One would expect so. I would imagine several little cloisters would pop up like Hugh and his group, the group from Unity, etc.
The Queen was quite bitter about it too. I prefer the novel version of events though. The Destiny trilogy adapted as a series of films could have put Trek movies on an Avengers like path with all the series heroes coming together to fight.
Where Janeway gets killed off and Seven of Nine is magically cured of all her Borg implants? No thanks. The single biggest thing I appreciate about "Picard" is that it did away with that plot line and built its storyline off of what "Voyager" had done, instead of just retconning it.
I have a partial timeline of Borg activity. Here are the relevant parts between "Endgame" and Picard S03. Dates are from Memory Alpha.
So, there's some data about what was up with the Borg between 2378 ("Endgame") and 2401 ("The Last Generation")... but not much. There's more "Borg-adjacent" information.
The general metaphor I go for with the Borg is that they're like an insect colony infestation - it's easy to eliminate A LOT of them, but it's difficult to ensure that you're wiping out ALL of them. Even with Voyager and Picard ending on notes that seem like finality to the Borg in general, I can see ways to build up the Borg returning again at a later date.
I'm currently finishing the third book of the trilogy as I rewatch Picard. It confuses me at times!
I mean, it's the Destiny Trilogy. It's fucking awesome.
@David Mack Didn't you once mention there was talk of adapting the trilogy into live action? I vaguely remember something about this, but I could be completely wrong!
Yes, back in December 2018, I was one of several people involved in a creative brainstorming meeting among the Secret Hideout team. One of the goals at that time was to persuade Patrick Stewart to return to the role of Picard, and one of the ideas pitched (in this case, by me) was my Star Trek Destiny trilogy as a miniseries. Alas, Stewart didn’t go for that pitch, but it opened the door to discussions with him that led to the creation of the Star Trek: Picard series.
Wiping out the Borg forever is a hard story to make satisfying and not feel fanfiction-y.
Destiny's story is better as it is on a much much grander scale than Picard season 3 where all it takes is literally just the aged senior staff of one ship, a nearly 40 year old ship that's been frankensteined back together to end the threat forever because the Borg Queen is pissed off and not even pissed off at the person that infected her. I know it's the TOS movies playbook where the old gang save the day but those plots were more feasible.
I prefer STO's approach, pathogen granted a long reprieve from the Borg as a huge scale threat to the Alpha and Beta Quadrant until they rebuilt their forces and came back. Whether one uses the insects or storm metaphor, they just aren't a force you can ever truly be rid of.
At least Destiny made it an event but I would prefer the Borg to always be out there and I can interpret President Rillik's knowledge of the Borg meaning they are still a thing in the 32nd century and that she didn't just pluck from ancient history.
Destiny's story is better as it is on a much much grander scale than Picard season 3 where all it takes is literally just the aged senior staff of one ship, a nearly 40 year old ship that's been frankensteined back together to end the threat forever because the Borg Queen is pissed off and not even pissed off at the person that infected her. I know it's the TOS movies playbook where the old gang save the day but those plots were more feasible.
I prefer STO's approach, pathogen granted a long reprieve from the Borg as a huge scale threat to the Alpha and Beta Quadrant until they rebuilt their forces and came back. Whether one uses the insects or storm metaphor, they just aren't a force you can ever truly be rid of.
At least Destiny made it an event but I would prefer the Borg to always be out there and I can interpret President Rillik's knowledge of the Borg meaning they are still a thing in the 32nd century and that she didn't just pluck from ancient history.
That is an absolute shame. A pipe dream of mine had been to have an Avengers type series of films with all of the TNG era shows and crews. How could that not make money? That time has passed but Destiny scratched that itch.
We know at some point in the far future there is a child with Borg implants being taught about 24th century starfleet
Don’t forget the alternate-timeline Enterprise-D that refused to return to their Borg infested reality.
Mirror Universe incursions might not be the only kind to worry about, should they go “sideways” in time…as in Doctor Who’s “Inferno.”
The Intendant would have made for a fine Queen.
Mirror Universe incursions might not be the only kind to worry about, should they go “sideways” in time…as in Doctor Who’s “Inferno.”
The Intendant would have made for a fine Queen.
I headcanon the Borg Collective was not wiped out really, but it completely fragmented and shattered across the Milky Way, with many dying, but many adapting in their own way as mini-collectives.
There was a large Borg hold out acting like a threat and sent a cube into the dissolved Romulans Empire in S1, a new Borg Cooperative forming in S2, another Borg hold out working with what they got left in Prodigy, and a surving Queen plotting from her wrecked cube flagship in S3.
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