Best Star Trek: The Next Generation Antagonists

[Orius]

Of all of those only one was a true threat, a threat that always returened, a threat so insidioius that they never recognized it, even though it has been there since the 1st season.


The Holodeck!

True, but that's a fault of bad writing. Holodisaster episodes started to get pretty old fast.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Lore and or Data.

 

[Welverin]

because I can't help myself...

I had to go with Q, I just couldn't bring myself to back any of the others.

The conscription against ongoing or recurring plot really hurts TNG here.

The Borg were also the bad guy of the single best TNG movie, which Id rank in the top two trek movies ever (it's tied with Wrath of Khan).

I don't recall them being in a good movie.

Oh, and the Ferengi hve no place on this list.

Best Antagonists in my option were the writers of the series.

Um, no. The writers kept the show from completely sucking, it's Rick Berman who was the true antagonist.

 

[Kesh]

I voted Roumlans, but really just for Tomalok, who should've been singled out. Kastulas ruled.

Absolutely. The Romulans have always been the best villains in ST, combining their intrigue, secrecy and sheer military power. Katsulas at Tomalok was perfect.

 

[Rackhir]

The borg always struck me as refugees from "Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future"

That plus they were so slow and lethargic that I could never take them seriously as villians. Their popularity seems to be largely due to the "Imprinting" Effect as they were the first villians introduced in STNG that weren't a bad joke (the Ferengi) and for a lot of people STNG was their first "Trek".

I thought the Romulan's had a lot of potential when they were first introduced as I loved their arrogance and their ship design, but nothing was done with them for a long time afterwards and they just became another set of pretty generic bad guys.

 

[Mercule]

Anybody but the holodeck, though Borg would be pretty low on my list, too.

Romulans are a personal favorite.

 

[Kesh]

The borg always struck me as refugees from "Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future"

That plus they were so slow and lethargic that I could never take them seriously as villians. Their popularity seems to be largely due to the "Imprinting" Effect as they were the first villians introduced in STNG that weren't a bad joke (the Ferengi) and for a lot of people STNG was their first "Trek".

I thought the Romulan's had a lot of potential when they were first introduced as I loved their arrogance and their ship design, but nothing was done with them for a long time afterwards and they just became another set of pretty generic bad guys.

From what I've read, there was supposed to be a long "arc" storyline involving the return of the Romulans, with hints about the Borg through the seasons until it came down to a big crisis for the Borg invasion. However, the suits thought an arc would be bad for drawing in new viewers, so we got the chopped up bits of the borg plot, and the Romulans went to the wayside.

Not to mention the whole thing came out during the Writer's Guild strike, so they had to recycle a lot of old scripts from other series they had on hand.

 

[Aesthetic Monk]

I voted for the Borg. Ignoring the ruination of the concept on later series as well as the TNG "Hugh" story arc, they were a fantastically threatening nemesis. As originally portrayed, they were more an unstoppable force of nature than a foe that could be fought. And when they finally did appear to be fought, they were responsible for some of the best Trek in the series, IMO. (Indeed, one of the best episodes, IMO, took place immediately after the Borg were defeated, when Picard returns to Earth to visit his brother.)

Absolutely right. I saw "Best of Both Worlds Part I" when it first aired, and I was totally blown away by it--probably more so than by any other Trek episode. While Part II didn't quite live up to the setup, the follow-up episode was really well done, too. The problem was that the Borg were too monochrome and too unstoppable--and too popular; hence, they had to be humanized (Hughmanized?), weakened, and warmed over.

 

[DreadPirateMurphy]

The Borg have pulled nicely ahead of Q, but Q gets the honorable mention.