ENT: The Augments

         Not quite the conclusion I was hoping for, but not bad, and certainly not a huge let down. It seems what I heard about ENT fourth season stories taking three part arcs was true, at least in this case as I don't see much more coming from what happened. Other than this somehow altering the entire Klingon race for a generation or two, but I am not sure how that is going to play out. It did seem after a while that killing all the augments was going to be the only way out of this crisis without messing things up for future Trek. I really liked that they made Malik quite different from Khan, but still made him almost as scary. Sure Malik protested when Soong tried to make the future embryos less aggressive, but in the end it was his over aggression that did him in. The finaly conclusion with Soong deciding to switch to robotics was fun, but it doesn't really explain how Soong managed to have actual children to carry on his legacy. At the same time it hardly seems like the Federation would keep somebody locked up forever so who knows.
         We open with Archer saving everybody from the last episode but having to blow himself into space to escape death. Luckily the transporter saves him but he needs some time in sickbay to recover. On the augment ship things are going pretty rough as Malik and Soong continue to fight. It doesn't take long for Malik to start seeing who is on whose side. Enterprise manages to track down the augments but they drop the Denobulan shuttle into a gas giant forcing Enterprise to break off and mount a rescue. Archer has to talk his way past some Klingons and manages to pull it off, this time. Malik and Soong get into an argument over Soong altering the embryos they rescued to make them less aggressive. Things escalate when Malik reveals his plan to destroy a Klingon colony with the pathogens he stole in order to cover their tracks or something. He returns with the rest of the bridge crew and they place Soong in the brig, but his second in command helps Soong escape. He gets picked up but Enterprise and Archer throws him in the brig, but quickly realizes Soong was thrown out for not being radical enough and gets his help. Malik murders his second in command when he realizes she helped Soong and proceeds to launch the weapon. Enterprise destroys it just in time and tries to take the augments into custody but Malik destroys their ship. But first he makes his way to Enterprise (the Klingons have transports so presumably that way, but it isn't actually said) and tries to kill Soong but Archer kills him first. We close with Soong deciding to change his focus in life to androids.

         Review: A decent conclusion, but not quite as interesting as I would have liked. Lots of action and some cheese at the very end, but not enough to make it bad.

6 out of 10