to stand on. Then acknowledges that Picard can simply relieve him of duty, and have another, more accommodating officer build it. "But it won't be me" he says. Then he offers to walk directly to the brig.

Good for him. And I bet Picard backs down, too.

Yep. In fact, LaForge feels the strong need for a drink after the confrontation. Worf goes and meets him in the lounge and acknowledges that HE should have had to courage to stand up to Picard. But, GEORDI of all people.........Picard MUST have realized he stepped WAAAY out of line.

Although, a thaleron weapon would be a hell of a Borg killer.

This book helped me to cement my Ezri Dax hate.












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Bad enough she broke it off with Julian, then condemned the erasure of Kurn's memories-and fobbed it off on Jadzia, but at the end of book three, when she bristled at being told exploring was curtailed and her ship the Aventine would be on escort dut for relief convoys.

Excuse me, Ezri, but considering the Borg just nearly wiped out the Federation... screw you. And no, I don't give a damn if she was just kidding. The very fact she made the remark...

I just hate her. Seriously, honest to god. Something there...

The Borg amassed a fleet of several thousand cubes, and they were ALL converging in the E-E, Avantine, and Titan. Picard figured he'd get one shot to get as many of them as he could, but the survivors would adapt. Hell, Starfleet was already working on Thalaron shields.

Seems like the writer(s) really screwed up her character; on DS9 she was quite sweet.

So, what was the rest of the Alpha Quadrant doing while a wall of Cubes were sweeping through?

Well, Starfleet had amassed a fleet consisting of Starfleet, Klingon, Romulan, Gorn, Ferengi, and Breen ships to repel the invading Borg armada.

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Only Voyager survived.

At that point, I'd just use time-travel myself, go back a thousand years or so, and wipe the Borg out while they still controlled "only a handful of systems." (according to the Vaadwaur from the VOY ep Dragon's Teeth)

How else would you win? And, I guess the Transphasic torpedoes didn't work out, right?

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They considered time travel. And yeah, the borg adapted to the transphasics.

Although Starfleet did start using TR-116's against drones.

The TR116s seemed quite effective against the Borg as well.