Malik Malik was a Human Augment , the product of 20th century genetic engineering . He was considered to be the strongest and smartest of multiple Augments whom Arik Soong created , and was also the most ruthless . Malik was brought to life by Arik Soong in 2134 . Along with eighteen other Augments , Malik was raised by Soong on planet Trialas IV . As children , Malik and his " brothers " and " sisters " participated in classroom - like lecture s taught by Soong , whom Malik and the others called " father " . When Soong was captured and incarcerated in 2144 for stealing the Augment embryo s ten years earlier , Malik and the others were left to survive on their own , under the leadership of Raakin . Malik became attracted to Persis , but she chose to become Raakin ' s consort , believing him to be the strongest . Despite this , Persis fell in love with Malik , as well . ( ) By 2154 , Malik had grown tired of hiding on Trialas IV . That year , he and his " brother " , Saul , captured a , killing its crew in the process . The Klingon s responded by threatening war with Earth over the incident . was sent to capture Malik and the Augments in order to prevent further confrontation . Malik ' s success at acquiring a ship to escape the Trialas system enraged Raakin , as he had not sanctioned the attack against the Klingons . Though Raakin knew the Klingon Empire would be hunting for the Augments , Malik assured him that the Klingons would not find them . After Raakin then ordered the Bird - of - Prey to another star system where the Augments could live out their lives in peace , Malik , believing Raakin had gone against Soong ' s wishes , persuaded Persis to assist him in overthrowing Raakin as leader . With Raakin trapped by Malik and his followers , Malik killed Raakin , claiming it to be an " act of mercy " . He then seized command of the Bird - of - Prey and took Persis as his consort . Having received a signal from Soong , who was being held in the brig aboard " Enterprise " , Malik had the Brid - of - Prey dock with the Starfleet ship . As Malik spoke with the ship ' s captain , Jonathan Archer , Persis led a group of Augments to free Soong . Malik himself took Archer as a hostage to ensure he returned to the docking bay without incident . Upon arriving at the bay , he released Archer and was reunited with his " father " . Soong and the Augments then boarded the Bird - of - Prey and , leaving behind a disabled " Enterprise " , set a course for Cold Station 12 to retrieve the remaining 1 , 800 Augment embryos still in cold storage . ( ) On Cold Station 12 , station director Jeremy Lucas refused to give Soong the code which would open the stasis chamber containing the embryos despite a painful interrogation . Malik suggested they torture one of Lucas ' colleagues to get the director to talk , an option Soong reluctantly accepted . Malik tortured the station ' s deputy director by infecting him with one of the station ' s many stored pathogens , Symbalene blood burn . When Lucas still refused to give up the code , Soong , unwilling to see anyone die , ordered Malik to release the anti - pathogen . Malik refused , forcing Soong to take over the station ' s controls , but by the time he was able to release the anti - pathogen , the deputy director had died . When Archer , Phlox , and other crewmembers were captured while attempting to infiltrate the station , Malik learned that Lucas and Phlox were friends and , again defying Soong ' s orders , he placed the Denobulan in the pathogen booth . Before releasing the pathogen , however , Lucas opted to input the code for the stasis chamber . As Soong collected the embryos , Malik stole several containers of infectious diseases without Soong ' s knowledge . He planned to use these infectious diseases as a bioweapon to destroy a nearby Klingon colony , thereby pitting Starfleet against the Klingon Empire . Before leaving , Archer made one final attempt at gaining control of the situation , but Malik was able to defeat him , although he remarked that Archer was a " competent fighter " . Believing the attack to be a reasonable excuse to justify Archer ' s murder , Malik set every stasis field in the station to collapse , which would have released the hundreds of fatal pathogens stored there . After Malik left , however , Archer and the others were able to escape the pathogens . ( ) When Soong learned of Malik ' s plan to destroy a Klingon colony and refused to allow it , Malik reclaimed command of the Augments and imprisoned Soong in his quarters . Although she sided with Malik in imprisoning Soong for fear Malik would kill her , Persis later helped Soong escape . However , Malik knew Persis was responsible , and killed her . As she died , he proclaimed he would miss her , and stole her last breath with a kiss . Malik was ultimately successful in launching the torpedo carrying the diseases , but it was destroyed by " Enterprise " . Even though Malik disabled most of " Enterprise " s weapon s , the aft phase cannon was still functional . " Enterprise " used it to disable the Bird - of - Prey . Refusing to be captured , Malik overloaded the dilithium matrix and destroyed the ship . However , he was able to transport himself to " Enterprise " before the Bird - of - Prey was destroyed . On " Enterprise " , Malik attacked Soong with the intent of killing his " father " for betraying his children , but was himself killed by Archer with a puncturing particle rifle blast through the torso . ( )