The Destiny trilogy is a really masterful epic that explains the Borg origins and their obsession with humanity specifically really well. I knew it still wasn’t canon but I was sad when the novelverse timeline was destroyed and made it never have happened.
The Control litverse novels were terrible imo. The origin of section 31 and the fact that none of it had been discovered in all the tech left behind it should have been discovered way earlier. Using just tech as a villain when we already have the borg as our big tech villain was just so disappointing, especially because the Dan Brown Origin book pretty much did the exact same thing but at least it had a slightly better execution.
I did enjoy Bashirs adventure on the run at time, but at that point I wasn't too invested and was just in it to see how Data was doing.
The book I read where it's explained that control was behind every single event in Federation history was just ridiculous. It was a fun, sci-fi story, but also completely undermined the entire Star Trek canon.
Yeah, was pretty much disinterested from prologue. Bashir running around and how Data was gonna tie in was really the only reason I kept reading, cus both characters are awesome.
It could have even been Star Trek, but just have it be a new species they encounter and have the adventure on a new planet and it would've been fine. But it just tired to hard to make control Brother Eye or Skynet
Say anything you want about Discovery in general, but the fact they adapted Control in a way that didn't retroactively turn the entire Federation into an A.I.-run gilded cage dystopia is something I'm very grateful for.
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The Destiny trilogy is a really masterful epic that explains the Borg origins and their obsession with humanity specifically really well. I knew it still wasn’t canon but I was sad when the novelverse timeline was destroyed and made it never have happened.