Literature / Star Trek: The Next Generation Relaunch

Part of the Star Trek Novel 'Verse, continuing the adventures of most of the original TNG characters and the Enterprise post-Star Trek: Nemesis. Books presently include:

• Death In Winter (parts of which take place before the events of Nemesis)
• Resistance (kicks off the "Borg War" storyline that continues through the next three novels and sets the stage for the Crisis Crossover Star Trek: Destiny)
• Q&A
• The Sky's The Limit (short story collection)
• Before Dishonor
• Q Are Cordially Uninvited... (novella)
• Greater Than The Sum
• (The Star Trek: Destiny trilogy slots in here)
• Losing The Peace
• Paths of Disharmony, the Next Generation entry in the Star Trek: Typhon Pact series.
  • Note that Picard and crew also have a role in other Typhon Pact novels, such as Plagues of Night and Brinkmanship.
• Indistinguishable From Magic
• (The Star Trek: Cold Equations trilogy comes after this).
• The novella The Stuff of Dreams.
• (Books two and five of Star Trek: The Fall come here).
• Takedown
• Armageddon's Arrow
• Star Trek: Prey trilogy
• Headlong Flight
• Hearts and Minds
• Available Light
• Collateral Damage
• (The Star Trek: Coda Trilogy slots in here and concludes the Relaunch).

See also, Star Trek: A Time to..., which is the series preceding this in the chronological adventures of the Star Trek: The Next Generation crew.

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This series contains examples of:

• Aborted Arc: The end of Resistance seemed to be setting up T'Lana as a romantic interest for Worf, then Before Dishonor happened. He ended up with Jasminder Choudhury, instead.
  • Anything to do with T'Lana, Zelik Leybenzon, and Miranda Kadohata is effectively this, as their actions during Before Dishonor, though forgiven by Picard, were seen by enough of the audience as crossing so great a line as to make them a poor fit for the ongoing cast. Kadohata lasted longer than the other two, whose departures are handled in the first chapters of Greater Than The Sum, but she leaves the ship at the end of Losing The Peace.
• A Father to His Men: Picard, as always. But now in particular to T'Ryssa, who acutely reminds him of one of his "children" from his experience as Kamin.
• Arc Welding: Q & A retcons all but one appearance of Q into a decades-long Gambit Roulette to prepare humanity for the Secret Test of Character conducted by Them (with the addition of "Parallels" as Q sent Worf through parallel universes to give him useful knowledge at the crucial moment). The only apparent exception is the Sherwood Forest thing, which Q claims was just because he "liked seeing [Picard] in tights", suggesting that it was just done for the hell of it.
  • Greater Than The Sum puts forward explanations and suggestions to account for various discrepancies from across the Borg's appearances, to the point of having Kadohata at one point lampshade that these questions are being answered.

• Ascended Fridge Horror: In-universe and out. Fans had long speculated that when the Borg cut up the Enterprise back in "Q Who?" and took those eighteen crewmembers, they might've assimilated them. "Greater Than The Sum" confirms that, yes, they did.
• Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: The possible fate of Janeway after what seems to be her death; Lady Q is a bit vague about it. We know it has bottomless cups of black coffee so it can't be that bad, right? Eventually it's more or less confirmed when Janeway returns in The Eternal Tide, a novel of the Star Trek: Voyager Relaunch.
• The Atoner:
  • Picard, for the destruction he wrought as Locutus. While he has come to terms with it since First Contact, it understandably still drives him.
  • Worf, for how his actions (saving Jadzia's life instead of the Cardassian spy Lasaran's) helped drag out the Dominion War when the information Lasaran had could probably have stopped it. As a result, he feels he doesn't deserve to be in a position of such authority as second-in-command of the Enterprise when Picard offers him the post.
  • Geordi in his attempts to protect Seven of Nine, due to his failure to save the female Borg Reannon (which is a Continuity Nod to the TNG novel Vendetta).
• Awesome, but Impractical: It's pointed out in Greater Than the Sum that Borg Cubes are essentially this, hinting that there's more to the Collective than a simple desire for efficiency after all.
• Being Personal Isn't Professional: Zelik Leybenzon in Q&A is a Drill Sergeant Nasty to his men, and kind of a rude dick to Geordi while on-duty, but is perfectly friendly and sociable when everyone's hanging out in Ten Forward.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: The race known only as Them, who threaten to destroy the Universe because it's boring. And they're only stopped when Picard laughs at the absurdity of it.
• Breather Episode: Q&A. And considering that it's about the end of the freaking Universe, that's really saying something about the other books, no?
• Brick Joke: At the beginning of Greater Than The Sum, T'Ryssa mentions how she got herself hired on a freighter when she was a kid until Starfleet caught up with her. At the end, Zelik Leybenzon mentions the only real excitement he's had in his new assignment was when a freighter captain pulled a weapon and claimed he wasn't going to get in trouble again for hiring underage crewmen.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: T'Ryssa is deliberately as un-Vulcan as it's possible to be. Of course, in an organization like Starfleet, her nigh-inability to behave to their acceptable standards does her some serious problems, but if given half a chance, she proves capable.
• Call-Back: Pretty much every Borg-related plot thread in the Canon (and a few from the non-canon, like Vendetta) gets referenced, and many become key plot points.
• Calling the Old Man Out: T'Ryssa in Losing the Peace, after her father finally makes contact, looking for information on her mother (specifically, if she survived the Borg invasion):
  "Did you try to contact her after the Odyssey went boom? Did you try to find her any time during the entire Dominion War? No, this is about you. You had a near-death experience when the Borg hit Vulcan, and by some miracle, you lived. You managed to get rescued, fixed up, and flown to a hospital on the other side of the planet, where you got a lot of time to just lie there and think about how close you came to being just more sand piled on the Forge. Now you've got this big second chance, so now you want to reach out to all those you've hurt and make amends for all your wrongs."
• The Cameo:
  • A string of them feature in Q&A, as various characters in the Star Trek Novel 'Verse respond to the reality-warping taking place. Among them are Klag from Star Trek: Klingon Empire, Shelby and Mueller from Star Trek: New Frontier, Riker and his crew from Star Trek: Titan, and Donatra.
  • Another New Frontier captain (actually The Captain of that franchise), Mac Calhoun, appears in Before Dishonor.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Lt. Stevens in Before Dishonor, though it turns out it was all an act, as he was actually Lady Q in disguise.
• The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: T'Lana acknowledges her poor behavior in Before Dishonor by saying she was somewhere between neurotic or just outright narcissistic, and if she'd been asked to diagnose herself, she'd have canned her in an instant.
• Cool Old Guy: Montgomery Scott qualifies as of Indistinguishable from Magic. He's a grandfather to his men in the Corps of Engineers, the Romulans know him simply as "The Miracle Worker", and the Klingon Empire is happy to loan him their top starship pilot because he asked nicely.
• Creative Sterility: The Borg, as before, don't innovate. Even their Adaptive Ability is still just them utilizing knowledge from whoever they've already assimilated, rather than actually improvising a solution.
• The Ditz: T'Ryssa, or so it seems at first.
• Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: In Headlong Flight, the Enterprise-E makes contact with an alternate version of the Enterprise-D from 2367, originating from a timeline where Riker was forced to destroy the Borg cube with Locutus still on it. The younger Riker is shown still grieving Picard's death and struggling to cope with the perceived burden of taking Picard's place, and is grateful for the chance to talk with the "prime" Picard about the current situation, with Picard offering him some closure on the issue.
• Eldritch Abomination: The entity that created the Noh Angels is the rare benevolent version.
• Elves vs. Dwarves: T'Lana vs. Worf.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Bowers mentions to Dax he hates that their ship is gossiped about as the "U.S.S. Peculiar".
• Evil Matriarch: The Borg Queen, naturally. (And in Before Dishonor, the Borg Queen is Admiral Janeway!)
• Fantastic Racism: T'Lana has a bit of this towards everybody who isn't Vulcan, and Worf in particular.
• Fictional Currency: The Ilec is a Karemma currency, evidently an alternative to the canonical Dirak.
• Flanderization: Before Dishonor essentially flanderizes Worf, Seven of Nine, and Admiral Nechayev, presenting them in a surprisingly one-dimensional way, taking their various antisocial character traits (Worf's aggressive stoicism, Seven's cold precision, Nechayev's impatience and sharp tongue) and blowing them out of proportion.^note Although considering what Peter David would do with Nechayev in New Frontier, this might actually qualify as...
• Foreshadowing:
  • The Borg Queen's threat to Lady Q that the Borg are analyzing her during their conversation, and that with time they will eventually be able to assimilate and learn the skills of the Q. This comes into play later in the climactic battle of Before Dishonor, see Ass Pull and Hope Spot.
  • T'Ryssa questions why a race as obsessed with efficiency as the Borg would design their ships in a perfect cube rather than a more energy efficient sphere, hinting that there's something more to the Borg than the protagonists know about.
  • Similarly, she wonders why it's a Queen, and if there's some reason from the Borg's origins which they have forgotten. Picard says they can't dwell on the idea, but Destiny shows she's on the right track.
• Genki Girl: T'Ryssa Chen. She is fully aware of it and is doing it intentionally to be different from the Vulcans.
• Half-Human Hybrid: T'Ryssa Chen, half Vulcan.
• Happiness in Slavery: Janeway experiences this briefly upon being assimilated, and the Borg Queen later tries to convince Seven of Nine that she will find this in the Collective. In fact, Geordi notes that Seven's willingness to meld with the Doomsday Machine as its pilot may be as a result of her subconsciously being more comfortable as part of the collective than as an individual being.
• Happily Married: Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher, who spend much more time on speaking terms than the other major couple from TNG.
• Hero Insurance: At the end of "Hearts And Minds", Admiral Akaar tells Picard that his involvement in forcing former Federation President Min Zife from office has been made public, and that the only reasons Picard is not cooling his heels in the brig on his way back to Earth are Picard's sterling reputation and that he was not involved in Zife's assassination. But Akaar also makes it clear that his insurance is used up, and that he will never rise above his current rank of Captain and will be on a very tight leash for the rest of his career.
• Heroic BSoD: Picard has one pretty much from Resistance, all the way to the end of Star Trek: Destiny.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Sara Nave in Resistance, narrowly avoided by Seven of Nine in Before Dishonor (but not by Janeway). Hugh in "Greater Than The Sum", to stop the Borg.
• Hive Mind: The Borg, of course... especially the new Borg that give Starfleet an intense new war after they've "evolved" into consuming rather than assimilating. And yes, Pluto was one of the new Borg's first snacks.
• Honor Before Reason: Admiral Jellico submits his resignation as Commander-in-Chief of Starfleet after the Borg Invasion, despite the fact that no one could possibly hold him responsible for the horrible losses suffered. When asked why, we are told that he felt his honor demanded it.
• Hope Spot: Just when the Doomsday Machine is finally going to serve the Borg their ass on a silver platter once and for all, the Borg Queen teleports the Cube behind it (using the time/space warping skills she apparently gleaned from the Borg's analysis of Lady Q) and begins to absorb it, too.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Leybenzon is convinced Picard is some flabby desk-jockey who looks down on NCOs as expendable grunts.
• Hurl It into the Sun: Starfleet Command briefly thinks that Janeway has somehow overcome the Borg Queen, recaptured control of her body and is attempting this with the Borg Cube when it veers off course toward the sun. They were wrong.
• Insane Admiral: Riker.
• Jerkass: T'Lana, Lt. Leybenzon, Lady Q (though not quite as much as her husband).
• Jumping Out of a Cake: Played with. Q teleports Vash into a cake that he leaves in Picard's room, but Picard has to unlatch the door on the top to get her out.
• Killed Off for Real: Most infamously Kathryn Janeway, though it's hinted that she may be able to return one day when, after Lady Q tells her she can't go back, she mentions how Spock got better after the Genesis incident. The exact situation regarding Janeway's fate is revealed in The Eternal Tide, a novel of the Star Trek: Voyager Relaunch, which also subtly retcons some of Before Dishonor's events by exploiting the fact that when Q talk about Q, it's never entirely clear whether they mean Q, Q or even Q...
  • Scotty has also been killed, or so it seems. They Never Found the Body, so he might have made it...
• Klingons Love Shakespeare: Thur chim Gliv, in Losing the Peace, a Tellarite who enjoys classic human comedy.
• Lampshade Hanging: In Indistinguishable From Magic, a character asks what the "NCC" in starship registries stands for. The character being asked - who is a starship captain, mind you - says he has no idea. This is pretty much the author acknowledging the fact that the frequently asked question has never been officially answered.
• Limited Advancement Opportunities: Leybenzon is told transferring away from the Enterprise will nuke any chance of advancing his career, but he doesn't care. Not that he lives long enough for it to matter.
• Living Ship: The defeated Borg cube from Resistance turns into one in Before Dishonor, making Janeway one of its first victims.
• The Maiden Name Debate: In Greater Than The Sum, we have this exchange between newlyweds Jean-Luc and Beverly:
  Picard: Good morning, Dr. Picard.
  Crusher: Good morning, Captain Crusher. Or would that be Howard?
  Picard: Either way, I'd be honored.
• Martial Pacifist: Jasminder Choudhury, the security officer in the second half of the series. Also her chosen deputy, Rennan Konya (who first appeared as a member of the da Vinci's security team).
• Mathematician's Answer: Seven of Nine, several times in Before Dishonor.
• Meaningful Rename: The Einstein is redubbed the Frankenstein by Starfleet after it's taken over by the Borg.
• Metaphorgotten: Discussing negotiations with the Maebrae, T'Ryssa suggests they try and act like water, rather than rock (that is, use a subtle, sneaky approach rather than headstrong). She trails off partway through and admits she has no idea where it's going.
• Mood Whiplash: The end of "Greater Than The Sum". The Borg have been defeated again, albeit at the cost of another sacrifice, but T'Ryssa seems to have found her place, and Picard and Beverly are expecting their first kid. Then comes the epilogue...
• My God, What Have I Done?: Lt. Commander Kadohata says this almost verbatim in Before Dishonor after seizing control of the Enterprise from Picard (on Starfleet orders, however).
• My Own Private "I Do": It's revealed in Q Are Cordially Uninvited that Captain Picard and Doctor Crusher had a private ceremony in Picard's hometown, with just them, Picard's sister-in-law, the mayor (as officiant) and the mayor's wife in attendance. Of course, when Q's around things never go quite that simply.
• Naked on Arrival: T'Ryssa, thanks to a pleasant Genius Loci. Then she asks if her old boyfriend lives nearby; Middle-Eastern appearance, name of Adam...
• Never Found the Body: Scotty in Indistinguishable From Magic. He's probably dead, but for all we know he managed to transport somewhere safe in the nick of time. The other characters are all convinced he's gone...
• Never Heard That One Before: Miranda takes an instant dislike to T'Ryssa when the later asks if she's the namesake of the Miranda-class starships, which Miranda finds intensely unoriginal.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Zelik Leybenzon's death scene during the Battle of Barolia, where he allows the Borg to assimilate Starfleet’s only major defence.
• No Biochemical Barriers: In Death in Winter bloodfire manages to jump species from Kevratans to Romulans.
• No Biological Sex: While assimilated drones do have sexes, artificially-born Borg drones are androgynous.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The Borg to the Starfleet armada in Before Dishonor. It "made Wolf 359 look like a minor skirmish".
• Noodle Incident: In homage to the original Noodle Incident, T'Ryssa Chen has the Tubegrub Incident.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: The Governors of Alpha Centauri and Pacifica in Losing the Peace, who at first don't grasp how desperate conditions are in the refugee camps, and spend most of their time causing further unrest and complicating the resettlement efforts.
• Our Elves Are Different: T'Ryssa, who used to play in the forest pretending to be an elf in a case of Your Elves Suck.
• Pardon My Klingon: The Tellarite curse word "krught" crops up again, having been established in Star Trek: The Lost Era.
• Planet of Steves: Apparently all Voloczin (large creatures who look like an arachnid/crab hybrid) who leave their homeworld use that as their name. Thus we had a mercenary named Voloczin in Star Trek: Seven Deadly Sins, and another Voloczin who was the Challenger's Chief Engineer in Indistinguishable From Magic.
• Pluto Is Expendable: Played devastatingly straight (although technically it's not destroyed, just absorbed; its matter is redistributed into the Borg Cube).
• The Pollyanna: True to their pleasant, hospitality-based culture, the Risians are desperately trying to remain optimistic. Risa itself was destroyed in Star Trek: Destiny, a casualty of the Borg Invasion. The refugees are attempting to retain the expected "sunny Risian" outlook. Whether it will work out for them remains to be seen. One of the biggest problems is that Risa's natives pride themselves on declaring "all that is ours is yours". Now the Risians have nothing, and instead of hospitably receiving guests they are dependent on others for aid.
• Polyamory: Geordi was given a Relationship Upgrade with Leah Brahms in Indistinguishable From Magic, even though other novels have him dating a medical officer named Tamala Harstad. Collateral Damage establishes they're both aware of this, although Geordi is uncertain about Leah's idea that they should all have dinner together.
• Pungeon Master: One of T'Ryssa's favorite pastimes.
• Rage Quit: Picard. Yes, Picard, during "Greater Than The Sum". In the middle of a poker game, he notices how everyone's talking about parenthood a lot, and realizes Beverly's had some hand in that. Being Picard, he keeps his anger hidden but politely bows out of the game then and there.
• Relationship Upgrade: Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher in "Death in Winter", and Geordi LaForge and Leah Brahms in "Indistinguishable From Magic".
• Resistance Is Futile: Well, it's The Borg, what'd you expect? It's an extremely bad sign when they append "but welcome."
• The Runaway: T'Ryssa ran away from home at age 7, after learning of the Vulcan kahs-wan survival rite that usually takes place at that time. She signed onto a freighter as ship's cook (the captain didn't particularly care that she was a young child) before being retrieved.
• Sapient Ship: It turns out that Borg Cubes are (to a degree) sentient, and that the Borg and their new Queen have become a part of the giant one thought deactivated at the end of Resistance. Basically, the cube is a part of the collective too - in a sense, the Borg are the cube, not the drones.
• Secret Test of Character: In Q and A, the beings known only as Them perform these on the inhabitants of entire universes.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: Riker winds up resorting to this in Takedown. His ever-more unlikely explanations as to why Aventine needs to attack communications facilities belonging to multiple nations are based in the supposed threat of the "Takedown" weapon. It's revealed that something quite different is going on.
• Shame If Something Happened: Sela pulls this on a Kevratan rebel, in Death in Winter.
• Sheep in Wolf's Clothing: In Resistance, Picard attempts to infiltrate a Borg ship by partially reassimilating into the Collective as Locutus.
• Shout-Out: The author of Greater Than The Sum mentions in the acknowledgements that the "Noh Angels" were directly inspired by the creations of Hayao Miyazaki and Chiaki Konaka (most likely No-Face from Spirited Away).

• Smug Snake: Eborion in Death in Winter. He overestimated his ability to play the Romulan nobility off of each other, and was betrayed by his own aunt. So much for his ambitions to be proconsul – Tomalak gets that position instead.
• Starfish Aliens: The Noh Angel cluster entity in Greater Than the Sum.
• Straw Vulcan: T'Lana. There's a damn good reason Picard wants her the hell off the Enterprise at the end of Before Dishonour. Even Spock completely washes his hands of her after she fails to hear reason. She does acknowledge her own faults in Greater Than the Sum, and herself admits she was completely out of line, as well as unprofessional in the extreme. Sadly, possibility for redemption was lost when she died in Star Trek: Destiny.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Amusingly averted with the character of Thur chim Gliv, in Losing the Peace. Word of God has pretty much confirmed that the jovial Tellarite engineer Gliv is as deliberately different from established Tellarite engineer Mor glasch Tev (of Starfleet Corps of Engineers) as possible.
• The Stoic: T'Lana, and then completely subverted after she departs, with T'Ryssa Chen.
• Take That!: Geordi and Seven discuss a character from the novel Vendetta, with Geordi commenting that the supposed Borg experts at the time of the earlier novel said there were no female drones, and Seven being understandably confused as to why that assumption existed. This is a reference to a disclaimer that was included in many copies of Vendetta regarding the plot surrounding that character, who one of the editors attempted to remove from the novel on the basis that 'the Borg are completely sexless.' (For the record, the novel was published in 1991, Seven of Nine was introduced in 1997.)
• Tears of Joy / Dissonant Laughter: Once the Borg are eliminated, Picard weeps openly because all of the pain and hatred the Borg inflicted on him is taken away. He compares it to being freed from decades of slavery, which causes him to laugh in unrestrained joy. Riker and Dax just look at each other and shrug.
  Dax: As long as he's happy.
• Think of the Children!: The Governor of Pacifica in Losing the Peace. He was concerned about refugees' effects on the Selkie breeding islands, but might possibly have been simply annoyed by the refugees. He insisted that the delicate environmental requirements of the Selkie young risked being disrupted by the settlers, and that in the name of the children steps should be taken to remove the outsiders. Most of the refugees had nowhere else to go, and really Pacifica should have been honoring its obligations to the wider Federation by accepting them. It was a complicated situation though - the governor might well have a valid point.
• This Means War!: In the epilogue of "Greater Than The Sum", the Borg finally seem to decide they've just plain had it with the Federation, and no longer want their biological or technological distinctiveness. They just want them annihilated.
• Timey-Wimey Ball:
  • In Armageddon's Arrow, the Enterprise discovers the titular ship, which is an advanced weapon created by an alien race that came back in time to destroy their enemies. During the subsequent investigation, the Enterprise find the ship's past self as it is still under construction, with some of the Arrow crew crashing their own version of the ship into its past self to undo their timeline.
  • During Headlong Flight, the crew of the Enterprise-E interact with an alternate version of the Enterprise-D from a point approximately two decades in the past, Before both ships return to their own realities, Picard gives the alternate Riker schematics for quantum torpedo technology, reasoning that they were already acquired in this timeline through time travel and any advantage over the Borg is a good one.
• Title Drop: In Losing the Peace, when a character states her current fears about the rebuilding efforts in the aftermath of Star Trek: Destiny. She worries that the Federation might have won the war, only to risk losing the peace to their own complacency.
• Too Dumb to Live: T'Lana, literally.
• Trickster Mentor:
  • Q, of course. He's been training Captain Picard over the course of most of their previous encounters, preparing him for an appearance before Them, the creators of the universe. Picard will represent all of creation before Them, and Q needs to ensure he makes a good show of it.
  • This actually punches I, Q out of Relaunch continuity, since in that novel it was Q who made a plea before the creator of the Universe.
    • Though "Q & A" also has a side-mention vaguely referencing "I, Q" as a fable Q told his child at one point, suggesting that in the Relaunch continuity it "happened" as an in-universe fictionalized version of the eventual confrontation with Them.
• Undying Loyalty: In Before Dishonor, Kadohata points a phaser set to kill at Worf, tells him point-blank that if he so much as twitches she'll vaporize him (and then probably turn the weapon on herself), and he still won't stand down until Picard gestures for him to do so.
• Underwater City: The Pacifica capital city of hi'Leyi'a, first mentioned in Star Trek: Titan, is visited in Losing the Peace.
• Unperson: The Romulan government does this to Bretorius to keep him for medical experiments.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Leybenzon realizes as he dies that his arrogance has given the Borg the means to study a potent anti-Borg weapon, screwing the Federation over but good.
• Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Doomsday Machine from the Original Series;turns out it's a prototype anti-Borg superweapon, though admittedly, this was already theorized in Vendetta years ago, complete with an appearance by the completed, and highly pissed off and essentially sentient version, which has since flown into something approaching Warp 10, intending to go right for the Borg Homeworld and devour it.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Geordi to Picard during Star Trek: Destiny, in response to Picard's order to construct a Thalaron weapon with which to wipe out the Borg en-masse. Geordi outright refuses to do it, whatever the consequences to his career. In fact, a fair bit of the Enterprise plot in Star Trek: Destiny involves Beverly calling this on Picard, too. Ezri finally gives him what for, as well.
• Who's on First?: Was bound to crop up when T'ryssa names some creatures "Noh Angels". One of her crewmates, not getting the reference, thinks she's saying "no angels".
• You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Them, the creators of the universe (as well as several other realities), and the keepers of the meaning of life. Given that they exist outside the universe, it's not surprising they aren't described- no human could likely comprehend them.
• Your Mom: T'Ryssa tries yelling this at a Borg, which goes about as well as you'd expect.

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