Oh boy...

[Eternalknight]

Just reading the latest production news on Enterprise at www.startrek.com... apparently we are going to see the Borg in Enterprise....

 

[Lurks-no-More]

For a long, long time now I have considered Star Trek to be the anti-good SF. (See here for a slightly dated but otherwise good rant on the issue).

This, however, is going too far.

The only possible way this would turn out to be good would be to have the Borgs assimilate Earth pre-emptively, thus wiping out the all and sundry Star Trek once and for all.

Then we could have Borg: TOS, a series about Cube#211-D's five-year mission to boldly go out where no part of the Collective has gone before, exploring strange new worlds and assimilating their people; Borg: The Next Generation, which is much of the same except with better CGI; Borg: Deep Space 3^3, which is the first Borg series to take a deeper look at the individual lives of the units of the Collective (canceled after one season because it was boring) and the shameful Borg: The Voyager, which is best left undiscussed.

 

[Fast Learner]

I think it could be a good episode if the Enterprise utterly destroys the nacent Borg, thus seriously changing the proscribed future (as they do in minor ways all the time).

That would rock.

 

[myrdden]

It's official...there is NO creativity in this series. Might as well bring in the Founders and Jem'Hadar to finish it off.



Myrdden

 

[Ranger REG]

So close ... yet so far

And to think the show almost changed my mind the past few episodes ... only to resort to this. Sad.

What's next? Cardassian (another 24th Century alien)? I already knew about the Ferengi and that is already borderline.

 

[Richards]

SPOILERS for those who didn't read the notes at the linked site


Whoa, now, before everyone goes on about how they're ruining pre-established Star Trek continuity by introducing the Borg into Enterprise, read through the production notes on the Star Trek site at the link in the first post. The Borg that will be shown on Enterprise are from part of the debris of the time-travelling Borg sphere that Picard and company blew up over Earth in Star Trek: First Contact. They're actually picking up a loose thread from previously established continuity and running with it. I for one applaud such a move, as I like it when they build upon the past (or future in this case; time travel makes such terminology a bit wonky).

Johnathan

 

[orbitalfreak]

SPOILERS for those who didn't read the notes at the linked site


Whoa, now, before everyone goes on about how they're ruining pre-established Star Trek continuity by introducing the Borg into Enterprise, read through the production notes on the Star Trek site at the link in the first post. The Borg that will be shown on Enterprise are from part of the debris of the time-travelling Borg sphere that Picard and company blew up over Earth in Star Trek: First Contact. They're actually picking up a loose thread from previously established continuity and running with it. I for one applaud such a move, as I like it when they build upon the past (or future in this case; time travel makes such terminology a bit wonky).

Johnathan

I agree, I like that they're addressing this. I just hope that they don't turn the Borg into a series-long recurring villian; TNG and VOY did that already. However, I wouldn't mind a 3-5 episode story arc with them, even a season finale/premiere combo that wipes out the Borg threat, until TNG.

 

[VorpalBunny]

SPOILERS for those who didn't read the notes at the linked site

The Borg that will be shown on Enterprise are from part of the debris of the time-travelling Borg sphere that Picard and company blew up over Earth in Star Trek: First Contact. They're actually picking up a loose thread from previously established continuity and running with it.

Sure it seems like a good idea - but this is where ENTERPRISE always wrecks things. To preserve continuity, all evidence and records of the borg as well as the wreckage of the sphere and any people they assimilate have to be destroyed.

Remember, when Q sends the Enterprise-D into the Delta Quadrant in "Q-Who" the Federation had no clue about the borg. They were a totally alien and completely new race. And Picard himself said in "First Contact" that the borg were still confined to the Delta Quadrant at that time. If a bunch of Fed scientists encounter a sphere on earth in the 2250's and live to tell the tale it kinda ruins things.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Why oh why do they doing crap like this! They have a wonderful villian in the klingons, all they have to do is use them but do they, nooooooo.

 

[Volaran]

Yes, but they already screwed with that when they had Seven's parents be human scientists obsessed with Borg before they had been encountered by the Enterprise-D.