Vendetta (Pocket TNG Giant #2)

Os Borg -- meio orgânicos, meio máquinas, eles são a raça mais temida na galáxia conhecida e agora invadiram o quadrante alfa.. Na sua busca incansável por perfeição tecnológica, eles destruíram sistemas solares inteiros, escravizaram inúmeros povos, e num único ataque brutal, dizimaram as naves mais poderosas da Frota Estelar. Respondendo a um chamado de ajuda, a tripulação da Enterprise encontra Delcara, a única sobrevivente de uma raça alienígena que os Borg assimilaram. Cegada pela fúria, Delcara quer vingança -- a destruição total dos executores de sua raça... |...| [Vendetta -- The U.S.S. Enterprise's most deadly foe returns!]: 'The Borg – half organic being and half machine, they are the most feared race in the known galaxy. In their relentless quest for technological perfection, they have destroyed entire star systems, enslaved countless peoples, and, in a single brutal attack, decimated Starfleet's mightiest vessels. Only a final desperate gambit by Captain Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise crew stopped the Borg from conquering the entire Federation. And now they have returned'.' |...| [Memory Alpha: the Star Trek wiki -- Background Information]: This novel indicates that the planet killer from TOS: "The Doomsday Machine" was designed to combat the Borg; destroying dead planets left in the Borg's wake and then using its anti-proton beam to destroy encountered Borg cubes.
The Preservers are speculated as potentially being the species that fought the Borg and created the planet killers.
The novel takes place some time after "Data's Day"; Data knows how to tap dance and O'Brien is married.
Troi references the period in which she lost her empathic powers depicted in "The Loss".
Tholians and Commander Loskene make an appearance from "The Tholian Web". Loskene is personally annoyed by another USS Enterprise and also asks if Spock is on the ship. Picard thinks how Tholians are unaware of humanoid lifespan, indicating that Spock is already dead which is proved untrue by "Unification I".
In the novel, Shelby is serving as first officer of the USS Chekov, while Dr. Katherine Pulaski is serving as CMO on the USS Repulse.
The second planet killer is contrasted with Tin Man.
The Borg assimilated what may be their first Ferengi ship in this book. The unlucky DaiMon, Turane, became a Borg named Vastator and served a liaison function similar to Locutus. A vestige of his Ferengi individuality remained; he would hail ships about to be attacked with the line, "Let us deal."
The novel contains several anti-Borg weapons which were based on actual events from TNG. The deflector pulse weapon the USS Repulse uses on a Borg cube is a carbon copy of the attack the Enterprise tried in "The Best of Both Worlds". The "warp bubble" weapon is a replication of the effect that trapped Dr Crusher in mini universe in "Remember Me".
The novel depicts the antimatter spread distraction the Enterprise-D saucer used in "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" as a weapon that can inflict damage to an enemy vessel, not just as a distracting maneuver.
The events of this book are directly referenced in a follow up book in the TNG relaunch series. Before Dishonor refers to the the Doomsday machine's anti-Borg nature and the erroneous concept of genderless Borg. Peter David wrote both novels...

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