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* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The ''Star Trek'' novel ''Before Dishonor'', by [[Peter David]]. Suffice it to say this book should not be read entirely sober, but for those who dare... We have sentient Borg cubes bigger than the planet Earth. That skip the assimilation middleman and just ram into starships and eat them. Along with Pluto. It's piloted by Captain Janeway, who becomes Borg Queen, eats Pluto, dies, and gets promoted to Q? Add 7 of 9 piloting the Doomsday Machine from [[The Original Series]], and a pair of Starfleet Admirals who place bets on [[The End of the World as We Know It]] after the Borg eat Pluto, and you have a recipe for hilarity. [[Refuge in Audacity]] at its apotheosis.

** In the same book, after the Borg eat Pluto, the planet / not planet debate gets mentioned by one of the Admirals: "They changed it back again? What's that, the tenth time in three centuries? Make up your minds." Then after the Borg eat Pluto, Admiral #2 casually drawls, "[[Pluto Is Expendable|Well, that settles that debate.]]" It's not a bad book, just completely insane.

* [[Fake Nationality]]:

** Englishman Simon Pegg as Scotty, who is, well, Scottish (though James Doohan was Canadian, so this might be ''closer'').

** Canadian Bruce Greenwood as American Christopher Pike.

** Interestingly, the most blatant example from the original series is averted. Leningrad-born but American-raised [[Anton Yelchin]] plays Chekov, originally played by American Walter Koenig with a fairly ridiculous [[Fake Accent]]. (In homage, Yelchin kept the accent.)