Destiny Trilogy...

[Graham Kennedy]

Anybody read the Destiny trilogy?

I just finished it... apparently with no prospect of a new Trek series or film set in the post Voyager prime universe era, the powers that be have told the novel writers that it is now their playground, and they are free to avoid the "reset button" and permanently change characters and settings as they please. And wow, in the Destiny trilogy David Mack has gone BIG.

Just for starters, we get...

Picard and Beverly married, and Beverly pregnant with Picard's child.

Captain Ezri Dax of the Starship Aventine... complete with prototype slipstream drive...



Chakotay in command of Voyager.

The most powerful corporeal (semi corporeal, really) species in the history of Trek.

The fate of the NX-02.

Also, throw in Riker and Troi on the USS Titan.

Oh, and we discover the origin of the Borg.

And in spoileriffic territory, we also get...

The Borg return... and have decided that they are fed up with messing around with the Federation. So they're not interested in assimilation any more, but in extermination. The alpha quadrant sends out a combined fleet of Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Cardassian, Breen, Ferengi, Gorn... you name it, just about every species in the Alpha quadrant sends every ship they can spare.

And in SUPER spoileriffic territory...

...then seven thousand Borg cubes show up and obliterate the entire fleet in ten minutes flat. Including destroying Voyager. (Chakotay survives). They then set off to annhilate every single inhabited planet, Starbase, colony, outpost, and trace of civilisation in the entire quadrant.

And in HYPER spoiler territory...

By the end of the last book, dozens of Federation and other planets have been destroyed, seventy billion people are dead... and the Borg are gone. Not from the alpha quadrant... gone from everywhere. Every last Borg in existence, completely freed from the Collective and all implants removed. The Collective itself completely disbanded, permanently, and the Borg species rendered extinct.

It's really quite an impressive trilogy.

[Captain Seafort]

Did the Borg happen to develop masochistic tendencies, organic technology and an obsession with twins along the way?

[Graham Kennedy]

Did the Borg happen to develop masochistic tendencies, organic technology and an obsession with twins along the way?

Huh?

[McAvoy]

It was kinda explained in the books leading up to it. I have no idea what since they were kinda forgetable to begin with.

Yeha it is an impressive trilogy and well thought out as well.

I read all three books in two days flat.

[Graham Kennedy]

It was kinda explained in the books leading up to it. I have no idea what since they were kinda forgetable to begin with.

Yeha it is an impressive trilogy and well thought out as well.

I read all three books in two days flat.

I think I read about one a day.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Did the Borg happen to develop masochistic tendencies, organic technology and an obsession with twins along the way?

I wish I could 'like' this post.

Did the Borg happen to develop masochistic tendencies, organic technology and an obsession with twins along the way?

Huh?

The Vong from the Star Wars NJO series.

Anyway, I read it.

I... didn't like Maria Hernandez or the Caeliar. Just to super-special for my tastes. Although Picard and Crusher getting together-finally!-was cool.

[Graham Kennedy]

The Vong from the Star Wars NJO series.

Ah. Don't know them I'm afraid.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

The Vong from the Star Wars NJO series.

Ah. Don't know them I'm afraid.

Lucky.[dead_serious]

[McAvoy]

It was kinda explained in the books leading up to it. I have no idea what since they were kinda forgetable to begin with.

Yeha it is an impressive trilogy and well thought out as well.

I read all three books in two days flat.

I think I read about one a day.

It's honestly the best series of books based on a franchise I have read in a long time. I have given up on Star Wars though the latest series had potential.

[Nutso]

The Vong from the Star Wars NJO series.

Ah. Don't know them I'm afraid.

They are something that makes Striker angry. Last time someone brought this up, he was cussing and ranting all over the place.

[Sonic Glitch]

The Vong from the Star Wars NJO series.

Ah. Don't know them I'm afraid.

They are something that makes Striker angry. Last time someone brought this up, he was cussing and ranting all over the place.

Wait for it...

[Reliant121]

Was quite a shock to see, actually. Never seen him express more than mild annoyance and these books seem to generate a boiling rage.

[Tyyr]

Yeah, I remember hearing about these books. I also remember why I haven't bothered reading them.

[Jim]

The Vong from the Star Wars NJO series.

The Vong was the first thing that I thought of when reading the first post. The first book with the Vong knocked me right out of the Star Wars books full stop. I didn't even finish that one and never picked up another.

[Jim]

So... what was the origin of the Borg? V'Ger?