You didn’t miss much.
“YOU BROKE MY SWORD!”
Knead: The Kang quote is one of my faves! Anytime I get my hands on an intercom system or a hands-free phone or a voice modulator, I always use that quote!
I forgot to mention Loki and Bele from “Let This Be Your Last Battlefield” (TOS)…they were a hoot.
Picking my second choice helps.
Honorable mention: Spoofe, for picking my third choice, Gul Dukat. We will graciously ignore the taseless anti-Voyager comment.
^:)^
It is still possible to win. Monetary compensation to the Judge will weigh heavily in future decisions.
Aw, heck, c’mon Carni… Voyager had its moments, but it was nothing compared to TOS, TNG, and even DS9. Hopefully, Enterprise doesn’t follow the trend.
Hey, you got honorable mention.
If you want to push it, see the rules about monetary compensaion for the judge.
Besides, Janeway and Paris turnung into salamanders beats * Spock’s Brain * or Wesley Saving The Ship.
Not much beats “I can see my house from here!”, though…
Christopher Lloyd?? Ahhhhh… too much “Jim” to take him seriously as a Klingon. Khan or Q is about all.
All right, point. My biggest disappointment with Voyager is the fact that they came up with a REALLY GOOD premise for the show, an opportunity for a bunch of new plots and storylines, and all they delivered was just “TNG Part 2”.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd, from TOS… his fate at the hands of hundreds of androids fashioned after his wife is one of the best…
In TNG, how about the mysterious race of bugs that invaded Starfleet Command? They never resolved that one.
Weyoun was so perfectly evil in his running of the Dominion war effort, but I feel he was wasted at the end; there should have been more action in the final battles of DS9.
In Voyager, the Krenim in “Year of Hell” played by Kurtwood Smith chewed the scenery well.
Nagilam
“In order for me to understand death, I must first experience all kinds of death.
This will require about a third of your crew…perhaps half.”
Another vote for Gul Dukat – for the first six seasons, at least, the guy was pure magic. Warrior, bureaucrat, father, freedom-fighter, patriot, traitor, madman – he was complex, exciting and forever evolving. And boy did he love to talk.
Shame about the final season, when he went all one-dimension. (Set the Alpha Quadrant on fire? Puh-lease. The man was much more interesting when he wanted everyone to like him.)
Some great Gul Dukat moments:[ul][li]His collapse in The Sacrifice of Angels as it all slips through his hands – again.[/li][li]His welcome to Sisko and Jake as they arrive in Cardassian space at the end of Explorers.[/li][li]Blithely walking around Ops in Civil Defense as the counter-insurgency weapon shoots at everyone but him.[/li][li]The runabout trip with Sisko in The Maquis, Part One, discussing his children (and the fact that his control panel has for some reason been turned off).[/li][li]Discussing Ziyal’s artwork with Kira in Sons and Daughters. Almost like a real family![/li][li]The first time he appears disguised as a Bajoran, in Penumbra. WTF???[/li][li]Kira pulling a thorn out of his arse in Indescretion (yes, I know I’m easily amused).[/li][/ul]
Other good “villains” were Commander Tomalok, and Michael Eddington. Seska had her moments too.
Nick
I think Mr. Chews deserves something for Eddington. He was indeed pretty cool. Helped sae Sisco’s ass in that transported accident, “Dr. Bashier, I presume” I believe it was. His last stand reminds me of * The Sand Pebbles * as does Sisco’s “Hello ship” greeting the San Paulo, renamed Defiant. PErhaps the “Bad/Good Guy Award”.
Harry Mudd. Hand’s down. Khan’s a close second.
Oh, and go Stihlers!
You have me at a disadvantage, Sir.
I am shamed…unless he is someone from the Simpsons, then I’m proud.
^:)^
My favorite Trek villain is Evil Kirk from the episode “The Enemy Within” (“While orbiting planet Alpha 117, good and evil come to life when a bizarre transporter accident splits Kirk into two halves, Good Kirk and Evil Kirk!”).
You can’t get much more evil than that (I hope, or we’re all toast!).
I always liked the evil Dr. Janice Lester from Turnabout Intruder if only for the chance to see Shatner play a woman.
So many really excellent villians throughout the Star Trek years…
Kahn – A classic, and my fav for a long, long time and deserves honorable mention.
As a child I was super scared by the salt monster in TOS – you know, when it finally materialized as its true self and you saw that awful round, gaping mouth, and at that point realized how those poor victims had perished. <shudder>
Q – A fun, fun character. In the vein of Trelaine, but taken to new heights.
Borg – What a concept! Truly scary and original evil villian, but not an actual person, which leads me to my choice for the “best” villian:
The Queen Bee Borg. Seeing her writhing, live half-spine lowered into her computer encasement and observing her feeling of gratification as she’s clipped up on her shoulder blades, thus reaching total “assimilation” with her computerized body. Oh, my god, what mind thought this up? That’s just outstanding.
I would then invite you to check out the classic movie “The Creeping Terror,” which is about a killer shag carpet from outer space. In at least one scene, you can see a sneaker of one of the locals used to “animate” it.
My pick for villain was the Excalbian, animated by gorilla-at-large Janos Prohaska in “The Savage Curtain.” Such a philosophical bad guy, who just wanted to know the difference between good and evil.
And a brief mention about the Talosians: After having put Captain Pike thru all kinds of hell and finding out that humans are just too wild and woolly to be allowed to repopulate their planet, they just say, “Sorry. Goodbye.”
Pike then retorts, “Just like that, huh?”
To which one of the Talosians (but not the Keeper/Magistrate, played by Meg Wyllie) replies (not an exact quote, but the same meaning): “Your insuitability has doomed our race to extinction. Is that not enough?”