A flashback highlights a history lesson eleven years earlier with Arik Soong teaching the Augments about their superior nature and some eighteen hundred unborn sleeping siblings. He says their duty is to wake them. Flash to the present as Soong prepares to invade Cold Station 12 with specific orders, "No one is to be killed." Malik says he understands but you know he's just itching to lay waste. NX-01 proceeds to Soong's planet and finds the abandoned classroom, missing incubators, and Udar (aka Smike), an unenhanced anomaly who was left behind. Udar warns that his brethren cannot be stopped; even still the Captain shares his mess and photos of his parents.

Aboard the stolen Bird of Prey Soong mourns Raakin, and Malik lies about how his murdered brother died. (In one of Spiner's exceptional moments, Soong misses the obvious and blames himself.) They intercept a Denobulan craft and use it to approach the asteroid station containing Phlox's buddy Dr. Lucas. The Augments bash in past non-Shark guards and stun-gas the station's personnel. Phlox and Archer discuss how instincts must catch up with intellect as Enterprise approaches the station, but Soong threatens to make mess of Lucas' head, forcing them to veer off. Familiar with the facility's defense protocols, Phlox joins the landing party who surreptitiously beam in.

The sooper-smart Augments can't override the quantum encryption layer protecting the embryos so they throw a few punches Dr. Lucas' way. (For such a smart group they spend plenty of time fighting and stabbing, not reasoning and talking.) A red-shirt doctor gets a trip into the Pathogen Booth and we finally see a victim of the Symbalene blood burn (nod to "The Changeling"); at the last moment Soong tries to save his victim but Malik refuses. Phlox tries to cut the air supply off to the Augments but the landing party is captured instead.

During brief contact with the ship Archer commands T'Pol to follow Starfleet orders and destroy the base. Hoshi attempts a remote control autodestruct but the Augments induce some sort of technobabble feedback so it doesn't happen. When Phlox is threatened with a trip to The Booth Lucas capitulates and provides the access code. In a pleasant reminder of earlier seasons, Archer gets a good beating. Malik then not only knocks his Father down but shoots Udar in cold blood. He gathers up the nastiest of the pathogens, sets a timer for the rest to release, and they depart leaving Archer climbing the TuBe Continued walls trying to stop it.


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