Awesome callback, but so sad!
Spoilers New Picard TV Series and Litverse Continuity (may contain TV show spoilers)
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On the other hand, I do kinda like that this episode loosely reinforced something that @Christopher posited in his DTI stories, that eventually the Borg will end up assimilating the entire galaxy if left unchecked. If the Borg backtracked Voyager's route to the Caretaker's array, many more of those worlds and races that we saw in the first two seasons could also be in danger (or maybe it was something as simple as the Collective being drawn to the Sikarians specifically due to their incredibly advanced trajector-matrix technology).
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I just figure they weren’t all that far away from Borg space, so the Collective just naturally happened upon them as they expanded. I think by this point we can assume all the races Voyager encountered early on have been assimilated. 
I thought my heart was going to burst from joy. (Maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but not much.)
I nerdgasimed over that as well — having just finished my re-read of Duane’s TOS output a couple days ago.
I just figure they weren’t all that far away from Borg space, so the Collective just naturally happened upon them as they expanded. I think by this point we can assume all the races Voyager encountered early on have been assimilated.
The Borg had encountered the Kazon at some point prior to Seven joining the crew, so we know the Borg had been in the area before.
Just because the Borg have assimilated Sikarians does not necessarily mean that they have assimilated Sikaria proper. Sure, the trajector tech got assimilated, but that doesn’t mean that it happened on their homeworld - they have starships, after all, and the Borg could have offset the issues Voyager had with integrating the tech - after all, when B’Elanna and the others were working it, they were actively trying to do it quickly and within the bounds of the tech itself because they were ordered not to take the Sikarians up on the shady deal. The Borg would have no such compunctions.
Yeah, I was like, "Oh that's a call back, but I can't remember the ep for some reason..." It was really bugging me, and I did a quick google during a Geico commercial and was all "Whoa!"
Although the actual quote from Hugh in the episode is, "The Borg acquired the technology after assimilating the Sikarians." Which seems to imply pretty much the entire race (and, presumably, their homeworld too).
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Although some might have escaped, since their technology is ideally suited to do that.
Yes, that is exactly what he said. "Assimlating Sikarians"...no "the" involved.
Which means that the Borg did not necessarily assimilate the entire species. Possibly just one vessel.
Not a novel, but Cryptic removed Icheb from Star Trek Online with the latest patch, I assume it's connected to what happened in Episode 5.
I could be wrong, but the name Kzinti isn't directly owned by anyone. They can say the name in the show, but they can't directly make parallels with his creation, use the idea of it.
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I'm pretty sure Thad and Kestra Riker's existence contradicts the Novelverse. I'm pretty sure Thad would have to have been born earlier than Tasha in the books, and Kestra would probably need to have already been born long before the last few apperances of Riker, Troi, and Tasha.
Thad Riker was born the exact same year as Natasha Riker in the novels (2381), which means that the first four Star Trek: Titan books can still fit into the new TV-canon for now, but had he been born just one year earlier (2380), there'd be several truly-irreconcilable differences.
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