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   Enterprise Raises Khan   
      
   Manny Coto, writer and executive producer of UPN's Star Trek: Enterprise,   
   told SCI FI Wire that Brent Spiner's upcoming guest appearance will take   
   place in a four-episode arc dealing with the Eugenics Wars, first mentioned   
   in the original Star Trek episode "Space Seed" and its movie sequel, Star   
   Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. "Originally for this season I wanted there to   
   be an arc that involved the Eugenics Wars," Coto said in an interview at a   
   screening of the fourth-season premiere in Los Angeles. "They were my   
   favorite part of the Star Trek lore, and I always loved Star Trek II, and I   
   really wanted to do something about the Eugenics Wars and the Eugenics   
   warriors. The U.S. government has a repository of virulent diseases, and I   
   thought, 'What if Starfleet has something similar, where they kept   
   diseases, but on top of that they kept embryos from the Eugenics Wars?'   
   These were like baby Khans [Ricardo Montalban] essentially, and what if   
   someone got ahold of them and tried to resurrect them?"   
      
   Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation's Data) will play a criminal   
   ancestor of Noonien Soong, the scientist who created Data. Coto, who joined   
   the production team of Enterprise last season, said that he originally   
   intended the arc's nemesis to be Col. Green, a despotic character from the   
   original series episode "The Savage Curtain," but rewrote the character for   
   Spiner when he expressed interest in appearing on Enterprise. "Originally   
   it was going to be Col. Green, who was briefly mentioned in the original   
   series, but when I heard that Brent Spiner was interested I tailored it   
   towards him," Coto said. "We made him into a scientist who believed in   
   genetic engineering, and he believed that this was the great future of   
   mankind. He conceived this plan to steal the embryos and raise them to   
   adulthood. But what happens is they get away from him. They go on basically   
   a rampage, and they're like mini Khan Noonien Singhs. They're wreaking   
   havoc in this place called the Borderland, which is near the Klingon   
   Empire, and he's threatening to start a war with the Empire."   
      
   Spiner got involved with Enterprise through his friendship with executive   
   producer Rick Berman, who co-created The Next Generation. "Brent and Rick   
   are good friends, and Rick threw out the idea that maybe [Spiner] wanted to   
   be on Enterprise," Coto said. "At the beginning of the season I was   
   developing this whole augment story, and Rick came in and said, 'You know,   
   guys, we've got Brent wants to do some Enterprise.' I said, 'Great.' So I   
   basically moved Col. Green out and put Brent in as the character." Season   
   four of Enterprise premieres Oct. 8 in its new Friday 8 p.m. ET/PT   
   timeslot.   
      
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