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Shik
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To be fair, though...I think we've seen from recent events that some things--including bodies--can fall to earth from the upper atmosppheric limits relatively intact.
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Especially if they were contained within some sort of chamber which was strong enough to not burn up. Which would be pretty strong, since I don't think the sphere blew up over the arctic, which means it landed at a shallow angle, passing through as much atmosphere as possible.
Of course, it doesn't have to be the FC sphere, anyway.
And, as stupid as it was, ST7 and VOY already established that the Borg were not new in "Q Who?", so, as long as these scientists don't have a lot of time to study the drones (and they certainly wouldn't be able to get the name "Borg" from them), continuity should be accurately (if tenuously) preserved.
But, then, it still proves that, if the writing team has an ounce of originality among them, that's all they have. They have any number of aliens they can use, both established ones (especially Tholians, Tellarites, etc.: ones we want to see), and an infinite number they can make up, and they fall back on OMG TEH B0RGZ!!!, the most disgustingly overused and ruined bunch in the franchise.
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Oh, wonderful. I'm so glad that ENT has allowed us to go back to the real meaning of Trek; namely, kickin' Borg ass!!!
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Maybe they are going to admit what I believed in the begining, that "Enterprise" is a product of a timeline altered by Picard and company during the events from "First Contact". That would solve a lot of problems that habve already occured in the series. Not the bad writting, but you can't have everything.
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Cartman
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Well... I figured they'd find Hawk's frozen, assimilated corpse floating in orbit, and that would be Enterprise's introduction to the Borg... but I guess this makes as much sense.
I won't judge until I see. But, I'm also wondering how they plan on tying Enterprise in with this episode. Obviously the ship can't encounter a Borg ship in space at the same time all this is happening on on Earth....
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I would hope that Hawk's body would have been retrieved and returned to his family. (Uh, closed casket burial, presumably.) Or, more likely, returned to various top secret research facilities.
Anyway, uh, I'm having a hard time building up the indignation here. The Borg are boring now, this is true. The story seems unnecessary. But it features action on Earth. This is good. It features arctic circle action! This I have always been a sucker for, almost regardless of plot. The Thing? Yes please. The Thing's predecessor which I have seen but whose name I cannot for the life of me recall? (Who Goes There? Or is that the name of the Campbell story?) Super. Every episode of The X-Files where Carter went all Ice Station Zebra on us? Keen X 20.
Anyway, sadly, the last two hours of Star Trek that anyone in the real world cared about was First Contact. Thus: Borg everywhere when ratings are desired.
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This could very likely lead to heated discussion on what exactly happened to Hawk's body
Common sense would require them to gather all thing they brought with them, including escape pods, crewmembers, dead bodies... and any Borg remains they could find.
Of course, common sense would also require them NOT to return to the future in a manner easily visible to anyone who happened to be watching skies at the right moment.
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Uh, I kind of doubt that "random flash in the night sky" equates to "time travellers who just saved our planet returning to their own time" for a significant number of observers.
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Cartman
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Either way, no harm done. Which can not be said for interjecting our favorite Swedish aliens into ENT.
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