HOK loves Star Trek

... working with Brent Spiner again. Both were main cast members on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

5/5

... A clear nod to the android Data, a main cast character in TNG, who was built by one of Soong’s descendants.

#StarTrekFunFact
On the final day of shooting, director LeVar Burton reportedly bought lunch for the whole set as a thank-you to the long-running Trek crew and to mark
4/...

... Archer pretends to be a Klingon on the comm, just as the Enterprise bridge crew will do in the sixth Star Trek movie.

The ending shows how Soong turns away from genetic augmentation and leans into cybernetics, even if it may take generations to finalize this.

3/...

... On the other hand, it deepens Persis’ character, which I liked very much.

There are three nice nods to earlier-produced, later-in-universe timeline shows:

The Augments talk about the ship Botany Bay as a myth; in TOS we will discover it’s very real.

2/...

Soong and T'Pol on the Enterprise bridge.

0082 - ENT04x06 - The Augments (German title: Die Augments)

Story
The Augments, led by Malik, try to start a war between Earth and the Klingon Empire.

Notes
The “let’s get Soong back on the Enterprise” plot device probably wouldn’t stand a fact check.

1/...

Can you reveal who owns the IP? Or would that give away too much?

Ich bin kein Politikwissenschaftler, aber mein gefährliches Halbwissen denkt: Wir sehen in ganz vielen Autokratien Weltweit, dass sie mit mittelstarker Wirtschaft eine Elite mindestens so gut versorgen können wie ein WEIRD Staat und weniger Einmischung durch Konzerne und Weltgemeinschaft erfahren.

Ruloshtoffe: Rohstoffe (Autokorrektur) 🙈

... Skaleneffekte durch Währungsschwankungen. persönlich denke es kann funktionieren, wird Amerika aber rauf das heute Russland Nivou unterziehen.

... Alle Suchen gerade nach Alternativen und ob die USA noch gut aussehen, wenn die Welt ihre Wirtschaft um sie herum baut halte ich für Fraglich. Sie sind groß genug um isolationistisch zu funktionieren, ABER: Ihnen fehlen Ruloshtoffe (versucht Trump sich ja gerade militärisch zu sichern) und ...

Abi mit VWL, BWL, MATHE Leistungskurs. Dipl. Wirtschaftsinformatik BA Studienabschluss: Was Trump im Moment nutzt ist die Reaktionszeit des Systems. Er nimmt Geld mit, das andere zahlen um sich Zeit zu erkaufen. Während sie parallel Lieferketten umbauen....

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I feel pretty save with that option.

... certain scenes (e.g. torture or the close-up death of a scientist) were reportedly edited out by the broadcaster.
5/5

... motifs, integrity and power. Whereas the 'how can women be powerful' in Enterprise is far towards often answered with 'by seducing men' for my taste.

#StarTrekFunFact
The episode contains some of the darker and more violent content in Enterprise. When it aired in the UK,
4/...

... when ideology meets power.
Also, the setting works great. A sterile, high-security medical station is a perfect contrast to the raw, chaotic energy of the Augments.

I also liked very much, that the character Persis evolves from the naive girl of the week into someone with own
3/...

... bioweapons can be used as leverage.

Notes
The ethical tension is deliciously messy. Soong is not a cartoon villain, he is a true believer with a dangerous blind spot.
Malik’s ruthlessness pushes the episode into genuinely uncomfortable territory, which fits the theme of what happens 2/...

Bust shot of Persis

0081 - ENT04x05 - Cold Station 12 (German title: Cold Station 12)

Story
Soong and the Augments take a Klingon Bird-of-Prey to Cold Station 12,a secret Starfleet medical and pathogen facility, to steal the remaining Augment embryos. Archer and Phlox try to stop them before the station’s deadly 1/...

... If we look at series and feature films (each counting as one), he shares second place with Michael Dorn, both at quite a distance behind Jonathan Frakes.

5/5

... Star Trek
(Data, Lore, B-4, Dr. Noonien Soong, Dr. Arik Soong, Dr. Altan Inigo Soong, Dr. Adam Soong and “purple Data” in Lower Decks),
outperformed only by Vaughn Armstrong and Jeffrey Combs.

Looking at the number of episodes he participated in, he’s second to none but Michael Dorn.

4/...

...handcuffs.

What I can barely stand, on the other hand, are the Augment clothes. This is peak ridiculous, even if they looked good on Abby Brammell (Persis).

#StarTrekFunFact
With 8 distinct characters, Brent Spiner holds third place in the record for the actor who played the most roles in 3/...

... three-parter. Brent Spiner absolutely elevates every scene he’s in. He’s charming, arrogant, manipulative, yet oddly likeable.

I like so much in this episode. Besides Spiner, the Augments and seeing the Orions again, there are so many cool details. For example, the remote-controlled

2/...

Dr Soong and Captain Archer on an Orion slave market.

0080 - ENT04x04 - Borderland (German title: Grenzgebiet)

Story
Augments hijack a Klingon ship, forcing Archer and Enterprise to enlist the help of Dr. Arik Soong – an imprisoned geneticist and ancestor of the man who will one day create the android named Data.

Notes
A great start to a fun 1/...

I only need two words:

Research HSP

... And Hernandez faces a past love, sparking new flames.

#StarTrekFunFact
Location filming for some of the Earth/outdoor return sequences was done at Malibu Creek State Park.

3/3

... Excellently written and acted, this is one of my absolute highlights of the show.

T'Pol visits Vulcan and faces her fiancé, who claims his rights over her.
Phlox faces xenophobic humans.
Archer faces Hernandez, who reminds him of himself three years ago.
2/...

Trip and T'Pol meet her mother in her home on Vulcan.

0079 - ENT04x03 - Home (German title: Zuhause)
Story
The Enterprise is back on Earth, and the crew is confronted with a mixture of xenophobia, trauma, and family drama.

Notes
This is a rather quiet and emotional episode – a stark contrast to the action focus of the last arc.
1/...

Be... bzzzttt... grat.. bzzzt... full... bzzzt.. CHIEF... bzzzt.. smoking ashes...

... wrapping up the Temporal Cold War arc to make way for stories that align more closely with the canon of earlier-produced Star Trek.

#StarTrekFunFact
Nazi-occupied New York was built on the Paramount backlot, featuring a cheeky boxing-poster callback to TOS’s “City on the Edge of Forever.”

2/2

The Enterprise is attacked by an WWII area plane.

0078 - ENT04x02 - Storm Front, Part 2 (German title: Sturmfront – Teil 2)
Story
The Enterprise crew is reunited and corrects the timeline.

Notes
As a German, seeing Adolf Hitler footage in the opening scene makes me feel uneasy.

The twin Storm Front episodes were a great start to the season,
1/...

Ich habe noch keine starke Meinung, aber mein Bauch grummelt gerade. Vielleicht sind Mini Jobs nicht die beste Lösung, aber sie adressieren so einige Probleme unseres Systems. Damit das 'gut' wird müssten dann andere Werkzeuge für diese Probleme kommen. Nur Abschaffen erscheint als fiskalpolitik.