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Amazon has a tendency to sell certain things, books in particular, at a loss. It’s impossible to undersell Amazon and make a profit.

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.

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.

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?

"In the absence of that sorely-needed action, the Office of Gun Violence Prevention along with the rest of my Administration will continue to do everything it can…”

Isn’t that basically admitting that this new department can’t do anything and just posturing?

Or am I missing something?

Edit: In retrospect, the biggest value this department might have is having it be under Republican leadership down the line. An entire department explicitly against gun violence may cause some in-fighting about reasonable measures… as opposed to the current status quo.

That is of course assuming the entire department doesn’t just get tossed and establishes itself as having some teeth.