My jaw hit the floor so hard, it may never recover

[DS9Continuing]

Isn't it interesting how different people can have such different reactions to the same stimulus?

For me, the portions with the Columbia crew were a drag, and I pretty much was just waiting for them to be over so we could get back to the other stuff. Whereas the Titan portions were my favourite parts, and indeed they are my favourite current crew.

Also, I pegged pretty much from the moment we met them that the Caeliar were the source of the Borg. It was just a matter of waiting to see how. Not to be rude, but when I read you say, "Wow, I was so surprised!" my immediate response was, "Well, you weren't paying attention then, were you?"

But I will agree with you that the Hirogen attack seemed kind of tacked on and unnecessary, although well done. Makes we wonder if it was there purely to provide the energy dampeners for the later scene.

 

[RyuRoots]

Isn't it interesting how different people can have such different reactions to the same stimulus?

For me, the portions with the Columbia crew were a drag, and I pretty much was just waiting for them to be over so we could get back to the other stuff. Whereas the Titan portions were my favourite parts, and indeed they are my favourite current crew.

Also, I pegged pretty much from the moment we met them that the Caeliar were the source of the Borg. It was just a matter of waiting to see how. Not to be rude, but when I read you say, "Wow, I was so surprised!" my immediate response was, "Well, you weren't paying attention then, were you?"

But I will agree with you that the Hirogen attack seemed kind of tacked on and unnecessary, although well done. Makes we wonder if it was there purely to provide the energy dampeners for the later scene.

Actually, that's precisely what you mean to do when you know something is rude but you choose to say it anyway.

And frankly, I find it very hard to believe that Inyx floating down to greet the NX-02's away team signaled in and of itself that the Borg would come from the Caeliar to you.

But even if you do have that bit of precognition, you said yourself that people react differently. Doesn't mean the rest of us weren't paying attention to the books.

 

[Thrawn]

I also didn't see it coming, because I wasn't expecting Destiny to be an origin story for the Borg as well. I knew that the Caeliar would eventually end up stopping the Borg invasion; that much was fairly telegraphed. But I definitely didn't see the other end of the connection until it happened.

It's funny, how plot twists can be obvious to one person but not to another... and I also think we sometimes forget all the things that seemed obvious but then didn't happen, in favor of the things we predicted correctly. Unconsciously, for sure, but there's definitely a confirmation bias there.

 

[RonG]

I'm with Thrawn on this one..

in Destiny, I guessed both the Caeliar's role in stopping the Borg and their connection to their origins. I didn't guess all the specific details (for instance, I thought that the Borg's origin would be revealed as part of a discussion, not that we would "witness" the actual origin).

There were other instances in which certain developments happened and I didn't see coming - and other times when I thought that certain thing were sure to happen but then didn't...


Back to Destiny - the fact that major parts of the overall plot were "obvious" (or more accurately "natural") to me, did not detract on bit from my enjoyment of this classic trilogy, and in some cases added to it

 

[captcalhoun]

i expected the fleet at the Azure Nebula to be engaged in a huge battle with the Borg and that the Caeliar would then show up and hand-wave the Borg away some how. i didn't expect the fleet to be wholesale slaughtered.

someone spoiled me that the Caeliar and the Borg were connected, but i didn't know how until i read the offer by the Caeliar to fuse their catoms with the survivors, then i knew something would go wrong, but i can't claim to knowing the specifics.

 

[TenLubak]

Yes I read this Trilogy from October to Chistmas last year. I really enjoyed it. I'd read all the TNG books since Death in Winter up to this and it was an interesting adventure until Destiny when pow!

Eveything i felt about this was pretty much summed up in the first post at the time.

 

[Sci]

As soon as I read the description of the catoms, I suspected that there would be a connection to the Borg; they just sounded too similar to nanoprobes to me.

I did not, however, know that the Caeliar would be the origin of the Borg per se; I thought there could be any number of scenarios under which the origins of the Borg and how they related to the Caeliar could be revealed. And I certainly never expected the psychological origins of Borg culture that Mack established in Destiny.