The Augments (Enterprise episode)

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"The Augments" is the name of the 82nd episode from the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. It is the sixth episode from the fourth season of the series. "The Augments" initially aired on November 12, 2004 on the American television network UPN.

"The Augments" is the third part of a three episode story arc involving the return of Brent Spiner (Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation) as the criminal mastermind Dr. Arik Soong, an ancestor of the scientist who created Data.

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Note: This episode is part of a three episode arc involving the "Augments". To follow the full plot, see the other two episodes of the arc "Borderland", and "Cold Station 12".

Soong finds himself siding with Archer against the Augments.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

After the Augments turn on Soong, Soong escapes to help the Enterprise crew with the help of Persis. The Enterprise crew tries to stop the Augments and T'Pol confronts Trip. Malik stabbed Persis for helping Soong escape and the Augments and their ship are destroyed.

[edit] Trivia

References are made to the Botany Bay and Khan Noonien Singh, which, in the timeline of the Star Trek universe, would later be encountered by Captain Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 in the Star Trek episode, Space Seed.
Arik Soong decides to work on plans for cybernetics, saying it may take "a generation or two", a nod to the work of Noonien Soong, as seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Possibly as a nod to the events in the earlier film, the final moments of the stolen Klingon Bird of Prey mirror those of the USS Reliant in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, although, unlike Khan, Malik would escape the destruction of his stolen vessel (presumeably via transporter).