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''"You fight for control of nations...we dominate entire worlds. We extend our will across time. If your race were to endure for a million years, you couldn't begin to approach what we've accomplished."''
 
''"You fight for control of nations...we dominate entire worlds. We extend our will across time. If your race were to endure for a million years, you couldn't begin to approach what we've accomplished."''
 
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The '''Na'kuhl''' were a species that evolved to gain a certain degree of control over [[time]]. During the [[29th century]], they were a faction in the [[Temporal Cold War]] – vehemently opposed to the [[Temporal Accord]] – and were led by [[Vosk]], a dangerous fanatic who viewed [[Temporal mechanics|time travel]] as his innate right despite damage that consequently might be done to the [[timeline]].
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The '''Na'kuhl''' were a species that evolved to gain a certain degree of control over [[time]]. During the [[29th century]], they were a faction in the [[Temporal Cold War]] – vehemently opposed to the [[Temporal Accord]] – and were led by [[Vosk]], a dangerous fanatic who viewed [[Temporal mechanics|time travel]] as his innate right despite the damage that consequently might be done to the [[timeline]].
   
==Physiology==
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== Physiology ==
 
[[File:Na'kuhl blood.jpg|thumb|Na'kuhl [[blood]]]]
 
[[File:Na'kuhl blood.jpg|thumb|Na'kuhl [[blood]]]]
The Na'kuhl had pale complexions, bony-looking faces with [[bat]]-like features as well as bright red [[eye]]s, and many veins visible on their bald heads. They also had yellowish-brown [[blood]].
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The Na'kuhl had pale complexions, bony-looking faces with [[bat]]-like features as well as bright red [[eye]]s, and many veins visible on their bald heads. ({{ENT|Storm Front|Storm Front, Part II}}) They also had yellowish-brown [[blood]]. ({{ENT|Storm Front}})
 
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== Weapons and other technology ==
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The Na'kuhl from the 31st century were equipped with extremely powerful [[plasma rifle]]s. Although these weapons required much power for portable usage, the attainment of such power was apparently very easy for the Na'kuhl in their native time period, where there were – according to an account of uncertain credibility that Vosk once made to a Nazi German general – energy cells as small as a coin. According to the same account, the Na'kuhl were additionally capable of unleashing a plague that targeted victims based on their genetic profile and could be dispersed throughout an entire country by introducing a few grams of a pathogen into that country's water supply. The Na'kuhl also used a style of hand-held [[communicator]], in addition to the time-traveling technology they developed at different points of their development. ({{ENT|Storm Front}})
   
 
== Subjective history ==
 
== Subjective history ==
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The ancestors of the Na'kuhl under Vosk's leadership worshiped [[god]]s, and Vosk once referred to them as having been considerably imaginative but substantially less technologically developed. At another time, a Na'kuhl who Vosk later respectfully described as "our greatest scientist" stated, "''Every moment we live, we are moving through time.''"
 
The ancestors of the Na'kuhl under Vosk's leadership worshiped [[god]]s, and Vosk once referred to them as having been considerably imaginative but substantially less technologically developed. At another time, a Na'kuhl who Vosk later respectfully described as "our greatest scientist" stated, "''Every moment we live, we are moving through time.''"
   
At one point in their history under Vosk's leadership, the Na'kuhl attempted to eradicate the [[Suliban]]. They traveled into the past to prevent the Suliban from becoming sentient. However, an opposing faction of [[temporal agent]]s stopped the Na'kuhl and ensured that the Suliban attained sentience, despite the ongoing enmity between the Temporal Agents and the Suliban.
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At one point in their history under Vosk's leadership, the Na'kuhl attempted to eradicate the [[Suliban]]. They traveled into the past to prevent the Suliban from becoming sentient. However, an opposing faction of [[temporal agent]]s stopped the Na'kuhl and ensured that the Suliban attained sentience, despite the ongoing enmity between the Temporal Agents and the Suliban. ({{ENT|Storm Front, Part II}})
   
 
=== Seeking refuge ===
 
=== Seeking refuge ===
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[[File:Temporal conduit creation.jpg|thumb|Under Vosk's supervision, Na'kuhl work on creating a [[temporal conduit]], in an effort to return to the [[29th century]]]]
 
[[File:Temporal conduit creation.jpg|thumb|Under Vosk's supervision, Na'kuhl work on creating a [[temporal conduit]], in an effort to return to the [[29th century]]]]
The Na'kuhl further offered to provide advanced technological weaponry to the Nazis, but held back from doing so, not trusting the [[Human]] forces. In exchange, the Nazis provided the Na'kuhl with materials to build a [[temporal conduit]] with which to return to the future. The Na'kuhl were eventually successful, and used the conduit to launch an attack on Daniels' faction in the [[31st century]], igniting the Temporal Cold War into an all-out conflict, resulting in the very alternate timeline to which the Na'kuhl had escaped in the first place.
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The Na'kuhl further offered to provide advanced technological weaponry to the Nazis, but held back from doing so, not trusting the [[Human]] forces and being less interested in their war than they were. In exchange, the Nazis provided the Na'kuhl with materials to build a [[temporal conduit]] with which to return to the future. ({{ENT|Storm Front|Storm Front, Part II}}) The Na'kuhl were eventually successful, and used the conduit to launch an attack on Daniels' faction in the [[31st century]], igniting the Temporal Cold War into an all-out conflict, resulting in the very same alternate timeline to which the Na'kuhl had escaped in the first place. ({{ENT|Storm Front, Part II}})
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In a last-ditch effort to restore the timeline and stop the Na'kuhl, Daniels transported [[Captain]] [[Jonathan Archer]] and the {{EnterpriseNX}} from [[2154]] to 1944. ({{ENT|Storm Front|Storm Front, Part II}}) Shortly after a wounded Archer was captured and hospitalized by the Nazis, the Na'kuhl had some involvement in overseeing his recovery. ({{ENT|Zero Hour|Storm Front}}) However, this degree of supervision was found, by Vosk, to be insufficient; after Archer escaped during an unsuccessful Nazi attempt to transfer him, another Na'kuhl named Ghroth was blamed by Vosk for not having personally supervised Archer's transfer. With the discovery that Archer was from the future, the Na'kuhl realized that they may have been located by temporal agents but also wondered how that might be. ({{ENT|Storm Front}})
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The physical appearance of the Na'kuhl was generally met with shocked responses from citizens of the era and the unexpected presence of the aliens generated some stories about their existence, rumors that gangster and resistance fighter [[Sal]] learned of. The extravagance of these tales caused an associate of his, [[Alicia Travers]], to initially disbelieve the reports. When Archer and the resistance cell traced the tales back to their source, an informant for Ghrath named [[Joe Prazki]] claimed that – even though he had only ever glimpsed his Na'kuhl contact on one occasion – Ghrath's red eyes had been enough to leave Prazki with an unforgettable impression. For one resistance fighter called [[Carmine]], the act of seeing Ghrath's Na'kuhl features caused him to almost utter an expletive in alarm and speculate that they might be simply those of a mask, a theory that was quickly denied by Sal. A later suggestion from Carmine was that the Na'kuhl had looked like a [[demon]]. Somewhat simplifying the group's struggle to identify Ghrath's appearance, Archer revealed that he had been an extraterrestrial. Sal's first instinct was to question whether the alien had originated from [[Mars]]. ({{ENT|Storm Front}})
   
In a last-ditch effort to restore the timeline and stop the Na'kuhl, Daniels transported [[Captain]] [[Jonathan Archer]] and the {{EnterpriseNX}} from [[2154]] to 1944. The crew of ''Enterprise'' was successful, managing to destroy the conduit moments before Vosk could enter. This had the effect of eliminating the changes he had made, essentially resetting the timeline, and bringing the Temporal Cold War to an end. ({{ENT|Storm Front|Storm Front, Part II}})
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The crew of ''Enterprise'' was ultimately successful in their mission, managing to destroy the conduit, moments before Vosk could enter. This had the effect of eliminating the changes he had made, essentially resetting the timeline, and bringing the Temporal Cold War to an end. ({{ENT|Storm Front|Storm Front, Part II}})
   
 
== People ==
 
== People ==

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Vosk and Kraul

Vosk, the leader of the Na'kuhl, and Kraul, a Na'kuhl officer

Ghrath

Ghrath, a Na'kuhl officer

"You fight for control of nations...we dominate entire worlds. We extend our will across time. If your race were to endure for a million years, you couldn't begin to approach what we've accomplished."

- Vosk

The Na'kuhl were a species that evolved to gain a certain degree of control over time. During the 29th century, they were a faction in the Temporal Cold War – vehemently opposed to the Temporal Accord – and were led by Vosk, a dangerous fanatic who viewed time travel as his innate right despite the damage that consequently might be done to the timeline.

Physiology

Na'kuhl blood

Na'kuhl blood

The Na'kuhl had pale complexions, bony-looking faces with bat-like features as well as bright red eyes, and many veins visible on their bald heads. (ENT: "Storm Front", "Storm Front, Part II") They also had yellowish-brown blood. (ENT: "Storm Front")

Weapons and other technology

The Na'kuhl from the 31st century were equipped with extremely powerful plasma rifles. Although these weapons required much power for portable usage, the attainment of such power was apparently very easy for the Na'kuhl in their native time period, where there were – according to an account of uncertain credibility that Vosk once made to a Nazi German general – energy cells as small as a coin. According to the same account, the Na'kuhl were additionally capable of unleashing a plague that targeted victims based on their genetic profile and could be dispersed throughout an entire country by introducing a few grams of a pathogen into that country's water supply. The Na'kuhl also used a style of hand-held communicator, in addition to the time-traveling technology they developed at different points of their development. (ENT: "Storm Front")

Subjective history

Origins

The ancestors of the Na'kuhl under Vosk's leadership worshiped gods, and Vosk once referred to them as having been considerably imaginative but substantially less technologically developed. At another time, a Na'kuhl who Vosk later respectfully described as "our greatest scientist" stated, "Every moment we live, we are moving through time."

At one point in their history under Vosk's leadership, the Na'kuhl attempted to eradicate the Suliban. They traveled into the past to prevent the Suliban from becoming sentient. However, an opposing faction of temporal agents stopped the Na'kuhl and ensured that the Suliban attained sentience, despite the ongoing enmity between the Temporal Agents and the Suliban. (ENT: "Storm Front, Part II")

Seeking refuge

The Na'kuhl were very nearly defeated and captured by Daniels' faction, but using a form of stealth time travel, they escaped to Earth in 1944 of an alternate timeline created by multiple temporal incursions from the different factions. In this reality, with the assassination of Vladimir Lenin by an unknown faction, Nazi Germany had been able to concentrate solely on the Western Front during World War II, allowing Adolf Hitler to quickly take over England and then much of the eastern coast of the United States, including New York City and Washington, DC. The Na'kuhl were allies to the Nazis and were granted ranks in the SS, complete with the "privilege" to wear SS uniforms as well as several Nazi medals.

Temporal conduit creation

Under Vosk's supervision, Na'kuhl work on creating a temporal conduit, in an effort to return to the 29th century

The Na'kuhl further offered to provide advanced technological weaponry to the Nazis, but held back from doing so, not trusting the Human forces and being less interested in their war than they were. In exchange, the Nazis provided the Na'kuhl with materials to build a temporal conduit with which to return to the future. (ENT: "Storm Front", "Storm Front, Part II") The Na'kuhl were eventually successful, and used the conduit to launch an attack on Daniels' faction in the 31st century, igniting the Temporal Cold War into an all-out conflict, resulting in the very same alternate timeline to which the Na'kuhl had escaped in the first place. (ENT: "Storm Front, Part II")

In a last-ditch effort to restore the timeline and stop the Na'kuhl, Daniels transported Captain Jonathan Archer and the Enterprise NX-01 from 2154 to 1944. (ENT: "Storm Front", "Storm Front, Part II") Shortly after a wounded Archer was captured and hospitalized by the Nazis, the Na'kuhl had some involvement in overseeing his recovery. (ENT: "Zero Hour", "Storm Front") However, this degree of supervision was found, by Vosk, to be insufficient; after Archer escaped during an unsuccessful Nazi attempt to transfer him, another Na'kuhl named Ghroth was blamed by Vosk for not having personally supervised Archer's transfer. With the discovery that Archer was from the future, the Na'kuhl realized that they may have been located by temporal agents but also wondered how that might be. (ENT: "Storm Front")

The physical appearance of the Na'kuhl was generally met with shocked responses from citizens of the era and the unexpected presence of the aliens generated some stories about their existence, rumors that gangster and resistance fighter Sal learned of. The extravagance of these tales caused an associate of his, Alicia Travers, to initially disbelieve the reports. When Archer and the resistance cell traced the tales back to their source, an informant for Ghrath named Joe Prazki claimed that – even though he had only ever glimpsed his Na'kuhl contact on one occasion – Ghrath's red eyes had been enough to leave Prazki with an unforgettable impression. For one resistance fighter called Carmine, the act of seeing Ghrath's Na'kuhl features caused him to almost utter an expletive in alarm and speculate that they might be simply those of a mask, a theory that was quickly denied by Sal. A later suggestion from Carmine was that the Na'kuhl had looked like a demon. Somewhat simplifying the group's struggle to identify Ghrath's appearance, Archer revealed that he had been an extraterrestrial. Sal's first instinct was to question whether the alien had originated from Mars. (ENT: "Storm Front")

The crew of Enterprise was ultimately successful in their mission, managing to destroy the conduit, moments before Vosk could enter. This had the effect of eliminating the changes he had made, essentially resetting the timeline, and bringing the Temporal Cold War to an end. (ENT: "Storm Front", "Storm Front, Part II")

People

Named
Unnamed

Appendices

Appearances

Background information

File:Na'kuhl, Zero hour.jpg

The only Na'kuhl to be shown in their introductory episode, "Zero Hour"

The name "Na'kuhl" is from script sources and was not mentioned on screen.

Although this species is first glimpsed at the end of "Zero Hour", the final draft of the script for that third season finale does not include them. Nevertheless, the appearance of an alien in Nazi uniform at the episode's conclusion – looking decidedly out of place in the World War II setting – was thought up by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, who wrote the episode's script. (Star Trek Magazine issue 116, p. 17) The idea originally started with the members of the series' writing staff often joking amongst themselves that, following the end of the Xindi incident, the crew of Enterprise would finally return home to Earth only to find that the planet had been invaded by giant cockroaches. Certain only that they themselves were uninterested in such a twist ending being "a Xindi cliffhanger" (in Braga's words), the writing team began to seriously consider the possibility of an unexpected conclusion to the year. "We went through a lot of different scenarios about what they would find when they got back home," offered Braga. "I can't remember who said 'Nazis,' but we just somehow ended up with Nazis. Then that didn't even feel like enough, so we decided to make it alien Nazis. We decided to do something that would just be completely unexpected, yet give us something fun for [the] next year, to kick off the season with something really interesting. So we took a stab at it." (Star Trek Magazine issue 117, pp. 61-62)

Brannon Braga was aware that there had similarly been alien Nazis in both the original Star Trek series (Ekosians in "Patterns of Force") and Star Trek: Voyager (Hirogen in the two-parter "The Killing Game" and "The Killing Game, Part II"), also having been personally involved in the latter instance. (Star Trek Magazine issue 116, p. 62) According to Rick Berman, however, no-one on Star Trek: Enterprise's writing staff worried, upon introducing the Na'kuhl, that they were too similar to Star Trek's previous Nazi aliens. (Star Trek Magazine issue 116, p. 17)

Rick Berman was pleased with the audience reaction to the brief appearance of this species in "Zero Hour". "Well, I think we got a little bit of a shock and surprise, which is what we hoped for," he said. (Star Trek Magazine issue 117, p. 17)

During the lead-up to the debut airing of the fourth season two-parter "Storm Front" and "Storm Front, Part II", the alien Nazis were repeatedly rumored, on the Internet, to be Remans – who had previously been seen in Star Trek Nemesis – though these incorrect reports were quickly refuted by Rick Berman. (Star Trek Magazine Enterprise Supplement, Star Trek Magazine issue 117, p. 7) At the time, he stated, "I have read a lot of interpretations of what it might be but, in fact, we have not seen it before. I have seen people comment that it looked like a Reman, but this is a totally new alien." (Star Trek: Communicator issue 151, p. 13)

In a deleted scene from the episode "Storm Front", a gangster named Sal privately hypothesizes to Archer that the alien seen by him at the end of "Zero Hour" may have actually been the result of one of numerous experiments that the Nazis were reported to be conducting on Humans, a possibility that Archer says he hadn't considered. (ENT Season 4 DVD)

Actress Golden Brooks, who appeared with the Na'kuhl in the "Storm Front" two-parter, was awed by the look of the species. "To see the prosthetic make-up on the alien Nazis; it was just out of this world, no pun intended," she enthused. "It's really, really amazing." (Star Trek Magazine issue 119, p. 98) On the other hand, Doug Drexler commented that the two-parter "took some fan heat for 'space Nazis.'" [1]

Apocrypha

The Department of Temporal Investigations novel Watching the Clock has a faction of Na'kuhl from the 29th century stealing a Deltan time perceptor in 2372. It is unknown if it was the same faction that eventually fled to 1944.

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