Scottish actor, known as Paul Atreides in the television miniseries of Dune, who played Malik, the ruthless Augment who turns on Arik Soong, in a three-part Enterprise story.
Alec Newman is a Scottish actor who came to wide notice playing Paul Atreides in the miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune and Children of Dune. He has since worked in British television, including Waterloo Road, and as a voice actor in video games.
In Enterprise he appears in the fourth-season trilogy Borderland, Cold Station 12 and The Augments. Newman plays Malik, one of the genetically engineered humans raised from stolen embryos by Dr Arik Soong, played by Brent Spiner.
Malik seizes leadership of the Augments by killing his rival Raakin, pushes for the theft of the remaining embryos from Cold Station 12, murders Persis and plans to attack a Klingon colony with pathogens. He is shot by Archer when he tries to kill Soong.