Star Trek the Series: Most Memorable Villains

[Ghostwind]

Following up on the thread talking about the greatest Star Trek movie villains (http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33463), I thought I would post a poll asking about your favorite and most memorable villains from any Star Trek series in general.

Feel free to speak up who you picked and why (even if they are not listed).

 

[Mr Fidgit]

i've got to go with Khan

--don't get me wrong, Dukat was a great villain, but not the first that comes to mind (for me)

(and Q wasn't really a bad guy - a nuisance or a foil maybe. in 3e terms; a hazard )

 

[Scribe Ineti]

I'd say the Borg, before VOY emasculated them.

 

[Eosin the Red]

What the Scibe said

 

[Whodat]

For those of you who know me (and my apocalyptic hatred regarding TNG), this one is going to sound a bit peculiar. My favorite villain was actually Ardra from the TNG episode “Devil’s Due”.
She was a one-shot villain who attempted to con the inhabitants of an entire planet into believing that she was the devil incarnate.
Why is she my fav? Well, for a one-shot character, she had more personality than most of the cardboard stand-ins that usually are on for one episode. Plus, she kept everyone off-balance (including the crew of the Enterprise) for the whole episode. She was boastful and cocky, and generally being an in-your-face pain in the butt. Heck, they even thought she might be a member of the “Q Continuum”, until they found out it was all a hoax!

Of course, I also liked Harry Mudd from TOS for the same reasons. I guess I’ve got a weakness for those shifty con-artist types.

 

[Tempuswolf]

Kira Nerys
The Intendant of Terak Nor
DS9
She was just a very, very bad girl.

'nuff said

 

[VorpalBunny]

I'm with Whodat: Harcourt Fenton Mudd.

Additionally, I always liked the Romulans (hopefully I still will after seeing Nemesis) and the vorta from Deep Space 9.

 

[Ranger REG]

For those of you who know me (and my apocalyptic hatred regarding TNG), this one is going to sound a bit peculiar. My favorite villain was actually Ardra from the TNG episode “Devil’s Due”.
She was a one-shot villain who attempted to con the inhabitants of an entire planet into believing that she was the devil incarnate.
Why is she my fav? Well, for a one-shot character, she had more personality than most of the cardboard stand-ins that usually are on for one episode. Plus, she kept everyone off-balance (including the crew of the Enterprise) for the whole episode. She was boastful and cocky, and generally being an in-your-face pain in the butt. Heck, they even thought she might be a member of the “Q Continuum”, until they found out it was all a hoax!

Ardra?

For a one-shot character, she's two dimensional. If you want a good one-shot TV character villain in the contemporary Trek series, I prefer the clown (portrayed by Michael McKean) in a pre-Braga VOYAGER episode, "The Thaw."

 

[Whodat]

Yes, Ardra!
What part of Ardra didn’t you understand?

Let’s see:
Cocky… check!
In-your-face pain in the butt… check!
Personality… check!

(Ha! Now I know why I like her. Sounds like… me!)

 

[Asmo]

Species 8472.


Asmo