An arctic research team discovers debris from an alien vessel, buried in a glacier along with the bodies of two cybernetically enhanced humanoids.

Vaughn Armstrong (Admiral Maxwell Forrest)
Jim Fitzpatrick (Commander Williams)

Bonita Friedericy (Rooney)
John Short (Drake)
Chris Wynne (Dr. Moninger)
Adam Harrington (Researcher)
Mark Chadwick (Male Tarkalean)
Paul Scott (Crewman Foster)
Nicole Randal (Female Tarkalean)

• The teaser and Act 1 feature only the A-6 Artic Reaearch Team. The crew doesn't appear until Act 2.
  
• The cybernetic humanoids are Borg (obviously) — they are remains from the events of the motion picture Star Trek: First Contact.
  
• Phlox is injected with Borg nanoprobes by one of the assimilated Tarkaleans. His biology is initially resilient to the nanoprobes, but they quickly begin to adapt. He ends up bombarding himself with omicron radiation to kill the nanoprobes.
  
• The Borg were able to send a subspace message to the Delta Quadrant containing coordinates. It will take 200 years to reach the Delta Quadrant.
  
• Bonita Friedericy (Rooney) is John Billingsley's wife.