Damn kids! Starbuck is a guy! Don’t you forget it!
Possibly the best exchange in the entire franchise:
I’d heard that was a throwaway bit, tacked on at the last minute because the episode was running short.
Or maybe I’m confusing it with similar rumours about classic bits from Casablanca.
He did? check IMDB He DID! Awesome! How could I not have noticed that?
And he would still have slept with Kahn and slit his throat. 
I always thought Tomalak was a great enemy. The Defector just came on tv and I watched it. I wouldn’t call him the most vile, but he was always as shady as can be, making him a great Romulan. Too bad he disappeared about halfway through the series.
Gary Zimmerman would have fit right in with Khan’s crowd.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd- No one else comes close.
Star Trek writers always seemed hesitant about giving any good roles to Romulan characters. My theory is that it’s a fear of alienating armchair trekkies who are wondering why Spock is suddenly so angry and passionate…:rolleyes:
Telek R’Mor is a great example. They could have easily made him a crew member on Star Trek Voyager, and from a writing standpoint, that would have made a much more interesting fodder and character development than Geri Ryan’s “Oooh baby, wrap my boobs in spandex and teach me to feel feelings again” Borg babe.
In the next incarnation of BSG, both of these could be true and we won’t care.
After Nemesis, I was hoping to see how the Romulans would act after being saved by The Federation. Instead, they were all killed. I guess JJ Abrams might be the most vile person attached to Star Trek.
The Viidians from Voyager. They were an alien race who was suffering from a skin disease called the phage, which is like super leprosy. The Viidians would capture and kill other aliens to harvest their skins and organs.
In one episode, a Viidian killed a “red shirt” in a landing party, skinned his face off and applied it to himself, to make him appear more attractive to a Klingon woman. (who was the Klingon DNA 1/2 of Belanna Torres’,…I think.)
That’s the only time in my thousands of hours of Trek viewing that freaked me out.
As an aside, Trek is a lot like Saturday Night Live. It is mostly lame but occasionally brilliant.
:rolleyes:
Go suck an egg, pallie. Vic is the bee’s knees.
He’s the wasp’s knipples!
Who was insufficiently ruthless – the writers or the characters? I mean, Sisko once poisoned the biosphere of a rebellious colony to catch the rebel leader.
I too like Vic Fontaine, though I didn’t care for the episode in which the the crew was trying to save his fictional casino.
I saw the voyager episode “Deadlock” recently, and it reawakened contempt for the Vidians. Specifically there’s the bit where they kill a woman who has just given birth (“just” as in “still in her hospital bed”), stand over here discussing which of her organs to harvest first, and then go off to find her newborn baby and do the same to her.
Oh, Mudd’s not so bad. He’s a thief, a con man, and (arguably) a pimp, but he’d never kill anybody.
and he’s been drinking.
Which distinguishes him from Montgomery “I am a 60s ad exec” Scott how, exactly?