Augments

Augments refers to a sub-race of human being who were cultivated through either selective breeding, genetic engineering or bio-augmentation. The terms is mostly found in the Star Trek mythos and was first coined by the fictional scientist Doctor Arik Soong. The most famous of augmented human beings within the mythos is Khan Noonian Singh, who was first introduced in season one of the original Star Trek television series, "Space Seed". Khan was a notorious historical figure in the internal mythology of the series and was a key figure in the Eugenics Wars which took place during the late 1990s. Khan and his followers were products of selective breeding and as such, had enhanced strength, stamina and intelligence, far in excess to that of a normal human being. Khan's people were eventually captured and imprisoned, bringing the Eugenics Wars to a close. They were placed in suspended animation aboard the ship SS Botany Bay and launched into outer space.

More than a century later, an Earth scientist named Doctor Arik Soong, conducted his own experiments in the field of genetic engineering and created a race of enhanced supermen using cell samples that he had stolen from a research facility called Cold Station 12. Soong was eventually imprisoned for his crimes, but his Augments grew to adulthood and adopted the same code of ethics as that of Khan Noonian Singh. In 2154, the Augments commandeered a Klingon Bird of Prey and used it to rescue Doctor Soong, who at the time, was under the care of Captain Jonathan Archer of the Earth starship Enterprise NX-01.