Okay where is the novel or fan fic for this?

[Mutara Nebula 1967]

Being the jaded Trek fan I am...I in no way believe that somewhere out there this isn't a novel or fan fic that someone did based on the two minute sequence in TNG episode PARALLELS where a crazed Riker appears and says that the Borg have overrun the Federation in his universe.

I simply do not believe this has never been touched on again.

How about it? Where does some follow up in any format appear?

 

[Smiley]

Wasn't that covered in Mike Barr's "The Worst of Both Worlds" comic story?

 

[Christopher]

^^No, but it was covered in Michael Jan Friedman's "The Worst of Both Worlds" comic story. Although I'm not sure if that was the exact same timeline or just one very much like it.

 

[Smiley]

My apologies to both Mikes for the error. You're both fabulous Trek writers.

 

[The Grinch Doctor]

^^No, but it was covered in Michael Jan Friedman's "The Worst of Both Worlds" comic story. Although I'm not sure if that was the exact same timeline or just one very much like it.

From what I recall, it was just a timeline very similar to it. For one, Riker had an eye-patch in MJF's story and for another, he wasn't nearly as aggressive as the Riker seen in "Parallels."

 

[Brikar99]

I loved that story... It took me YEARS to find issue #50 and see how it ended.

 

[ShinRa Actual]

Similar, but not identical. The comic version had lost her saucer section when the rescue attempt failed, slightly different uniforms, eye-patch for Riker, etc.

 

[William Leisner]

How about it? Where does some follow up in any format appear?

It'd be kinda hard to do a follow-up, seeing as how that Enterprise got blowed up real good during the final act of the episode.

 

[Trent Roman]

^ Hmm. That episode had a reset button of sorts, in that once the rift was sealed Worf returned to the point in time--in the shuttlecraft, returning from the games--when the anomaly was first encountered. No one on the Enterprise knew that anything odd had happened, as would be the case if the timeline(s) had reset themselves. So I'd be inclined to think that Desperate-Riker from the Borg-Overrun-Universe never got sucked in by the rift and thus went on his bleak way to survive another day, or however long one can expect to survive in such a hopeless scenario.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[P0sitr0nic]

I loved that story... It took me YEARS to find issue #50 and see how it ended.

I also loved this series, took me years to find the rest, being as I bought the first issue when it was new on shelves, and I had to buy the entire series off Ebay.

Sadly, the comic doesnt live up to the endings I came up with myself in the intervening years.

 

[Brikar99]

I loved that story... It took me YEARS to find issue #50 and see how it ended.

I also loved this series, took me years to find the rest, being as I bought the first issue when it was new on shelves, and I had to buy the entire series off Ebay.

Sadly, the comic doesnt live up to the endings I came up with myself in the intervening years.

Yeah, but, I'm not gonna lie - it was my fault. I'd built it up so much in my mind there was probably no way I would've been absolutely blown away by it when I was 25 as much as when I was 12 or however old I was. I forget when that came out. In re-reading it, I had to separate the years of anticipation from "the truth", and it still stands as one of my favorite storylines that series ever did. I have nearly the entire run... Maybe sometime I'll complete it and have some sort of marathon reading session.

 

[JD]

Well, there is the DVD collection coming out, that would be one easy way to complete and the collection.

 

[nx1701g]

^ Hmm. That episode had a reset button of sorts, in that once the rift was sealed Worf returned to the point in time--in the shuttlecraft, returning from the games--when the anomaly was first encountered. No one on the Enterprise knew that anything odd had happened, as would be the case if the timeline(s) had reset themselves. So I'd be inclined to think that Desperate-Riker from the Borg-Overrun-Universe never got sucked in by the rift and thus went on his bleak way to survive another day, or however long one can expect to survive in such a hopeless scenario.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

But one thing that I have to wonder. How exactly did the Borg Universe E-D get sucked into the vortex? I doubt Riker in that universe would have authorized Worf to use a shuttle to go to a bat'leth tournament in the middle of a war/desperate struggle to survive.

I remember that there is a fanfilm based on this done by the people of Hidden Frontier also.

 

[Trent Roman]

^ The shuttle triggered the accident, but the universes did not need to be linked to it. I remember in one universe Worf checked 'his' logs about the tournament and found only a message saying that he had to forgo going to the tournament for repairs or somesuch. So we know that universes beyond those in which the shuttle trip might have formed a common element were involved in the breakdown, if you will, between alternate realities.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Lindley]

I remember that there is a fanfilm based on this done by the people of Hidden Frontier also.

Yes, the episode "Yesterday's Excelsior", done with heavy BSG influences. Fairly decent for an early HF episode, all things considered. One of only a few to give McFarland's character more to say than "yes, sir", which is a shame because she was pretty much the best actress there at the time.

The only glaring narrative deficiency in the episode is the discussion of Shelby at the end. Odd to end on that note, since she didn't appear in the episode at all.