Best Star Trek: The Next Generation Antagonists

[DreadPirateMurphy]

Here are 10 repeat, memorable antagonists. I don't think I've fogotten any obvious ones like Harry Mudd in the TOS poll.

 

[trancejeremy]

Troi's mother.

 

[DreadPirateMurphy]

Troi's mother.

Curse you, trancejeremy! She was really only an antagonist to Picard.

 

[Vigilance]

Gotta be the Borg. Three of my 5 favorite TNG episodes are borg-related (Q Who? and Best of Both Worlds 1 and 2).

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).

Chuck

 

[sydbar]

Professor Moriarity was the best antagonist.

 

[Nightfall]

Tie: Q and the Borg, with Q winning out on personality.

 

[Aaron L]

Tie: Q and the Borg, with Q winning out on personality.

I'll have to agree with that.

 

[Nightfall]

And people call me crazy and biased.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Meh. None.

The borg were fantastic villains at first, but they were eventually horribly over-used. (To be fair, though, much of that over-use happend on Voyager, but even just counting TNG, they were getting tired by the end, there.) While I loved most of Q's appearances, he was often more of a plot point than an antagonist in the truest sense of the word.

Honestly, I think one of the things that kept TNG from rising to its full potential was the lack of a truly meaty antagonist.

 

[KenM]

Wesley Crusher.