I read a series of TNG books recently that plotted out an origin story for the Borg. Had humans from the crew of an NX-class thrown thousands of years into the past, on a remote world in the Delta Quadrant, shipwrecked with a peaceful race of beings who prolonged their lives with complex nanorobots. Eventually, the humans were starving and the aliens were without enough power for their nanorobots to sustain them. So they united what was left of themselves into one collective being, then basically mind-raped the surviving humans into submission with their last, survival-pragmatic shred of consciousness. Even gave the unlikely "Borg" name a semi-plausible explanation. "No! Stop! Please! I don't want to be a cy..." "...borg. "
Yep. I just read all three of those books on my PDA. It was kinda obvious after a while where they were going with it and I'm surprised that Paramount let them do what they did. I will say though this is why I read few Trek books anymore. It's all "triliogies" (or more) and they really stretch the crediblity factor. Wow Enterprise, Titan, and the third ship (Ezri Dax's ship) just happen to be in the right place at the right time. I wish for the days when the whole story was in one book. Even regular sci-fi seems to be going more of the route of one story over multiple books.
