# Favorite Trek Villain... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 2, 2006, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-trek-villain/366983 "2006-08-02T05:52:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-trek-villain/366983/61 "2006-08-04T14:21:56Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] **Anaamika** , you KNOW I can deny you nothing that you ask for in rhyme. However, that sentence did not rhyme. [/quote] You do NOT want to hear my attempts at rhyming. > [@](#): > > S’alright. Sam would kill you if you tried anything, anyway. _snort_ > [@](#): > > I’m not sure I mentioned that scene when last I spoke ofthat movie, but… > > BEST > DAMN > ARMY > ROUSING > SPEECH > EVER. We watch other movies and someone tries to make a speech, and we look at each other and go “They need Theoden King.” The other scene, too, in Two Towers… _"Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this? "_ Gives me chills even just reading it. > [@](#): > > Of course, the problem with it is that it utterly undercuts movie-Aragorn’s later feeble attempt at being muscular & kingly in front of the Black Gate. Viggo’s problem - and Aragorn’s - was he isn’t really cut out to be a leader, so much as a loner. And much as I think he is one of the hottest men in that movie, that silly breastplate just doesn’t cut it. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-trek-villain/366983/62 "2006-08-04T14:28:03Z")
Did I wander into the wrong thread? I thought we were talking about Trek villains… ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-trek-villain/366983/63 "2006-08-04T14:35:04Z")
I know. I’m sorry. But I really blame _points finger dramatically_ **Malacandra** , who brought it up first! I’ll quit hijacking now. Back to your regularly scheduled thread. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-trek-villain/366983/64 "2006-08-04T20:07:35Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] … the look on Mr. Spock’s face when Kirk was bemoaning the inevitable death of Edith Keeler. [/QUOTE] Actually, a better choice for **The Look of Spock Love** comes in the denoument of _Requium for Methuselah_, when Spock deletes the pain of Rayna’s demise from Kirk’s … soul (?) … :dubious: The Hobbits weren’t gay, but it sure seems like the actors playing them were directed to gay it up a bit, no? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-trek-villain/366983/65 "2006-08-04T20:45:05Z")
And here we see the greatest of all Star Trek villians, Distraction… all one needs to defeat any of the Trek heros is some form of illicit sexual distraction, real or imagined, such that everyone involved starts thinking about other things. I give you, Ilia, The Komoloid, Uhura’s fan dance as prime examples. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-trek-villain/366983/66 "2006-08-04T20:52:12Z")
[QUOTE=simster] And here we see the greatest of all Star Trek villians, Distraction… all one needs to defeat any of the Trek heros is some form of illicit sexual distraction, real or imagined, such that everyone involved starts thinking about other things. I give you, Ilia, The Komoloid, Uhura’s fan dance as prime examples. [/QUOTE] The Komoloid = sexual distraction Uhura = sexual disgustion She gained weight in that movie! I did not need to see that! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-trek-villain/366983/67 "2006-08-04T21:40:40Z")
[QUOTE=Quasimodal] She gained weight in that movie! [/QUote] Ira told her, “I want to see more of you on the set.” She thought, “Okay, I’ll gain weight.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-trek-villain/366983.md?page=3)