Regeneration

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")

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!

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.

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??

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.