It was just 1 stupid thing after another, with nostalgia-bait at the end.

The 1st 8 episodes were decent and the 1st few episode arc in particular was pretty good, on the same level as TNG.

Then it's like they let a retard write this episode. Every plot point was annoying and stupid and totally contrived absolute dumpster fire garbage. This is the twitter profile pic of one of the 2 credited writers. Some young chick who gets coffee for the writers room.

okay so just off the top of my head:

• jack crusher suddenly being treated like the enemy for no good reason

• jack crusher suddenly running to the borg for no good reason so the plot can happen

• borg reveal and within minutes, jack crusher is at the queen

• the whole concept of a "borg queen" is fucking stupid, anyway, they're not fucking ants, they're the ultimate space communists.

• changelings totally disappear from the plot the moment they served their purpose

• rogue changelings were 100x more interesting than this generic borg shit

• the whole concept of "frontier day" is fucking stupid & contrived just to make an excuse to put all Federation ships in 1 place for a ... parade? absolutely idiotic.

• fireworks in space are retarded

• transporter technology cannot be use to alter human DNA en masse, or at all. this has literally never happened in ST history, nothing like as depicted here

• the idea that a human can become a borg because of a few hidden genes is retarded. borg are cyborgs. they spread by injecting nanites. this has all been established over and over.

• borg "brown noise" that makes crew shit their pants suddenly have borg nanites in their blood somehow

• LET'S NETWORK ALL OUR SHIPS TOGETHER, IT'S NOT LIKE EVERY SINGLE TIME THIS HAS EVER BEEN DONE IN SCI-FI, THE RESULT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT 1 HACK WIPES OUT THE WHOLE FLEET. absolutely retarded, contrived. comes out of nowhere. every view immediately knows it means they're all fucked. It's like "scary movie" levels of retardation.

• literally no reason to network ships unless you're doing a drone light show

• the old ship was destroyed but Geordi put it back together in his free time like your dad working on an old car