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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] I love that too, and would love to see the ole' half-smoked joint square off against a cube with that massive weapon. For Mojo: "Vendetta" is one of Peter David's better early works in Trek novellia. The plot revolves around the "big sister" to the Doomsday Machine, both built by a race of aliens just outside the galaxy to fight the Borg. The idea was for the DM to be released in Borg space, feeding on Borg-infested worlds in an ironic way to destroy the entire collective. The DM we all know and love was a prototype for the main monster, but for some reason the aliens couldn't finish it before they were destroyed, and released the prototype early. In the novel, someone makes note that the straight line through Federation space the DM would have taken would have also continued straight through to Borg space (at that time in TNG, they hadn't yet established the Alpha/Beta/Gamma/Delta quadrant concept). Anyway, the Big Sister DM floated unfinished just outside the galaxy, until a member of Guinan's race (still not established as El-Aurians) found it. She was really pissed that the Borg had destroyed her world, saw the opportunity, and finished the machine before taking it on a joyride through Federation territory towards Borg space, munching up cubes along the way. It was a pretty cool novel, with a really cool climactic battle between the Enterprise-D, The Excelsior-class Repulse and Chekhov, the BSDM, and three cubes. Fun stuff. Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]

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