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Augments
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:30 pm
by Mark
Just got done watching this 3 parter. I think Augments make pretty good bad guys, but these guys lacked Khan's charisma. I wish we could have seen some of them in TNG and DS9 (aside from Bashir and his neurotic "think tank"). What do you all think about Augments?
Re: Augments
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:31 pm
by Nickswitz
They kicked those Klingon's butts pretty good.
Re: Augments
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:33 pm
by stitch626
Meh.
Re: Augments
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:22 pm
by Mikey
They were presented as very one-dimensional. Khan was great because he could powerful yet subtle; the ENT Augments had none of that.
Re: Augments
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:37 pm
by Mark
Mikey wrote:They were presented as very one-dimensional. Khan was great because he could powerful yet subtle; the ENT Augments had none of that.
True.......they seemed, for lack of a better term, thuggish.
Re: Augments
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:15 am
by Teaos
They had the super body but not the super mind...
You could almost feel sorry for Khan and see his vision for the universe, you couldny imagin these guys doing anything great.
Re: Augments
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:15 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Agreed. These guys were completely 2D.
Re: Augments
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:05 pm
by kostmayer
Teaos wrote:They had the super body but not the super mind...
You could almost feel sorry for Khan and see his vision for the universe, you couldny imagin these guys doing anything great.
Can't imagine them inspiring the same kind of loyalty that Khan did from his followers either.
Re: Augments
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:43 pm
by Mark
The WOULD have been Khan's cannon fodder.
Re: Augments
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 2:54 pm
by Teaos
Its not like it would have been hard to make them more human, just dont turn them into thugs, give them a brain to go with the brawn. Honesly I think ENT was mainly a failed experiment with the whole "million monkeys in front of a million type writters"
Re: Augments
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:04 am
by Mark
Excellent point. Even Vulcans, whom throughout the rest of the franchise I've found to be among the most interesting and complex characters around were completely without depth in Ent. Sad, very sad.
Re: Augments
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:20 pm
by Captain Seafort
They improved considerably in seaon 4's Vulcan arc at least. Even your typical EVS characters were better depicted than they were earlier.
Re: Augments
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:03 am
by Mark
Captain Seafort wrote:They improved considerably in seaon 4's Vulcan arc at least. Even your typical EVS characters were better depicted than they were earlier.
Very true.
Re: Augments
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:48 am
by Bryan Moore
Thugs, but meant to be so. Clearly these guys weren't as well thought out as Serina Kaur thought out the Chrysalis children including Khan. I did enjoy the episodes immensely, however. Great, if not flawed, villians.
Re: Augments
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:18 pm
by Mikey
IDK. Their 1-D nature really turned me off to them. Khan was a great antagonist because of that degree of wit and intellect, not despite it.