Synopsis: Enterprise is sent on a mission to rescue three Earth researchers who have been abducted by aliens that they discovered in Earth’s Arctic Circle.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of James Hillman’s acorn theory, that just as an acorn contains everything needed to become a tree, we all have inner daimons that contain all the information we need to be who we were destined to become.
In “Regeneration,” three researchers at an Arctic Circle science station uncover two frozen Borg drones, not realizing what they are, and thaw them out. The drones in turn assimilate them, take the researchers’ transport vessel, modify it, and head into space. Enterprise is sent to try to rescue the researchers. En route, Enterprise comes to the aid of a Tarkalean freighter which is severely damaged by the now enhanced transport vessel. The two unconscious Tarkalean crewmembers are brought aboard Enterprise and Dr. Phlox sees that they have been infected with nanoprobes, but he does not deem them a danger to the crew until one of them attacks him, infecting him with nanoprobes. The Tarkaleans try to take over the ship but are unsuccessful, and Archer orders that they are sent out to space. Enterprise returns to trying to locate the transport vessel. When they locate the vessel, the aliens try to assimilate Enterprise, but instead the Enterprise blows up the transport. Meanwhile, Phlox has discovered a way to kill the nanoprobes that are attacking him with Omicron particles and starts the path to recovery.
In this episode, when Phlox is slow to understand the danger of the Tarkaleans who had been infected with nanoprobes it is because he was seeing them through the perspective of a healer. That Phlox is a natural healer and dedicated to this art has been seen over and over again in the series. He is such a gifted healer that he even devised a way to recover from being infected with Borg nanoprobes. Phlox as physician is an illustration of an individual who is true to their inner daimon and has become exactly who he was meant to be.
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