Rate ST:ENT Augments Arc

[Eric R.]

This is something new which I thought was appropriate since it seems to be the standard format accepted for developing and airing Enterprise. For most of us, contrary to the statements of B&B, the idea of using Arcs in a Star Trek series is not new it goes back to TNG in some ways and absolutely bloomed in DS9 and was used to some minor extent in Voyager.

Star Trek: Enterprise
Augments Arc
Aired: October 29, 2004 - November 12, 2004

Episodes:

Borderland
Aired: October 29, 2004
When genetic supermen left over from the Eugenics Wars hijack a Klingon ship, Archer must rely on their creator, the criminal Dr. Arik Soong, to help hunt them down.

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Cold Station 12
Aired: Novemeber 5, 2004
Arik Soong leads his band of Augments to a medical facility where hundreds of genetically enhanced embryos are still stored, intending to retrieve them and bring them to life.

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Augments
Aired: November 12, 2004
In defiance of their "father," Arik Soong's Augments devise a heinous plot against the Klingons which will surely lead to interstellar war.

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[Capt Daniel Hunter]

I rather enjoyed it overall.

And was it just me, or was that D5 somewhat reminiscent of some of the old FASA Klingon designs?

[Eric R.]

You know what? Not till you said it did it hit me why it looked so familir to me. Now I know why.

[Capt Daniel Hunter]

I was actually very surprised by it. I wondered if it was intentional, or just pure coincidence.

I'm going to haul out my old FASA Klingon ship manual and have a little look.

[Space_Cadet]

The D-2 Destroyer?

http://www.sub-odeon.com/stsstcsmua/klingons/D-2.html

[Calcoran]

All right, one last poll to catch up .

So ... I liked this arc. No big surprise, but I thought it was reeeally nicely done. Actually, there's just one thing I've had troubles with (and I had the same problem with Khan in TOS episodes/films):
Augments are better than humans in most aspects. Stronger, more intelligent, better looking (well, for some of them), whatever. And egos the size of a Roman emperor's. So how come they're so docile? Each time we've seen them, there's one leader, and all the others follow his lead like sheeps. When we saw the fight between Malik and his brother, I though "at last they get realistic". But that's all we got. Even when Malik makes strategically or ethically arguable decisions, no augment came to challenge his decisions or to offer some alternative. Sheeps, all of them. Of course, there's Soong's "daughter" (well, the only augment that remained loyal to him) ... but it's not as if she was seeking conflict. She didn't want to kill their leader, but when Malik said "they're all with me now" she just said "oh ok then". She didn't like what Malik was doing, but she got along all the same, instead of trying to get some augments to her side.
Strange. Of course, this is a minor gripe, but I thought in three episode, they'd have found some time to show us a bit what led to the augments defeat in the eugenics war.

Oh, by the way, did I say Soong's "daughter" was hot? .

[Eric R.]

My original reply with some editing (Dec 04)

Well for me the entire thing was very nicely done it was tightly rapped even if it did a few "kooky" things at times and the new characters seemed well constructed and thought out Soong and Malik standing out the most. Too bad they were only around for this arc. The story incorporated a lot of good Trek lore, Khan, The Eugenics War, Orions, cybernetic life forms and Klingons even with a possible explanation for the head ridges! (the Klingons btw need to get some ship designers pronto for Enterprise!)

Over all I give the arc a solid 7, since there still needs to be some work done but the 3 episode arc format seems to be a good fit for the series.

[Capt. K. Vaughn]

I rather enjoyed it overall.

And was it just me, or was that D5 somewhat reminiscent of some of the old FASA Klingon designs?

Yes, it was. Which was nice to see. *grin*

Regards,
CKV.

[Silverstreak]

I gave it a 3, another bad Enterprise episode (no surprise there) but this had the redeming quality of having our good buddy Brent in it.