Ancestral Roles
- "Borderland" is also the first episode in a three episode arc that features the highly anticipated return of Brent Spiner (Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation) as the criminal mastermind Dr. Arik Soong, an ancestor of the scientist who created Data.
- This episode marks the second time an actor from another Star Trek series has played the ancestor of one of their previous characters. The first was Colonel Worf (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country), who is the grandfather of Worf (TNG) and father of Mogh. Colonel Worf was played by Michael Dorn, the same actor who portrays Worf in The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and in the Next Generation-based movies. Jolene Blalock played both T'Pol and T'Pol's great-great-grandmother in Season Two's "Carbon Creek." Kate Mulgrew also played the role of one of her ancestors, Shannon O'Donnell, in the Voyager episode 11:59, which took place around the turn of the 21st century.
Read more about this topic: Borderland (Star Trek: Enterprise)
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