OK trek geeks, who’s your favorite bad guy? Lets leave out the big three, Khan, Bragman and Berma and J.J. Abrams (that remains to be seen).
I’d have to go with Gul Dukat. He started out as a standard run of the mill facist type villian, then kind of seemed like he was going to kind of change his ways…he sort of respected Sisko and seemed like he was on the same side for a while, he had feelings for Kira, and he loved his daughter (OK he tried to kill her, but even then, he still loved her), and then he turned REALLY evil…and crazy.
He always reminded me of another great villian, Roger Thorpe from the old Guiding Light soap opera (go ahead and snicker 'cause I watched Guiding Light. Roger was a baaaad motherfucker.)
Can you really call Q a villian? Q is just, well Q. More like a bored spoiled child than evil. Q just wanted attention, and he DID save humanity, after all, by introducing the Enterprise to the Borg. If not for him, they would have taken the Alpha Quadrant by surprise, and we…er…they, would have all been assimilated.
Q was OK. If Picard and everyone wouldn’t have been so anal, Q would have forgotten all aout them.
::I just got done reading Q In-Law I which Lwaxana Troi gets the powers of Q (Worf “I, for one, would not like to have you angry with me.”) and give Q the ass kicking of his life. Haha…she playes rocketball with him as the ball, while Mr. Homm sits eating popcorn, watching the game. The crew comes in and he offers them some popcorn. Funny stuff.
It’s one of the few times I liked a Lwaxana storyline. Ya gotta love Mr. Homm though.
I rather liked how Sisko dealt with Q. Just punched him right in the face.
Picard’s problem was that he was just too passive-agressive about Q.
My favorite Trek villian, not counting the aforementioned, would have to be Commander Tomalak. Sure, he was a two-dimensional Trek equivilant to Ambassador G’Kar (played by the highly talented and much missed Andreas Katsulas), but he was just fun, a true mustache twirling villian in the TNG tradition. I absolutley loved him in “The Defector”.
Gul Dukat, as long as it’s before the silly thing at pagh-wraith worshipper thing. I like ambiguous villains, and he was a villain who wanted to be a goodguy–hell, who thought he was.
Okay, I’m really old-school, but I liked the protoplasmic goobers that flew around and lodged onto Mr. Spock’s back, filtering into his spine and turning him damned-near insane before they figured out how to get them out of him.
Kor… at least in his first incarnation. The very first Klingon Character and he was great.
His anger at being a Military Govenor over a “Bunch of sheep” and the slimy way he talked about his mind probe “It’s more of a mind sifter,”
Best of all is his last line when Kirk says looks like teh war is called off
Although, actually, I’ll even take him up to the final episode. Watching him manipulate Winn was just too much fun. I thought it was going to lead somewhere really interesting, not just have him engage Sisko in a bout of fisticuffs. How disappointing.
But before that, even when he became the Emissary of the Pagh-Wraights, it seemed like he could be doing it because he actually believed it would be best for Bajor to have him lead them. Nutty, but believable, given his view of himself before he went loopy, and given just how fragile his mental health was after he lost everything.
And, while we’re speaking of Her Condescendingness, I’m going to add Kai Winn to the list.
And maybe even Commander Eddington. Not truly a villain, but that’s why he made such a good one.
Oh, and Intendant Kira. Gay male here, but oh my god… ::mops brow in a slightly camp fashion::
Trelane from Squire of Gothos… while much like Q (spoiled child) he was much more a villan than Q ever was… were it not for his parents, he would’ve went thru with his actions.
From ST:TNG, the Cardassian that tortured Picard… Dukat was just self serving, and he went from bad/good and back again so often I thought he was a WWE superstar.
"Not now dear, mommy has to chop some wood! (or something like that one of my favorite books!)
Best villain would have to be what’s her name from TNG the drumhead. Looking for conspiracies and finding them only in her mind. She was scary because she was crazy and had the authority to act on it!
I’m going to have to say the whole durned Borg Collective. At least, before Voyager ruined it. The TNG Borg weren’t just villains … they were a force of nature.
We ran a futuristic D&D campaign off a similar race…not the borg, mind you, but a race of cyborgs that didn’t want to assimilate but simply destroy. But it was very close - the technology level was much higher than the humans, and they were well-nigh unbeatable.
Very cool. I agree that the Borg were cool villains…but not enough depth to them. I like my villains to have angst.
(or something like that one of my favorite books!)