Death in Winter: Star Trek: The Next Generation - Michael Jan Friedman

"Columbus found the Americas by mistake."

 

Not to be "that" person, but Columbus didn't discover anything. Especially America. All he did was get lost, land in the Bahamas, and commit mass genocide. 

 

But I will forgive Picard because this is fiction and was written in 2005, before it seems people cared about the murdering Italian "explorer".