Regeneration

Season 2, Episode 23, Aired
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The remnants of an alien ship and two frozen cybernetic bodies are uncovered in the Arctic by a research team. These aliens soon thaw out and flee Earth, taking the research team with them. Starfleet ordersEnterprise to find them, but the crew are not prepared for just how dangerous these aliens really are.moreless
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  • A lab in the middle of the Arctic finds remnants of a sphere and Borg from the 24th Century. Archer remembers reading a passage from Cochrane about an encounter with people from the future and cybernetic beings... and thus starts a wholly stupid episodemoreless

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    By cremasteel1, Oct 24, 2011 Report Abuse
    Why Picard, Janeway and other Federation personnel didn\'t read Archer\'s logs and discover that the Borg were old acquaintances. Q would have been peeved if he realised he wasn\'t the first to introduce the Borg to the Federation and in fact..the first Enterprise actually worked out how to kill the pesky Borg was to:

    Amp up the power of their less advanced weapons
    Kill the nanites with a certain type of radiation

    and other stuff I just have no idea why the dudes in the 24th century made such a big deal of the Borg. Their relentless pursuit of perfection, their admiration of Species 8472 as being the apex of biological/cybernetic interface, their absolute decimation of entire species for the purpose of assimilation believing that \'Resistance is Futile\'was perfectly contained by ARcher and his less advanced crew. Picard and his peers so should have kicked their Borg butts - look at the photos and research that had been left behind.

    Whoever wrote this episode really did a disservice to TNG and Voyager (And I thought Janeway was bad enough always managing to win the encounters - no way! )

    This episode in my opinion sucked.moreless

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  • An enjoyable episode which should never have been in Enterprise.

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    By Sci-Fi_Fan, Oct 24, 2011 Report Abuse
    I must admit I have mixed feelings about "Regeneration". On the one hand, it was an entirely enjoyable episode if only for the constant eye-candy inherent with Borg episodes, and on the other hand, I am disappointed the writers even considered placing the Borg into a 22nd century environment.

    I'll begin with the good points, the few of them there are. The whole story does tie in nicely to Star Trek: First Contact creating an unusual time paradox, and as previously mentioned, the visual effects cannot be faulted. I even enjoyed seeing the Borg roaming the decks of Enterprise as a kind of "what if" scenario that so many fans speculate on.

    However, this does not excuse the one fact die-hard fans would be aware of: first contact with the Borg occured in Star Trek: The Next Generation and no convenient omission of the word "Borg" is going to change that. Are we seriously supposed to believe that Starfleet couldn't put 2 and 2 together and come up with "Borg?"

    Furthermore, we see the wreckage of the Borg Sphere as if it had just crashed on the planet, and the drones themselves are hardly covered in ice, yet we are meant to believe they and the wreckage has been there for 100 years? Yeah, right!

    And if that weren't enough, the writers really went too far by having Phlox invent a "cure" for assimilation, something that is still impossible (bar-Species 8472) in the 24th century. Did the writers suddenly think "Oh wait, we can't kill off a main character."

    Overall, I would consider this a great stand alone episode, something which I am not afraid to admit to. However, in the context of the rest of the series, I cannot give it more than a 1/10 for blatant violation of Trek canon, and that is only because the site won't let me give it a zero. At least "Acquisition", as silly as it was, could be explained to some extent.moreless

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  • 24th century borg: yay! 22nd century technology defeating them: boo!

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    By claushouse, Sep 04, 2010 Report Abuse
    This was an enjoyable episode, but left me wanting more.

    Everyone loves the Borg (Bjorn and Collective alike), but most of us like seeing them kickass, not lose to inferior opponents.

    Aesthetics and general "cool" factor aside, what makes the borg so poignant is their menacing nature, their unyielding tenacity and unwillingness to rationalize with or try to talk down: they're coming, in ominous 9.9 warp square monoliths, and they're going to take away your life in the most horrific of way, without remorse, and turn you into a creepy cybernetic drone.

    This may be a remnant of the criticism laid on Voyager, but you'd think that this episode being made well after the feedback from fans and critics on their treatment ala Janeway would give the showrunners the opportunity to give us the best of both worlds: the fierce menace of the borg from TNG and the great cgi and makeup from Voyager, especially in the 22nd century.

    Alas, this is not the case, and it leaves the rational mind dumbfounded. The opening of First Contact sees about 30+ 24th century ships getting laid to waste by a single Borg vessel, and most drones adapting after 1-2 phaser shots.

    I saw Archer and crew put down at least 8 drones before one finally adapted conveniently before they warped.

    I love Star Trek, and one might argue that you must suspend disbelief, but that still requires good writing and making things consistent within the canon and it is frustrating to see this kind of treatment to a part of ST that I deeply enjoy.

    It's still entertaining, and not nearly as frustrating as some Voyager episodes' take on the borg, but I don't think it's unfair for fans to demand better treatment of their beloved classics.

    But, in the end, it's Trek, and it's the Borg, so it's still a lot of fun to be had.moreless

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  • The Borg are back...but not with a bite.

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    By slainmonkey, Jul 13, 2010 Report Abuse
    Since Star Trek: Next Gen, the Borg have been an imortant part of the show....except Deep Space 9. However this episode contridicted everything we already knew. Now this episode was about an artic research team, digging up the remains of a Borg ship and find 2 frozen Borg who quickly come back to life and take the research team and their ship. The Enterprise and ther crew are sent on a mission to stop them.

    This was just weak, If they found how so many secret of the Bork then how come Picard had never heard of them? Surely they would have had much more info on them. Not only that they plot just was lame...it flet like that they just wanted the Borg even if it had not really basis on the show...however this isn't the shows first contridiction...we had seen it happen before with the Klingons.moreless

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  • The Borg return but this time they're actually a bit more intimidating.

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    By ProphetTenebrae, Jul 13, 2010 Report Abuse
    This episode serves to link up First Contact and TNG and finally redeems the Borg from the horrible state that they were left in after Voyager.

    It makes the Borg seem to be far more formidable, they're not just useless automatons anymore. They manage to get off Earth, convert several people to Borg and of course set into action the chain of events that lead to the Borg incursion on Federation space.

    The MO of the Borg is a bit fuzzy - they seem pretty happy to just run away and send their message but beyond that, their actual intentions are unclear. For example, they could easily have converted Earth over to Borg control.

    It was nice to see how the Borg essentially modified a lowly cargo ship into a pretty kick ass ship. Of course, they couldn't let them live but this episode was probably more entertaining than any other in the first couple of Enterprise seasons and almost redeems them for the horrible, horrible Voyager Borg episodes.moreless

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    • None of the Antartica scenes accurately reflect how cold it is. No one's breath is visable and none of the characters are protecting their faces.

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    • Trivia: Archer comments, "He was giving a commencement address at Princeton when (Cochrane) started to talk about what really happened during First Contact." The events mentioned in Cochrane's speech occurred in the eighth Star Trek movie, Star Trek: First Contact.

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    • Trivia: At the end of the episode, T'Pol estimates it will take 200 years before the message is received by the Borg, and Archer replies: "So, in the 24st century?" The 24st century is indeed when the Borg start attacking Earth and try to invade, a time in which the other Star Trek series are situated.

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    • Guest star, Bonita Friedericy is married to John Billingsley (Doctor Phlox). Edit

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    • Archer: They told their homeworld how to find Earth. T'Pol: Did you learn where the message was sent? Archer: Somewhere deep in the Delta Quadrant. T'Pol: Then I doubt there's any immediate danger. It would take at least two hundred years for a subspace message to reach the Delta Quadrant, assuming it's received at all. Archer: Sounds to me like we've only postponed the invasion until what? The 24th century? Edit
    • Archer: (talking about Zefram Cochrane) He was giving a commencement address at Princeton when he started to talk about what really happened during First Contact. He mentioned a group of cybernetic creatures from the future who tried to stop his first warp flight when he was living in Montana. He said they were defeated by a group of humans, who were also from the future. T'Pol: As I recall, Cochrane was famous for his imaginative stories. He was also known to be frequently intoxicated. Edit

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