Star Trek: Fan Collective
- The Borg

Review By: Dan Deevy
DanDeevy@TheCinemaSource.com

I think the idea behind these Fan Collective DVD Box Sets is actually a sound one. At first I thought it was just yet another way for Berman and the folks at Paramount to ring the neck of the golden goose until the damn thing is dead, buried, dug up, re-killed, cremated and then buried again. But as it turns out, this works for the not-so-hard-core, I-don't-need-to-own-every-episode casual Trek fan. And surprisingly, those people do actually exist.

Of course we begin this new series of releases with Star Trek: Borg. Aside from the Klingons, the Borg are probably the most recognized alien villains in the franchise. During the run of Voyager and Enterprise, whenever things seemed bleak, numbers started to drop and interest began to fade, all you had to do was call up the Borg and your ratings would shoot right back up.

The only issue I have with this particular collection is the ridiculous amount of continuity issues inherent in the Borg story line. WARNING – HUGE GEEK OUT MOMENT AHEAD (but it's ok cause I have lots of sex... with other people) - As we all know, of course, the Borg first came to humanities attention on Stardate 43996.7 when Q flung the Enterprise 7,000 light years deeper into space than had ever been explored before right into the path of a Borg Cube. This held true as the beginning of the Borg until the seventh feature film, Generations, shows the Enterprise B rescuing Elurian refuges that were fleeing the destruction of their home planet, curtosey of a Borg attack. Clearly, Starfleet would have been told about the Borg at this point, but conveniently we're supposed to believe that didn't happen. From that point on Borg craziness goes all over the place. Seven of Nines parents were some how studying the Borg for years before the Enterprise encountered them which is what led to her assimilation and of course we somehow had to get the gang from Enterprise involved by having them encounter the Borg hundreds of years earlier. I think they got to the point where it was just like, fuck it. Let's use em where ever and however we can.

All inconsistencies aside, they always make for great episodes! The Enterprise episode, Regeneration where the remains of the Borg who attacked Earth in 2063 (via a time travel incident in First Contact) are uncovered and the scientists unwittingly reactivate a few of the drones who assimilate their ship and leave Earth bound for the Delta Quadrant, was awesome! It made absolutely positively no sense in terms of Star Trek lore (which