Regeneration

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.

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 !

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.

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!

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??