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I was so sick of living a lie,

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pretending to be someone I wasn't.

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I wanted my crew,

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I wanted my crew to know
me for who I really was.

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I thought maybe if they did,
I would finally be safe,

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and Starfleet would finally
understand Illyrians better.

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[Narrator] In Star Trek:
Strange New Worlds,

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Season 2, Episode two
"Ad Astra Per Aspera,"

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the Enterprise's First
Officer, Una Chin-Riley,

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is put on trial for hiding
her Illyrian heritage

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and status as a genetically
modified augment.

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This court is now in session.

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[Narrator] Carrying superior intellectual

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and physical abilities,
augments from various species

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have used their enhancements
for positive purposes

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and at times to further their
authoritarian ambitions.

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Because of these potentially
violent instincts,

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augments are forbidden
from joining Starfleet.

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Perhaps the most famous,
or infamous, augment

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is the genetically-engineered
human Khan Noonien Singh.

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More than 200 years after falling

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from his tyrannical reign on Earth

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during the global Eugenics Wars,

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Kahn encounters Captain Kirk
and the U.S.S. Enterprise.

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From 1992 through 1996,

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absolute ruler of more than
a quarter of your world,

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from Asia through the Middle East.

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The last of the tyrants to be overthrown.

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[Narrator] After failing
to take over the ship,

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Kahn and his followers are exiled

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to the remote planet Ceti Alpha V,

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promising that Captain Kirk
will one day feel his wrath.

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150 years after the Eugenics Wars,

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a human augment named Malik

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leads several of his
fellow enhanced siblings

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in a series of attacks
on the Klingon Empire.

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Torpedoes ready.

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Fire.

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[Narrator] His aggressive actions

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are stopped by his
creator, Dr. Arik Soong,

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as well as Captain Archer

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and the crew of the Enterprise NX-01.

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Keniclius 5, the fifth generation clone

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of Eugenics War geneticist
Dr. Stavos Keniclius,

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creates a genetically
enhanced clone of Spock

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as the prototype for an
oppressive peacekeeping force.

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Spock and his clone convince Keniclius 5

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to give up his goals of
interstellar conquest

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and use his scientific
knowledge for good.

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I-I would be honored.

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[Narrator] When it's
revealed that Deep Space 9's

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Chief Medical Officer Julian Bashir...

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That's me.

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[Narrator] ...received genetic
modifications in his youth,

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enhancing his abilities in everything

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from medicine to playing darts,

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he chooses to resign from Starfleet.

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I just want to leave the station quietly.

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[Narrator] However,
Bashir's father intervenes,

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agreeing to imprisonment for
illegally augmenting his son

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in order to save Julian's
Starfleet career.

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As Una Chin-Riley's court
martial lays bare the conflict

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between augments and Starfleet,

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Una demonstrates the
best qualities of both,

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helping move augments like
her to greater acceptance.

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She is an extraordinary officer.