PoptartsNinja posted:

Anything in the novels is considered alternate universe / idea fodder as far as the franchise is concerned. The Borg have other possible origins, including V'Ger, which is the angle STO took for them. One of the monster enemies that can show up was basically a huge V'Ger copy without the cloud.

Which is perfectly fine, because if it wasn't then sometime after Picard got the Enterprise E, he met the X-Men and together they fought a race of space dragonmen who forcibly mutated a small fraction of the population of an entire planet into mutant solar-powered energy-shooting penis monsters that they intended to use as weapons even though ten seconds with a transporter is pretty well guaranteed to kill every single x-man except possibly Nightcrawler.

I did a lets read of that book in one thread or another.