Nor can I even begin to imagine why anyone would presume that the authors would be jumping all over themselves to undermine the great drama of the Destiny trilogy by bringing the Borg back.
It's quite simple, actually - because the borg are a popular species and can, potentially, sell books.
Considering that the
Destiny trilogy was explicitly conceived to be the last Borg story, considering the widely-acknowledged creative difficulties making Borg stories work well, and considering that none of the pre-DEST Borg novels were very big hits, I sincerely doubt that the authors would regard reviving the Borg as being a good idea from a dramatic or from a marketing standpoint.
Nor can I even begin to imagine why anyone would presume that the authors would be jumping all over themselves to undermine the great drama of the Destiny trilogy by bringing the Borg back. Seems silly to undermine the perfect resolution to a wonderful trilogy that way, and all for the sake of telling yet another cybernetic zombie story.
Well, it's not as though the Destiny trilogy would be undone by the Borg's return.
Not "undone" in the sense of, made the events of the plot not happen. But it would certain be "undone" in the sense of, completely undermining the
point of the trilogy.
Destiny, after all, was about mortality and how we choose to respond to it -- contrasting the Borg's eternal hunger and hopeless yearning with the Federation's willingness to stand by its principles and the Caeliar's eventually learning to shed their delusions of immortality. These philosophical conflicts can only be resolved by the Collective being permanently dismantled and the liberated drones accepted into Caeliar society. If the Borg are later revived, this fundamentally undermines the philosophical resolution to the conflicts that drove the story.
To draw a comparison:
Reviving the Borg in a story set in the Destiny timeline after the DEST trilogy would be the equivalent of making a sequel to
Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The entire point of T2 was that there is no fate, that the future is in our hands and we can change it.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines completely contradicted the entire philosophical drive of T2 by essentially asserting, "No, there is fate and you can't fight it." It essentially pissed all over its predecessor. Reviving the Borg would be like pissing all over the
Destiny trilogy in the same way that T3 pissed all over T2.
As a similar example, the Cult of Skarro's emergence in Army of Ghosts doesn't undermine the climax of Parting of the Ways.
I think it did, actually. In fact, really, I think "Bad Wolf"/"the Parting of the Ways" undermined "Dalek" -- if I'd had my way, the Dalek in that episode would have been the last of the Daleks, period.
And like comic books, sometimes people just like to take a crack at the "classic" villains.
Sure, but that's why they can set a story in a different continuity (not all books have to be part of the Destinyverse) or pre-DEST.
