Greater than the Sum official description

[JD]

I found the description for Greater than the Sum this morning on the S&S site, and so like usual I was going to go ahead and share it here.

The Starship Rhea has discovered a cluster of carbon planets that seems to be the source of the quantum energies rippling through a section of space. A landing party finds unusual life-forms inhabiting one of the planets. One officer, Lieutenant T'Ryssa Chen -- a half-Vulcan -- makes a tenuous connection with them. But before any progress can be made, the Rhea comes under attack from the Einstein -- a Starfleet vessel now controlled by the Borg. The landing party can only listen in horror as their comrades are assimilated. The Borg descend to the planet, and just as Chen accepts that she will be assimilated, the lieutenant is whisked two thousand light-years away.
A quantum slipstream -- instantaneous transportation -- is controlled by these beings in the cluster, and in the heart of the cluster there is now a Borg ship. Cut off from the rest of the Borg collective, the Einstein cannot be allowed to rejoin it. For the sake of humanity, the Borg cannot gain access to quantum slipstream technology.
Starfleet Command gives Captain Picard carte blanche: do whatever he must to help the beings in the cluster, and stop the Einstein no matter the cost.​

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Sounds good to me.

It is ok that I've been posting these here isn't it?

 

[greenmystik]

It does sound good, but I feel like they might start to overuse the Borg.

 

[LightningStorm]

It does sound good, but I feel like they might start to overuse the Borg.

But is that perceived overuse due to actual overuse or is it because the Borg stories we've gotten have been (to your eyes) inadequate?

While, I do think there is a such thing as "too much of a good thing" I don't think that 5 or so novels that cover the Borg in 10 years is any where near too much if they had all been great novels.

 

[Corran Horn]

Ug...can't we just pretend "Before Dishonor" never happened?

My only hope is that Christopher can rehabilitate this storyline.

 

[JoeZhang]

It does sound good, but I feel like they might start to overuse the Borg.

While, I do think there is a such thing as "too much of a good thing" I don't think that 5 or so novels that cover the Borg in 10 years is any where near too much if they had all been great novels.

It's the duration between borg novels that the problem

Here's a borg novel - next we have a borg novel - next we have a borg novel.

if they had all been great novels.

Shame the last one was complete garbage.

 

[Warp Coil]

If we're lucky, the Einstein will get sucked back into the Delta Quadrant via quantum slipstream. That way, the immediate Borg threat that the TNG fans have had to endure for the last few novels will go away. And, it means that the writers can still re-visit the Borg later on when they feel the need to pull them out again.

 

[Trent Roman]

The Rhea is a Luna-class, isn't she? That's funny - one of Titan's sister ships, named after a titan (well, after a moon named for a titan, but you get my meaning). Between this, the Luna and the Charon, the class is showing a streak of bad luck.

Ug...can't we just pretend "Before Dishonor" never happened? My only hope is that Christopher can rehabilitate this storyline.

Before what? Never heard of it.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Man of Steel]

Sounds to me like this picks up where Before Dishonor left off and continues that story.

 

[Trent Roman]

^ "Ooh, your powers of deduction are exceptional. I can't allow you to waste them here when there are so many crimes going unsolved at this very moment. Go, go, for the good of the city."

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[JD]

Sounds to me like this picks up where Before Dishonor left off and continues that story.

Yeah, it does. The whole idea behind the book is that it is continuing the story from Before Dishonor and leads into Destiny. In fact it was even first announced as the book between BD, and Destiny, more or less.

 

[Frodo Lives]

Huh? Don't the Borg already have access to Quantum Slipstream tech after assimilating Arturis' race?

Not that I mean to doubt Christopher or anything, and I'm still psyched about this book.

 

[Christopher]

It's the duration between borg novels that the problem

Here's a borg novel - next we have a borg novel - next we have a borg novel.

But GTTS is not a Borg novel. At least, not in the same way that its predecessors are. If they'd asked me to write more of the same, I would've said no.

Huh? Don't the Borg already have access to Quantum Slipstream tech after assimilating Arturis' race?

Not that I mean to doubt Christopher or anything, and I'm still psyched about this book.

Ahh, ye of little faith. All will be explained.

 

[JD]

So does the book focus more on the new aliens than the Borg then? Because that's the impression I've gotten from your previous comments and now this description.

 

[Christopher]

So does the book focus more on the new aliens than the Borg then?

Hmm... I can't really answer that question as phrased, since a couple of its underlying assumptions are inapplicable.

 

[BrotherBenny]

So does the book focus more on the new aliens than the Borg then?

Hmm... I can't really answer that question as phrased, since a couple of its underlying assumptions are inapplicable.

Animal, vegetable or mineral?

Seriously, though, Christopher's answer sounds more like an empire-driven sundered offshoot against the original Borg that we have never seen. Kind of like the Rommies trying to retake Vulcan, or the Son'a vs the Baku; the children return to reclaim their home at the deaths of their parents. This could be a great character piece.

 

[Christopher]

^^That's what it sounds like to you? Uhh, okay, then...

 

[JoeZhang]

A quantum slipstream -- instantaneous transportation -- is controlled by these beings in the cluster, and in the heart of the cluster there is now a Borg ship. Cut off from the rest of the Borg collective, the Einstein cannot be allowed to rejoin it. For the sake of humanity, the Borg cannot gain access to quantum slipstream technology.

From the Destiny blur:

The Borg return -- with a vengeance! Blitzkreig attacks by the single-minded aliens with their hive mentality and their mission to assimilate every intelligent being they encounter are leaving whole worlds aflame. No one knows how they are slipping past Starfleet's defences

Quantum slipstream maybe?

 

[Sxottlan]

Well, the Borg have transwarp, right? Wasn't that the little CG tunnels they all flew through? Or was that quantum-what-ever-the-Hell drive?

Is the class of the Einstein going to be stated? I hear science vessel nowadays and I think Nova-class.

 

[Christopher]

Well, the Borg have transwarp, right? Wasn't that the little CG tunnels they all flew through? Or was that quantum-what-ever-the-Hell drive?

They had transwarp. "Endgame" robbed them of that ability, at least insofar as travel to Federation space or its vicinity is concerned.

Is the class of the Einstein going to be stated?

Not in GTTS.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Is the class of the Einstein going to be stated? I hear science vessel nowadays and I think Nova-class.

AFAIK, it's Nebula class