On television the Borg have appeared in all the Star Trek series except for one, TOS!
Are there any TOS novels with hints of the Borg?
Are there any TOS novels with hints of the Borg?
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It did? I'll have to reread Probe!
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There is a reference to the borg in the lost era (between TOS and TNG) book "The buried age".
The book deals with Picard, not Kirk, though. If you like good worldbuilding, I highly recommend it.
The book deals with Picard, not Kirk, though. If you like good worldbuilding, I highly recommend it.
Wasn't there a Borg origin story in a TOS comic book?
Yup, the first TOS manga book had a Borg origin story. I think that story was also the one that they did a colour version of for the omnibus book.
There's also The Return. Which, okay, isn't TOS-era, and it isn't really the same continuity (canon?) as most of the novels, but still.
Continuity is the correct term. Canon refers to the stuff we see on screen, the books cover various continuities.
Weren't Guinan, Soran and the Lakul refugees fleeing from the Borg when they encountered the Nexus Ribbon? I think that's the closest Kirk got to hearing about the Borg.
Not immediately. They'd been travelling across the galaxy as refugees for about a quarter-century by that point.
I know. I didn't say the Borg were close enough for Kirk to encounter, I just said that Generations was the closest he would have come to hearing about them.
I wasn't responding to that part. You asked a specific question and I answered it as asked. I don't think "fleeing from the Borg" is an accurate characterization when it's a quarter-century after the fact. At that point, they weren't in flight mode anymore, just looking-for-a-new-home mode.
I mean, if they'd been actively fleeing the Borg at that point, you'd think they would've told the Federation, "Look out, there are Borg chasing us." Instead, the Federation knew nothing about the Borg, aside from some vague rumors that only Magnus Hansen took seriously, until more than 75 years later. So it seems to me that by the time the El-Aurians were aboard the Lakul, they'd put the whole fleeing-from-the-Borg business behind them as best they could.
I mean, if they'd been actively fleeing the Borg at that point, you'd think they would've told the Federation, "Look out, there are Borg chasing us." Instead, the Federation knew nothing about the Borg, aside from some vague rumors that only Magnus Hansen took seriously, until more than 75 years later. So it seems to me that by the time the El-Aurians were aboard the Lakul, they'd put the whole fleeing-from-the-Borg business behind them as best they could.
DonIago's right; there was an oblique Borg connection in "Probe." Spoiler'd just in case:
The Probe-builders' planet was wiped out by "cube-shaped" starships. Kirk and his crew find out about it after the fact, but never actually encounter the parties responsible.
^It's summarized somewhat in The Buried Age. We know canonically that Guinan was away from home when the Borg destroyed her world, so she'd never encountered them herself until "Q Who." So there really isn't any story to be told about Guinan escaping the Borg at El-Auria -- just hooking up with the refugees afterward and hearing their stories about the Borg.
By the way, Mr. Bennett, my question was rhetorical. No emoticon for that.
Rhetorical or not, it was incorrect and Christopher corrected you. When you put statements (or rhetorical questions) on a posting board, it's not uncommon for them to be responded to. No big deal.
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