has anyone considered a (or set of) novel(s) on a war between the The Borg, and the Jem'Hadar ?

[Don Drutherford]

..I think that it might be an interesting story -

Spoiler: Story ideas

The Borg make a comeback - Use the Jem'Hadar against them. Of course, you can also have various sub-plots of factions (Romulan, Cardassian, Klingons, etc.) helping one side, or the other (or both!) to their own ends. and even a movement WITHIN the Jem'Hadar to JOIN the Borg (Giving their lives purpose again - How scary would THAT be?!!) If it gets boring after awhile, you could thow in the Hiirogen Hunters as well (Talk about a party!) They would probably love to take home a few Jem'Harar carcasses as trophies. Alot of interesting possibilities - Modify the Ketrecel White to include modified Borg nanoprobes to prevent assimilation, and maybe even a "failsafe self destruct if the Jem 'Hadar is being assimilated

. ..Well, How about it?

 

[F. King Daniel]

Story ideas are verboten in the lit forum, I'm afraid. Perhaps you'd get better luck in the fanfic forum?

 

[The Wormhole]

Yeah, by posting what you did you just prevented such a book from ever happening. Good job.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Yeah, by posting what you did you just prevented such a book from ever happening. Good job.

Thank God. In preventing such a book (or movie, or television series) from ever happening, the OP has done the world a great service.

 

[Stevil2001]

Wasn't there something about the Borg and the Dominion in one of the Mission: Gamma books?

 

[JD]

Yeah, it's been a while, but I believe they find a Changeling the Borg had tried to assimilate in the last Mission Gamma book.

 

[Josh Kelton]

There was also a video game where the Borg hijack a Vorta cloning facility to recreate Locutus.

 

[Christopher]

There was also a video game where the Borg hijack a Vorta cloning facility to recreate Locutus.

Whaaaaaaaaa???? No. No. The whole point of the Borg is that they consider individuals to be nothing more than interchangeable parts. They didn't turn Picard into Locutus because of anything specific to Picard's genetics. They picked him because he was an authority figure and they wanted a spokesperson. Any authority figure would have done just as well. They wouldn't have cloned Picard, they'd just have imposed the Locutus hardware and programming on someone else.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

That was Star Trek Armada, and I’m pretty sure they did it on the basis of a) giving the Borg faction a “lead” in the campaign, in the way that Picard, Worf, Martok, and Sela were in the Federation, Klingon, and Romulan campaigns, and, with Sir Patrick Stewart already on board, that gave them the ability to b) have a Picard-Locutus stand-off - the game’s opening cinematic gave away that face off before you can even start the game proper.

 

[DS9Continuing]

Wasn't there something about the Borg and the Dominion in one of the Mission: Gamma books?

Yeah, it's been a while, but I believe they find a Changeling the Borg had tried to assimilate in the last Mission Gamma book.

This was in Lesser Evil, the one in which Vaughn's wife was found as a Borg. The Defiant crew found the aftermath of a Borg ship and a Jem'Hadar ship who had apparently fought each other to their mutual destruction several years previous. A Changeling survivor and a Borg corpse were both brought up to the ship, and the assimilation protocols were still active in the Borg corpse, so it tried to assimilate the Changeling. Given that Changelings have no blood cells for the nanoprobes to latch onto, it failed, and the Changeling just crushed the nanoprobes together into a ball and handed them back with a "no thanks".

.

 

[trampledamage]

I think only the last part of @Don Drutherford 's post becomes specific enough to be problematic as a story idea for this forum, but it is a difficult line to draw so I have edited the post to put all of it in spoiler code.


Here is a link to the post in the Rules of Behaviour thread for this forum that covers story ideas. Read @Christopher 's quoted post for a good description of how things cross the line from speculation about possibilities into the unwanted territory of story ideas.

https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/moderator-notices-read-this-first-rules-of-behaviour.280025/

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Thankfully, the genie is already out of the bottle, and the fact that this thread exists has already guaranteed that any professional writer who had independently come up with something involving both the Borg and the Dominion -- two of the three most overused excuses for stories that do anything but "explore strange new worlds," "seek out new life and new civilizations," or "boldly go where none have gone before" -- will have to abandon the attempt.

Excuse me for mincing words here, but what I really think would curdle an egg in its shell.

 

[Christopher]

Thankfully, the genie is already out of the bottle, and the fact that this thread exists has already guaranteed that any professional writer who had independently come up with something involving both the Borg and the Dominion -- two of the three most overused excuses for stories that do anything but "explore strange new worlds," "seek out new life and new civilizations," or "boldly go where none have gone before" -- will have to abandon the attempt.

That's not really how it works. A story idea isn't just a vague category of story like that, but something more specific and narrative-based, as discussed in the thread linked above. So just saying "I'd like to see the Borg meet the Dominion" doesn't do it, but getting into what specifically happens when they meet is crossing a line.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Damn. I was hoping I'd never see anything even remotely close to what the OP suggested.

 

[JD]

I don't really think the Dominion is that over used. Yeah, they were the focus of the later seasons of DS9, but we really haven't gotten that much with them in the books comics.
As far as I can remember the only books that actually deal with the Domionion are the 4 Dominion War novels, The Battle of Betazed, Hollow Men, Tales of the Domion War, and the SCE two parter that dealt with what it's characters were up to during the Dominion War. They did pop up off and on in the DS9 relaunch, but they weren't really much of a focus there outside of the Dominion Worlds of DS9 novella.
I'm not that familiar with the comics, but the only ones I can remember dealing with the Dominion are the Alpha Quadrant portions of the Telepathy War crossover that Marvel did. That's a pretty tiny portion of the franchise, especially when you compare that to how much we've gotten stuff focused on races like the Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians, and even the Borg.