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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 influence 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 an alien race from the 29th century, and a faction in the Temporal Cold War, vehemently opposed to the Temporal Accord. They were led by Vosk, a dangerous fanatic who viewed time travel as his innate right, despite the damage that might be done to the timeline.

At one point in their history, 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.

The Na'kuhl were very nearly defeated and captured by Daniels' faction, but using a form of stealth time travel they escaped to Earth, 1944, in an alternate timeline created by multiple temporal incursions from 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 conquer Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, and much of the eastern coast of the United States, including Washington, DC.

The Na'kuhl became allies to Nazi Germany and were granted ranks in the SS complete with the "privilege" to wear SS uniforms as well as several Nazi medals. The Na'kuhl further offered to provide advanced technological weaponry to the Nazis, but held back from doing so, not trusting the German forces. In exchange, the Germans provided the Na'kuhl with the 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 Cold War into an all-out conflict, resulting in the very alternate timeline to which the Na'kuhl had escaped in the first place. In a last-ditch effort to restore the timeline, Daniels transported Captain Jonathan Archer and the Enterprise NX-01 from 2154 to 1944 so they could stop the Na'kuhl. The crew of Enterprise was successful, managing to destroy the conduit moments before Vosk could enter. This had the effect of resetting the timeline and bringing the Temporal Cold War to an end. (ENT: "Storm Front", "Storm Front, Part II")

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Background

Although this species is first glimpsed at the end of "Zero Hour", the final draft script for that third season finale does not include the species. Nevertheless, the appearance of an alien in Nazi uniform at the episode's conclusion 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)

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 (they having appeared 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)

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

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]

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