The Augments

This Story: Season 4 Episode 6 (production code 182)
ENT Overall: Episode 82
Trek Overall: Story 671, Episode 710
Airdate: 12 Nov 2004
Written by Michael Sussman
Directed by LeVar Burton

Notes

• The final of the three part Arik Soong arc.  They’re technically not a three part story, but are fairly strongly tied together.
• Brent Spiner’s final appearance in the series.  He will however have a (new) voice over cameo as Data in the series finale.
• The eighth of nine episodes directed by TNG’s LeVar Burton.  Burton does not appear on screen, but he did direct his old TNG castmate Brent Spiner.  The last time Burton directed Spiner was the TNG episode “The Pegasus“, some 11 years prior.
• The Briar Patch is mentioned here by Arik Soong (in Klingon, no less – “Klach D’kel Brakt”), a reference to Star Trek: Insurrection.  That movie of course had both Brent Spiner & LeVar Burton in it.  The Klingon phrase was used before in the DS9 episode “Blood Oath“.
• The end of the episode has dialogue that hints at the creation of Data (and his “family”) by Arik’s grandson Noonian Soong.
• Additionally there is a reference to the SS Botany Bay and Khan referencing both “Space Seed” and “Wrath of Khan“.

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