The Augments
- Episode aired Nov 12, 2004
- TV-PG
- 43m
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7.8/10
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The Augments have yet again escaped. While Dr. Soong wants to hide the embryos, Malik has an entirely different and way more cruel plan.The Augments have yet again escaped. While Dr. Soong wants to hide the embryos, Malik has an entirely different and way more cruel plan.The Augments have yet again escaped. While Dr. Soong wants to hide the embryos, Malik has an entirely different and way more cruel plan.
Jolene
- Cmdr. T'Pol
- (as Jolene Blalock)
J.D. Hall
- Klingon Com Voice
- (voice)
Geneviere Anderson
- Operations Division Ensign
- (uncredited)
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This episode, and the two leading up to it are so clichΓ© they make my head hurt. After many attempts, I was finally starting to enjoy STE, but this writing, and acting makes me furious. Why would AUGMENTS not actually look, act, think, lead, and rule like AUGMENTS? This was the weakest concept I have seen so far in the series.
Conclusion to the trilogy of episodes involving the Augments attempts to realise their ambitions.
I enjoyed this episode and the previous two parts of the trilogy, for it's connections to the Original Series, The Next Generation and the presence of Brent Spiner.
Star Trek Enterprise went massively off track with franchise continuity and this trilogy feels like it's trying to make up for it with a bit of fan service. I found the concept pretty plausible, particularly the actions of Dr Soong. It has a compelling plot that carried me through to the end. Some of it was predictable, but not enough to frustrate me personally.
Character wise I found it a bit hit and miss. Spiner is great as Soong and his involvement in Enterprise for me is quite bittersweet. He does much to lift the charisma levels, but at the same time highlights the short-comings of the regular Enterprise characters. Malik is an okay villain, but I don't think the part was written strongly enough to work as the Khan homage that it tries to be. Also I found Alec Newman to be too baby-faced and one-dimensional when comparing (as is natural) to the presence of Ricardo Montalban.
The ending is fun and should satisfy Star Trek fans who don't take things too seriously.
I enjoyed this episode and the previous two parts of the trilogy, for it's connections to the Original Series, The Next Generation and the presence of Brent Spiner.
Star Trek Enterprise went massively off track with franchise continuity and this trilogy feels like it's trying to make up for it with a bit of fan service. I found the concept pretty plausible, particularly the actions of Dr Soong. It has a compelling plot that carried me through to the end. Some of it was predictable, but not enough to frustrate me personally.
Character wise I found it a bit hit and miss. Spiner is great as Soong and his involvement in Enterprise for me is quite bittersweet. He does much to lift the charisma levels, but at the same time highlights the short-comings of the regular Enterprise characters. Malik is an okay villain, but I don't think the part was written strongly enough to work as the Khan homage that it tries to be. Also I found Alec Newman to be too baby-faced and one-dimensional when comparing (as is natural) to the presence of Ricardo Montalban.
The ending is fun and should satisfy Star Trek fans who don't take things too seriously.
Udar (aka Smike) played by Kaj-Erik Eriksen is missing in this specific cast listing.
For the most part, I loved this version of Star Trek, but this story arc (and this episode in particular) had the worst writing and acting I've seen since the original version.
The Dr. Soong trilogy from "Star Trek: Enterprise" had a lot of promise. Too bad that plot problems make parts 1 and 2 pretty clichΓ©d and annoying. Is this third, and final, episode any better?
Unfortunately, episode three is also filled with odd plot holes which should have been filled. First, the stolen Klingon ship is full of evil, psychotic super-humans who have already murdered and show a STRONG desire to rule the galaxy--and Enterprise has a chance to blow up the ship, they contact these augments and let them take the first shot?! Second, when they are just about to blow up the augment's stolen ship, the augments panic and throw a prisoner onto an escape pod and jettison it--and Enterprise abandons their mission to save the single person in the pod--allowing the psychos to escape! All in all, the humans seem like real potato-heads when dealing with this super- serious threat to mankind. And what is the result? Yup, Malik takes control of the ship away from Soong and plans on a little genocide--releasing a deadly planet-killing virus onto a Klingon colony in order to provoke galactic war! Hello, Captain Archer...think maybe you should have killed these freaks when you had a chance?!?!
On the positive side, lovers of "Paradise Lost" will appreciate the ending! Otherwise a neat idea hindered by indifferent writing.
Unfortunately, episode three is also filled with odd plot holes which should have been filled. First, the stolen Klingon ship is full of evil, psychotic super-humans who have already murdered and show a STRONG desire to rule the galaxy--and Enterprise has a chance to blow up the ship, they contact these augments and let them take the first shot?! Second, when they are just about to blow up the augment's stolen ship, the augments panic and throw a prisoner onto an escape pod and jettison it--and Enterprise abandons their mission to save the single person in the pod--allowing the psychos to escape! All in all, the humans seem like real potato-heads when dealing with this super- serious threat to mankind. And what is the result? Yup, Malik takes control of the ship away from Soong and plans on a little genocide--releasing a deadly planet-killing virus onto a Klingon colony in order to provoke galactic war! Hello, Captain Archer...think maybe you should have killed these freaks when you had a chance?!?!
On the positive side, lovers of "Paradise Lost" will appreciate the ending! Otherwise a neat idea hindered by indifferent writing.
Did you know
- TriviaThis three-part story arc established that in the 22nd century, genetic engineering was completely banned on Earth after the Eugenics Wars, even for genetic research which could be used to cure critical illnesses. At the end of the story, Archer expresses his hope to Dr. Soong that research into genetic engineering that could cure life-threatening diseases would actually be resumed. According to Dr. Bashir in Doctor Bashir, I Presume (1997), by the 24th century genetic engineering was indeed used by that time to treat serious medical conditions, though trying to genetically engineer Humans with "superior" abilities was still banned.
- GoofsThe Universal translator does not translate the Klingon word Qapla' when the Klingon patrol ends the transmission with Enterprise.
- Quotes
Dr. Arik Soong: [Upon hearing a message from Archer, whom Soong was told was dead] He sounds pretty confident for a dead man.
- SoundtracksWhere My Heart Will Take Me
Written by Diane Warren
Performed by Russell Watson
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