Why haven't the prime universe Kelven and Franklin shown up novels?

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Yeah, Destiny was a perfect ending (and beginning) of the Borg, and I think bringing them back, even for a one off, would ruin that.

Unless it's to bring an ending to the Mirror Borg...

I mean, it seems clear that Destiny couldn't have played out the same way in the MU as it did in the RU, because so much of it depends on Starfleet vessels - Aventine, Titan Enterprise-E, etc. - from the 24th century...a time where the MU has no Starfleet.

I'm sure there could be, for example, an ISS Columbia NX-02, but the rest of it would have to be very, very different.

 

[JD]

^That is an interesting point.

 

[Charles Phipps]

Of course, Mirror Borg might be a pleasant easy going race of intellectuals.

 

[The Wormhole]

Of course, Mirror Borg might be a pleasant easy going race of intellectuals.

Actually, they're more or less the same other than having a King instead of a Queen.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

^ with a goatee

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Actually, they're more or less the same other than having a King instead of a Queen.

And their ships are shaped like diamonds, not cubes.

 

[Tuskin38]

Actually, they're more or less the same other than having a King instead of a Queen.

The consciousness of the King at the end pondered about being a female next time around, so they have both.

Another difference is that the Mirror Borg are not passive, they don't let people wonder around their ships, the attack right away.

 

[David cgc]

And their ships are shaped like diamonds, not cubes.

I'm still curious if that was describing "our" Borg Diamond, the Queen's ship seen in Voyager, or if they were just regular cubes that oriented themselves so the corners were on the vertical and horizontal axes rather than the flat sides.

 

[Idran]

The consciousness of the King at the end pondered about being a female next time around, so they have both.

I think that's still a distinction, though, because the prime universe explicitly doesn't have both according to the novelverse.

 

[Christopher]

I'm still curious if that was describing "our" Borg Diamond, the Queen's ship seen in Voyager, or if they were just regular cubes that oriented themselves so the corners were on the vertical and horizontal axes rather than the flat sides.

A cube with a changed orientation is still a cube. As long as all its angles are 90 degrees and all its edges are equal, it's a cube, no matter how you rotate it. Especially in space, where there's no absolute up-down axis and the distinction would be even more meaningless.

Whatever the shape of the vessel, "diamond" would be a misnomer; geometrically speaking, a "diamond" is a 2-dimensional figure more properly called a lozenge, like the diamond suit on a playing card: ◊ I would imagine that what Greg had in mind for his "Borg Diamonds" was something more like an octahedron -- basically like two pyramids base-to-base. So, yes, probably something similar to the Queen's vessel.

 

[JD]

Of course, Mirror Borg might be a pleasant easy going race of intellectuals.

Just in case you're not aware the Mirror Borg appeared in the MU novella The Worst of Both Worlds in the first MU anthology, Glass Empires.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

a "diamond" is a 2-dimensional figure more properly called a lozenge

I knew it! Borg cough medicine!

"Resistance is futile. You will purchase Cepacollective. Your cold will be assimilated."