Augments
Augments
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?
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They look like Phyllis Diller,
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the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
Re: Augments
They kicked those Klingon's butts pretty good.
Re: Augments
Meh.
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Re: Augments
They were presented as very one-dimensional. Khan was great because he could powerful yet subtle; the ENT Augments had none of that.
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True.......they seemed, for lack of a better term, thuggish.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.
They say that in the Army,
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
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Teaos
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Re: Augments
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.
You could almost feel sorry for Khan and see his vision for the universe, you couldny imagin these guys doing anything great.
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Re: Augments
Agreed. These guys were completely 2D.
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Can't imagine them inspiring the same kind of loyalty that Khan did from his followers either.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.
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Re: Augments
The WOULD have been Khan's cannon fodder.
They say that in the Army,
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
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Teaos
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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"
What does defeat mean to you?
Nothing it will never come. Death before defeat. I don’t bend or break. I end, if I meet a foe capable of it. Victory is in forcing the opponent to back down. I do not. There is no defeat.
Nothing it will never come. Death before defeat. I don’t bend or break. I end, if I meet a foe capable of it. Victory is in forcing the opponent to back down. I do not. There is no defeat.
Re: Augments
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.
They say that in the Army,
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
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They improved considerably in seaon 4's Vulcan arc at least. Even your typical EVS characters were better depicted than they were earlier.
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Very true.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.
They say that in the Army,
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
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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.
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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.
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer