I sometimes think I'm not that much of a Star Trek nerd, and compared to some people I'm not, but I'm enough of one that I recognized it right away, and I'm going to be hearing a musical cue from that episode in my head for a while now.
The notion of a Doomsday Machine going hog on the Borg was explored in the TNG novel Vendetta by noted writer Peter David. It's set shortly after the events of The Best of Both Worlds and also explains why they never used the nanites that almost took the ship apart in that one episode as a weapon.
Matthew Green
•Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:
•Better--the Doomsday Machine from the TV show.
Tinchocongruent
•silverwizard
Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:
•tbf, it's the same thing I want from every Lost In Space trope. And never get.
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Don't make my error
furicle
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Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:
•Looking at the description, it looks like a play on "Space:1999," which is fine. The series ending on a cliffhanger doesn't thrill me, though.
furicle
•SGU was a departure from the others.
Toby
•arch-packetmancer
•Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:
•But we need the film.
arch-packetmancer
•Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:
•Ethically: yes.
Legally: Trek novels are all work-for-hire, so Paramount owns all the rights. But they should pay him anyway.
pamela :flan_butterfly:
•Also thinking about it, like what are the chances their target demographic had ever read about the maquisards by name to get the reference?