Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series) Regeneration (2003) User Reviews

Solid Borg Episode

[dpsmith-61153 · 8/10 · 11 August 2019]

Some people obviously don't understand that this episode is a nod to the events of Star Trek: First Contact. So the reviews that state that Borg's have no place in Enterprise are somewhat off, and quite clumsy analysis.

Anyway, Opinions are like noses... everybody has one. And that's why star trek is so great and why we all love it, because it evokes debate and discussion about our beloved franchise.

Personally I think this is a solid Borg episode! And actually up there with one of the strongest in Season 2 of Enterprise. Really exciting, the nods to First contact are nicely done, subtle but apparent. The ending has a lovely eery tone to it, which we've all become accustomed to with the presence of Borg.

Enterprise is a good series ok !

Captain Archer Meets the Borg

[Samuel-Shovel · 9/10 · 7 December 2017]

Regeneration starts off with a group of researchers uncovering some old alien wreckage in the Arctic Circle. They bring the bodies back to their base which turns out to be a bad idea as the Borg regenerates after thawing out. It assimilates the research team and returns to space on a stolen cargo ship. It's up to the Enterprise to retrieve the humans and stop the evolving ship.

This episode is definitely "polarizing" within the Star Trek community (see what I did there?). I'm a big fan of the Borg and anytime it makes an appearance I get a little giddy about seeing it return to screen. I've put a lot of thought into how I feel about ST:E's pseudo-revisionist history. While some of it does change how I look at some of the other show's episodes, I think it's important to release that all of this canonical. Instead of casting it aside, I'm trying to embrace these new story lines and integrate them into the ST universe.

Maybe Star Fleet made this report extremely classified and it never saw the light of day again? Maybe since they never found out its name, they never were able to put two and two together? Whatever the case, I did in fact enjoy this episode. It had a lot of horror elements to it which is a nice change of pace from what we normally get out of ST:E. All the acting was good and I enjoyed seeing what was going on back on Earth for a change.

This is also one of the few times (maybe the only time?) up to this point that we've seen Archer give the command to kill an alien lifeform. He orders the ship destroyed as he realizes just how dangerous this thing can become.

Conclusion: While controversial, I think they do enough not to change future story lines of ST and they make an all around good episode.

A good bit of telly

[c-a-akitt · 8/10 · 13 April 2012]

Reviews from my fellow Trekkies, foaming at the mouth over the factual inaccuracies, aside: (Lets be frank, it doesn't help our new shiny JJ Abrams lens flare look)this is a pretty decent episode.

Lets get the bad out of the way, shall we? Yes: there are some things that don't add up with the wider Star Trek Universe; but if your day is going to be ruined by different accounts of how long it takes for a message to get somewhere in a fictional universe then it might be time to open a window and pop the kettle on. There are also couple of lines which feel awkward and redundant, but watching it over they're for the benefit of people who may not be obsessively familiar with the speed a message sent by subspace takes to reach some place that doesn't exist.

Now the good: this is a blooming good episode. Awkward lines not withstanding, its well written episode and weaves into many different episodes and films really well. There are some great little nods to other episodes and films too which, as a Trekkie, I always enjoy. The plot though is great, and really plays on what I tend to do when a film ends: "Well... what happened to...?". Borg rising from the frozen wastes, trying to get back to the Delta Quadrant, classic Borg mood-lighting and the tingle up your spine when you see them lumbering around. It plays well on what many Trekkies love, and that is the Borg.

Also, not mentioned in other reviews: the musical score for this episode is a gem for setting the tone and feel of the narrative and really compliments the pace and ominous and unrelenting ambient behind it all.

As far as Enterprise episodes go this is by far one of the best, if not THE best. And as TV goes in general, well as I said: Its a blooming good bit of telly. A well deserved 8 Stars.

It DOES make sense

[marcoo-72820 · 10/10 · 30 April 2020]

People are complaining that the Borg in ST:E are causing a continuity problem. Well, they don't. When Q and the TNG Crew male contact with the Borg, it's actually before ST:E. The contact causes the events in First Contact, where the Borg travel to the 21st century and some get left behind. So that's why ST:E finds them. And Picard and Starfleet didn't know about them cause mankind hasn't met the Borg yet. So the timeline is: Q introduces Picard to Borg, Borg travel to the 21st century and some get left behind and in the 22nd century, the Borg meet Archer. So Picard couldn't have known about them before Q introduced them because they haven't been to Earth yet. Difficult, I know. But it does make sense. If you believe in time travel and stuff...

A Great Episode that Divides the Real Star Trek Fans from the Fake

[squareglass702 · 10/10 · 20 July 2017]

This is an excellent and well written episode. There are no continuity errors as some fans, who clearly don't pay attention to the shows, would like to say.

The writing staff took a great amount of effort to ensure there were no continuity errors, if the errors exist, they aren't from Star Trek: Enterprise, instead they would arise from Star Trek: First Contact.

Let me explain. In First Contact, they leave a vessel with borg in it on a past earth crashed in the Arctic. They just leave it there! No cares to whether the borg in the ship could later on cause problems!

In Star Trek: Enterprise, this vessel is found. At the end of Regeneration they find out the Borg sent a subspace transmission to the Delta Quadrant and it'd take 200 years to get there, placing that transmission roughly around the TNG period. It literally effects nothing about the timeline of the borg invasion.

That means Star Trek: Enterprise takes place after First Contact, which makes perfect sense, since the TNG crew went back to the time of Zephram Cochrane and fought the borg, Cochrane being pre- Enterprise.

In TNG the borg never say "We are the borg", yet in ENT they do, meaning that in TNG, they did not know they were making their first contact with the borg till much later.

Anyway, phenomenal acting, and definitely not when this series jumped the shark. Its no slap in the face to fans, especially not to fans who can't even pay attention to the continuity.

Best Enterprise Episode...so far

[michaeldavies335 · 9/10 · 16 November 2019]

I've decided to start Enterprise from scratch. Admittedly I've never been a fan but have always classed it as Canon and dipped into it here and there over the years. To be fair it's ok, Scott Bakula as Captain Archer has earned his rightful place amongst the other Captains (Kirk, Picard, Sisko & Janeway) but as for the others, my initial feelings of this show were correct. The characters have practically zero development. I'm near the end of Season 2 and can't really remember much about them. Hoshi and Mayweather for sure, they must be the most undeveloped ones in Star Trek history.

Anyway back to the episode, I thought this was excellent, if the tone was like this throughout it would be great, I've found Enterprise episodes to be slow.

It starts off where the universally liked 1996 TNG Movie 'First Contact' left off. When the Enterprise-E destroyed the Borg Sphere after it was firing at the Montana missile site in 2063 some parts - along with Borg Drones - fell to Earth and landed in the Arctic Circle where they were to remain until being found 100 years later by scientists.

Predictably they get thawed out and woken up which results in the scientists being assimilated. They then escape Earth and make their way back to the Delta Quadrant to join the rest of the Borg Collective which are of course there in this time.

The Enterprise NX-01 are sent to intercept which they do and of course they get in a little trouble with them and ultimately have to deal with ship assimilation along with personnel - namely Phlox.

By the end of the episode they've destroyed the Borg ship and Dr Phlox has cured himself. The Borg Drones though did manage to get off a subspace message sent to the Delta Quadrant which T'Pol points out would take about 200 years to get to its destination.

Now this is 2019 - so unfortunately we have Discovery...which I prefer to call STD. Comments have mentioned the lack of Canon in this episode....and as any Trekkie will know, STD spits in the face of Canon and doesn't care about its source material, it's just interested in using Star Trek's established customer base (which isn't interested).

The 2 big things I didn't like were no explanation of how Archer's Captain's Logs weren't used to identify that the Borg had been in contact with Humans before the incident in 2364 (Q episode) and Dr Phlox being able to cure himself from being infected.

But I'll forgive them for that because this show is a Star Trek show and respects its history.

Excellent Episode, One Of The Star Trek Franchise's Best

[feldelatorre · 9/10 · 18 February 2007]

This STE episode is the epitome of an excellent television production and is certainly one of the Star Trek franchise's best episodic outings. The story has a tight plot, the director elicits the proper feelings from the audience at the right times, and the acting is top-notch. I first saw this episode as part of the Star Trek Borg Fan Collective DVD set which I bought in the same month of its release, and it's fast become one of my favorites. Some of my other favorites (for comparison) are ST:TNG's "Darmok", "Face Of The Enemy", and ST:DS9's "Sacrifice Of Angels". David Livingston's direction is top-notch!

Worthy of mention is Brian Tyler's score for the episode, which is instrumental in delivering the critical emotional state of the episode. I'm a film score enthusiast, so I can appreciate an excellent score when I hear one.

Bravo, Enterprise, bravo!

the THING in 2153

[awbusa · 10/10 · 16 November 2020]

This episode is so much better than this series STAR TREK : ENTERPRISE deserves to have & it should've been a STAR TREK : VOYAGER episode

the BORG DRONES look so much better than the greenish drones seen in STAR TREK : FIRST CONTACT

the original drone designs in the episode Q WHO ST TNG episodes BEST OF BOTH WORLDS were terrifying BECAUSE that's what humans may look like someday if we MERGE with TECHNOLOGY BIONICS

the BORG drone suits in STAR TREK : FIRST CONTACT look like MILITARY green bodysuits that would be used in a C LIST STUDIO movie not an expensive PARAMOUNT BIG BUDGET motion picture

these DRONE suits look MENACING & TERRIFYING

the BORG are STAR TREK'S most powerful enemy simply because there's LITERALLY TRILLIONS if not ZILLIONS of BORG DRONES

in an EN MASSE invasion NO STAR TREK GOVERNMENT could withstand them or survive not even THE DOMINION

REGENERATION postulates an interesting TEMPORAL CAUSALITY THEORY that the events of the movie STAR TREK : FIRST CONTACT were predestined to happen

in the STAR TREK ENTERPRISE episode IN A MIRROR DARKLY part 1 we see how the rest of that universe was the same as the PRIME UNIVERSE until EARTH DATE - YEAR APRIL 5th 2063 when TERRANS stole the VULCAN ship & it's technology and then that universe changed for the worse

in this episode it shows why the BORG were headed toward the ALPHA QUADRANT in which the collective had no INTEREST in because it was TOO PRIMITIVE

MAGNUS HANSEN ERIN HANSEN ANNIKA HANSEN were the 1st humans assimilated by the BORG in the PRIME TIMELINE

in REGENERATION it's basically a sequel & a prequel to STAR TREK : FIRST CONTACT

the knowledge of the CYBERNETIC RACE was suppressed probably to keep panic from setting in

the other theory is that CAPTAIN JEAN LUC PICARD knew to leave the BORG SPHERE debris wreckage in the artic to preserve HISTORY.

What an episode! The best of Season 2!

[r_ende · 10/10 · 22 December 2009]

Regeneration is really an excellent episode. No other episode of "Enterprise" in Season 2 is as thrilling as this one! The Borg, which wanted to prevent first contact of the humans with the vulcans by destroying Zefram Cochrane's missile base are found near the North Pole by an exploration team. Not knowing what kind of aliens they are the explorers dig the Borg out of the ice and bring them to their camp. There the Borg suddenly awake and assimilate the exploration team. They go into the explorers' vessel and attack a transporter vessel. The Enterprise picks up the transporter's emergency call and beams two survivors aboard the Enterprise. But the survivors have already been assimilated and suddenly assimilate Dr. Phlox. Finally Captain Archer manages to get rid of the two Borg while the Borg nano probes attack Dr. Phlox's immune system. The Enterprise follows the explorers' vessel which has been altered by the Borg and now can fly much faster and also has an improved defense system. At the end the Enterprise manages to destroy the vessel and Dr. Phlox can be hailed by some kind of radiance. All in all this episode is very thrilling and cannot be compared with any other Enterprise episode of season 2. It is very worth watching!

We are the Borg, continuity is futile!

[snoozejonc · 7/10 · 22 September 2020]

The frozen remains of Borg drones are discovered in the arctic.

This is an entertaining, suspenseful and exciting episode with a pretty compelling plot. It always works for me to see characters discovering something new that I already know about.

I think the episode has divided fans and viewers due to the logic behind the Borg's appearance in Enterprise. If you put a lot of thought into it then you can appreciate it does cause problems with franchise continuity, but so does the movie First Contact if you really think about that. In my opinion, the best thing to do is not to take things too seriously and just go along with it. The only time it really impacts the plausibility for me was during a scene with Archer towards the end of the episode where he predicts some events that will occur in the future. However, up till that point I was able to suspend my disbelief and enjoy..

Everything unfolds at a good pace and the tension keeps building towards a pretty thrilling conclusion. Most characters have good moments to shine, particularly Archer with a mixture of action heroics and tough command decisions.

Meeting the Borgs

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 27 January 2008]

In the Polar Circle, three scientists find the debris of a spacecraft that crashed on Earth a hundred years ago with two humanoids. While examining them, they realize that they are rapidly regenerating and reanimating; sooner the research team is assimilated by the Borgs and they leave Earth in their transport vessel. The Enterprise is called by Admiral Forrest with order to intercept the Borgs, but they receive a distress call from a Tarkalean ship and rescue two beings; Phlox finds that there is nanotechnology regenerating them but he is surprisingly attacked by nanoprobes and contaminated. The Enterprise heads to confront the transport vessel while is internally attacked by the assimilated Tarkaleans.

"Regeneration" is a full of action episode, with the Enterprise crew meeting the dangerous Borgs. The story is great and entwined with "Star Trek: First Contact". My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Regeneração" ("Regeneration")

ENTERPRISE wants a piece of Borg action

[vsek · 6/10 · 25 February 2022]

This is one of the more entertaining episodes of the second season, for sure. But is it a good ENTERPRISE episode?

You can see that the writers and producers struggling to give this new show a purpose (hence the third season's long arc). It becomes very apparent in this episode. I believe, stories that are less generic and more tailored to the series are more enjoyable. This episode however could play in any of the Star Trek series. At times, it feels derivative. It even copies the "captain pensively looking out of the window" at the end of the episode - just like in "Q Who?" form "The Next Generation".

Some of the things are a bit heavy handedly done. Newly formed Borg drones walk around the ship and Archer gives the command to "seal off all maintenance shafts" - just a minute later there are two Borg climbing up a ladder with a hatch door opening before them, then proceeding to open another door. Security sucks at the NX-01.

Speaking of security, you just have to marvel at the stupidity of the security officer in the med bay. Doctor Plox was in the process of transforming into a Borg and the guard walks right up to him in striking range with his rifle pointing at the floor, asking what's going on. What a piece of bread.

It feels like a script from "Voyager" or "The Next Generation". The prequel aspect of "Enterprise" doesn't hamper anything really (an overall problem of ENTERPRISE) - they can fire numerous times at the Borg drones from the 24th century with their 22nd century phase pistols, which would have made sense in "Voyager" but not here.

It's an episode with all the usual Borg tropes written in: assimilations, cutting into the hull, changing ship systems, Borg roaming the corridors, adaptive body shields, and so on.

It's a pretty good action episode, just not a very good Enterprise episode, nor an inventive Borg episode. Also prequels are always odd. At the end it is hinted that Archer's failure to stop the Borg making a phone call home, is the reason the Borg invade 200 years from then. It's tacked on for fans, nothing more.

Exciting and interesting...but also a slap in the face to many of the fans.

[planktonrules · 3/10 · 29 March 2015]

In "Star Trek: The Next Generation", Q introduces the Enterprise to the Borg. Up until then, this awful group of assimilators were never seen on the show before and they were a complete surprise to the crew. They also soon became huge and exciting enemies on the various other Trek shows. However, "Star Trek: Enterprise" is set something like 200 years BEFORE all this. So how can the crew have an encounter with the Borg in the 22nd century and yet no one in the 24th century knew about them?! Huh?! This just doesn't make any sense--especially since with computers and so much data on the Borg you wonder HOW this could be.

When the show begins, some frozen Borg are discovered by scientists. Amazingly, although they were frozen for a very, very long time, one of the seemingly dead Borg revives and begins doing what Borg do best--assimilating the crap out of everything. Soon these scientists are all Borg and when Enterprise comes to help, it is nearly destroyed by these jerks.

In addition to the inconsistency of even having the Borg in the show, it's very inconsistent how Dr. Phlox is assimilated. Normally, within seconds a being becomes a full-fledge Borg drone. Yet, inexplicably, his transformation is VERY slow and is later easily reversed! Again, the correct response is...huh?!

Despite all these annoying errors that violate canon, the show is reasonably exciting. For folks who don't care about these problems, I'd give this one a 7. For Trek fans, I'd give this one a 2 at best.

I love this EP

[lathamv · 10/10 · 22 June 2019]

To find out the Borg crashed on earth in the 2050s... only 30+ yrs from now. Reality or not, the idea of it is a bit scary.

One of the things I have enjoyed about ENT is the writers ability to integrate storylines we know from "the future" in with a timeline more closely related to us. A crashed borg ship found frozen for 100 yrs. The crew regenerating (as we knew they would... seriously?! put them BACK in deepfreeze), assimilating the arctic crew, and heading to delta quad, gaining as many humanoids as possible along the way. ENT crew not only has to stop the ship and hopefully try to get the crew back but they find out just how resilient the aliens can be... stonger, more intelligent and goal oriented, able to adapt to phaser frequencies.... deja vue but also new. Great way to introduce the Borg at a much ealier era than originally thought. The arent the 24th century Borg with all the aquired technology of 200 yrs but they are just as scary to the humans of the 22nd century.

What a Catastrophe

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 21 March 2017]

I am so angry. This episode is so far off. I thought that Jonathan Archer was going to meet the great progressive theologian Marcus Borg. But apparently he doesn't get introduced until Q shows up in The Next Generation. Apparently he gets hoisted on his own Picard. Oh, wait, the chronology is so confusing. Hey, I'm just having a little fun. I love you guys who are so involved in these shows that you will give an episode a one because it doesn't fit in with the world you have studied to the exclusion of the real world you live in. I thought this was very exciting. I was surprised to see the Borg show up. If those other shows make your findings factual, why can't this one? I mean, it is a part of the Star Trek canon now that it's been put on television. You need to fill in your time lines with some new stuff. How do you know that the business with Q isn't wrong and this is correct? Perhaps The Next Generation was a trick to make us forget that this earlier stuff happened. Just saying!

OH NO The borg

[patrick-dewijs · 4/10 · 4 June 2008]

This is the worst episode of the second season. The borg have NO business in this episode. The borg where first introduced by Q in the episode Q-Who of The Next Generation. There was no report of this episode/encounter which is very odd for race as special as the Borg. The doctor gets infected with nanoprobes but the result is pretty much a joke. It took Data in the episode Best of both worlds all his knowledge and effort to bring Loqutus (picard) back human and it ONLY worked cause he wasn't fully assimilated. This episode breaks down almost everything regarding borg and the following episodes about borg. Perhaps not as bad as the xindi stuff in season 3 but this episode is a disgrase to all trek fans.

What about Q introducing the Borg?!

[usagiarwen · 1/10 · 29 June 2013]

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.

Yet another reason to loathe Enterprise

[iratazork · 2/10 · 11 November 2010]

This show was an abomination, another in a long series of coffin nails by Rick Berman. Berman, who can almost single-handedly be blamed for destroying the Star Trek franchise has no business being in charge of anything. He needs to pursue a more suitable career, perhaps as a garbage man or Walmart greeter, something more akin to his (non)abilities.

This episode is a grand example of Berman's pitiful skills. He has no respect for canon. And when the series is failing miserably, he resorts to his ace in the hole, desperation slight of hand - the Borg. It didn't work on Voyager and sure as heck did not work on Enterprise! It requires a complete shelving of any logic to think that Janeway and Voyager could hold the Borg at bay, especially considering the thorough beating one Borg cube did to a large part of Starfleet at Wolf 359. And Archer and his Tonka Toy star ship and pathetic weaponry are going to fare well against the Borg? Puh-leaze! Gimme a break! Let's see...sometimes the Borg adapted themselves to the Starfleet weapons and were able to repel them and then in the next scene, other Borg were getting killed? Who wrote this krap??? And amazingly, Phlox was able to cure himself of Borgification?? And oh, by the way...did Archer's logs get lost at some point so that Picard and Enterprise D were completely clueless about the Borg??

A perfect example of "Enterprise"

[Lunchbox-3 · 3/10 · 10 March 2014]

When this "Star Trek" prequel series debuted we wondered if it would attempt to fit into the established history leading up to TOS or if it would rewrite history. I think they tried to hint at both to please old and new fans alike, but the latter is obviously where they were going. In the movie "First Contact" we saw Picard's TNG crew go back in time and alter first contact between humans and Vulcans, which was the entire basis for the formation of Starfleet and the Federation, so it stands to reason that everything that follows would be altered, sometimes in subtle ways and sometimes not so subtle. How many of Cochrane's crew were killed, what role would they have played in the creation of the Phoenix or relations with the Vulcans? How were Cochrane's attitudes and actions altered by his encounter with Picard's crew? Cochrane appeared on the pilot episode of "Enterprise" showing that this new timeline would follow on from that movie. Now in season 2's "Regeneration" we did up some leftover Borg from the movie just to hammer home the point that this is a continuation of that movie. Even though Archer remembers some random bit of nonsense Cochrane had muttered 100 years earlier that everyone else wrote off as a drunken yarn, apparently his encounter with the Borg will not be remembered 200 years later when Shelby is researching the Borg in preparation for their invasion of the Alpha Quadrant. Or will it be, in this timeline? If Archer had gone 200 years into the future perhaps he would have encountered a very different TNG than the one we watched on our TVs.

Yet the episode ends with a warning that the Borg contacted their friends in the Delta Quadrant and they should get the signal right around the time Picard is captaining his Enterprise. So the writers choose to rewrite history but not too much, leaving the appearance of perhaps fitting with the old history. It's a bit of having your cake and eating it too. Or perhaps more a case of rewriting continuity but not having the guts to actually do it in any meaningful way. I find this kind of thing unappealing to the old-school fan but too business- as-usual to please a newcomer.

As for the actual plot, the Borg continue their magical evolution into indestructibility. We saw on Voyager that they could revive a drone that had been dead for several days. Now they can revive drones that have been dead 100 years or more! Not just frozen in ice for 100 years, but who have also survived the destruction of their ship by photon torpedoes, survived the heat of entry into Earth's atmosphere and a rather harsh impact onto the ground from orbit. Those magical Borg.

The action plays more like a horror movie with a bunch of zombies infecting humans and multiplying possibly without end unless they can be stopped. It's a serviceable but predictable action episode that has been seen many times before. Where is the promise of this first encounter with an entirely different culture, not just a hive mind but now an enemy who absorbs everything it touches? Not unlike the one Enterprise encountered in "Vox Sola." This time however there's no emotion, no surprise, just action. I guess if they found out too much about the Borg it might just finally break the canon irreversibly so they couldn't go there. Couldn't have Phlox learn the species' name while he was mind linked with them, for instance. Just like they never learned the Ferengi's name because that would wreck Picard's first contact with them 200 years down the road.

This is all the same road JJ Abrams took with the 2009 "Star Trek" movie. Not surprising that would name-check Archer as his movie is a continuation of "Enterprise's" altered timeline and alters it further. Another remake that tries to change things but keep enough the same that it could still kinda-sorta fit with the old stories, but really can't, not at all. In the attempt to offend no one they created a product that I don't see how it can please anyone. It's very boxed into an old product which limits where it can go, while it really doesn't fit into the box either. This episode shows exactly what's wrong with "Enterprise" and Abrams' Trek.

Connection between Enterprise and Star Trek: First Contact

[Zero-angel-1 · 4/10 · 2 October 2015]

This episode really divides people, and even I don't really know what to think of it. First of a lot of people hate it, because they forget or don't reanalyze that the episode is a continuation of the movie Star Trek: First Contact, so as always when time-travel is involved there will be discussions about how it changes/effects the canon we know and love where Q shows TNG the Borg. But the episode also has some really big mistakes, 1. In one scene the Borg adapted themselves to the Starfleet phasers, and then in the next scene other Borgs are killed when shot with phasers. 2. Phlox was able to cure himself of the Borg infection. There for 4/10 from me, because while I like the salute to Star Trek: First Contact, there are too many mistakes in the canon toward the Borg.

Seriously

[craig_vandertie · 1/10 · 22 March 2019]

I would imagine this will be another one of my reviews that will receive no views and no upvotes not only because of my heading but because it contains spoilers and being most of those who have rated the episode and/or left reviews are totally delusional leaves me fighting against a psychotic bunch of people.

Borg would not need environmental suits for one, as soon as they had regenerated enough they would have immediately figured out a way to get a message through to the Borg collective and the Borg would have invaded the Alpha quadrant with no way to stop them from assimilating every sentient being.

In all honesty just as the Stargate franchise I enjoyed the way the roles were portrayed and some of the episodes were not bad but the overall storyline made no sense often altering history to meet a narrative that appealed to irrational minds after all what do warped minds know about Federation history or actually factual history too many poisoned into believing that eventually you will be able to be of no benefit to anyone else but yourself, completely nonproductive and get financially rewarded for it.

Oh, the humanity of it all....

[mitchmitchell · 1/10 · 2 November 2016]

This, is what happens when Gene Roddenberry dies and you are left with a TV Franchise and have no talent or idea on how to implement it.

Rick Berman has no clue as to what makes Star Trek "Star Trek" - and if there is one episode where this is exemplified, it is this.

The Borg went back in time to assimilate Earth. Picard killed them with Quantum Torpedoes (X4) and that Borg Sphere was utterly destroyed...but let us put that to one side for now and talk about what happens in the actual episode.

So, apparently some Borg survive and crash/land in the arctic circle, freezing them until awoken, which when happens they leave Earth and try to get to Borg Space.

This simply does not make any sense...their mission was to stop 'First Contact' and assimilate Earth...so why travel back to Borg Space? Why not, send a message to Borg space from Earth, but continue to Assimilate Earth? One on each continent? Multiply and slowly take over Earth? And, if you are going to change cannon, then Q would not have 'flung' Enterprise D into the borders of Guinan's home in the El-Aurian system as a lesson, as the lesson would not have made a point, because Humans would have already had 'a taste of their future'.

So yeah, dumb episode and is basically what happens when you are Rick Berman and you run out of ideas, and want to try and get your viewer figures up: You create an anachronistic nightmare, alienate the fans and ruin Star Trek, again.

His logic undoes his logic.