STARDRIVE 2 ASSIMILATE SERIES

It’s not clear if there was any deliberate influence or just parallel (haha) ideas, but it is a striking coincidence. If this sounds familiar, it is strikingly similar to the dystopian alternative reality briefly glimpsed in the episode “Parallels”, but these comics came out several months before that episode. Picard and company are thrust into an alternate reality in which the Borg won in “The Best of Both Worlds”, successfully assimilated Earth, and the Enterprise’s stardrive section alone is one of the last ships left, commanded by Riker. However, we suddenly arrive in a very relevant topic with a four-part miniseries entitled “The Worst of Both Worlds” which, as one might be able to guess from the title, involves the Borg.

Here, we’ll look at everything else from TNG non-canon spinoffs in this era (excluding other formats such as video games, which we’ll get to). For this reason, there will be three novels in this period (along with one from TOS which I mentioned in part 11) which I will cover entirely separately in part 13, giving them the space they deserve for a fuller analysis. As the setting became more firmly formed and writers were allowed to more explicitly tie it back to the era of TOS (as seen on-screen with episodes such as “Unification” and “Relics”), this also allowed more freedom for crossovers, time-travel stories and, ultimately, alternate history speculation. TNG had hit its stride in terms of popularity, and authors also typically had a better grasp on the characters and setting compared to earlier comics and books.

STARDRIVE 2 ASSIMILATE SERIES

As I said last time about The Original Series (TOS) spinoffs of this era, while it may sound like only a brief span of years, it was a golden age in terms of quantity of authors churning out books, if not necessarily always one of quality. In other words, from around 1990 to 1994, following on from the earlier spinoffs we covered in part 8. In this article, I’ll be looking at the spinoff media – specifically comics and novels – which were produced with the setting of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (TNG) during the later four seasons of that show’s run.

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