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== Summary ==
  
== Summary ==
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In [[2144]], [[Arik Soong]] gives a lecture to his young children, remarking on how [[genetic engineering|genetically engineered]] people like them have been feared by [[Human]]s since the [[Eugenics Wars]] of the [[20th century]]. Young [[Malik]] asks if there are any others like them. Soong remarks that there are – and one day, it will be their duty to free them.
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[[Doctor|Dr.]] [[Arik Soong]] and his [[Augment]] children head to [[Cold Station 12]] to free other embryos following his escape from the custody of the [[starship]] [[Enterprise (NX-01)|''Enterprise'']].
  
   
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[[2154|Eleven years later]], Dr. Soong and his grown [[Augment]] children head to [[Cold Station 12]] aboard a [[Klingon Bird-of-Prey (22nd century)|Klingon Bird-of-Prey]] to free other embryos following [[Borderland (episode)|his escape]] from the custody of the [[starship]] {{NX|Enterprise}}.
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Meanwhile, the only clues given to ''Enterprise'' were the coordinates Soong last gave them, so they follow them. They arrive at [[Trialas IV]], the settlement where Soong raised his children, where there is only one person: [[Udar]]. He was left there about one year ago by his brethren because he was not as strong and intelligent as the others.
  
   
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:"''[[Captain's starlog]], supplemental. Dr. Soong and his Augments have escaped on a Klingon Bird-of-Prey. Without any other leads, we've proceeded to the coordinates Soong gave us when we began this mission.''"
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[[Captain]] [[Jonathan Archer]] then receives new orders from [[Starfleet]]. He learns that there were about 1,800 other embryos kept at Cold Station 12 and, since Soong is probably headed that way, Archer is given orders to stop him, using whatever force is necessary.
  
   
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''Enterprise'' arrives at the [[planet]] [[Trialas IV]], the settlement where Soong raised his children. Upon entering the structure, [[Commander]] [[Charles Tucker III|Tucker]] finds that some [[medical equipment]] from the settlement has been taken. [[Captain]] [[Jonathan Archer]] orders him to find out what exactly was removed. Meanwhile, [[Lieutenant]] [[Malcolm Reed|Reed]] and a detachment of [[MACO]]s search the settlement, they discover there is only one person: [[Udar]]. After he tries to escape with a [[knife]] in his hand, Captain Archer punches Udar, knocking him out.
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After formulating a plan to get the embryos, the Augments then hijack a [[Denobulan]] [[Denobulan medical ship|medical ship]], and easily take control of the station without killing anyone (as Soong wished). Things get a little uglier when Soong realizes that [[Jeremy Lucas]], the senior medical director, will not give up the code that unlocks the embryo chamber, even at the expense of his people or his own life. Soong is not able to go through with his threat, which raises tension between [[Malik]] and Soong.
  
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Aboard the Bird-of-Prey, Soong is looking at a [[PADD]] that was kept by [[Raakin]]. He remembers him as a bright young man, very interested in [[astronomy]]. He asks Malik where Raakin is noting that none of the other augments is willing or able to provide any information, and Malik tells Soong that Raakin is dead. Malik admits to killing him, in what he claims was self-defense, in a confrontation in a [[corridor]]. He begins to get emotional and Soong, enraged by this news, grabs Malik and pushes him against the wall. Malik tearfully apologizes to his father for the killing and Soong forgives him, telling Malik that maybe, if he had been there for his "children", things would have been different.
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Captain Archer talks to Udar in [[sickbay]]. Udar, who had been left behind because for some reason did not have the same physical or intellectual gifts as his "siblings",refuses to tell the captain where his "brothers" and "sisters" are headed; only that ''Enterprise'' will not be able to stop them. Just then, Tucker contacts Archer and tells him that the medical equipment that was missing from the settlement were [[incubator]]s – artificial wombs. Archer then receives new orders from [[Starfleet]]. He learns that there were over 1,800 other embryos kept at Cold Station 12 and, since Soong is probably headed that way, Archer is given orders by [[Admiral]] [[Maxwell Forrest|Forrest]] to stop him, using whatever force is necessary.
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After formulating a plan to get the embryos, the Augments then hijack a [[Denobulan]] [[Denobulan medical ship|medical ship]], the ''[[Barzai]]'', and easily take control of the station without killing anyone (as Soong wished). Upon breaking into Cold Station 12, things get a little uglier when Soong realizes that [[Jeremy Lucas]], the station's senior medical director, will not give up the code that unlocks the embryo chamber, even at the expense of his people or his own life. Malik shoves the station's [[Cold Station 12 personnel#Deputy Director|Deputy Director]] into a tube and has him exposed to [[Symbalene blood burn]]. The Deputy Director dies a horrible [[death]], while Lucas and his colleagues stand by, helplessly watching. Soong was almost desperate at Lucas for his continued lack of cooperation, clearly uncomfortable with the use of torture to achieve his goals. In fact, Soong had tried to stop the torture, possibly preventing the Deputy Director's [[murder]], but Malik openly defied him, continuing to raise tension between himself and Soong.
   
 
[[File:Cold Station 12 asteroid.jpg|thumb|[[Cold Station 12]]]]
  
[[File:Cold Station 12 asteroid.jpg|thumb|[[Cold Station 12]]]]
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The ''Enterprise'' then arrives at the station and, after not being allowed to approach, is able to [[transport]] a team to the station before backing off. However, the team is no match for the Augments and they are easily detected and captured. Nevertheless, Archer is still able to give a final order to [[T'Pol]]: activate the station auto-destruct sequence as Starfleet ordered. The security measure is quickly disabled, thanks to the hacking skills of one of the Augments. The ''Enterprise'' has to then proceed to destroy the station manually.
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''Enterprise'' then arrives at the station and, after not being allowed to approach, is able to [[transport]] a team to the station before backing off and moving out of transporter range. However, the team is no match for the Augments and they are easily detected and captured. Nevertheless, Archer is still able to give a final order to [[T'Pol]]: activate the station auto-destruct sequence as Starfleet ordered. The security measure is quickly disabled, thanks to the hacking skills of [[Lokesh|one of the Augments]]. ''Enterprise'' has to then proceed to destroy the station manually.
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Realizing the friendship between Dr. [[Phlox]] and Lucas, Malik decides to take things into his hands as he openly defies his father and proceeds to expose the [[Denobulan]] doctor to one of the various pathogens studied on the station. Understanding now that the augments are not bluffing, Lucas reveals the code and the Augments are finally able to steal the embryos and get away before the ''Enterprise'', which is busy with the Klingon Bird-of-Prey, destroys the station.
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In the last minutes before the Augments leave, Malik clearly shows sadistic tendencies and little regard for his father's wishes. He beats Archer badly, decides to take some virulent pathogens to the Klingon vessel, and programs a [[antimatter containment|containment breach]] that will release all the pathogens stored on the station – killing everyone there. He also kills Udar, with the excuse that it is to spare his brother a horrible death. T'Pol tries to disable the ''Barzai'' with Soong and his Augments aboard, but the Denobulan shuttle is able to dock with the Bird-of-Prey quickly and it immediately jumps to warp.
   
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After Lucas tells Archer how he can stop the breach, he then runs to the primary junction at Cold Station 12 where it can be averted but he has less than four minutes left...
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Realizing the friendship between Dr. [[Phlox]] and Lucas, Malik decides to take things into his hands as he openly defies his father and proceeds to expose the [[Denobulan]] doctor to one of the various pathogens studied on the station. Understanding he is not bluffing, Lucas reveals the code and the Augments are finally able to steal the embryos and get away before the ''Enterprise'', which is busy with a [[Klingon Bird-of-Prey (22nd century)|Bird-of-Prey]], destroys the station.
 
   
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'''[[The Augments (episode)|TO BE CONTINUED]]'''
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In the last minutes of the episode, Malik clearly shows sadistic tendencies and little regard for his father's wishes. He beats Archer badly, decides to take some virulent pathogens, and programs a [[antimatter containment|containment breach]] that will release all the pathogens stored on the station – killing everyone there. He also kills Udar, with the excuse that it is to spare his brother a horrible death.
  
   
 
== Memorable quotes ==
  
== Memorable quotes ==
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"''You aren't Denobulan.''"
  
"''You aren't Denobulan.''"
 
: - '''Starfleet security officer''' and '''Persis'''
  
: - '''Starfleet security officer''' and '''Persis'''
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"''That language is unbecoming of a man of science.''"
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: - '''Arik Soong''' when Jeremy Lucas curses at him under his breath
   
   
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"''They lied to you.''"
  
"''They lied to you.''"
 
: - '''Arik Soong''', '''Udar''', and '''Jonathan Archer'''
  
: - '''Arik Soong''', '''Udar''', and '''Jonathan Archer'''
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"''It was Raakin's order.''"<br />
  
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"What ''was?!''"<br />
  
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"''Banish him.''"<br />
  
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"''Why?!''"<br />
  
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"''He wasn't strong enough...''"<br />
  
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(Horrified) "''You ''all ''went along with this?!''"
  
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: - '''Malik''' and '''Arik Soong'''
  
   
   
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: - '''Jonathan Archer''', to Soong
  
: - '''Jonathan Archer''', to Soong
   
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== Background Information ==
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== Background information ==
 
[[File:Background performers, Cold Station 12.jpg|thumb|Four background performers on set]]
  
[[File:Background performers, Cold Station 12.jpg|thumb|Four background performers on set]]
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* At one point, it is said that there are a ''few hundred thousand'' possible combinations for the ''hexadecimal password''. However, when Lucas finally reveals it, we see on the screen that it is composed of 16 characters, meaning that there were in fact about 1.8&nbsp;*&nbsp;10<sup>19</sup> (=&nbsp;16<sup>16</sup>) or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (about 18.4 quintillion) possibilities. Note that the Augments may have understood the workings of the encryption algorithms and thus able to reduce the number of possibilities from its mathematical limit.
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* At one point, it is said that there are a ''few hundred thousand'' possible combinations for the ''hexadecimal password''. However, when Lucas finally reveals it, we see on the screen that it is composed of 16 characters, meaning that there were in fact about 1.8{{exp|19}} (=&nbsp;16<sup>16</sup>) or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (about 18.4 quintillion) possibilities.
 
* On the surface of Trialas IV, where Soong raised the Augments, there was a large device composed of two long glowing red tubes. This device has been seen in many places on [[TNG]], [[DS9]], and [[VOY]], including, most interestingly, in Doctor [[Noonian Soong]]'s lab in {{TNG|Datalore}}. It is also seen in the control room of [[Cold Station 12]], but with blue lights rather than red. The device was first seen in {{film|2}} on the space laboratory [[Regula I]].
  
* On the surface of Trialas IV, where Soong raised the Augments, there was a large device composed of two long glowing red tubes. This device has been seen in many places on [[TNG]], [[DS9]], and [[VOY]], including, most interestingly, in Doctor [[Noonian Soong]]'s lab in {{TNG|Datalore}}. It is also seen in the control room of [[Cold Station 12]], but with blue lights rather than red. The device was first seen in {{film|2}} on the space laboratory [[Regula I]].
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* While Udar's mother was stated to have been an Olympic decathlete, in reality women's decathlon is not, and never has been, an Olympic event (yet).
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* Udar's mother was stated to have been an Olympic decathlete, implying that, though not currently an Olympic event, a women's decathlon will be added to the Olympics sometime prior to the Eugenics War.
 
* When this episode was aired in the United Kingdom, broadcaster Channel 4 edited out some of the more violent scenes, including the part where Doctor Lucas gets tortured, and the close-up of the scientist being killed by the virus.
  
* When this episode was aired in the United Kingdom, broadcaster Channel 4 edited out some of the more violent scenes, including the part where Doctor Lucas gets tortured, and the close-up of the scientist being killed by the virus.
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* The lethal diseases mentioned as being stored in Cold Station 12 in this episode are references to various (fictional) diseases which have been mentioned on previous Star Trek series, including [[Xenopolycythemia]], [[Anchilles fever]], [[Synthococcus novae]] Type A, [[Rigelian fever]] and [[Telurian plague]].
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* The lethal diseases mentioned as being stored in Cold Station 12 in this episode are references to various (fictional) diseases which have been mentioned on previous ''Star Trek'' series, including [[xenopolycythemia]], [[Anchilles fever]], ''[[synthococcus novae]]'' type A, [[Rigelian fever]], and [[Telurian plague]].
 
* This episode received an [[Emmy Award]] nomination for Outstanding Stunt Coordination by [[Vince Deadrick, Jr.]]
  
* This episode received an [[Emmy Award]] nomination for Outstanding Stunt Coordination by [[Vince Deadrick, Jr.]]
 
* Several props and costumes from this episode were sold off on the [[It's A Wrap! sale and auction]] on eBay, including [[Richard Riehle]]'s lab coat {{stala|9414}} and Dr. Soong's lesson [[PADD]]. {{stala|9549}}
  
* Several props and costumes from this episode were sold off on the [[It's A Wrap! sale and auction]] on eBay, including [[Richard Riehle]]'s lab coat {{stala|9414}} and Dr. Soong's lesson [[PADD]]. {{stala|9549}}
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*[[Connor Trinneer]] as [[Commander]] [[Charles Tucker III|Charles "Trip" Tucker III]]
  
*[[Connor Trinneer]] as [[Commander]] [[Charles Tucker III|Charles "Trip" Tucker III]]
   
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=== Guest Stars ===
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=== Guest stars ===
 
*[[Alec Newman]] as [[Malik]]
  
*[[Alec Newman]] as [[Malik]]
 
*[[Abby Brammell]] as [[Persis]]
  
*[[Abby Brammell]] as [[Persis]]
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*[[Adam Grimes]] as [[Lokesh]]
  
*[[Adam Grimes]] as [[Lokesh]]
   
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=== Special Guest Star ===
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=== Special guest star ===
 
*[[Brent Spiner]] as [[Arik Soong]]
  
*[[Brent Spiner]] as [[Arik Soong]]
   
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=== Co-Stars ===
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=== Co-stars ===
 
*[[Amy Wieczorek]] as [[Unnamed Denobulans#Barzai pilot|Female Pilot]]
  
*[[Amy Wieczorek]] as [[Unnamed Denobulans#Barzai pilot|Female Pilot]]
 
*[[Jordan Orr]] as [[Malik|Young Malik]]
  
*[[Jordan Orr]] as [[Malik|Young Malik]]
 
*[[Kevin Foster]] as [[Cold Station 12 personnel#Security Guard #1|Security Guard #1]]
  
*[[Kevin Foster]] as [[Cold Station 12 personnel#Security Guard #1|Security Guard #1]]
   
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=== Uncredited Co-Stars ===
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=== Uncredited co-stars ===
 
*[[Jorge Benevides]] as [[Private]] [[R. Azar]]
  
*[[Jorge Benevides]] as [[Private]] [[R. Azar]]
 
*[[Nathan Bowers]] as [[Raakin|Young Raakin]]
  
*[[Nathan Bowers]] as [[Raakin|Young Raakin]]
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*[[Macarena Lovemore]] as a Starfleet officer
  
*[[Macarena Lovemore]] as a Starfleet officer
 
*[[Andrew MacBeth]] as [[Private]] [[E. Hamboyan]]
  
*[[Andrew MacBeth]] as [[Private]] [[E. Hamboyan]]
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*[[Tonya Olivarez]] as [[Unnamed Augments#Augment children|Augment child]]
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*[[Tonya Olivarez]] as an [[Unnamed Augments#Augment children|Augment child]]
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*[[Chandler Taylor]] as [[Unnamed Augments#Augment children|Augment child]]
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*[[Chandler Taylor]] as an [[Unnamed Augments#Augment children|Augment child]]
 
*[[Violetta Torres]] as [[Unnamed Augments#Female Augment child|Augment child]]
  
*[[Violetta Torres]] as [[Unnamed Augments#Female Augment child|Augment child]]
 
*[[Unknown actor]] as a [[Unnamed Denobulans#Cold Station 12 scientists|Denobulan doctor]]
  
*[[Unknown actor]] as a [[Unnamed Denobulans#Cold Station 12 scientists|Denobulan doctor]]
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=== References ===
  
=== References ===
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[[47]]; [[Anchilles fever]]; [[Andronesian encephalitis]]; [[Henry Archer|Archer, Henry]]; [[Augment]]s; ''[[Barzai]]''; [[brain]]; [[capillary]]; [[Clarke's Syndrome]]; [[code black]]; [[Cold Station 12]]; ''[[Corsair]]''; [[decathlon]]; [[delta radiation]]; [[Denobula]]; [[Denobulan]]s; [[Denobulan medical ship]]; [[Earth]]; [[Earth]] [[Starfleet]]; [[Eugenics Wars]]; [[feedback pulse]]; [[Maxwell Forrest|Forrest, Maxwell]]; [[geophysics]]; [[incubator]]; [[Irina Karlovassi|Karlovassi, Irina]]; [[Miklos Karlovassi|Karlovassi, Miklos]]; [[Klingon Bird-of-Prey (22nd century)|Klingon Bird-of-Prey]]; ''[[Nicholas Nickleby]]''; [[Olympics]]; [[protein resequencer]]; [[Raakin]]; [[Rigelian fever]]; [[silver medal]]; [[Symbalene blood burn]]; [[Synthococcus novae]]; [[Telurian plague]]; [[water purifier]]; [[Xenopolycythemia]]; [[Yavar]]
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[[47]]; [[Anchilles fever]]; [[Andronesian encephalitis]]; [[Henry Archer|Archer, Henry]]; [[Augment]]s; ''[[Barzai]]''; [[brain]]; [[capillary]]; [[Clarke's Syndrome]]; [[code black]]; [[Cold Station 12]]; ''[[Corsair]]''; [[decathlon]]; [[delta radiation]]; [[Denobula]]; [[Denobulan]]s; [[Denobulan medical ship]]; [[Earth]]; [[Earth]] [[Starfleet]]; [[Eugenics Wars]]; [[feedback pulse]]; [[Maxwell Forrest|Forrest, Maxwell]]; [[geophysics]]; [[incubator]]; [[Irina Karlovassi|Karlovassi, Irina]]; [[Miklos Karlovassi|Karlovassi, Miklos]]; [[kilometer]]; {{dis|Klingon Bird-of-Prey|22nd century}}; ''[[Nicholas Nickleby]]''; [[Olympics]]; [[protein resequencer]]; [[quantum level]]; [[Raakin]]; [[Rigelian fever]]; [[silver medal]]; [[Symbalene blood burn]]; ''[[synthococcus novae]]''; [[Telurian plague]]; [[water purifier]]; [[xenopolycythemia]]; [[Yavar]]
   
 
{{ENT nav|season=4|last={{e|Borderland}}|next={{e|The Augments}}}}
  
{{ENT nav|season=4|last={{e|Borderland}}|next={{e|The Augments}}}}
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Soong's Augments take control of a medical facility containing more augment embryos and several dangerous diseases.
(Part 2 of 3)

Summary

In 2144, Arik Soong gives a lecture to his young children, remarking on how genetically engineered people like them have been feared by Humans since the Eugenics Wars of the 20th century. Young Malik asks if there are any others like them. Soong remarks that there are – and one day, it will be their duty to free them.

Eleven years later, Dr. Soong and his grown Augment children head to Cold Station 12 aboard a Klingon Bird-of-Prey to free other embryos following his escape from the custody of the starship Enterprise.

"Captain's starlog, supplemental. Dr. Soong and his Augments have escaped on a Klingon Bird-of-Prey. Without any other leads, we've proceeded to the coordinates Soong gave us when we began this mission."

Enterprise arrives at the planet Trialas IV, the settlement where Soong raised his children. Upon entering the structure, Commander Tucker finds that some medical equipment from the settlement has been taken. Captain Jonathan Archer orders him to find out what exactly was removed. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Reed and a detachment of MACOs search the settlement, they discover there is only one person: Udar. After he tries to escape with a knife in his hand, Captain Archer punches Udar, knocking him out.

Aboard the Bird-of-Prey, Soong is looking at a PADD that was kept by Raakin. He remembers him as a bright young man, very interested in astronomy. He asks Malik where Raakin is noting that none of the other augments is willing or able to provide any information, and Malik tells Soong that Raakin is dead. Malik admits to killing him, in what he claims was self-defense, in a confrontation in a corridor. He begins to get emotional and Soong, enraged by this news, grabs Malik and pushes him against the wall. Malik tearfully apologizes to his father for the killing and Soong forgives him, telling Malik that maybe, if he had been there for his "children", things would have been different.

Captain Archer talks to Udar in sickbay. Udar, who had been left behind because for some reason did not have the same physical or intellectual gifts as his "siblings",refuses to tell the captain where his "brothers" and "sisters" are headed; only that Enterprise will not be able to stop them. Just then, Tucker contacts Archer and tells him that the medical equipment that was missing from the settlement were incubators – artificial wombs. Archer then receives new orders from Starfleet. He learns that there were over 1,800 other embryos kept at Cold Station 12 and, since Soong is probably headed that way, Archer is given orders by Admiral Forrest to stop him, using whatever force is necessary.

After formulating a plan to get the embryos, the Augments then hijack a Denobulan medical ship, the Barzai, and easily take control of the station without killing anyone (as Soong wished). Upon breaking into Cold Station 12, things get a little uglier when Soong realizes that Jeremy Lucas, the station's senior medical director, will not give up the code that unlocks the embryo chamber, even at the expense of his people or his own life. Malik shoves the station's Deputy Director into a tube and has him exposed to Symbalene blood burn. The Deputy Director dies a horrible death, while Lucas and his colleagues stand by, helplessly watching. Soong was almost desperate at Lucas for his continued lack of cooperation, clearly uncomfortable with the use of torture to achieve his goals. In fact, Soong had tried to stop the torture, possibly preventing the Deputy Director's murder, but Malik openly defied him, continuing to raise tension between himself and Soong.

Cold Station 12 asteroid

Cold Station 12

Enterprise then arrives at the station and, after not being allowed to approach, is able to transport a team to the station before backing off and moving out of transporter range. However, the team is no match for the Augments and they are easily detected and captured. Nevertheless, Archer is still able to give a final order to T'Pol: activate the station auto-destruct sequence as Starfleet ordered. The security measure is quickly disabled, thanks to the hacking skills of one of the Augments. Enterprise has to then proceed to destroy the station manually.

Realizing the friendship between Dr. Phlox and Lucas, Malik decides to take things into his hands as he openly defies his father and proceeds to expose the Denobulan doctor to one of the various pathogens studied on the station. Understanding now that the augments are not bluffing, Lucas reveals the code and the Augments are finally able to steal the embryos and get away before the Enterprise, which is busy with the Klingon Bird-of-Prey, destroys the station.

In the last minutes before the Augments leave, Malik clearly shows sadistic tendencies and little regard for his father's wishes. He beats Archer badly, decides to take some virulent pathogens to the Klingon vessel, and programs a containment breach that will release all the pathogens stored on the station – killing everyone there. He also kills Udar, with the excuse that it is to spare his brother a horrible death. T'Pol tries to disable the Barzai with Soong and his Augments aboard, but the Denobulan shuttle is able to dock with the Bird-of-Prey quickly and it immediately jumps to warp.

After Lucas tells Archer how he can stop the breach, he then runs to the primary junction at Cold Station 12 where it can be averted but he has less than four minutes left...

TO BE CONTINUED

Memorable quotes

"You son-of-a-bitch!"
"Actually, mother was a chemist."

- Jeremy Lucas and Arik Soong


"Why are you flying a Denobulan shuttle?"
"Why not?"
"You aren't Denobulan."

- Starfleet security officer and Persis


"That language is unbecoming of a man of science."

- Arik Soong when Jeremy Lucas curses at him under his breath


"Am I going to spend the rest of my life trying to get rid of you?
"You're going to spend the rest of your life in prison."

- Arik Soong and Jonathan Archer


"Udar?!"
"Father?!"
("Father" and "son", reunited, engage in a heartfelt embrace) "They told me you were dead, that...that...that...that you were sick..."
"They lied to you."

- Arik Soong, Udar, and Jonathan Archer


"Whenever a group of people start believing they are better than everyone else, the results are always the same."

- Jonathan Archer, to Soong

Background information

Background performers, Cold Station 12

Four background performers on set

  • At one point, it is said that there are a few hundred thousand possible combinations for the hexadecimal password. However, when Lucas finally reveals it, we see on the screen that it is composed of 16 characters, meaning that there were in fact about 1.8e19×1019 (= 1616) or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (about 18.4 quintillion) possibilities.
  • On the surface of Trialas IV, where Soong raised the Augments, there was a large device composed of two long glowing red tubes. This device has been seen in many places on TNG, DS9, and VOY, including, most interestingly, in Doctor Noonian Soong's lab in TNG: "Datalore". It is also seen in the control room of Cold Station 12, but with blue lights rather than red. The device was first seen in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan on the space laboratory Regula I.
  • Udar's mother was stated to have been an Olympic decathlete, implying that, though not currently an Olympic event, a women's decathlon will be added to the Olympics sometime prior to the Eugenics War.
  • When this episode was aired in the United Kingdom, broadcaster Channel 4 edited out some of the more violent scenes, including the part where Doctor Lucas gets tortured, and the close-up of the scientist being killed by the virus.
  • The lethal diseases mentioned as being stored in Cold Station 12 in this episode are references to various (fictional) diseases which have been mentioned on previous Star Trek series, including xenopolycythemia, Anchilles fever, synthococcus novae type A, Rigelian fever, and Telurian plague.
  • This episode received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Stunt Coordination by Vince Deadrick, Jr.
  • Several props and costumes from this episode were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including Richard Riehle's lab coat [1] and Dr. Soong's lesson PADD. [2]

Links and references

Starring

Guest stars

Special guest star

Co-stars

Uncredited co-stars

Stunt doubles

References

47; Anchilles fever; Andronesian encephalitis; Archer, Henry; Augments; Barzai; brain; capillary; Clarke's Syndrome; code black; Cold Station 12; Corsair; decathlon; delta radiation; Denobula; Denobulans; Denobulan medical ship; Earth; Earth Starfleet; Eugenics Wars; feedback pulse; Forrest, Maxwell; geophysics; incubator; Karlovassi, Irina; Karlovassi, Miklos; kilometer; Klingon Bird-of-Prey; Nicholas Nickleby; Olympics; protein resequencer; quantum level; Raakin; Rigelian fever; silver medal; Symbalene blood burn; synthococcus novae; Telurian plague; water purifier; xenopolycythemia; Yavar

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