Template:Realworld The fourth novel featuring the crew of TNG post-Star Trek Nemesis.
Summary
The Borg, this time, appear ready to destroy Humanity, not to assimilate them. But could a disabled Borg cube hold the answers on how to stop them?
- To the disbelief of Starfleet Command, and especially of Admiral Janeway, the Borg were not vanquished when the USS Voyager destroyed their transwarp conduits. A disabled Borg cube seems to hold the answers to why the Borg are now striking out and killing, without troubling to assimilate their prey. Admiral Janeway, Seven of Nine and a team of Federation scientists know they don't have much time to stop the threat. Meanwhile Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise, who barely defeated the Borg who were trapped in Federation space, turn to Ambassador Spock for help. Can they discover what lies behind these strange and chilling developments before the Borg can make their triumphant return?
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Background Information
- The working title for this novel was "Excessum Rector", which could be translated to "The Queen is Dead".
- StarTrek.com's Template:Brokenlink gave this book a rating of 1, one of their lowest scores for this year's book reviews.
- An extract from this novel appeared in Star Trek Magazine issue 134.
- After the Borg cube devours Pluto on its course to Earth, a character comments that the debate as whether or not Pluto is actually a planet - a decision handed down a year before the book was published - had just been rendered academic.
- This book takes place during Articles of the Federation.
- This Book also takes place after Star Trek Titan: Orion's Hounds.
Characters
- Canon characters listed below are linked to the main article about them. Non-canon characters are not linked, but those that recurred, appearing or being mentioned in more than one story, are defined further in Pocket TNG characters.
Regular and recurring characters
- Jean-Luc Picard
- Captain of the USS Enterprise-E
- Kathryn Janeway
- Starfleet admiral
- Seven of Nine
- A Professor at Starfleet Academy
- Spock
- Ambassador
- Worf
- First officer of the USS Enterprise-E
- Beverly Crusher
- Doctor aboard the USS Enterprise-E
- Geordi La Forge
- Chief engineer aboard the USS Enterprise-E
- T'lana
- Counselor aboard the USS Enterprise-E
- Miranda Kadohata
- Second Officer aboard the USS Enterprise-E
- Zelik Leybenzon
- Security chief aboard the USS Enterprise-E
- Grim Vargo
- Edward Jellico
- Starfleet admiral
- Alynna Nechayev
- Starfleet admiral
- Q (female)
- Mackenzie Calhoun
- Captain of the Excalibur
- Howard Rappaport/Two
- Captain of the Einstein
- Chakotay
- Captain of Voyager
- Spot
- Worf's pet cat (previously Data's)
External link
- Before Dishonor at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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