"
The Augments" is the sixth episode of the
fourth season of the American science fiction television series
Star Trek: Enterprise, the eighty-second episode overall. It is the last of a three-story episode
arc, preceded by "
Borderland", and "
Cold Station 12". "The Augments" was directed by
LeVar Burton, from a script by
Michael Sussman. The series follows the adventures of the first
Starfleet starship
Enterprise, registration NX-01. In this episode, "Augments",
genetically enhanced humans, and Doctor
Arik Soong, their surrogate father, escape Cold Station 12 after stealing frozen Augment embryos from storage. Soong plans to hide out with the Augments and raise the embryos, but Malik, their leader, is tired of hiding and attempts to instigate a war between Starfleet and the
Klingons.