Chew

Episode Title: 'Regeneration'



Written By: Mike Sussman & Phyllis Strong
Directed By: David Livingston

Wizdar

Sorry, I thought the episode title was Regurgitation.

Chew

I even thought I should spoiler-ize the title, but expected everybody knows by now. Notice how the description doesn't even name them? I wonder if the episode will go the same route (ala the Ferengi).

Rascal

I wonder if Tripp will get involved and educate the ? Missed opportunity? I might catch the last 10 minutes of this episode too.

lisadoris

I can't wait to see how they explain the fact that



There really aren't any original ideas left are there?

Red Dog

Wizdar

Oh, Borg. I misread and thought this had a Muppet tie-in.

B&B have a shorter attention span, and less memory-retention capacity than the Wizdar monster. As impossible as it may seem, that appears to be true.

One would think that one would have the time to, in fact be inclined to, do the research necessary for writing anything for episodic TV. Granted, the names listed for writing and directing this one do not include Dumb & Dumber, but they’re still the big guns.

Chew

While I agree with the posts about the history here, one thing to keep in mind:

MvRojo

Actually the writing team who did this episode are two of the best writers on the show, so I'm looking forward to it.

AICN gave it a good review.

Wizdar

Well, based on your recommendation, I’ll do my best to keep an open mind.

No, really! I can do that. Honest!

Why are you all looking at me like that?

MvRojo

Hehe.

I'm actually looking forward to next week where we might get a chance to see what Earth is like more, plus we get to see Tellarites.

Chew

And finally a follow-up on the

Bandoman

How many more episodes left in the season? Maybe I should start watching again to see how they deal with this Borg issue.

Red Dog

3 including tonight's.

Chew

Actually, I believe it's four episodes including tonights. Next week they're playing two.

MvRojo

Well, the Borg are only a minor issue in the series. The other three episodes are more interesting. "First Flight" deals with the first test flight of the Warp 5 engine, "Bounty" picks up the Klingon/Rura Penthe storyline by having Tellarite bounty hunters after Archer, and "The Expanse" deals with the Klingons, Suliban, Vulcans, and the Temporal Cold War all with the attack on Earth.

CanadianKnight

Regarding the established history/Borg timeline... Chew beat me to it. The events of First Contact have altered things to some degree.

Although with the Borg, this was a minor incident. Knowing how buraucracies function, I can see records of this event being hard-to-find after a couple of centuries....

I thought it was a good ep myself.

hokejka

it was pretty good episode, IMHO one of the best in Enterprise brief history. why ? they finally stopped fu***ng around and did what they had to do. It kind of reminded me the good ol' days of Babylon 5 blast 'em all times

Lara Means

The Borg? ugh. Does B&B have anything original left in their bodies? Enterprise has officially become Voyager. What a waste. Whats next? Q guest starring?

mikehunt

posting this without reading first so I don't risk spoiling the last 10 minutes for myself
Reed: we might as well have been shooting holographic bullets
he wishes, then he would have been like picard and killed the borg
I realize First Contact did kind of set this up, but it was a bad idea to bring the borg into enterprise

next week

TK-421

Hmm... both liked and disliked this episode... first of all, those phase pistols shouldn't have worked at all. And even if they did work once, they should've never worked again.

Also, is it really believable that phlox would be able to figure out a way to reverse the process with 22nd medical technology, when in the 24th century it was almost impossible to change someone back?

Still, if you remove the contiunity nits, it was interesting. A nice tie in to First Contact, and of course the setup for the encounter in TNG..

I can't wait to hear Wizdar's rant if he has one..

MvRojo

This is just the B-story thankfully.

Chew

Agree wholeheartly with that one.
This one I'm a little torn on. The 22nd century tech he was using was to determine how to cure himself, a race that seems to be fairly resistant (at least, initially) to assimilation. I would expect his treatment would of had no effect on a human, for example.
Although I would of rather not have the Borg on Enterprise at all, I still think they smoothed the continuity just enough that I'm not overly annoyed. Weren't the Borg heading our way when Q pushed the Enterprise along anyway?

All-in-all a pretty good effort. It was watchable, which is better than most attempts.
Let's all pray to the Trek gods it's not overly harsh.

Bandoman

This episode actually held my interest, which is more than this show has done lately.

Sure, the continuity inconsistencies are gaping (do you really think they wouldn't make a special note that a really badass enemy would be coming back in about 200 years?) but it was okay. To bad they have no new ideas, but they played this one fairly well.

I agree with TK-421. There's no wayPhlox could have "cured" himself. We'll see if he has residual problems from this.

mikehunt

not sure in the original TNG history, but after voyager they definitely were, as they had assimilated the Raven (the ship 7's parents took to study the borg) before the date that Q showed up
more borg trivia, guinan's people must have stayed quiet after the Enterprise B picked them up, as they were running form the borg yet picard and crew hadn't heard of them, of course then later we find out that 7's parents had heard of them