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Khan Noonien Singh in 2285, the Augment tyrant and last vestige of the Eugenics Wars

The term augment was used to describe a group of genetically-engineered Humans created by advances in DNA resequencing in the late 20th century . In the 22nd century , Klingons created their own Augments using the original augmented Human DNA. Analogous terms included superhuman and superman . ( Star Trek Into Darkness ; TOS : " Space Seed "; DS9 : " Doctor Bashir, I Presume ", " The Sound of Her Voice ") In the 23rd and 24th centuries, the term Augment was sometimes used broadly as a pejorative term for any genetically enhanced being and their descendants, or to refer to any alien species who practice genetic augmentation, such as Illyrians . ( SNW : " Ghosts of Illyria "; PRO : " Supernova, Part 2 ")

• 2.1 The Eugenics Wars
• 2.2 Soong's Augments
• 2.3 Klingon Augments
• 2.4 Federation Ban on Augmented Beings
• 2.5.1 Alternate reality
• 2.6 Continued repercussions
• 3 Known Augments
• 4.1 Appearances
• 4.2 Apocrypha
• 4.3 External links

Khan lifting Pavel Chekov with one hand

The original Augments were designed to be remarkably agile, roughly five times stronger and more durable than an average Human, resistant to sickness and with enhanced senses, possessing heart muscles twice as strong and lung efficiency fifty percent better. Their blood contained platelets capable of regenerating from any disease or toxin, which could be used to cure or revive medical subjects via transfusion .

They also had twice the average Human lifespan. Even their resistance to directed energy weapons was improved, as it took multiple shots with a phaser or a phase-pistol to stun one. They were even capable of resisting a Vulcan nerve pinch and mind meld . ( TOS : " Space Seed "; ENT : " Borderland ", " Cold Station 12 "; Star Trek Into Darkness )

The Augments were also intellectually as well as physically enhanced, with their intelligence being double that of normal Humans. The intelligence of an Augment was exemplified by how, within a year of being awakened in the alternate reality , Khan Noonien Singh was already capable of designing entire advanced systems of mass destruction, including the USS Vengeance , its advanced beam and missile weaponry, a propulsion system that enabled the interception of a ship while in warp, and torpedoes capable of eradicating large portions of a planet. He was able to do this despite having only outdated three-hundred-year-old technical knowledge, before being put in stasis. The ability to learn all of the latest technologies, beyond many post-doctoral qualifications, is a testament to how their artificially augmented superhuman intelligence was beyond the reach of even the most intelligent Humans. ( Star Trek Into Darkness )

Despite their superior abilities, there were major defects in their genome as the Augments were belligerent, arrogant and ambitious, with a diminished sense of morality. One of the scientists behind their creation said, " Superior ability breeds superior ambition. " Doctor Arik Soong later theorized that a defect in the genomes of the Augments created a malformation in the base-pair sequences that regulate the neurotransmitter levels in their brains , causing them to be highly prone to aggression and violent behavior, and considered fixing this defect before incubating some embryos. ( ENT : " The Augments ")

History [ ]

The eugenics wars [ ].

Dr. Stavos Keniclius , a genetic engineer involved in the Eugenics Wars

In the late 1950s , advances in genetic engineering were coupled with selective breeding with the aim of creating a more capable breed Humans. Though the efforts succeeded, the resulting "Augments" began displaying unforeseen traits, such as aggression, savagery, and a lack of conscience. In 1992 , the Augments seized power in over forty nations on Earth , leading to the conflict known to them as the Eugenics Wars , as they battled among each other and with "normal" Humans. Most of the Augments behaved as ruthless despots, treating their subjects like slaves . ( TOS : " Space Seed "; Star Trek Into Darkness )

The Augments were finally overthrown in 1996 ; the last to be deposed was Khan Noonien Singh . After the end of the war some eighty Augments were unaccounted for, including Khan. ( ENT : " The Augments "; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ) Earth authorities collected the remaining Augment embryos and placed them into storage; by the 2130s they were stored on the Earth Starfleet facility Cold Station 12 . ( ENT : " Cold Station 12 ") As a result of the Wars, genetic engineering was banned on Earth; scientist Stavos Keniclius who planned to clone Augments to create a master race of peacekeepers, was exiled from the planet . ( TAS : " The Infinite Vulcan ") Genetic enhancement was also outlawed on Earth, so as to prevent similar conflicts in the future. ( DS9 : " Doctor Bashir, I Presume ")

Soong's Augments [ ]

Malik in 2154

In 2024 , after his failure to create a viable Human being ex nihilo, Adam Soong took an interest in Project Khan which had created the first Augments, an interest which he presumably passed down to his descendants. ( PIC : " Farewell ")

In the 2130s , Arik Soong , senior medical director of Cold Station 12, managed to steal several Augment embryos from the facility, which he took to the Trialas system , where he raised the resulting children as his own. A decade later he was captured by Earth forces, but refused to disclose what had happened to the embryos. ( ENT : " Cold Station 12 ")

In May 2154 the answer to this puzzle was discovered when Soong's Augments, led by Malik , seized control of a Klingon Bird-of-Prey jettisoning its crew into space. ( ENT : " Borderland ")

The Klingons recovered these bodies, and discovering the Human DNA on them, threatened war. Enterprise was launched to the Borderland to find these Augments and bring them back to Earth, and Arik Soong was recruited to assist the ship in doing so.

Unfortunately, Soong managed to escape on Verex III and rejoin his Augments, who then planned to use their Bird-of-Prey to free the thousands of other embryos on Cold Station 12. ( ENT : " Borderland ")

With the help of Soong, Enterprise disabled the Bird-of-Prey, killing most of the Augments. Malik destroyed the ship with the remainder and managed to covertly beam to Enterprise where Captain Jonathan Archer killed him. Soong, who "defected" to Enterprise , decided afterwards to switch his focus to cybernetics . ( ENT : " The Augments ")

See also: The Augment Crisis

Klingon Augments [ ]

A Klingon prisoner infected with the Augment virus

After the Augment crisis, the Klingons attempted to create their own augments to combat the Humans, believing that Humans would place Augments on their ships and put the Klingons at a severe disadvantage, despite Vulcan's assurance that Earth had banned such genetic enhancement decades ago.

They were able to retrieve multiple embryos left over in the debris of the Augment Bird-of-Prey and implemented their DNA in certain Klingons. However, due to the aggressiveness of Augment DNA, the cranial ridges started to dissolve and the Klingon Augments completely lacked ridges on their foreheads.

These subjects did gain increased strength and intelligence, but they died when their neural pathways degraded. Unfortunately, one of the subjects was suffering from Levodian flu , which was modified by the Augment genes to become a deadly, airborne plague that spread throughout the Empire . An early symptom of this plague caused victims to lose the ridges on their foreheads and to look more Human. Other symptoms included irregular heartbeat , chest pain, and tingling in the cranial ridges.

A cure was eventually created by Phlox which halted the virus in the first stage, retaining the changes in appearance but with no enhanced strength, speed, or endurance. This left millions of Klingons without their ridges, an alteration that was even passed on to their children, though it was hoped that one day gene therapy would be developed to reverse the effects. ( ENT : " Affliction ", " Divergence "; DS9 : " Trials and Tribble-ations "; TOS et al. )

The effects of this virus were reversed in at least part of the population by the 2270s . ( Star Trek: The Motion Picture )

Federation Ban on Augmented Beings [ ]

Genetically augmented Illyrian children, seen in classified Starfleet records.

By 2259 , genetically augmented beings of any species were banned from joining Starfleet, due to the dangers posed by the Eugenics Wars . The term "Augment" remained in use as a slur against genetically augmented beings and their descendants, including La'an Noonien-Singh and Illyrians like Una Chin-Riley . ( SNW : " Ghosts of Illyria ")

When Chin-Riley's hidden status as an augmented Illyrian was discovered while serving aboard the Enterprise , she was escorted off the ship to face trial and potential expulsion from Starfleet. ( SNW : " A Quality of Mercy ")

The return of Khan [ ]

Khan Noonien Singh in 2267

The fate of Khan and his Augments remained unknown until 2267 , when the USS Enterprise discovered the SS Botany Bay , a DY-100-class sleeper ship . Aboard the ship was Khan and 72 of his fellow Augments (twelve had died due to stasis unit failure in the interim). At first, the Enterprise crew was unaware of the true identity of Khan, but when it was discovered, Khan attempted to take the ship, though he ultimately failed.

Enterprise commanding officer James T. Kirk generously offered Khan and his followers voluntary exile to the uninhabited class M planet Ceti Alpha V , and Khan accepted. ( TOS : " Space Seed ") Unfortunately, six months later the nearby planet Ceti Alpha VI exploded, causing the orbit of Ceti Alpha V to shift, which devastated the planet's environment. The dominant remaining lifeform was the Ceti eel , which claimed many of Khan's followers.

In 2285 , Khan seized control of the USS Reliant , intending to use it to destroy Kirk in revenge for what had happened to him and his people. In the end, Khan died when Reliant was destroyed by the detonation of the Genesis Device after a heated battle in the Mutara Nebula . ( Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan )

Alternate reality [ ]

In 2258 of the alternate reality , following Nero 's destruction of Vulcan , Admiral Alexander Marcus begun a militarization conspiracy . He sought and discovered Botany Bay , revived Khan Noonien Singh and using his crew as leverage, recruited him into Section 31 . Khan served Marcus under the identity of John Harrison. Marcus believed Khan's savage brilliance was required for an inevitable conflict with the Klingon Empire . In 2259 , after Khan thought Marcus had executed his crew, he went rogue and put his crew inside 72 advanced long-range torpedoes , but these were apprehended by Marcus. The Admiral covertly had them loaded to the USS Enterprise with orders to fire them against Khan, but things went differently. The true nature of the torpedoes was discovered when Leonard McCoy and Carol Marcus attempted to defuse and examine one.

Khan orchestrated a bombing in London and attacked Starfleet Headquarters . He eventually murdered Marcus and crashed the severely damaged USS Vengeance into San Francisco . Spock and Uhura apprehended Khan and, following a revival of Kirk via blood transfusion from his own, he was placed back into suspended animation along with the rest of his crew. ( Star Trek Into Darkness )

Continued repercussions [ ]

Rear Admiral Bennett sentences Richard Bashir to prison for violating eugenics laws, 2373

By 2348 , genetic enhancement was outlawed by the Federation, specifically to prevent a recurrence of the Eugenics Wars and the creation of new Augments like Khan Noonien Singh. Any Federation citizens found guilty of practicing genetic resequencing to augment DNA would face the penalty of prison, and genetically enhanced people were forbidden from joining Starfleet and barred from certain professions in Federation society. ( DS9 : " Doctor Bashir, I Presume ", " Statistical Probabilities ")

In 2373 , it was discovered that Julian Bashir was secretly genetically enhanced as a child by his parents to improve his mental and physical abilities. He was nearly expelled from Starfleet and forced to resign his post as a physician due to his status as a genetically enhanced Human. The Judge Advocate General of Starfleet, Rear Admiral Bennett , presided over a commission convened to determine Bashir's fate. After some deliberation, they made a special exemption for Bashir to remain in Starfleet, but only if his father served prison time for his violation of eugenics laws. ( DS9 : " Doctor Bashir, I Presume ")

Not all genetically augmented beings created in this manner were considered "superhuman". By 2374 , an organization known as the Institute housed and cared for augmented Humans who, like Bashir, may have acquired some enhancements or genetic alterations, but also had considerable mental or physical shortcomings as side effects of the procedure. One such augmented Human, Jack , debated with Bashir over the ethics of how Augments are treated in the 24th century, suggesting that fears over the return of the Eugenics Wars led the Federation to enact a form of prejudicial treatment against them. Bashir pointed out that the fear is not entirely unfounded, as genetically enhanced Humans like them "did try to take over" once before. ( DS9 : " Statistical Probabilities ")

In 2384 , Dal R'El , a purple humanoid of previously unknown origins, went through a biometeric scanner at CR-721 which was able to identify what he was. However, the scanner revealed that it was classified and instructed Dal to report to Starfleet Command . ( PRO : " Asylum ")

Dal later had his DNA analyzed by Dr. Jago while on Noble Isle . The geneticist identified Dal as a Human Augment, the "sloppy" product of Dr. Arik Soong's disciples who also hybridized his base DNA with the genes of 26 other species, such as Organian and Vulcan . Jago was able to use an epigenetic dermal implant to help Dal activate his dormant genes and gain enhanced abilities, but when Dal maximized the implant to deal with a team of Tal Shiar commandos , he inadvertently activated all of his dormant genes at once and destabilized his physiology. Fortunately, Zero was able to remove the implant in time and reverse the changes, although this also caused Dal to lose the enhanced abilities that he had gained. ( PRO : " Masquerade ")

Later, when Gwyndala informed Kathryn Janeway about Dal's dream of joining Starfleet, the vice admiral stated that it would not be allowed because Augments remained banned from entry in the aftermath of the Eugenics Wars. Ultimately, however, Janeway spoke convincingly in favor of Dal's admission into Starfleet, arguing that, along with the fact that he was simply a genetic hybrid and not enhanced, his combined DNA from many Federation species made him an apt embodiment of Federation ideals. As a result, Dal was allowed to join Starfleet as a warrant officer in training. ( PRO : " Mindwalk ", " Supernova, Part 2 ")

Known Augments [ ]

• See: Category: Augments
• See: List of unnamed Augments

Appendices [ ]

Appearances [ ].

The term "Augment" itself was used in the 22nd century episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise and 23rd century in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . The term was both applied to those whose DNA was genetically engineered in the 20th century , as well as their descendants, but could also be used against other genetically modified races like the Illyrians as a pejorative. The following episodes featured Augments:

• TOS : " Space Seed "
• TAS : " The Infinite Vulcan "
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Star Trek Into Darkness
• " Borderland "
• " Cold Station 12 "
• " The Augments "
• " Affliction "
• " Divergence "
• ST : " Ephraim and Dot "
• " Ghosts of Illyria "
• " Ad Astra per Aspera "
• " Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow "
• " Masquerade "
• " Mindwalk "
• " Supernova, Part 1 "
• " Supernova, Part 2 "

Apocrypha [ ]

Prior to the streaming of Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , Greg Cox 's The Eugenics Wars novels depicted the Augments as being created via in vitro fertilization . The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume One states Khan was born in 1970 .

In contrast, the Khan comic book series written by Mike Johnson depicts the Augments as orphaned children who were kidnapped of the streets and subjected to tests, where their genetic code was overwritten by DNA synthesized by their captors. The comic, a tie-in to Star Trek Into Darkness , is closer to the timeframe given by the film for the Augments' date of birth.

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"The Augments" is the sixdth episode of season four of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise and the eighty-second episode of the series overall. Combining the totals of episodes from the entire Star Trek franchise , this is the 710th episode. The episode was directed by LeVar Burton with a script written by Mike Sussman . It first aired on UPN on Friday , November 12th , 2004 .

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• Star Trek: Enterprise was created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga .
• " ENT: The Augments " serves as a shortcut to this page.
• This episode is production code number 40358-82.
• This is the third and final chapter in a three-episode storyline.
• This episode has been made available on disc 22 of the Star Trek: Enterprise: The Complete Series and disc 2 of the Star Trek: Enterprise: The Complete Fourth Season DVD collections.
• Producer Michael Sussman is credited as Mike Sussman in this episode.
• Producer John Farrell is credited as J.P. Farrell in this episode.
• Actor Brent Spiner is given a "Special Guest Star" credit in this episode.
• This is the eighth episode of Star Trek: Enterprise directed by LeVar Burton .
• This is the seventeenth episode of Star Trek: Enterprise written by Mike Sussman .
• This is the second and final appearance of Lokesh . He appeared last in "Cold Station 12" .

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The  Enterprise  crew cautiously pursues Dr. Arik Soong and his superhuman Augments across hostile Klingon space toward a hidden planet where he intends to raise his Augment army. But in defiance of their "father" Soong, Malik devises a heinous plot to use a bioweapon against a Klingon colony planet, undoubtedly leading to interstellar war, to safeguard the Augments from Enterprise and further Starfleet interference. Malik's rash proposal leads to a rift with Soong.

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Star Trek: Enterprise

“The Augments”

Air date: 11/12/2004 Written by Mike Sussman Directed by LeVar Burton

Review by Jamahl Epsicokhan

"How long can we sustain warp 5?" "As long as the captain wants it. Or until we blow up — whichever comes first." — Soong, Trip

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In brief: An unremarkable finale to a trilogy with more potential than the writers end up tapping.

The problem with "The Augments" is the Augments. They just don't seem very bright. More specifically, their leader, Malik, doesn't seem very bright, and the rest of them are supplied no screen time, so they become faceless lemmings willing to follow Malik over a very obvious cliff. As Kirk once said, I'm laughing at the superior intellect.

The lone exception is Persis, who has a conscience and is smart enough to think on her own, but not smart enough to stage her own power play by killing Malik and taking command over the other Augments. Based on what we see of the Augments, there's little reason to believe that they wouldn't be willing to follow Persis as blindly as they follow Malik.

And that's the problem. The crux of the story is reduced to an unremarkable three-character power struggle that is supposed to be a microcosm for the trouble that comes with genetically engineered super-humans, but comes across instead as overly bland and tidy drama. On one hand we have Malik, the crazed lunatic who's willing to kill anyone who stands in his way. On the other hand we have Soong, who wants only to save his "children" and teach them right from wrong. And in the middle we have Persis, who wants to come to the right decision and do the right thing, but doesn't have the prudence to be proactive about it.

Meanwhile, the Enterprise desperately hunts the Augments' Bird of Prey in order to supply the plot with the timeless story device of The Chase.

All of the characters are wearing blinders in their own way (and in the case of Soong, that's the point), but the big problem is that Malik simply seems too stupid. He lashes out and is quick to look for the violent solution to a given problem. This is very obviously going to be his own undoing, but he's too blind to see that. When Soong suggests that the Augments lay low in the Briar Patch so Soong can birth the other Augment embryos, Malik suggests an alternative plan: launch a bio-attack on a Klingon colony that will kill millions of Klingons. His logic: Since humans will be to blame, the Klingons will launch a counterattack on Earth that will "keep Starfleet busy for years." In the meantime, the Augments will be safe from the Klingons and Starfleet.

Please. I for one don't buy it — not unless Starfleet and the Klingons are both equally as stupid as Malik's plan ... which I guess is what the script is betting on. In reality, both the Klingons and Starfleet, even if they went to war (which, by the way, is a completely contrived scenario on the plot's behalf), are still going to be looking for the people who actually did it .

There was a reason Khan gave in to his emotions and threw logic and intelligence out the window: because it was personal. He was obsessed with Kirk and wanted to get even, period. Malik doesn't have that excuse, and his argument that his plan is the best chance of ensuring the Augments' survival is pure idiocy.

Meanwhile, I kept waiting for Soong to just get it over with and throw Malik into a holding cell. Time after time, Malik disobeys Soong, and time after time, Soong lets him off with a sternly worded warning. It's obvious to everyone in the audience that Malik's power play is imminent, and yet Soong sits back and lets it happen. Part of this is admittedly the point; indeed, it's the arc of Soong's character — he doesn't let himself believe Malik will actually take things to such extremes. But with all the warning signs, you'd think Soong would put his foot down once Malik starts whispering plans to murder millions of Klingons in order to incite a war that will kill still millions more.

Eventually, Soong is thrown into a cell, with all the Augments backing Malik except Persis, who pretends to go along with Malik long enough to break Soong out of the cell and get him off the ship in an escape pod. The Enterprise finds and retrieves the pod, at which point Soong explains to Archer the details of Malik's deadly plan, which the Enterprise must now prevent, upping the ante in The Chase. In the midst of The Chase through Klingon space, the Enterprise runs into some Klingon patrols. One of these encounters ends with a rather weak con by Archer that shouldn't be fooling anybody; perhaps, based on this gullibility, the Klingons really are dumb enough to launch a war on Earth if the Augments destroy one of their colonies. In another showdown, Soong tries to reason with the Klingons by speaking in Klingon. I like how he speaks Klingon in an American accent. ("I tried," he says. Reminded me of high school Spanish class, where some of my classmates would use American pronunciation that bordered on laughable.)

Back aboard the Augments' Bird of Prey, Malik suspects Persis of letting Soong out of the holding cell. But of course he should. The question is why Persis didn't anticipate Malik's suspicions and kill him right away, before he even knew Soong had been freed. Surely she had to know Malik would suspect her and probably kill her. If any of these characters were as smart as they're supposed to be, we wouldn't have to sit through so many transparently inevitable scenes. The scene in Malik's quarters that escalates from lazy pillow talk to Persis' death is one of those where you know simply from the demands of the script who must live and who must die, and yet the story goes through the motions as if there were actually any question about it.

The actors do their best. The always reliable Brent Spiner delivers a good performance under the circumstances, considering he has to convince us that he never saw any of this coming. Abby Brammell is effective as Persis, able to look hard-edged in some scenes and vulnerable in others. Her scenes with Soong in particular reveal a humanity that is refreshing after all of Malik's annoying posturing. Alec Newman convincingly creates a character in Malik we dislike because of his arrogance; too bad that the overall dynamics aren't more interesting.

The episode has some nice cross-references with the other Trek outings. My favorite is the way Malik, after the Enterprise 's attack on his ship, stumbles out from under the rubble and confronts a control panel. The writers and director LeVar Burton successfully cite Khan's similar emergence from the rubble on the bridge of the Reliant ; they do this using only visual cues.

But the story ultimately fails to draw us in or understand the plight of the Augments. By making the show completely about Malik and his madness, we don't understand what motivates everyone else. And Soong's arc, while expected, doesn't have enough of the right notes of regret. The episode ends on a note of forced whimsy, in which he decides that cybernetics are the direction he should now apply his brilliant mind. (This, of course, explains how future generations of Soong will eventually invent Data.)

Perhaps this story was simply content to show absolute power corrupting absolutely. Unfortunately, aside from Persis, none of the Augments stop to think about what they're doing or why, and the story of Malik is content to blandly repeat the story of Khan, but without the crucial personal motivator of revenge. I think the writers owed the material more than this.

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You gotta love how Klingons don't have escape pods...unless the plot necessitates it, of course.

Jakob M. Mokoru

I liked this trilogy - it wasn't great but quite good. It's always great to see Brent Spiner and I particularly liked the character of Persis - not (only) for obvious reasons. Yet I wondered why she showed almost everything when she was in her "Augment-Overall" but dressed quite "chastely" when in bed with Malik. Kinda strange, isn't it?

I actually agree with you on pretty much everything for once. Very disappointing trilogy that could have been done awesomely. Personally I hated the ridiculous homage Malik performed to WoK emerging from rubble on the bridge. It was so pedestrian and obvious that I think my groan woke up the neighbours. At this point I was waiting for Malik to start reciting lines from Moby Dick. I might have enjoyed that kind of predictability. I mean if you're gonna copy WoK so obviously why not just go all the way?

Future generations of Soong will go on to create Data? I just assumed that Brent Spiner was playing the same Dr. Soong we've known and loved for years. After all, it's not hard to fathom that the brilliant scientist found a way to keep himself alive all the way to Next Gen's timeframe, where he was clearly depicted as being very old.

Dustin Hatchett

This episode also did one of the things that bugged me about Enterprise (as is blatantly obvious in the screwed up finale). The writers throw in a reference to Insurrection; as if the writers are screaming, “The Briar Patch has always been here, it was not a bad plot device for a lame movie”. P.S. Thank you for doing the reviews as I check out Enterprise on HULU. I am watching episodes I missed due to my local channel moving the shows time every month; half a decade ago. :)

Big question: How does Soong end up having descendants? Are we to guess that Data's creator is a nephew? Considering that Arik Soong viewed the Augments as his children and the other implied events of his life (prison, years in the Borderland, etc.) he can't possibly have biological children, can he? One thing about Enterprise that works here and throughout the series is regular turmoil, but not all-out war, with the Klingons. Enterprise didn't always get continuity right -- and it stretched too much to tie up loose ends here and there -- but the Klingon backstory generally leads well into TOS.

Paul... Making descendants was Step #1 in Soong's cybernetics initiative. If you could've read the paper he started writing at the end of the episode, it said, "Dear Match.com..."

Have to agree, the Augments trilogy didn't come to the best of resolutions. Khan's people deserved more. In my comment of the previous episode I faulted Soong for being short-sighted. He displays similar behaviour here when instead of trying to *convince* Malik & Co. what they're doing is wrong/immoral/has an alternative, he lets things degenerate to a mutiny and then counter-plots to stop Malik *physically* (enlisting Persis's and Enterprise's help). Too little too late, which makes the ultimate (expected) morale of "the teacher has failed" a little harder to swallow for me. Like I said before, perhaps this teacher didn't try hard enough. As for Malik, I can only echo Jammer's comments: for someone superiorly intelligent his decisions are rather perplexing. Yet consider the scene where Soong and Malik discuss the doctor's choice to alter the genetic code of the next generation of embryos, suppressing "aggression" and "violent behaviour". Perhaps the writers wanted to emphasize that in *spite* of his superior intelligence, Malik is genetically predisposed to act violently: he cannot help himself, even it means long-term ramifications his intelligence did not consider and which are ultimately self-defeating. If that is the case, the intent can be commended but the final result isn't very effective. Emotion as a reason for irrational behaviour (as in the case of Khan) works a lot better than DNA. I also agree as far as the rest of the Augments (Persis excluded) are concerned: lemmings blindly following their leader without offering any kind of debate? Bit poor. Some other notes, more of a technical nature: • How the hell did that grappler trick on the Klingon ship work??? "Shearing forces"? I really don't buy it. • Couldn't Archer have beamed the Augments aboard Enterprise before the Klingon ship detonated?? Malik did it! I thought the final scene, foreshadowing the creation of Data, was a nice touch however.

Rewatched this one last night. There are some other logical gaffes: 1) Could an escape pod be jettisoned successfully while a ship is at warp? Wouldn't the shearing forces kill anybody inside and possibly destroy the pod? 2) What's up with the Augments' clothes? I guess the idea is that they're wearing the same things they've worn for years, but wouldn't they also be less well kept (hair cuts, shaving, makeup)? 3) Where did the bed that Malik and Persis use come from? Klingons, famously, don't have beds. 4) I guess the Klingons were cool with Enterprise disabling one of their battle cruisers?

In an attempt to answer Paul's questions above: 1. The escape pod would have residual protection from the warp "bubble". It would "fade" into normal space. So no gravimetric shearing. 2. Chalk this one up to Writer’s License. 3. It's logical to assume that supplies from the Augments' initial planet would be brought aboard the captured "Bird of Prey". 4. Since the Enterprise saved millions of Klingons and possibly averted an interstellar war, their actions would have been deemed "Honrable" by the High Councel. As to the ep: It was entertaining enough to warrant at least 3 stars from me. But it had to be looked upon in context with the entire trilogy.

karatasiospa

i think there were two flaws in the augment trilogy: 1. These were not super humans. They were just thugs. No Khan here. 2. None of the actors that were playing the augments was Ricardo Montalban

Can't really say much that wouldn't be an echo of everything else, so I'll just say.. Archer shot a hole through him! o.o Can't exactly blame him for using maximum setting this time.. I think he'd had enough of Malik just as we all had :P

Thank goodness the Augments are all wiped out. Else we would have to organize a fundraiser to properly clothe them. A nice trilogy, too bad that the Augments were such dumb cardboard characters. Maybe that is the message: superhumans are super in everything, including dumb and destructive. Wasn't there a war about the subject in Trek canon? A good explanation given.

CeeBee: Hah, yeah, their clothes were ridiculous. I don't know whether they were meant to suggest they'd been combat training so much that they'd torn everything, or that they had been so long without supplies that everything was torn, or that they just thought it looked cool, or what. Also rather comical that Persis' underwear is perfectly fine in the second episode's bedroom scene (or "what passes for sex on Star Trek" scene). I don't know about you, but my underwear tends to develop holes/rips a lot sooner than my clothes. So I guess that kills the "no supplies" theory, unless they had some pretty lopsided supplies. (Maybe they ran off to start up "Dr. Arik Soong's Augment Training Camp and Underwear Emporium" or something.)

I also love Malik's questioning/accusations regarding Soong's alterations to the embryos. What right does he have to alter them to be "docile"? The same one the scientists had when they altered them to be strong, smart, etc. Duh. And who's more likely to know what the original scientists did or did not intend for the embryos? One of their fellow scientists, or one of their flawed creations? There isn't even an argument to be had, there. As Jammer's mentioned, for someone who's supposed to be twice as smart as humans, he sure doesn't act it.

Ditto the above question: why are the brilliant augments not-so-brilliant. Brent Spiner shines nicely, though. (I busted a gut during the gag where he's watching the Big Show sway, and finally fall. Watch Spiner's face. Might be worth the whole arc.) Also agree with the disease torture scene, which raised the level of the whole arc.

In short: blah Everything that was subtle about Cold Station 12 is blasted out an airlock here. Malik is back to scene chewing and bad dialogue. Soong and Persis are oblivious. The gotcha ending is so stupid they don't even try to offer an explanation. Where Cold Station 12 offered shades of grey, here we get the Augments are defective and bad. Should we even feel sorry for them, since they never even had a choice but to be evil? Was this even written by the same people? It chronologically comes after the previous episode, but has none of its smarts, character, or logic. Brent Spiner does what he can, but he comes of more like Borderland -- half jokey, slick, and over the top. All of the wonderful drama that came from his character losing his grip on his children seems to evaporate, as this Soong just seems criminally dense and unaware. Soong doesn't seem to be concerned about the glaring warning signs seen in Cold Station 12. There's also no followup to poor, unfortunate Smike. While I generally despise speechification, it's pretty bad when Soong doesn't even try to tell Malik that murder is bad and mass murder is worse. Parenting, is like, hard. What can you do with kids these days? The references here failed for me. When Malik crawls across the bridge of the Reliant, it just reminded me of a better story containing characters I actually cared about. Malik doesn't even have enough substance to be Khan's second in command, much less Khan. The throwaway line about cybernetics also does double disservice -- not only does it remind us about better episodes, but it insinuates that a genius in genetics would know squat about robots. This is ludicrous. Where Cold Station 12 showed all the characters as smart and competent, here they just pull out tricks that are never discussed before or after. Changing the warp signature. Super duper sensors. Pushing the warp drive. Torpedos targeting torpedoes. Archer moving components around to stop the Xindi weapon, sorry, pathogen release. Archer's conversation in faux Klingon. These aren't characters acting smart -- these are contrivances. "Cuz if we find we're in a bind, we just make some sh*t up" indeed. It's bad when the majority of lines for *all* the characters are just to get them from point A to point B. What a disappointment. Cold Station 12 was great, but this episode dumps everything that was good and complex and replaces it with cliche. Malik sums it up several times with his line: There is no other choice. Really? That's all you've got? We have a super genius coming back with a grade school response that any Vulcan would brand as illogical. Trip and T'Pol get a good scene, and Spiner does some good work, but there's no issue or discussion or weight here. It's all stop the bad guys with kewl tricks that ultimately mean nothing.

I was also disappointed by the wrap up of this trilogy. However, watching it, my explanation for the augments to be so dumb is simple. Being smart or very intelligent doesn't mean you can't be stupid and do dumb things. If there's no balance between intelligence and emotions, the result is obviously flawed. In addition, they've been left to themselves at the adolescence, the time when children most need guidance. These augments obviously lacked affection, structure and limits, with only some stories they heard when they were kids: it's easy to twist the stories and become twisted yourself. So obviously, you can't compare Khan to these children. I didn't have a hard time believing that some of them blindly followed a leader, because they are themselves a bit lost. However, I'd have liked to see more reactions like Persis: what made her different ?

I loved the whole trilogy because, finally, this seems like a Star Trek show. Now if only the "Vulcans" would stop being douchebags. As for Malik's behavior: he's only about 20, he grew up from the age of ten without a parental figure, he knows nothing about human beings and so he considers them disposable cannon fodder, he's reckless, certainly, and arrogant enough to think no one can stand in his way. Comapred to Khan he's a kid. And I have to disagree with you about the potential effectiveness of his plan to wipe out the Klingon colony. Consider: the Klingons have nonsensically been chasing Archer--a man who's done nothing but try to help them, up to and including saving their ridiculous Empire from a civil war--for three seasons now, and they have violated Earth's territory and attacked Enterprise to get to him. That's already an act of war. Of course the Klingons would attack Earth if their colony was wiped out. They'd attack Earth if they stubbed their toe. The Klingons on this series have always been stupid thugs, and Mailk is just going by past history. Millions of Klingons dead by human hands (admittedly augmented humans but that would make no difference to the Klingons) and you really think the Klingons would be satisfied with capturing the augments alone, even if they could find them in the briar patch at all? They'd go after Earth with everything they had. Also, we must remember that the augments aren't just human beings who happen to be smarter. They're genetically altered, so asking why Malik consistently attempts violent solutions to problems--essentially, the most efficient means to an end without regard for morality--is like asking why a Doberman is meaner than a cockerspaniel. It's in his nature. Khan was the same way, though he had decades of experience as a ruler of a quarter of the planet to give him insight into the human psyche--insight Malik doesn't have.

Maybe I didn't notice... but how would there be any descendats named Soong when this one is locked up for the rest of his life?

fluffysheap

The Dr. Soong from TNG can't be the same person as this one, as they have different first names, and humans don't live quite long enough. In TNG, McCoy has one foot in the grave, and he hasn't even been born yet at the time of this episode, when Arik is already somewhat old. But considering all the evidence: 1) Arik and Noonien Soong look identical, are both mad geniuses, and both seem to have the same tragic flaw of not quite being able to believe that their "children" could really be evil, 2) Arik doesn't seem to be married or have any biological children, and might be too old for it, 3) Noonien Soong considers Data and Lore his children, and artificial procreation to be completely reasonable for him, 4) The Soongs in general are pretty weird, 5) Arik Soong is a geneticist. I think the best conclusion is that Noonien is a clone. The technology exists in the time period ("Up The Long Ladder") and, even if Arik decides that cybernetics is the way to go in the future, he's not going to just forget all his biology. Given the long lifespans of humans in Trek, Noonien's advanced age in TNG, and Arik Soong's talent for biology (and presumably life-extension), it's possible that Noonien could be a first generation clone of Arik, or maybe there are one or two intermediates. Is there a novel that explores the Soong family tree? If so, what conclusion did it draw about the line from Arik to Noonien?

Ditto to that last comment... That's a novel I'd like to read.

@Marco P. "I thought the final scene, foreshadowing the creation of Data, was a nice touch however." Oh, I hated that. It was at best gilding the lily and at worst "Star Trek for the Irony-Impaired." It was the equivalent of the writers' saying, "See this guy who's played by Brent Spiner and whose last name is Soong? He's an ancestor of the guy who created Data!" Duh. And it didn't even work on another level: I don't believe that "interest in creating artificial life" is something that would be likely to be passed down from one generation to the next -- and certainly not as many generations as exist between Arik and Noonien. One of my great-grandfathers was a cabinetmaker, another one was a peddler, and a third was a butcher -- among the three of them, they have many, many descendants who are my second cousins, none of whom has become a cabinetmaker or a peddler or a butcher, and, BTW, none of whom even knew their great-grandfathers.

I'm glad they touched on this subject in Enterprise, as it feels familiar given the ToS outings (Space Seed and Wrath of Khan). What's interesting is that the Federation maintains its operation to genetic enhancements for over 200 years as evidenced by the Deep Space Nine episodes dealing with Bashir's enhancements. In the Enterprise trilogy, it's mentioned that the Denobulans have got genetic enhancements figured out without any megalomaniac problems. Why can't humans do the same?

The "concentrate on cybernetics" things was silly. Arik Soong didn't have any children. . .. although, that raises the question about Noonien Soong being descended from an Augment?

To echo what Arachnea and Mark said, just because the augments are on paper highly intelligent doesn’t mean they will do smart things. In fact it can potentially mean quite the opposite because of overconfidence, combined with the fact that *intelligence* is not the same as *wisdom* (channelling AD&D here *g*), which they clearly lacked and had no way to gain in their isolated existence. Thus I found it perfectly legitimate to have them be adept at cracking codes and making short-term snap decisions, but make strategic blunders and misjudge how other people think and act. After all, their entire knowledge of human nature came from one single man’s propaganda, Dr. Soong. Meanwhile regarding Arik Soong’s children or the lack thereof, well, he’s a geneticist and perfectly capable of creating a clone of himself. Maybe the later Soong is simply his clone. Or maybe he had a kid that simply wasn’t mentioned and lost contact with that kid. All sorts of plausible explanations. All in all a nice tie-in with the continuity. Meanwhile my favorite moment by far (quite different from the other posters apparently) was Archer’s con of the Klingons, especially the look on his face when he replied to “Q’plah”. Yes, the con itself was kinda weak, but still fun, especially to see Archer figuring out that the way to deal with Klingons is to be just as histrionic and extreme as they are. Ah, the beginnings of a beautiful…relationship. I think two stars is a little harsh myself…I’d give it three. Could have been much better if the augments had been less cartoony and more, well, Montalbany. (Come to think of it, he was pretty damned cartoony, too, but at least he pulled it off magnificently.)

I wonder what Iost 4 made of the total rip-off of TWOK in Into Darkness

When Archer was speaking to the Klingon on the other ship, clearly what was going on was that the Klingon guy's speech was being translated into English and Archer's speech was being translated into Klingonese. Thus it would have been more appropriate for Archer to reply to the Klingon guy's "Q'apla!" with "Success!" than with "Q'apla!" Later in the season the writers address canonically the issue of why post-TOS Klingons have bumpy foreheads and TOS-era Klingons don't. Within this arc, the writers could have slyly addressed another issue by having Soong say, in response to Malik's discussion of Khan, "Noonien . . . I've always liked that name."

Such a sly joke about the names would have been hilarious, but the Enterprise writers were clearly incapable of it, given that they did not get the DS9 joke about the Klingon foreheads.

Diamond Dave

Competent actioner but could have been a lot more. Malik's descent into outright lunacy comes a bit too quickly and is rather unsubtle, and again he fails to live up to Khan as a villain. I thought the nod to WoK when discussing the Botany Bay was good, and the somewhat unsubtle work with Malik on the burning bridge less so. And his resurrection a la Die Hard at the end was a WTF moment that they didn't even try to explain. I thought the nod at the end was a cute touch, but I guess one that I had been expecting all along anyway. 2.5 stars.

Yeah, I don't see why everyone is trying to compare Malik to Khan. Khan was a military commander and ruler of a quarter of the globe. He was older than Malik by at leadt a decade. Malik and his crew on the otherhand were just growing out of teenage-hood (and can any of us say we were rational at that age?) and grew up in a shack in the middle of the woods with no chance to experience human society or interact with anyone that wasn't an augment. Plus all they knew of humanity was that they were supposedly better than the rest of us were. Inflated egos AND teenage tendancies? Forget it.

Temporal Agent Section 31

Canon temporal anomaly note: At 8:18 Malik is discussing that Khan's greatest mistake was running from his enemies. I guess Malik failed to recall with his superior memory one of Kahn's most impassioned statements from "The Wrath of Khan" movie: Kahn; "He tasks me, He tasks me, and I shall have him! I will chase him around the moons of Nibia and round the Antares Maelstrom and round Perdition's flames before I give him up! ". I see no other evidence of Khan running from his enemies. In fact, the complete opposite, it was Khan's personal vendetta against Kirk that was his greatest mistake, not running and hiding from his enemies. Temporal Canon correction needs to be applied to resume correct Canon timeline. Agent section 31 out!

Haha! That's a funny post to make under the moniker "temporal agent" as you've got your chronology mixed up. STII tool place over a hundred years after this episode, and in any case he is referring to Khan and his people going into cryo-freeze and fleeing the Earth in the Botany Bay in the 1990's.

Marshal Dunnik

In a previous episode, it was established that Klingon ships do not have escape pods - anyone with a passing familiarity with them would know why. And yet here we have a Klingon ship with an escape pod. Plot Device > Continuity

Don't know what to say except I'm glad that's over. Jammer nailed it with 'The problem with The Augments is the augments.' Unfortunately for me this is true of the whole trilogy. I didn't find this episode so much worse than last week's that I'd put 1.5 stars between them. Ok, NOW can this season get started properly?

3 boring episodes played out like a Tom & Jerry cartoon, could have been one exciting episode

Not a great conclusion to the 3-part story. I just about had enough of Malik. Yes he comes across as incredibly stupid -- certainly not the incredible villain Khan was. I didn't buy a number of things about "The Augments" -- Soong's character becomes overly sympathetic to his Augments despite the mounting evidence. Can't he finally cut them free? Soong's character weakened for me and became less compelling. The part about the Enterprise's torpedoes catching up to the Klingon bio-torpedo and destroying it is a stretch -- and blowing up in the atmosphere, isn't that what's supposed to be avoided?? The part about Archer duping the Klingons was also a bit silly -- in addition to Malik being portrayed as stupid, so too are the Klingons. And then the Enterprise's grappler basically ripping apart a Klingson ship?? There are enough things that bug me about this episode. Interesting twist at the end with Malik's ship self-destructing but him getting on the Enterprise and trying to kill Soong -- otherwise it would have been a bit too much like WoK (and therefore another strike against it). I'd also rate "The Augments 2 stars -- it's the kind of episode that should at least get to 2.5 stars but there's enough about it that irritates me. It was nice to hear the references to the "Botany Bay" and how Khan's ship just left and was never found. But overall some of the decent character work from the 2nd part weakened and the action scenes weren't particularly -- kind of just going through the motions.

I really dislike the "it's in their nature" conclusion. For one, the story contradicts that by Smike (even without superpowers, he is said to be basically like them) and Seniel. It basically absorbs Arik of any responsibility for how they turned out, we have seen him telling them about how they are the master race since childhood after all. And I think it in a way undermines Khan as a character, to say he's just been engineered to be what he is. Like, I saw the "superior ability breeds superior ambition" from the original episode as just statement about human nature in general. Also, yet more "your can't escape your nature" from Star Trek. Fuck off. Also, AGAIN, complex sympathetic villain seeing the light and being replaced by the second bugfuck evil villain by the end. Is anybody else bothered by this? Am I the only one who even noticed this happening over and over again in Trek?

I know the Augments are smart and all, but being left all alone from the age of 10 on, they would all be pretty stupid 10 years later, with no teachers or role-models or any sort of guidance whatsoever. They'd actually be closer to wild monkeys than people most likely. And who taught them all karate? Soong? lol. I guess they just figured it out themselves. I didn't like the augements the whole trilogy and I like them even less in this one. 2 stars

I see a lot of parallels between the stupid Augments and the stupid crew of the Valiant (DS9). Both groups consist of bright individuals who have been told about their brightness, and they all fail miserably because of overconfidence and lack of experience. Also, both had an anormal upbringing: The Augments spent their first 10 years with only one adult, and then were on their own for another decade. I am sure they studied a lot (books, videos, whatever), but they were still unprepared for the Real World™. The Red Squat cadets had been fast-tracked and elite-educated, but had little contact with other and cultivated a feeling of superiority. They did not know that you may well talk yourself out of an exam question, but can’t do the same in battle situation. The question Nature vs. Nurture comes up a couple of times in this trilogy, but is never really explored. The result is pretty underwhelming: Augments are bad because they are bad. That would of course be OK in SW, but ST should and could do better — see e.g. the DS9 episodes on genetically improved humans.

I agree that the trilogy is held back by the lack of development of the augments as characters. Still, it was entertaining enough that I'd give this story a passing grade (with this episode being the weakest of the three). Brent Spiner's acting is one of the best things about the trilogy. Even with the problems already mentioned (the character never teaches the augments, only preaches rules to them), Spiner is great all the way through. Another thing this trilogy did well is world building. It references all sorts of stuff that were first mentioned elsewhere, but that's mostly for the good. We got a good feel for galactic civilization, with references to Orions, Klingons, Denobulans, and (of course) humans, and how all these races interact with each other. The props, sets, makeup, and special effects teams did a particularly good job with the Orion slave auction & the medical outpost. Two references that I didn't think worked: The imitation of Khan on the floor of his ship at the end of WOK & Soong's reference to artificial people (both for reasons others have mentioned on this thread). This is an early indication of how Enterprise would benefit by spreading stories over multiple episodes. Without that extra time we wouldn't get to explore Spiner's character, nor would we have the time to really investigate the different locales.

Agree with others this augment trilogy was entertaining but flawed. But how can people praise Cold Station 12 yet complaint about this finale for its cardboard characterization? CS12 made it clear Malik was a psychopath, the other augments were going to follow him to whatever end; and that they were going to turn against Soong who did have a moral core. I think the trilogy would have been more interesting if the augments were kick-ass but not evil; that would have been a real conundrum for Archer.

These Augments aren't bright because they are bully teens who think they are smarter and stronger than really are.

Lizzy DataLover

I know these comments are like six years old but, I'm totally working on a novel (series actually) that is all about the Soong family! And it explains all kinds of stuff about them, including the tie ins and things that a couple of these commenters mentioned. Be warned :) they are kind of dark books, coz I got issues-but for anyone who is interested in the *true* origins of Data and Lore and they're ancestors, you will be pleased. Hey it may not be *necessarily* canon but it all depends on what you want to believe. ;) I went thru great effort to make sure the continuity was perfect, and it lined up with already established themes. Hopefully soon enough they will be available for your enjoyment! Just give me a little longer this is tough work. :P

Btw the books are called Datalore. I couldn't resist. Hey what could be more perfect a name?? ;) just thought I'd let you know.

John Daniels

As a whole I like this series but some episodes I just do not like. I feel like the writers can just make up stuff, like the escape pod on the Klingons ship. It seem like whenever Enterprise meets up with a Klingon ship they always get their butts kicked, but now all of a sudden they are so much stronger. When I first started watching I could already tell how it was going to play out, like watching a trainwreck in slow motion. The Klingons are A$$ Holes, I would not mind seeing them get blasted out of the sky along with the other people who abducted t-Pole :) They should have mixed it up and had the Augments outsmart Enterprise and then leave without being able to catch them. That way they could come back later in the series.

Latex Zebra

Having re-watched a fair few episodes of Enteprise during lock down I have come to one conclusion. It really was shit.

I have to agree with many commentators on here and say the biggest problem of this arc is Malik. He was written very 2-dimensionally (maybe 1-dimensionally). Also, the actor just didn’t cut it. Montalban was equal parts menace and charisma, while this guy was about 90/10 in that ratio. I guess you can only do so much with what you’re written. I especially hated the ending part “might take a generation or two...” You know, we get it, writers. I was waiting for him to say something like “the positron is brain would have to store a lot of... data.... yeah, data.” Ugh. Despite those glaring annoyances I’d give this a 2.5, slightly above average. While the execution fell through at the end, the arc does bring up some interesting sci-fi questions, and it was kind of cool seeing Data’s great grandfather, or whatever he is.

I loved the grappler taking out a warp nacelle idea. They actually used their non-tractor-beam old-tech as an advantage! I also loved Archer's con, where he is winging it on the fly. He is learning Klingon culture, mannerisms and politics on the fly. I laughed out aloud at the Q'Plah, and the way Archer looks around for appreciation from his crew. Great thespian he is not, but he seems to have pulled this one off! I always find it interesting when good actors play bad actors. I liked that the bird of prey warp effect matches the bird of prey warp effect in STIV:TVH. Very well done. Finally, I liked the subtle allusion to why the names Noonien Singh and Noonien Soong are similar, a question that I had asked other star trek fans all the way back in the year 2000, and got surprised reactions. The augments remind me of the TOS episode "Miri". Children who grew without supervision. They would produce an ape-like society -- a power hierarchy, as shown in Miri, and as shown in this trilogy. The supreme tragedy is we will never know if the augments would have turned out better with better supervision, the nature v nurture debate left unfinished. Both Erik Soong's presence and his later absence turned out to be not great supervision. An outcast, an egotist an and ideologue, Soong is hardly the model parent. People are understandably upset at the "Meh"-inducing Malik, a cardboard villain if there was ever one. I think the trilogy is better viewed as the supreme tragedy of one Erik Soong's failed attempts at giving augments a second chance. Similar to Jurassic Park's John Hammond.

On the science of exposure to space. It is highly unlikely that Archer’s very brief space encounter would leave him half frozen. Space is a vacuum and devoid of matter, consequently it has no temperature. The only mechanism by which heat can leave a body is through radiative cooling, which would have a negligible effect on Archer’s body temperature in the two seconds he was exposed to space.

Interesting prequel to the eugenics storyline in Trek series and the Wrath of Kahn. Brent Spiner was excellent here playing the role of evil genius with a conscience. His acting alone carried the episodes. I just didn't care enough about this story to warrant 2 episodes, let alone 3. The plot isn't nearly as good as any of the multipart Trek episodes like Best of Both Worlds, and yet endlessly drags on. The interactions between Spiner and the augments becomes tiresome. The whole story could have told in 1 episode. It was a big risk to invest 3 episodes on this story, and they struck out badly.

I think one of the things that made Khan great was that he genuinely came across as a (flawed) genius. These augments mostly act like they're in a high school drama.

Watchable but not great. Not a good follow-up to the middle episode of this arc, which was by far the best.

methane said "Brent Spiner's acting is one of the best things about the trilogy. Even with the problems already mentioned (the character never teaches the augments, only preaches rules to them), Spiner is great all the way through." Good point. He, a mere human, tries to preach to them while simultaneously telling them that they are superior. He really was sowing the wind and I never really noticed that before. I also agree with you about the quality of Spiner's performance. I kind of wish Coto had tried more Trek-centric stunt casting in season 4. I know Shatner asked for too much money, but I can't help but think there are other Trek stars who could have brought some eyes back to Enterprise. Michael Dorn might have worked nicely in Storm Front. George Tekei might have made a good Dr. Lucas. Roxann Dawson would have made a great Captain Hernandez.

Michael Miller

Yeah I also wasn't sure if the space exposure scene was accurate. Since heat has no way to escape via conduction or convection, it has to very slowly radiate away, which wouldn't have frozen him in 2 seconds. As soon as he was in the transporter bean he should have been protected anyway. In that season 1 episode with Temporal agent Daniel's when Silik escaped via the hatch and Archer almost got sucked out, that I felt was inaccurate, once the air was vented he would have passed out in 10-15 seconds from decompression and extreme pressure differentials. He wouldn't be able to just hold his breath like that until the bay repressurized.

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Star Trek Enterprise S 04 E 06 The Augments » Recap

Archer has approached the primary junction in the centre of Cold Station 12. He has forty seconds to divert the power to the secondary relays, so that he can seal off the lab and prevent many dangerous pathogens from infecting the people in there. He succeeds, but he's still in danger. Enterprise can't beam him up due to interference with the central core, so T'Pol gives the order to fire at a hatch to decompress the central core. They do so, and Archer is blown into space and instantly beamed aboard.

The Bird-of-Prey which the Augments stole crosses Klingon space. Soong enters, and Malik updates him, then asks him about the Enterprise , which Malik says is holding its position. Soong claims that Archer isn't "foolish enough" to follow them, but Malik thinks Archer is dead. This makes Soong very angry since he said not to kill anybody without his order, and when Malik tries to justify himself, Soong threatens to throw him into a "targ pit" for a month. He orders Malik to engineering to repair a piece of equipment which the Enterprise crew broke, but Malik is unsure since he isn't an engineer. Soong tells him that he's smart and will figure it out on his own.

Meanwhile, T'Pol has evacuated the away team from the station and removed all signs of infection from Archer. In sickbay, Archer, T'Pol, Phlox, Trip, and Malcolm discuss ways to stop the Augments. Malcolm notes that there are six Klingon patrols that will intercept Enterprise if it follows the stolen Bird-of-Prey, so the crew decides to sneak past by faking a Klingon warp signature. T'Pol reports that Dr. Lucas and his team are returning to Cold Station 12 to clean up the pathogens, which they estimate will take over a year.

On the Bird-of-Prey, Soong plans to take the Augments to an area flooded with supernova radiation, known as "Klach D'kel Brakt" to the Klingons and the "Briar Patch" to the humans. There are at least two habitable planets there, and the radiation would make them hard to find. Malik doesn't want to hide again, but Soong points out that they need to keep the embryos safe. Malik thinks that there's no point in hiding, since Starfleet won't give up until they find them. Soong asks Malik what he would do, but Malik doesn't know; he just points out that Khan also ran away and it ended badly. Soong decides to head for the Briar Patch anyway.

Enterprise prepares to enter Klingon space, with Trip having changed the warp coils to fool the Klingons. Meanwhile, on the Bird-of-Prey, Soong, in his impromptu lab, tells Malik to stop challenging his authority. Malik thinks that a "son" should be allowed to "disagree with his father", but Soong tells Malik that he has to trust his decisions, noting that he used to have faith in him. Malik claims that back then, he was just a naive kid. They begin talking about the embryos, only for Malik to get mad when Soong reveals that he's engineering them to remove any violence. This starts an argument between them because Malik sees it as needless tampering, but Soong sees it as ironing out the mistakes.

A ship approaches, which is revealed to be Enterprise , and Archer readies his torpedoes and orders Soong to drop out of warp or else. They fight for a bit, but Soong doesn't want to fight as the Enterprise is much more powerful than the Bird-of-Prey. He flies it near a gas giant and launches a shuttle piloted by a Denobulan into the atmosphere, saying that the shuttle pilot will be okay but only for the next four or five hours. Thus, Archer lets Soong escape, but tells him it isn't over.

The Enterprise goes to save the Denobulan, while Soong and the Augments do repair work. Malik reveals that he cloaked the warp signature and then tells Soong about the twenty-four canisters of biogenic agents he beamed from Cold Station 12. Soong is shocked and Malik tells him that he can use the biogenic agents to make a bio-weapon. Soong thinks Malik wants to fire it at the Enterprise , but he actually wants to fire it at a Klingon colony called Qu'Vat, thus causing a Klingon/human war. Soong points out that this is mass murder and tries to order Malik back to the bridge, but Malik won't budge.

The Enterprise succeeds in rescuing the Denobulan, then enhances the sensors and finds the Bird-of-Prey. T'Pol talks to Trip, noting that he's been avoiding her since she got married, and he replies that he's adjusting, but that he's proud of her and that due to their species, they'd have made a bad couple anyway. A machine then starts beeping, revealing a subspace disturbance that may be from the Bird-of-Prey.

In bed, Malik tells Persis that he wants to steal command from Soong. She isn't sure, but he says that Soong will "never be one of [them]" and is still angry about Soong's refusal to let him start a war and altering the embryos to make them "weak and docile". He eventually talks her into going along with the mutiny and they and two others lock Soong in his quarters.

A Klingon ship detects Enterprise and Archer tries to trick them by pretending to have Chancellor M'Rek on board for a negotiation with the Orions. The Klingons ask why he doesn't have the transponder on, but he claims he needs to keep a low profile, threatening to make the Klingons work on a garbage scow if they tell their superiors, to which the Klingons leave.

Persis explains to Soong why she went along with Malik: he would have killed her otherwise. Soong understands and says that if Malik deploys the weapons, it will confirm people's biases about Augments and kill a lot of people. He tries to think of a plan to disable a key ship system, but eventually both agree that he needs to get off the Bird-of-Prey, so she sends him off in an escape pod.

The Enterprise picks up the pod's distress beacon and brings it onboard with Soong in it. Archer puts Soong in the brig, where Soong tries to explain why he came back and get Archer to stop Malik. Soong claims that if he had been there when the Augments were teens, Malik wouldn't have gone bad, but Archer believes that "superior ability breeds superior ambition".

Archer decides to believe Soong, who helps them track down the Augments despite T'Pol's concerns that it's a trap. Meanwhile, Malik has found out that Persis helped Soong escape and attacks her, eventually killing her with a knife. T'Pol finds a Klingon battle cruiser, who recognises them as an Earth vessel due to the high speed interfering with the fake warp signature and having heard a hail from them. They, led by a captain named Magh, want to board the ship, believing the Enterprise crew to be malevolent even when Soong tells them in Klingon that they're not. They use the grappler to pull a bit of nacelle off the Klingon ship, disabling it, and then move on.

Malik scans the colony and finds three population centres. He decides to detonate over the southern hemisphere, since that's where two of them are. However, the torpedoes guidance systems wonk out and Enterprise shows up. Unfortunately, he manages to launch the bio-weapon due to problems in the Enterprise 's engines, but thankfully, the Enterprise manages to destroy the weapon.

The Bird-of-Prey fires back and damages all of the Enterprise 's weapons except the aft cannon. Archer wants to fire at the bridge, but Soong points out that the bridge is protected, while the power grid is vulnerable. He tries it, and it works, then Malik explodes the ship, preferring to die than be imprisoned.

Tropes in this episode include:

• Artistic License – Geography : Trip mentions that his parents have moved from Panama City, Florida to Mississippi. This implies that their old home was destroyed in the Xindi attack. However, Panama City is located in the Florida panhandle. The probe's weapon strikes near Lake Okeechobee, which is in the far south of the state.
• Attack Its Weak Point : Soong points out a vulnerable spot on the Bird-of-Prey for Enterprise to target.
• Bittersweet Ending : All the Augments die, and Soong is deeply saddened by their loss. As he's returned to prison, he mentions to Archer that he's going to refocus on cybernetics. The episode ends with him grabbing his paper and pencil, beginning work on an artificial lifeform that he estimates will take a generation or two to finish.
• Malik brings up the SS Botany Bay and its complement of Augments, including Khan Noonien Singh . Soong dismisses the ship as a myth.
• Soong wants to take the Augments to one of the inhabited planets in a nebula he calls "the Briar Patch."
• Soong also mentions that the area is referred to by the Klingons as "Klach D'kel Brakt," which was the site of a major battle between the Klingons and Romulans referenced in " Blood Oath ."
• Soong decides to start the groundwork on an artificial lifeform. His grandson will complete his vision with Data .
• Chekhov's Gun : We'll be seeing Qu'Vat colony again before the season is out.
• Deadpan Snarker : Soong's reaction to a hail from Archer after Malik said that he was dead from the pathogens. "He sounds pretty confident for a dead man."
• Dramatic Irony : Soong decides to establish a new colony with the Augments on one of the planets in the Briar Patch. The Ba'ku would have already settled in the area by this point.
• Trip modifies Enterprise 's warp signature to look like a Klingon ship.
• Malik plans to do this by destroying a Klingon colony, which will then be blamed on the humans.
• Heel–Face Turn : Persis is the only one who does not side with Malik, and is killed for it.
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople) : It turns out that the Briar Patch and Klach D'kel Brakt are the same nebula. Soong says that his choice of name is catchier.
• It Only Works Once : Archer manages to bluff a Klingon patrol. Later, as a result of pushing the engines too fast, they're detected before he has a chance to do this again.
• Living Lie Detector : Malik deduces that Persis helped Soong escape because only four people know the codes for the internal sensors and they were the only two not on the bridge. He then notes that Persis's heart is beating faster, which gives her away.
• The Mutiny : After chafing against Soong's authority, Malik finally seizes control.
• Mythology Gag : The shot of Malik activating the self-destruct is framed in almost the same way as Khan activating the Genesis Device.
• Not Quite Dead : Malik is presumed dead after he self-destructs the Bird-Of-Prey, but he really slipped onto the Enterprise to murder Soong for his betrayal. Archer, a mere human mind you, shoots him dead just before he does.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure : One of the Augments doesn't recognize the name "Briar Patch." Soong replies that he should have read more of the books he left.
• Refuge in Audacity : Archer tells the Klingons that Chancellor M'Rek is on his ship. It actually works.
• Sadistic Choice : To get the Enterprise off his and the Augments' backs, Soong has the Denobulan pilot from the previous episode bundled into a shuttle and launched into the atmosphere of a gas giant. Her craft is left caught between two thermal layers, giving her about four or five hours to live — long enough for Enterprise to rescue her, but they can't do that and chase the Bird-of-Prey at the same time.
• Self-Destruct Mechanism : With the Bird-of-Prey critically damaged, Malik overloads the dilithium matrix.
• Shoot the Bullet : Enterprise destroys the Klingon torpedo with one of her own.
• Thrown Out the Airlock : After isolating the control room from the pathogens, Archer has himself spaced to avoid being infected. Because Space Is Cold , Enterprise beams him up half-frozen.
• Torso with a View : Archer uses a rifle to shoot a small hole straight through Malik.
• Would Hit a Girl : Malik kills Persis with a knife.
• Star Trek Enterprise S 04 E 05 Cold Station 12
• Recap/Star Trek: Enterprise
• Star Trek Enterprise S 04 E 07 The Forge

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• Genetic augmentation in the Star Trek universe is illegal due to the dangerous powers displayed by Khan and his fellow Augments.
• Characters like Dr. Bashir and Number One have faced consequences and discrimination for their genetic enhancements.
• The Klingon Augments inadvertently caused a deadly plague that nearly wiped out the Klingon Empire, highlighting the risks of genetic engineering.

Genetic augmentation is illegal in the Star Trek universe, and the superhuman powers displayed by Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban) and his fellow Augments is a good example of why those laws exist. Star Trek: The Original Series first introduced the concept of the Augments in the classic episode "Space Seed", which introduced Khan as the future nemesis of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner). The product of 20th century genetic engineering, Khan and his fellow Augments ruled the Earth with an iron fist before in-fighting led to the Eugenics Wars and the eventual outlawing of genetic enhancements.

Even after his death in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , Khan Noonien Singh continued to cast a long shadow over Starfleet and the Federation long into the 24th century. The fear of others gaining Khan's superior strength and intelligence have inadvertently punished several Star Trek characters including Dr. Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig) in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Lt. La'an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . Most recently, the USS Enterprise's Number One (Rebecca Romijn) was almost discharged from Starfleet due to the institution's fear of Augments and their considerable superpowers.

RELATED: Strange New Worlds’ Number One Trial Couldn’t Fix Star Trek’s Ban On Augments

10 Khan's Super Strength

When Khan took control of the USS Enterprise, he bragged that he had " five times " the strength of Captain Kirk. Fighting the superman in the Enterprise's engine room, Kirk was unable to defeat Khan in hand-to-hand combat. Instead, Kirk had to use a metal rod to beat Khan into submission. Later, in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , he showed his superior strength once again when he lifted Commander Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig), complete with bulky space suit, clean off the ground on the ravaged surface of Ceti Alpha V. However, Khan used much more of his cunning in his attempts to avenge himself against Captain Kirk.

9 Khan's Intelligence

In "Space Seed", Khan displays his superior intelligence by rapidly absorbing centuries worth of history. This allows him to catch up on everything that's happened since Star Trek 's Eugenics Wars , giving him the information he needs to launch a takeover of the Enterprise. Khan is shown to be a peerless tactician, which is why his Kelvin Timeline counterpart (Benedict Cumberbatch) was tasked with strategizing a war with the Klingons. In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , Khan quickly figures out how to use the USS Reliant and the Genesis device to unleash his vengeance on Kirk, though in his hubris, he failed to predict his own downfall.

8 Dr. Bashir's Intelligence

In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 's "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?" it was revealed that Julian Bashir was genetically enhanced as a child. Worried that "Jules" was falling behind the other kids at school, his parents took him to Adigeon Prime, a planet where DNA resequencing and genetic enhancement were permitted. Thanks to the treatments, Julian's IQ rapidly increased over two weeks, leaving him with superior intelligence. It was later implied that Bashir deliberately got questions wrong while studying medicine at Starfleet Academy to conceal his genetic enhancements from the organization.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 's Dr. Bashir later tried to rehabilitate a group of fellow Augments by offering them a chance to use their own superior intelligence to strategize a potential end to the Dominion War. However, this backfired when the Augments, and Julian himself, realized that the only way to end the war without further bloodshed was to surrender to the Founders. Bashir eventually stopped his fellow Augments from enacting this controversial plan, ultimately leading to the Federation's eventual victory, albeit after extensive loss of life on both sides of the conflict.

7 Dr. Bashir's Coordination

Julian's hand-eye coordination was also vastly improved by the genetic augmentations to his reflexes and vision. This is possibly why Bashir initially considered a career as a tennis ace before he eventually decided to study medicine. While at Starfleet Academy, he was the Captain of the racquetball team, a game he continued to play against his best friend Chief Miles O'Brien (Colm Meaney). Presumably, it was his superior coordination that led his team to win the Sector Championships in Julian's final year at the Academy.

6 Number One's Super Strength

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 1, episode 3, "Ghosts of Illyria" revealed that Number One was genetically enhanced. As an Illyrian, Una was genetically engineered before birth and received further enhancements when she was a child. As it was part of their culture, Number One's trial interrogated Starfleet on their persecution of Illyrians due to their fear of another Khan Noonien Singh. One of the augmentations that Una received enhanced her physical strength, and she was able to carry Hemmer with ease when he fell victim to the contagion that ravaged the Enterprise in "Ghosts of Illyria".

5 Number One's Glowing Powers

Also in "Ghosts of Illyria", it was revealed that Number One could purge contagions from her body with an enhanced immune system. The effect of this purging was a glowing orange light which enabled her to heal herself. Unfortunately, because of the attention that such an ability would draw in a society which hated and feared Augments, Una nearly died from blood poisoning after her leg was broken as a child. It was only in the safety of her family home that she could use her abilities to fix the fracture.

4 Dal R'El's Multiple Abilities

Star Trek: Prodigy 's Dal R'El (Brett Gray) always knew he was different, and it was revealed in the episode "Masquerade" that he was genetically augmented. Engineered by scholars of Dr. Arik Soong (Brent Spiner), Dal contained the genetic code of 26 different Star Trek species. In "Masquerade", Dal's dormant genes were activated by an implant which allowed him to harness the superior abilities of just some of these alien races. He showed psychic abilities, superior agility, and strangely, the ability to produce a slimy blue substance. Dal's physical appearance was also altered, sprouting Spock-style Vulcan ears , a Klingon beard, and Andorian antennae.

3 La'an's Alcohol Tolerance

In the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 premiere, La'an Noonien-Singh subtly hinted at the future revelations about her own genetic enhancements. In an early scene on the planet Cajitar IV, La'an was seen engaging in a drinking competition with Kr'Gogh (Kyle Kass). La'an downed several mugs of Klingon blood wine, without the ill effects that other Humans usually suffer from. Star Trek Into Darkness ' Khan Noonien Singh was also able to tolerate vast quantities of alcohol, so she clearly inherited this from her ancestor. Presumably La'an has other, hitherto unrevealed powers beyond the ability to outdrink Klingons.

2 The Klingon Augments' Plague Powers

Star Trek: Enterprise 's genetically enhanced Klingon variants also gained the superior intelligence and strength of Augments like Khan and Bashir. However, an unfortunate quirk of the augmentation process also allowed them to spread a deadly plague that nearly wiped out the Klingon Empire. The Klingon scientists accidentally enhanced the Lenovian flu carried by one of their subjects, causing the virus to become an airborne plague. Alongside respiratory problems, the plague also caused victims to lose their proud Klingon cranial ridges, a change that provided a canonical explanation for the flat headed Klingons from Star Trek: The Original Series.

1 Malik's Super-Strength And Ruthlessness

Arik Soong believed that Star Trek 's Eugenics Wars were a result of Humanity's inability to use genetic engineering responsibly, and stole a clutch of Augment embryos to prove his point. Sadly, the uprising led by Malik (Alec Newman) against the Klingon Empire cast doubts on Soong's hypothesis. Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) enlisted Soong's help in convincing his Augments not to start a war between Earth and the Klingons. Like Khan Noonien-Singh before him, Malik was incredibly strong, hyper-intelligent and utterly ruthless, meaning that a peaceful solution was never on the cards. After attempting to kill Soong, Malik was shot dead by Captain Archer, and the Federation failed to be convinced of the benefits of creating superhumans for another century.

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