Wolf 359 Project

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The oral history of the first Borg invasion and Battle of Wolf 359 - A Star Trek Fan Project. Read it for Free, here: https://linktr.ee/Wolf359project

Happy Beaumont Kin Day everyone! It’s the 2nd anniversary of the UK publication of Beaumont’s major work, ‘The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire’. Every year we recognise his efforts to bring hope to the galaxy & understanding of the crimes perpetrated by the Empire.

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Chris Kempshall@chriskempshall.bsky.social · last yr.

It's the first Beaumont Kin Day! A year ago today 'Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire' was published in the UK (and on the 7th in the US) and readers got the chance to discover just how important Beaumont was to the book he had 'written'. It was a secret we'd carefully guarded.

Three years ago today we launched We Have Engaged the Borg. Thank you all for reading and supporting us. Don't really have anything planned to celebrate but for every like ill give a bit of WHETB Trivia, some hot takes about Trek in general or if you have a specific question feel free to ask away!

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Wolf 359 Project@wolf359project.bsky.social · 3y ago

22 Months 500+ Pages 151518 Words I give to you. We have Engaged the Borg: The Oral history of the Battle of Wolf 359 #StarTrek #Wolf359 https://tinyurl.com/Wolf359Project

#TrekADay It's the episode Gene Roddenberry didn't want to do dealing with the fallout from the Borg with Picard with no action/adventure plot. One cool new shot of the Enterprise, but otherwise this is an emotional soap opera that asks though questions like "Why is everyone in France British?"

The Enterprise D in a crab like maintenance dock in Earth orbit.

Also, as quaint as 40 ships seems considering the numbers we see in DS9, this episode does treat it like most of Starfleet got destroyed and it'll take a year (i guess replicators make for fast builds) to restore it. Something you don't really feel in the rest of season 4.

Star Trek would wind up saying a lot about 9/11, so it's kind of insane the best analogy they ever did remains the one a decade beforehand. This being The Event of the 24th century could seem odd considering how many ships go down in the average DS9 battle, but it's the psychology.

The Enterprise flies throufh the wreckage of the battle of Wolf 359.

One of the annoying and misguided things about modern fandom - say Star Trek and Star Wars - and they view the lore as something that can only encompass things they've already seen. When you show them something they haven't seen before, they don't go, "ahhh, interesting." theysay, "Canon violation!"