- For the Augment Crisis in the 22nd century, see Augment Crisis.
The Augment Crisis is the name given to a series of events in 2391 when war nearly broke out between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire because of interference by the Augments from an alternate reality.
Prelude[]
Doctor Arik Soong in 2154
In the 2130s, Doctor Arik Soong stole a series of genetically engineered Augment embryos (left over from the Eugenics Wars) from the Interspecies Medical Exchange facility Cold Station 12. Soong was able to escape to Trialas IV and raise the embryos, acting as their father. Growing up, Soong taught the children about Human culture and what they needed to know, like a parent and teacher.
Around ten years later, Soong was captured by Earth forces and imprisoned for his crimes, leaving his "children" to finish raising themselves. While he was gone, Raakin eventually became the leader of the little band of Augments.
The Klingon threat[]
Malik and his Augments came into the primary universe in a transport shuttle. They were picked up by a Klingon Negh'Var-class ship in the Borderland. The Augments managed to fight off the Klingon crew and ejected their bodies into space. Raakin took charge of the Klingon ship, but was killed by Malik in a power struggle, thanks to some assistance from Persis. The Augments then destroyed a Bajoran freighter leaving no survivors.
The Klingons recovered the bodies of their dead crew from space, and DNA traces left on the bodies revealed they had been killed by Humans. The Klingons threatened to retaliate with extreme force, but Starfleet realized the DNA on the bodies matched that of Augments.
Mission to stop Malik and the Augments[]
Starfleet assigned the USS Intrepid-A along with the USS Enterprise to capture the rogue Augments in order to stop the threatened war with the Klingons.
Confrontation at a Klingon outpost[]
Battle over Qu'Vat[]
Resolution[]
Satisfied by the actions of the Enterprise and Intrepid at Qu'Vat, the Klingon High Council agreed to not retaliate against Earth.
Aftereffects[]
After the end of the Augment Crisis, the Federation restores and renews the alliance with the Klingon Empire, ending any conflict between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.