Quick! To the fan-fic!

I was thinking that it would be the biggest “oops!” ever if the Enterprise Computer Thingy ended up being hurled into the distance past after an encounter with a temporal anomaly and became responsible for the Borg.

And then once formed, the intelligence, which looks like it was made out of neon Tinker Toys, flies away to be happy. And no one wonders, “What the hell? Is the computer gonna make any more of those things? Should we figure out what just happened?”

Well, they live in a world of insty-evolution and technology that’s used once and then never again and other such made-for-TV nonsense, so after a while, I guess they just kinda react to bizarre happenings of the week the way Spinal Tap reacts to spontaneous combustion.

And a good story could have been grown from that seed. But this wasn’t it.

Actually I’ve heard that it was Patrick Stewart’s idea–the writers asked him if there were any remaining plot lines for his character, and he said the whole revenge plot with Daimon Bok.

Yep. Sweeping up the scraps on the writers room floor…

This feels like something that was sitting in a file cabinet and gathering dust since the first season and the producers couldn’t even be bothered to rewrite it using a more current or threatening villain.