I’m also going to assume 90 years in the ice damaged the nanoprobes process bc that assimilation process is slow.

Damn, Princeton either got up and running fast after First Contact or was already running again by the time First Contact happened. Archer mentions Cochrane gave the commencement speech at Princeton 89 years prior to the episode, which places it at 2064, the year after First Contact. I’m imagining like a city-state proposition similar to Corvallis in the Dies the Fire series… (Let’s also ignore for now the courts of 2079, idk where that was happening but I’m gonna assume that like the last pockets of holdouts)

Still love the score for this episode, there a menace and threat to it through the ep.

And in a ep where don’t name the Borg, we do namedrop the Tarkelians (of the Teas) and Bynars.

Do you think prior to the Enterprise episode where they find the frozen Borg wreckage near the Arctic Circle - assuming it fell down near say Nunavut, that the residents near the crash site were again telling Parks Canada or United Earth Parks about another thing they should really, really see, for say 90 years, and were once again ignored until some rando expedition “discovered” it