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Archer and company must rescue the crew of a space station who have been taken hostage by Dr. Soong and his Augments in the fourth season's fifth episode, reportedly entitled "CS-12". The episode is part two of a three-episode arc starring Brent Spiner as Arik Soong, the ancestor of Data's creator, Dr. Noonien Soong. The storyline begins in episode four, "Borderland", in which Soong and his genetically-engineered supermen, known as Augments, begin their quest to locate the embryos of others who were genetically enhanced during the Eugenics Wars (story). According to TrekToday sources, in "CS-12" the NX-01 rescues Smike, an Augment who was marooned on Trialas Four by his fellow genetically engineered specimens. However, Phlox soon discovers Smike isn't quite the same as the other Augments — he's "defective", a genetic experiment gone wrong. Unlike the others, he doesn't have superhuman abilities. After a discussion in which Smike reveals Soong's plans to rescue the embryos, Archer sets course for Cold Station Twelve, where the budding genetically enhanced lifeforms are kept in storage. Unfortunately for the crew of the station, Soong gets there first and floods the control room and labs with neural gas, incapacitating all lifeforms. Among those taken captive by Soong is Doctor Jeremy Lucas, Phlox's pen pal first mentioned in season one's "Dear Doctor". Soong's plans hit a snag when his Augments are unable to enter the storage facility which holds the embryos without the correct code. When Dr. Lucas refuses to give up the code voluntarily, Soong begins to torture the other crew members until he complies... |
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| Phlox's pen pal Dr. Lucas gets a face and Brent Spiner character Dr. Arik Soong attempts to retrieve more frozen embryos to breed a race of super-humans in "Cold Station 12", the second of a three-episode mini-arc on Star Trek: Enterprise. The official Star Trek site posted the production report for "Cold Station 12", which began filming on Tuesday, August 24th and completed its shoot on September 1st. The sequel to "Borderland", "Cold Station 12" continues the story of Dr. Soong and the Augments he created. Having escaped from Captain Archer, who had hoped the doctor would help him control the rogue Augments who are creating havoc, Soong returns to the medical facility where years earlier he secretly stored hundreds more genetically engineered embryos. He involves Dr. Lucas, who has been transferred to Cold Station 12, in his plot to gestate the enhanced humans. The episode was written by new writer Alan Brennert, who had worked previously with showrunner Manny Coto on Odyssey 5 and has science fiction writing experience from Stargate: Atlantis and the revivals of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. Longtime Star Trek director Mike Vejar, whose last outing was "Stratagem", directed "Cold Station 12." |
| QUOTE (Phillip Culley @ Dec 13 2004, 01:01 AM) |
| This was better than Borderland, and probably the best of the Soong trilogy, but still nothing great. As an aside though, it was nice to see Doctor Lucas in the end, but it smacked of convenience that he happened to be in the exact place that the Augments were headed. I think we're just lucky they didn't go as far as to have Phlox write him a letter at the beginning of the episode... |
| QUOTE (ken1701e @ Dec 13 2004, 07:28 PM) |
| a positive review from mr Culley, shall I faint now? |
| QUOTE (Hovis @ Apr 6 2005, 10:58 AM) |
| So far, I've not been able to see what is so bad about season 4 of Enterprise. Sure, it's not really building on the progress we saw in season 3, but considering all the setbacks they had, what with the new scheduling and the reduction in funding, and the almost certain knowledge that season 4 would be the last, I think that in some ways, what I've seen so far has been maybe a little better than I'd expected. Give me Enterprise ahead of Voyager any day. Andrew (HM) :upside: |