Destiny Trilogy.

[TerraUnam]

Also as apparently Voyager has picked up The Children of the Storm as a post-Borg thread which David Mack left lying around in Destiny just for that purpose, there are a few other open threads in Destiny I found on re-reading it.

There's a quick shot of Kintana with the Chief Archivist of the Caeliar before that city gets thrown back to the dawn of time. About as long as the Children of the Storm snapshot was, maybe just a little shorter.

Ok, so we know this city went on to harness an entire galaxy, and they sent that destructive signal. They're an open thread for the present Axion people to contact.

The status of Seven of Nine's parents is also an open question, AIUI.

 

[Christopher]

The status of Seven of Nine's parents is also an open question, AIUI.

The assimilated Magnus Hansen was in the Queen's personal ship toward the end of "Dark Frontier." That ship was destroyed by Voyager at the end of the episode. Thus, I've always assumed Magnus was killed. And it's always bugged me that the fact was totally ignored by the episode.

 

[vess]

I just started this trilogy, and am about 1/3 through the first book (thank you iBooks for iPhone 4) and I FREAKING LOVE IT. I, sometimes, have a hard time getting into books that I don't know some of the characters (so basically half of the characters in the trilogy thus far), but it hasn't been an issue with Gods of Night. Great read.

 

[TerraUnam]

^^

Fair enough, unless there is yet another backdoor Borg rescue, but the status of Mrs. Hansen is still open.

 

[Cybersnark]

The assimilated Magnus Hansen was in the Queen's personal ship toward the end of "Dark Frontier." That ship was destroyed by Voyager at the end of the episode. Thus, I've always assumed Magnus was killed. And it's always bugged me that the fact was totally ignored by the episode.

Well, TVBorg inconsistencies aside, Magnus would've been "killed" (assimilated into the group consciousness) a long time prior to that. All that was destroyed in that episode would've been the empty body that Magnus had once inhabited.

If anything of Magnus survived Assimilation (stray bits of sentiment clinging too tightly to memories to be discarded), it would've been diffused throughout the Collective, becoming part of every drone's makeup. Maybe that's why the Borg became so focused on reassimilating Seven in particular. It/They loved her, in their own distorted, alien way.

 

[Christopher]

Well, TVBorg inconsistencies aside, Magnus would've been "killed" (assimilated into the group consciousness) a long time prior to that. All that was destroyed in that episode would've been the empty body that Magnus had once inhabited.

On the contrary, TV Trek quite consistently established that assimilated drones retained their own personalities buried deep underneath the Borg programming and that those personalities would reassert themselves if the control was taken away. We saw this with Picard/Locutus, with Annika/Seven, with the ex-drones in "Unity" and "Survival Instinct," with the people in Unimatrix Zero. The only reason Seven resisted regaining a human identity is because she was taken as a child and had little memory of her past, but she did recover her childhood memories, and as we saw in "Infinite Regress," she had many other people's memories within her as well. Even drones who were born as Borg, like Hugh and the others on his cube, quite readily adopted individual identities when the Borg control was cut off.

So pretty much all the onscreen evidence contradicts what you're saying. I don't know why you'd even think that was the case.

Maybe that's why the Borg became so focused on reassimilating Seven in particular. It/They loved her, in their own distorted, alien way.

If they'd been focused on reassimilating Seven, they would've taken Voyager years earlier. As "Dark Frontier" established, the Queen deliberately seeded Seven among Voyager's crew and allowed them to keep her as part of a long-term plan to study humans/the Federation and discover their weaknesses. And "Dark Frontier" was the one and only attempt to reassimilate Seven. After that, when the Borg Queen appeared, she seemed more interested in going after Janeway than Seven.

 

[Strider]

After that, when the Borg Queen appeared, she seemed more interested in going after Janeway than Seven.

...for some incomprehensible, awful reason.

 

[Christopher]

For the very clear and comprehensible reason that Janeway had foiled her plans repeatedly and was an obstacle to be removed.

 

[Strider]

For the very clear and comprehensible reason that Janeway had foiled her plans repeatedly and was an obstacle to be removed.

Borg Queen=Scooby Doo Villain

Voyager was a lost scout ship. The show should have been about the Voyager crew hiding from the Borg, occasionally scrounging technology from the wreckage of assimilated worlds and generally just staying out of the way. Instead, we get Captain Janeway repeatedly banging on the front door of Borg Headquarters and getting away with it. That show was for idiots.

 

[vess]

So, I'm half way through Lost Souls, what should I read next if I want to continue the Destiny vibe?

 

[Thrawn]

All the Post-Destiny novels are great. My recommended reading order is:

TNG - Losing The Peace
A Singular Destiny
Voyager - Full Circle, Unworthy
Titan - Over A Torrent Sea, Synthesis