Cold Station 12 (2)
Soong, who has been freed by his Augment children, intends to reclaim the remaining Augment embryos being stored at Cold Station 12. Soong plans to incubate the embryos, and start an Augment army to take over the known worlds. They head to Cold Station 12 in the Bird of Prey that the Augments have stolen from the Klingons. Archer must stop Soong and the Augments, and try to prevent a looming war with the Klingons at the same time.

The Augments (3)

After turning on their creator the Augments try to start a war between Humans and Klingons.

At the end of the episode, Soong - disillusioned now with the thought of 'perfecting' humans - ponders cybernetics as a viable way to create a perfect being, which of course is a legacy that eventually begat Data, Lore, B-4, Datas 'mother' Juliana Tainer (TNG, "Inheritance") and Datas 'daughter' Lal (TNG, "The Offspring").

A reference to a Governor Klag is made. Klag was the Pagh's Second Officer in the Star Trek The Next Generation episode "A Matter of Honor." This could be an ancestor.

Kahn, his fellow Augments, and their ship are brought up in this episode, but dismissed as a myth by Soong. This was a nice little tie-in to the original series.

Archer's method for getting out of the access tube unscathed from the pathogens is actually plausible. The human body can survive for a few seconds in a vacumn. The only potential goof to this is Archer is shown looking rather frostbitten on the transporter pad, he should have had some capillaries burst as well.

The Forge (1)

When Earth's embassy on Vulcan is bombed evidence points to a religious faction known as "Syrrannites," a group following a revolutionary interpretation of the teachings of Surak, the father of Vulcan logic. After T'Pol receives a clandestine lead, she and Archer embark upon a treacherous journey through the Vulcan desert looking for them.




Awakening (2)

The Earth embassy on Vulcan has been bombed. The Vulcans blame Syrrannite terrorists. Acher and T'Pol must get to the bottom of the bombing and bring those responsible to justice. However, unbeknownst to Archer and T'Pol, more is going on than just a simple act of terrorism.


All 4 are outstanding epsiodes! Parts 2 and 3 with Soong and his augmented "children " were fast paced, with plenty of great action sequences, terrific dialogue, and fantastic direction!

As good if not better than many other Trek episodes I have seen ....

The second two episodes have T'Pol and Archer on Vulcan, trekking across a dangerous dessert frought with electrical storms, deadly beasts, and scorching temperatures.

Also, no technology is able to function there - save for the universal translator, which magically seemed immune to this effect.

Loved seeing Vulcan.

It was fascinating when Surak, the Vulcan who finds the two dies and then he puts his Katra into Archer - it is what Spock did to McCoy in Wrath Of Khan.

Archer finds a Vulcan artifact, thought to have long been Myth.

Archer has an 1,800 year old Katra in him.It shows him visions of Vulcan's violent past and urgers him to prevent the past from occuring again, as the Vulcan Gov't bombs the crap out of the Syrrannite terrorists' hidden base.

I am very much looking forward to the final part of this 3 part story next Monday!


"I offer you a Vulcan prayer, Mr Suder. May your

death bring you the peace you never found in

life." - Tuvok.