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. [/LEFT] Sounds good to me. It is ok that I've been posting these here isn't it?
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.
Ug...can't we just pretend "Before Dishonor" never happened? My only hope is that Christopher can rehabilitate this storyline.
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. Shame the last one was complete garbage.
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.
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. Before what? Never heard of it. Fictitiously yours, 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
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.
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.
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. Ahh, ye of little faith. All will be explained.
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.
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.
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.
They had transwarp. "Endgame" robbed them of that ability, at least insofar as travel to Federation space or its vicinity is concerned. Not in GTTS.