I thought this arc would have made a better ''pilot'' episode then BROKEN BOW! And it also better explained the ''misunderstandings'' between first contact with the ''Klingons & Humans''.
what do you think about "the augments" arc?
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Yeah, I think this arc would've been better than Broken Bow too as a pilot episode, though I liked Broken Bow quite a bit. I also once thought it would've been nice as a series closer, set in 2218, and showing first contact at the end of ENT's run, not the beginning, but I digress.
I liked the Augments arc. I've always loved Khan and the whole idea of the Eugenics Wars, and I applaud Manny, etc. for finding a way to go back to that well without trampling on Khan. In fact, they added to the Eugenics Wars, Data's backstory, Star Trek Insurrection, and set up the Klingon forehead answer all within that arc while also showing us the Orions. I thought Malik made for a pretty good junior Khan, and I loved his quoting Nietzsche at the end of the first part of the arc: "Mankind is something that must be surpassed" (or something like that). It was great.
^I too enjoyed ''Broken Bow'' But the augment arc was brilliant!
I think it nicely tied into the TOS and TNG era. I really enjoyed this arch in season 4 along with the episodes, in a mirror darkly 1 & 2, its too bad there was no season 5, it could have been great.
Am I the only one annoyed by the fact that the eugenics term which was the original intent with Khan and had a slightly different meaning (selective breeding) seemed almost entirely supplanted by overt genetic engineering here? I think it made for an interesting subtle distinction if they were primarily just well-bred humans analagous to thoroughbreds.
I am the only one? Nevermind.
Probably. Eugenics doesn't really work very well.
Well, it does, as is evidenced by half the thoughts thought on any given day. After all, we practice eugenics every time we have sex, and every time we don't have sex. Chick turns me down? Eugenics. I wear a condom? Eugenics. I marry my girlfriend and stay faithful? Eugenics. Two guys? Eugenics. Two girls? Eugenics, and hot. MMF? Okay that might not be eugenics, that's a crapshoot, unless you're living in the crazy universe Twins was filmed in.
What eugenics can't do is make superhumans in thirty years. I doubt it can make much effect at all in such short order. And even the effects it could give would be mundane--well, this guy from Lebensborn has an IQ of 140, but fifty million people (made up number) in the general population do, too.
The question always was whether Khan was really a superman, or just a Nazi with delusions of granduer. Perhaps thankfully, DS9 answered the question by positing that Khan's conception was an act of careful and planned genetic engineering.
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