10 Scrapped Ideas For Star Trek: Enterprise Season 5

10. Regenerating The Borg Queen

Star Trek: Enterprise managed to do the seemingly impossible in its second season. Regeneration made the Borg properly frightening again, thanks to a combination of smart writing, tight directive, and Brian Tyler's outstanding score for the episode. As this episode was a real success, Manny Coto wanted to revisit the Collective, while still keeping Star Trek canon intact.

Alice Krige was approached with a view to returning to Star Trek again. She had previously played the Borg Queen in both Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Voyager. In the proposed fifth-season episode, she would appear as a Starfleet technician who came into contact with the Borg, thanks to the events of Regeneration. This would serve as an origin story for this particular Borg Queen.

As shown in Star Trek: Picard, any drone can become a Queen, so this fits canon as well - she need not necessarily be the same individual physically encountered by Jean-Luc Picard or Kathryn Janeway, yet could still very much bring the menace that she brought in the movie and Voyager's last episode. This is one of the many shames of Enterprise never receiving a fifth year.