Template:Realworld The U.S.S. Enterprise's most deadly foe returns!
Summary
- From the book jacket
- The Borg – half organic being and half machine, they are the most feared race in the known galaxy. In their relentless quest for technological perfection, they have destroyed entire star systems, enslaved countless peoples, and, in a single brutal attack, decimated Starfleet's mightiest vessels. Only a final desperate gambit by Captain Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise crew stopped the Borg from conquering the entire Federation. And now they have returned.
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Years after Wolf 359, when the Federation successfully fought off a Borg invasion, Picard must go face to face with them again.
Background Information
- This novel indicates that the planet killer from TOS: "The Doomsday Machine" was designed to combat the Borg; destroying dead planets left in the Borg's wake and then using its anti-proton beam to destroy encountered Borg cubes.
- Tholians and Commander Loskene make an appearance from "The Tholian Web". Loskene is personally annoyed by another USS Enterprise and also asks if Spock is on the ship. Picard thinks how Tholians are unaware of humanoid lifespan, indicating that Spock is already dead which is proved untrue by "Unification I".
- In the novel, Shelby is serving as first officer of the USS Repulse, with Dr. Katherine Pulaski as CMO.
- The Borg assimilated what may be their first Ferengi ship in this book. The unlucky DaiMon, Turane, became a Borg named Vastator and served a liaison function similar to Locutus. A vestige of his Ferengi individuality remained; he would hail ships about to be attacked with the line, "Let us deal."
Characters
- Jean-Luc Picard
- Captain
- William T. Riker
- Data
- Geordi La Forge
- Chief Engineer.
- Deanna Troi
- Guinan
- Katherine Pulaski
- Doctor.
- Argyle
- Engineer
- Argyle, who previously appeared in Pocket TNG: Metamorphosis, appears next in comic books of the DC TNG volume 2 series.
- Selar
- Miles O'Brien
- Elizabeth Shelby
- Morgan Korsmo
- Captain of the Chekov, Academy classmate of Picard.
- Hobson
- navigator on the Chekov.
- Peel
- tactical officer on the Chekov.
- Talbot
- Professor for Starfleet history at Starfleet Academy.
- Leah Sapp
- Starfleet Academy cadet, classmate of Picard.
- Reannon Bonaventure
- Chafin
- Boyajian
- Loskene
- Tholian commander
- Meyer
- Dantar 8
- Dantar 9
- Lojene
References
- USS Chekov
- Excelsior class starship of Captain Morgan Korsmo.
- USS Curie
- Rescue ship of Commodore (Dr.) Terman.
- Gorn
- Phantom Cruiser
- Ship where Captain Reannon Bonaventure assimilated by Borg
- The story of the Phantom Cruiser and Capt. Bonaventure are superficially very similar to the later character Seven of Nine and the USS Raven.
- USS Repulse (NCC-2544)
- Captain Ariel Taggart.
- Tholians
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