Okay, I rarely give out reviews, but this one irked me so much I have to. First off, if you are any sort of Star Trek fan, from The Next Generation to Voyager, or The Original Series to Deep Space 9, and you see this episode, all you can really think is wtf is this crap.
First, the Borg have NO business being in any series that takes place prior to the timeline that exists with The Next Generation. If you've ever seen that series, you would know that Q from the Q Continuum, who both started the series up and ended the series with a bang, was the one who introduced the Enterprise - D to the Borg.
Now, some may say "well they didn't introduce themselves as the Borg." I call bull. Basically in this episode, you have researchers on a frozen planet find some frozen bodies of a cybernetic race and the nanos in their bodies regenerate them and yada yada. Then they escape the planet and attack a vessel - same thing there.
Enterprise finds the vessel, gets two people who were infected with the nanos, and they attack Phlox - injecting him with their tubules. Archer is eventually forced to shoot them out of an airlock and help Phlox with omicron radiation to rid his body of the nanos.
Other crap happens which I just stopped paying attention to because I thought the episode was utter crap, and a message with Earth's coordinates was sent out to the Delta quadrant which Archer says will take about 200 years.
Down to the nitty gritty. The Borg technology is basically as advanced as it is in say TNG or VOY. Why? I mean, if it is that advanced now, and there is a 200 year gap between now and then, and other species will have been assimilated, then how the bleep can this technology not be even more advanced 200 years from this episode? Then, they say that Zefram Cochrane said in a speech there was a cybernetic race that wanted to enslave humanity and because he wasn't taken seriously he recanted it later on. Okay soooo Enterprise would have to report this incident and recite his speech, saying that he may have potentially been serious and only recanted so as not to seem crazy. Which would have put this in the history books as first contact with the cybernetic race. There was no mention of anything like this when Q introduced them to Jean-Luc Picard. Nor was any mention made in the movie Star Trek: First Contact of Cochrane wanting to give a speech regarding the cybernetic life.
Just so many points of this episode make no sense when it comes to the facts of the Star Trek Universe. It is completely non-canon because there is no way that this report wouldn't have made it into Starfleet and no way that it wouldn't be taught to future cadets that there was some cybernetic race lurking out there waiting to attack Earth.
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