Disregard the Prime Directive, Fuck Ba'ku Bitches Edition
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>Baku planet is the same planet that the Augments from Enterprise were going to settle >The Baku are actually human augments that are really good at hiding
Adam Thompson
Okay, mild confused query; what's the difference between whatever Julian Bashir is and an Augment?
Isaac Price
Technicalities of the way they were altered, basically. Bashir is basically an Augment who didn't have the ambition or drive to be evil.
Adrian Collins
Essentially nothing. The Augments were merely overly ambitious to the point of being tyrannical.
Jaxson Clark
Bashir was modified in the 24th century while the 'Augments' were created in the 20th century.
Lucas Martin
Bashir is impressive, but he's still totally within human limits. He's an excellent athlete, and he's clearly very intelligent, but he was basically just bumped up from "below average mentally deficient person" to "highly intelligent guy with excellent physical gifts". Augments conversely are WAY outside the human norms of biological limitations; Khan was significantly stronger then even a Vulcan or Klingon was, in addition to healing far more efficiently and being ridiculously intelligent, so much so that he's able to relatively intuitively put together how to efficiently and dangerously use advanced technonology with very little construction, and that's even if you AREN'T considering the Cumberbatch version of Khan.
It's not really much of an exaggeration to say that Augments performed in average so outside human physical limitations that they could be considered a completely separate species to regular humans. You could even hypothesize that they couldn't interbreed with regular humans due to how much bullshit was added into them as "genetic baseline".
Juan Perez
>Bashir is impressive, but he's still totally within human limits. This is in fact completely false, Bashir was shown displaying feats of dexterity and intelligence beyond any natural human capability.
John Phillips
In all fairness, Bashir got a leg up compared to regular folks but he wasn't a superhuman genetically engineered purely for war. Somebody who was built and born from the ground up to kill and conquer might have a hard time thinking along peaceful lines; it'd be like trying to teach a gun to paint.
Aiden Watson
Right, but Bashir didn't seem any more capable than your average Vulcan. Augments were on a whole other level.
