***
The blow-off to the Augments arc (conveniently named "The Augments") is the most satisfying installment, benefiting from the material that has come before it, which one would hope from any series of episodes.
Prior to this, it should be noted, the only time Star Trek had specifically done a series of three episodes for any one story was at the beginning of Deep Space Nine's second season.
Arik Soong becomes relevant, and his own arc more significant, in the conclusion to a desperate bid to shut down a group of genetic supermen reawakened from the batch that originally gave us Khan. As I've said in previous comments, the whole point of this story is to provide links through the franchise, and Soong is established not only in connection to Khan, but officially to Data as well in the episode. You can imagine a lot of stories to be based on the elements of the Augments arc. Enterprise would itself do one with the Klingons several episodes later.
franchise * series * essential * character
Notable guest-stars:
Brent Spiner
Alec Newman
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Enterprise 4x5 "Cold Station 12"
***
The Augments trilogy begun in "Borderland" continues, and while the whole story is pretty interesting for fans of the franchise (because we revisit the genetic supermen that gave us Khan) and the series (because this whole arc kicks off the way the whole fourth season plays out), the real treat is that "Cold Station 12" finally allows us to meet Phlox's pen pal, Dr. Lucas.
Famously introduced in "Dear Doctor," Lucas is a key part of Enterprise lore. While the whole Augments arc is a tad extraneous to the series (except when revisited several arcs later), it's a little more disheartening that when we finally meet Lucas, it's basically the same thing. That's one of the hidden weaknesses of the season, which even fans who didn't particularly care for the series tended to like because of all the franchise stories, that it tended to disconnect from the rest of what Enterprise had done.
Being a fan of Phlox, I was always on the prowl for more material featuring the good Denobulan, and this was about as close to good Phlox material that the season featured. It's worth a look.
franchise * series * essential * character
Notable guest-stars:
Richard Riehle
Alec Newman
Brent Spiner
Memory Alpha summary.
The Augments trilogy begun in "Borderland" continues, and while the whole story is pretty interesting for fans of the franchise (because we revisit the genetic supermen that gave us Khan) and the series (because this whole arc kicks off the way the whole fourth season plays out), the real treat is that "Cold Station 12" finally allows us to meet Phlox's pen pal, Dr. Lucas.
Famously introduced in "Dear Doctor," Lucas is a key part of Enterprise lore. While the whole Augments arc is a tad extraneous to the series (except when revisited several arcs later), it's a little more disheartening that when we finally meet Lucas, it's basically the same thing. That's one of the hidden weaknesses of the season, which even fans who didn't particularly care for the series tended to like because of all the franchise stories, that it tended to disconnect from the rest of what Enterprise had done.
Being a fan of Phlox, I was always on the prowl for more material featuring the good Denobulan, and this was about as close to good Phlox material that the season featured. It's worth a look.
franchise * series * essential * character
Notable guest-stars:
Richard Riehle
Alec Newman
Brent Spiner
Memory Alpha summary.
Enterprise 4x4 "Borderland"
**
The start of the Augments arc and the way the rest of the season was to unspool, "Borderland" is the moment Enterprise started to play heavily with franchise lore.
(Ha! Not that Lore, but close enough.)
In the first season, the series did a fair bit of this, and also in the second, but not in ways that fans had been expecting when news of the prequel concept first came down the pike (not that Pike!). The fourth season became a totally different experience, building on the heavy arc nature of the third but broken into smaller narratives.
"Borderland" is the first time Star Trek deals directly with the idea of the Eugenics War since "Space Seed" and the famed second movie (Wrath of Khan), though it was a major point in the Deep Space Nine episode "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?" It's a key piece of franchise history, though it's always been shrouded in mystery. The Augments arc, set a hundred years after the late '90s event (there have been many attempts to explain how we lived through something like that, or how the Voyager story "Future's End," set during this time, failed to mention it), deals with protoypical Khans suddenly unleashed, thanks to an ancestor of the man who created Data. (I don't normally reference actors in these capsules, but that's indeed Brent Spiner in these episodes.)
Also the first episode of the season to feature the Orions, but not the last.
franchise * series * essential * character
Notable guest-stars:
Brent Spiner
Alec Newman
Memory Alpha summary.
The start of the Augments arc and the way the rest of the season was to unspool, "Borderland" is the moment Enterprise started to play heavily with franchise lore.
(Ha! Not that Lore, but close enough.)
In the first season, the series did a fair bit of this, and also in the second, but not in ways that fans had been expecting when news of the prequel concept first came down the pike (not that Pike!). The fourth season became a totally different experience, building on the heavy arc nature of the third but broken into smaller narratives.
"Borderland" is the first time Star Trek deals directly with the idea of the Eugenics War since "Space Seed" and the famed second movie (Wrath of Khan), though it was a major point in the Deep Space Nine episode "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?" It's a key piece of franchise history, though it's always been shrouded in mystery. The Augments arc, set a hundred years after the late '90s event (there have been many attempts to explain how we lived through something like that, or how the Voyager story "Future's End," set during this time, failed to mention it), deals with protoypical Khans suddenly unleashed, thanks to an ancestor of the man who created Data. (I don't normally reference actors in these capsules, but that's indeed Brent Spiner in these episodes.)
Also the first episode of the season to feature the Orions, but not the last.
franchise * series * essential * character
Notable guest-stars:
Brent Spiner
Alec Newman
Memory Alpha summary.
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