10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek: Enterprise

Coming to the end of its second season, Enterprise was still a little unsteady on its feet. It was heading in the right direction and was a short distance from making it into the big leagues with its Xindi arc.

So the best way to define a series' identity and make it stand out at this pivotal time is... to bring back the Borg. Again. I mean, it worked with the Ferengi...

Because that was what Enterprise was missing, of course. No,w to be fair, Regeneration is a delightful sequel to First Contact, but the show would have lost less impact if the writers had avoided falling back on the Borg. Overused in Voyager, the only way it seemed to make them unstoppable once more was to drop them into the late 2100s. From which they promptly do a runner back to the Delta Quadrant.

This also falls into that horrible prequel mire where it should have been mentioned in TNG that the Borg had been on Earth, but they can't because Q Who was filmed in 1988, some 14 years previous. Perhaps these Borg got back a little later and were responsible for the visual upgrade they got in First Contact; however, that's a whole time rabbit hole of pre-destination we can't get into now! The Borg here are immensely overcautious and clearly have the upper hand, yet decide it's a safer bet to skedaddle.

It could have made Enterprise a lot shorter and effectively erased the timeline, once again demonstrating how the writers had scribbled themselves madly into a corner with what initially seemed like a good idea. It wasn't.