Day 19 - Favorite Enterprise Episode
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Bearing in mind that I've only seen the first two seasons of ENT: "Regeneration", the Borg episode.
I remember when it was first announced, because I wasn't watching Star Trek at the time, but I still poked my head up from writing Snape fic and went, "Oh, come on, the Borg? Don't they care about canon AT ALL?"
But it turns out they ... really, really did. This is the best kind of fanwank, taking old plotholes (how did the Hansens know to go Borg hunting a decade or so before "Q Who"? Why were the Borg destroying bases along the neutral zone in season 1 of TNG?) and weaving them -- forgive the mixed metaphor -- into something coherent.
It's also tense, scary, disturbing, all the things you want from a Borg story. It uses the ensemble well -- although I think Phlox's recovery from near-assimilation was too easy -- and was just a really fun episode to watch.
And yes, it created some new plotholes, eg, how didn't Picard or Data know to connect the Borg to this incident later on, but my headcanon is that the Federation's approach to information management is nearly as bad as the Jedi's (and that's how they think they can get away with "We're just gonna tell people never to talk about the USS Discovery and their crew ever again".) It's Section 31's fault, probably.
Runners up: any episode with Shran. Even the ones I haven't seen yet, probably.
Day 20 - Character You're Most Like
Day 21 - Least Favorite Character
Day 22 - Favorite Trek Film
Day 23 - Best Trek Tech
Day 24 - Best Overall Space Vessel
Day 25 - Favorite Discovery Episode
Day 26 - Planet You Would Most Like To Visit
Day 27 - Character You Would Date
Day 28 - Name Your Own Starship
Day 29 - Favorite Trek Quote
Day 30 - Favorite Trek Series
Bearing in mind that I've only seen the first two seasons of ENT: "Regeneration", the Borg episode.
I remember when it was first announced, because I wasn't watching Star Trek at the time, but I still poked my head up from writing Snape fic and went, "Oh, come on, the Borg? Don't they care about canon AT ALL?"
But it turns out they ... really, really did. This is the best kind of fanwank, taking old plotholes (how did the Hansens know to go Borg hunting a decade or so before "Q Who"? Why were the Borg destroying bases along the neutral zone in season 1 of TNG?) and weaving them -- forgive the mixed metaphor -- into something coherent.
It's also tense, scary, disturbing, all the things you want from a Borg story. It uses the ensemble well -- although I think Phlox's recovery from near-assimilation was too easy -- and was just a really fun episode to watch.
And yes, it created some new plotholes, eg, how didn't Picard or Data know to connect the Borg to this incident later on, but my headcanon is that the Federation's approach to information management is nearly as bad as the Jedi's (and that's how they think they can get away with "We're just gonna tell people never to talk about the USS Discovery and their crew ever again".) It's Section 31's fault, probably.
Runners up: any episode with Shran. Even the ones I haven't seen yet, probably.
Day 20 - Character You're Most Like
Day 21 - Least Favorite Character
Day 22 - Favorite Trek Film
Day 23 - Best Trek Tech
Day 24 - Best Overall Space Vessel
Day 25 - Favorite Discovery Episode
Day 26 - Planet You Would Most Like To Visit
Day 27 - Character You Would Date
Day 28 - Name Your Own Starship
Day 29 - Favorite Trek Quote
Day 30 - Favorite Trek Series
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