My review of it (copied from another thread):
I rather enjoyed it. It was an interesting take on the events before, during and after. Gave interesting explanations over why Starfleet didn't appear familiar with the Borg prior despite the El-Aurians and the Hansen family seemingly knowing about it. And it gave us an idea of why losing 39 vessels was a disaster for Starfleet (having less than 400 starships to defend the 8,000 light year expanse of the UFP, an unreasonable President and Council, forced to rely on 80-year-old Excelsiors, Mirandas, Oberths and Constellations with limited numbers of newer classes including the Galaxy class, pushing the Klingons to do something, trying to end the Cardassian border war etc. etc.). Though I did prefer the 40 ships JTVFX selected to fill the gaps over some decisions made in the book but each to their own.
I was also fascinated by President Amitra since I don't have the source material she came from and only know her from the excellent Articles of the Federation novel. So glad for that detail.
I came with developing ideas around Wolf 359 and even linked it to a few of my fanfic storylines on time.
Made sense about the confusions between the various branches of Starfleet that weren't communicating all the time and even bringing in new blood into the admiralty tended to do little good at times. I liked how there was an attempt to reconcile why in TNG no-one ever heard of the Borg prior but in Generations we see the El-Aurians evacuating to UFP space while in VOY we have the Hansens going off -- with their young daughter Annika. This also led to other problems. And their fights with the President and her office to keep Starfleet functioning on less than 400 ships to protect such a large area of space with 80-100 year old designs we see on-screen made quite a bit of sense.
Some people at Paramount tend to get nasty to fan projects. I mean look at Axanar. Essentially the only reason they sued was because it did look good, way too good for any old fan project. And looked more original Star Trek than Discovery did when released.
I rather enjoyed it. It was an interesting take on the events before, during and after. Gave interesting explanations over why Starfleet didn't appear familiar with the Borg prior despite the El-Aurians and the Hansen family seemingly knowing about it. And it gave us an idea of why losing 39 vessels was a disaster for Starfleet (having less than 400 starships to defend the 8,000 light year expanse of the UFP, an unreasonable President and Council, forced to rely on 80-year-old Excelsiors, Mirandas, Oberths and Constellations with limited numbers of newer classes including the Galaxy class, pushing the Klingons to do something, trying to end the Cardassian border war etc. etc.). Though I did prefer the 40 ships JTVFX selected to fill the gaps over some decisions made in the book but each to their own.
I was also fascinated by President Amitra since I don't have the source material she came from and only know her from the excellent Articles of the Federation novel. So glad for that detail.
I came with developing ideas around Wolf 359 and even linked it to a few of my fanfic storylines on time.
Made sense about the confusions between the various branches of Starfleet that weren't communicating all the time and even bringing in new blood into the admiralty tended to do little good at times. I liked how there was an attempt to reconcile why in TNG no-one ever heard of the Borg prior but in Generations we see the El-Aurians evacuating to UFP space while in VOY we have the Hansens going off -- with their young daughter Annika. This also led to other problems. And their fights with the President and her office to keep Starfleet functioning on less than 400 ships to protect such a large area of space with 80-100 year old designs we see on-screen made quite a bit of sense.
Some people at Paramount tend to get nasty to fan projects. I mean look at Axanar. Essentially the only reason they sued was because it did look good, way too good for any old fan project. And looked more original Star Trek than Discovery did when released.
) but ill be continuing up to the destruction of the Cube
