Why Haven't Borg Been Featured In Any New Novels?
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Re: Why Haven't Borg Been Featured In Any New Nov
Yep.
Margaret
You know that's too cute. So let's give you a little behind the scenes stuff. The Borg. Any one pitching a Borg story had to have a really strong reason for wanting to use them and had to keep true to thier nature. (I've typed that sentence five times, trying not to give too much away.) I got that.
Margaret
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Yep.
Margaret
You know that's too cute. So let's give you a little behind the scenes stuff. The Borg. Any one pitching a Borg story had to have a really strong reason for wanting to use them and had to keep true to thier nature. (I've typed that sentence five times, trying not to give too much away.) I got that.
Margaret
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TNG improved when a bunch of vibrant characters with greater emotional range and subtlety than the regular crew were introduced. Yes, I’m talking about the Borg.
The Borg had more dynamic personalities than the TNG crew. Picard drank hot tea. Is that a swashbuckling hero, or a boring dullard? Riker elicited no response from viewers, except to liken him to a beige wall. McFadden was a one-note pedestrian actor delivering lines in a robotic monotone. LaForge was a whimpering twerp that confused sympathy for respect. TNG was a decline in moral standards. I’ll take TOS any day.
Sorry, I hadn’t realized.
It's doubly funny because I'm imagining someone not looking at the time and saying, "Star Trek: Destiny!"
I don’t understand your reference. I’m just a casual fan.
Its a trilogy where the entire Bog race invades the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, trying to destroy or conquer everyone.
It's the "big movie" of Star Trek's novelverse.
It's also the last big Borg story.
Because they're wiped out in the end.
Which I did. And I got all excited for the OP getting to discover Destiny. Then I saw the date.
Destiny is probably about the only Borg story I actually liked. Even if it did directly contradict my Borg-origin short story (which managed to tie in V'Ger, Nomad, and Jackson Roykirk, as I recall -- it's been a few years since I even looked at it), "The Gray People."
You weren't the only one. That being said, I also really liked Vendetta.
Oh dear. 16 years!
CLANG!
CLANG!
2020 really is a year of record-breaking feats.
I can confidently say no. And I'm just leaving it at that.Was the OP in 2004 actually David Mack doing some very very early marketing for Destiny?
Definitely not, for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was that in summer 2004,Was the OP in 2004 actually David Mack doing some very very early marketing for Destiny?
Dave was working on developing Vanguard with Marco Palmieri, and Destiny wasn't a gleam in anybody's eye.....
Not only that, but someone also liked a post of mine from the first page (which, um, didn't age well). I was so confused when I saw the notification.
All of that and if anyone who was around here (i.e. anywhere on this board) back then would know what kind of poster Dayton3 was. Definitely not David Mack.
Sometimes I see these old threads and wonder what every happened to some of the old posters here. Out of curiosity I checked and apparently Dayton3 disappeared in 2009. I always hope it's not because somebody is no longer with us (though undoubtedly many are). I guess you can call it morbid curiosity but I wonder now what Dayton3's last post was and what happened after that. I gather he was a bit, shall I say, opinionated (to put it nicely). Good poster or bad I hope they are alive and well and just moved on to other things.
It also amazes me that I've been a Star Trek fan since around 1986, so a long time fan. And I only found TrekBBS in 2017 for the first time. And that was actually by accident because I was trying to find out why there were no new books listed for 2018. A search turned up a link to this site and that is how I found it.
When did TrekBBS start, 1999 was it? And it took me until 2017 to happen across it.
All those old Star Trek debates I missed out on. I would have loved to have had a place to debate Enterprise when it was actually on the air, or Star Trek (2009) when it was still brand new. Or comment about the novels over the last 20 years when they were still new.
As I recall, Dayton3 didn’t actually like Destiny for some reason, though I can’t remember what his issues with it were.
I’m not sure “debate” is precisely the word for the kind of discussion that happened in those forums back in the day...
