"The interesting thing about the Borg is that nobody has really found them yet in the 22 Century, and as a result Archer and the others won't quite know who they've ran into," he says in excerpts transcribed at Sci-Fi Pulse. "There will be a definite tie in with events that occurred in STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT."

Berman also talks about the season finale, "The Expanse," and how it will influence the show's change in focus for next season.

"It's not so much a cliffhanger as it is a tantalising taste of what next season will bring," he reveals. "Next season will deal with Enterprise being sent on a mission that may last many episodes, but it's not going to be a serialised arc. The stakes are the future of planet Earth. They're going to be sent to a part of space they've never been before; a part of space the Vulcans warn is extremely dangerous. It's kind of our quadrant's Bermuda Triangle."

He goes on to say that characters will face new challenges and the Temporal Cold War storyline will play a big part.

"There are going to be significant changes," he says. "There will be changes in a number of our characters. I don't mean that we're changing characters. But we're going to see changes as we go into a very ominous section of space, and try to find an alien race that we have reason to believe is going to do everything they can to destroy Earth's population. Our knowledge of all this will come from elements of what we've been referring to as the Temporal Cold War."

You can read more from the exec on "Horizon," "The Breach," and "Cogenitor," as well as next season at Sci-Fi Pulse. You can also read excerpts of the magazine's new interview with Dominic Keating about the filming of this season's "Minefield" and other topics here.