Really? Shatners books are non cannon? Odd, they always seemed to make plenty of sense in regard to the Series after DS9 (which is only Voyager unless I am very much mistaken). Granted the Borg actually going to all the trouble to bring Kirk back how they did is a little unrealistic, however, it wouldnt make very much sense for Shatner to write a book wihtout Kirk in it would it now.
As far as the destruction of the Borg world goes, there must be about a thousand borg planets, and they seem to get destroyed on a regular basis. The books never actually say that the whole collective was destroyed, just he branch that was working with the romlulans, and I seem to recall several hundred, if not thousands of borg cubes leaving the planets surface. And even if the Queen was in that spiffy dome thing, she seems to come back... over, and over, and over again
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Hm, it seems that Ive gotten just a little bit off topic. Just remember that any show based around time travel isnt going to make perfect sense especially if the future is well established already.
hm, the memory core will likely cement the alliance between Earth and the Xindi and lead to creation of the Federation.
