Before Dishonor
Before Dishonor is a Pocket TNG novel – continuing the post- storyline – written by Peter David. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in .

Summary 
From the book jacket
An enemy so intractable that it cannot be reasoned with. The entire race thinks with one mind and strives toward one purpose: to add our biological distinctiveness to their own and wipe out individuality, to make every living thing Borg.

In over two centuries, the Federation has never encountered a greater threat. Twice Starfleet assembled and threw countless starships to stand against them. The Borg were stopped, the price paid in blood. Humanity breathed a sigh of relief, assuming it was safe. And with the destruction of the transwarp conduits, the Federation believed that the killing blow had finally been struck against the Borg.

Driven to the point of extinction, the Borg continue to fight for their very existence, for their culture. They will not be denied. They must not be stopped. The old rules and assumptions regarding how the Collective should act have been dismissed. Now the Borg kill first, assimilate later.

When the Enterprise manages to thwart them once again, the Borg turn inward. The dark places that even the drones never realized existed are turned outward against the enemy they have never been able to defeat. What is revealed is the thing that no one believed the Borg could do.

Background information 
 The working title for this novel was Excessum Rector, which could be translated to "The Queen is Dead". 
 StarTrek.com's  gave this book a rating of 1, one of their lowest scores for that year's book reviews.
 An extract from this novel appeared in .
 This book takes place during  and after Star Trek Titan: Orion's Hounds.

Characters

Regular and recurring characters 
Jean-Luc Picard  Captain of the 
Kathryn Janeway  Starfleet admiral
Seven of Nine  A Professor at Starfleet Academy
Spock  Ambassador
Worf  First officer of the 
Beverly Crusher  Doctor aboard the 
Geordi La Forge  Chief engineer aboard the 
T'lana  Counselor aboard the 
Miranda Kadohata  Second Officer aboard the 
Zelik Leybenzon  Security chief aboard the 
Grim Vargo
Edward Jellico  Starfleet admiral
Alynna Nechayev  Starfleet admiral
Q (female)
Mackenzie Calhoun  Captain of the Excalibur
Howard Rappaport/Two  Captain of the Einstein
Chakotay  Captain of Voyager
Spot  Worf's pet cat (previously Data's)

References 
Pluto
After the Borg cube devours Pluto on its way to Earth, Nechayev comments that the debate as whether or not  had just been rendered academic.
The demotion of Pluto was a decision handed down a year before the book was published.

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