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Honestly, I enjoyed the portrayal of the Borg Queen outside the context of the collective. She got the sort of character development that I didn’t know I needed. And frankly, she was practically holding S2 up after they arrived in the past.

Then she got the villain ball and ran off with Jurati and my interest fell flat.

The Borg Queen worked as a character. She didn’t work as a villain. It was impossible to balance her being a galactic level threat against a crew that had no resources, and Doyalistly wasn’t allowed to deal with her until Picard had time to spare to concentrate on her.

Regarding battery storage specifically…

EVs have greater battery capacity than most solar batteries.

Additionally, EVs are making strides to making V2G and V2H technology mainstream. (Vehicle to grid and home respectively)

With that in mind, how viable would it be to, instead of selling an EV that’s served its primary purpose, have it enter a second life as a solar battery?

I’ve attempted to research this topic, but have not found much useful information. Current EVs are designed to absorb energy from the grid, not return it.

My understanding is that they’re all betazoids of the Lawaxana variety.

Ooh, I read that book at my library. Still haven't gotten to the sequel yet.

It's a decent mystery with a hint of Terry Pratchett mixed in.

Curious about Boimler looking sad at that padd. My gut guess was it had something to do with Will, but he already thinks he’s dead so….?

The fall was published after Nemesis, and the rules on novels were changed from being self contained to interconnected, and they abandoned the numbered novel system.

Instead of rare bursts of continuity, you get random bursts of discontinuity, as the authors have different opinions on how to portray shared OCs, or takes on an event or its significance.

The numbered books tend to only have anything resembling continuity if the same author is involved. Peter David and John Vornholt come immediately to mind as ones to do that.

A Stitch in Time (By Garak’s actor) also gets referenced, but that book is an extra special case in the franchise.

Outside of the authors referencing their own work, sometimes New Frontier gets referenced: mostly in the form of Zak Kebron (The BEST character to ever happen to Trek) being Worf’s old academy roommate, or in the form of a major disaster hitting the entire quadrant and you get little cuts to various ships…

But never anything of substance.

I mean, the easiest way would be to read the novels by publication date… I don't think there's a short cut around that.

That said, having full context is… not always worthwhile. Sometimes just knowing that something happened in the past is more enjoyable than reading it in practice.

To add to this:

Hogwarts was well thought out and imaginative. The setting was practically a character in its own right.

But Harry Potter himself was unbelievably bland. He was nothing special, but was treated as if he were because of who he was related to or otherwise connected to.

Dunno if it’s true or not, but I remember reading that Picard brought being shaved bald to the mainstream. So like, folks younger than the thinning hair age would do it.

Again, can’t vouch for if it’s true or not, but if true, it would suggest it might be possible…

… that said, a cool character would probably have to wear one. And not just nameless background extras.

I'll just throw in my two cents and say, to a degree… I like the bot.

It provides us a diversity of topics that otherwise wouldn't come to surface.

The problem is that the bot isn't curated. Amongst the gold is a lot of fluff and repetitive content.

I mean, those are good ideas… but isn’t that already arguably covered by the FBI?