10 Most Powerful Villains In Star Trek History
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Q I really don't see him as a villain. He is just a trouble maker.
Yeah he's not really a villain, especially if you take All Good Things into everything he's done over the course of Trek. He basically saved Humanity after all, by giving Picard clues, helping him travel through timelines of his life, etc. I'm still hoping he'll show up on Picard, especially with this new bit about a super advanced race that comes along and destroys life once a synthetic threshold is reached. My guess is its the Q, but Humanity is different and won't be destroyed by Q, obviously.
@xc5647321 xc5647321 True of course, but the Borg would have taken way way longer to get to Federation space/the alpha quadrant before Q did his thing. Except of course the Borg have transwarp which we didn't know in TNG but that's besides the point. And even though the Borg were already on their way to Earth etc before Q intervened, there was still tons of time before they would show up "naturally". But then again as you said, the Federation etc wouldn't have had time to get any defenses prepared either so there's that as well. Q has always had a fascination with Humanity, especially Picard and his crew. Whether it's a fascination that a owner has with his/her pet or something more, I guess only Q can say for sure.
@xc5647321 xc5647321 Oh I'm sure the novels do a much better job of explaining things than the shows lol and I do remember a specific novel that went into great detail about why Q did what he did, and what he hoped Humanity would get out of it etc. It was a longggg time ago though.
@xc5647321 xc5647321 Like sayyyyy, Nerdrotic and company? lol
@xc5647321 xc5647321 Q Squared is one of my favorite Trek novels ever written!
Q is not a villain, on the contrary I see him more as a hero. Without Q the Federation would not have been ready for when the Borg arrived, which they were already on the way. Q's methods may seem cruel, but for every encounter the Enterprise crew were tested and came out better for it. Like when Picard "died", he learned to appreciate his past. Even the mistakes, as it all shaped him into what he was meant to be.
Edit: Also without the Q Continuum, Colonel Thadeous Riker would have died from his wounds in the Civil War. So there would have been no William T Riker to stop the Borg.
"Q" is much too complicated a character to be labelled simply as a "villain"
Q introduced the Enterprise to the Borg. Otherwise, the Borg would never have come.
I wonder - why do you think the Borg were on their way? The Alpha quadrant is so far away that it's unlikely they would care. Although the transwarp hub kind of ruins the idea, it's safe to say that there was little of interest for them in the Alpha quadrant since Borg technology was already superior to almost everything. Maybe some species, but there were plenty to explore in the Delta quadrant.
@@jacobkuchenbecker6421 They were already on their way. Q said it himself. They would eventually find the Federation.
Agreed. He is a teacher not a villain.
The Borg are more powerful than the Dominion. And you left out Species 8742
8472 should have been #1, as I don't take Q as a villain. He liked Picard and the crew. I especially liked that episode that was a flashback to Picard's academy days when he got his artificial heart. That was what Q was about.
As a note, The Borg are on the dominion's doorstep, they have been longer than they have been on the doorstep of the alpha and beta quadrants, the borg are the major players in the delta quadrants, meanwhile the dominion is the main players of the gamma AND hold a larger territory than the borg, and to describe that as a feat of power, since the Dominion has been in range of the Borg far longer than most other major powers, it also means they probably have to of had dealt with many more probes, spheres, cubes, and tactical cubes, potentially massive fleets.
@@funkmantim2661 Theoretically wouldn't that make the dominion a far juicier target than the federation? Getting their hands on some Dominion tech and possibly assimilating a shape shifter would and should be a top priority of the borg. Imagine combining shape shifting with borg nanites.
@@beayn Unfortunately, the borg were never as brilliant as we thought.
Firstly, the big picture, the Borg are in technological stagnancy majority of the time. They only ever assimilate individuals with technology useful to them, however they almost never develop any new technology outside of better ways to assimilate, but even then the issues are right there. If they were brilliant they would of never needed help fighting species 8472 in the first place.
The smartest thing they had done was attempt to make a figurehead out of Picard to make the assimilation of earth easier, and even then their extreme lack of any diplomacy makes them hard to want to ally with.
They even refused to assimilate cultures with less advanced technology than themselves, but are willing to assimilate technology they pretty much already have the knowledge to reproduce or even improve on, along with individual races they deem worthy despite the fact that due to the excessive amount of implants that regardless of how much they assimilate a species that their drones are all almost the same excluding ones which are visibly larger or stronger than humanoids.
Their most fatal flaw however? unwillingess to adapt to the galaxy at large , instead keeping the exact same agenda it has had countless times, resistance is futile. This is a bit of a parody game but I once played a game that pretty much played off the major factions in star trek, in it the borg counterpart was essentially the opposite of what we know of them, though that was AFTER a not in game event where the hive as a whole decided to be more "human" and diplomatic, and it actually worked for them, it was pretty hard not to have them as a ally not because of their technology which was almost useless in the final fight, but because that they were now trying to change their ways in a galaxy still based around a klingon like faction which had a thing about superiority, a vulcan like faction that acted like prophets, a ferengi like faction that had even more twisted rules that they did not care about breaking, and even a faction based around 8472 that was literally eating them because they found them delicious.
It is just like what is already happening in stuff like Star Trek Online with the Collaboration, even if it is hard for the Borg to find allies because of their past, it is not impossible!
But instead, we get our now and forever borg which never truly adapt, constantly war with EVERYONE, and will even distrupt the timeline in order to wipe out a foe who has proven to be torublesome. It could of been avoided even, the Borg were technologically advanced even compared to a lot of what we already seen in TNG, but the fact that they lacked diplomacy is what sealed their fates.
It all is also why the Dominion is above them, the Dominion makes alliances, they have a actual military that can handle them, hell they have faithful soldiers willing to die by crashing their ships where as the Borg would just end up trying to fix a problem before the realization that their ship is actually not going to survive.
@@funkmantim2661 I agree and disagree. They do have to assimilate a foe to be able to properly adapt to them, but at the same time they saw Humanity as worthy for assimilation for many reasons other than just technology. This proves they do seek out new civilizations that are different and worthy of assimilation and the Dominion should have been an inviting target, even if perhaps they didn't go about it correctly. It's possible they simply didn't expand that much in that direction. No matter your empire, expanding in multiple directions at once is difficult.
What about Tribbles!? A foe so terrible that it causes even the mighty Klingon Empire to fear!
@Kato Ho Ten Soeng The Tribbles were completely wiped out by a single Klingon raid... no matter how you slice it, that ain't power.
Yeah but that was technically established as a man-made threat and we all know that's an endless list
@@swishfish8858 Tribbles weren't wiped out though. Their homeworld was destroyed, but they still existed on other planets, or in the ownership of people who kept them as pets.
Also, your forgetting the DS9: Troubles and Tribble-ations episode where Sisko brought them back and they invaded Quarks bar.
@@johnwhitehouse4546 actually they did more than invade Quark's bar they invaded the entire promenade
@@olicityfan1150 Yes, but it was more memorable them invading the bar.
I'm surprised you left out the Douwd? The being who fell in love with a human girl and when a race of being attacked and killed her he simply made them disappear with a thought. "Star Trek NG". A race of about 50 billion beings, called the Husnock.
Nagilum?
memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nagilum
He was simply a being that wanted to be left alone rather a villain. His utter destruction of the Husnock was done out of enraged grief rather that calculated malice.
@@altairprime7895 true, but he was a villain in the episode, and he was extremely powerful. Q (in canon) never did half of what Kevin Uxbridge did, however 'deserved'
So happy to see that I made the list. Cmdr Tomalak was my favourite romulan. Andreas Katsulas played him superbly but I have to admit, his portrayal of Ambassador G'Kar on Babylon 5 was sublime.
Yeah wished they did more with him in the movies and even in later TNG seasons.
I thought that same thing as well.
He was amazing on B5, probably the best actor on the show, although Londo was good too. It's funny how the supporting actors of that show were far superior to the main cast Sinclair and Sheradon were kinda terrible.
THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!!!
What about Species 8472?
They were so powerful, they forced the *Borg* to seek out help.
No one else ever managed to do THAT.
Note: While they aren't exactly "villains", the same can be said about Q. Yet he is not just on the list but on the Number 1 spot. Therefore, despite the name, this list seems to be less about "villains" and more about "enemies of the Federation at one point or another" making Species 8472 viable candidates.
While Species 8472 were mighty indeed, I think their advantage over the Borg specifically comes from now I'll equipped the Borg were to face this particular threat. Species 8472 were perfectly equipped to deal with all the Borgs most powerful Tools, in particular their immunity to be assimilated.
But for non-borg factions, like the federation or the Hirogen, they were able to deal with Species 8472, even though they were an impressive adversary (which is exactly why the Hirogen hunted them down)
@@Dahxelb the Hirogen were only dealing with one individual and Voyager survived attacks because plot reasons.
@@Dahxelb The Hirogen were only dealing with one individual, who's ship had been damaged in the war, and it took them months to wear it down, and even then, the pilot got the better of them, until Voyager intervened.
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And yet they put Q on the list.
And on the number 1 spot, no less.
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Still doesn't make him a villain "with a singular goal, which is at least in part to destroy the federation".
This is a bad list. Seems like a mashup of “most powerful villains” and “best/most iconic villains.” Tomolak was just a Romulan military commander the Enterprise-D ran into a few times. That’s hardly the power to snuff out entire solar systems or galaxies like some of the villains on Trek have been able to do.
Kahn is number 9? Outrageous!
Honourable mention should go to Trelane from TOS. He's essentially a proto-Q; godlike power and obsessed with humanity's ability to make war but without any of the guise of teaching humanity
They did canonise Trelane in Q-Squared, being fair. An excellent, absurdly camp book I highly recommend, honestly.
@@celestialm3909 Oh trust me, I'm very familiar with that book. Even had a signed copy by Peter David
He wasn't even an adult!
@@celestialm3909 I didn't think the novels were canon. But it does seem pretty obvious Trelane is a Q.
@@robertbeste Oh no, they're not - just thought it was worth mentioning. :) They've actually contradicted it recently, too - I've just read The Q Conflict, an official comic from last October, and he's just a higher lifeform in the same power range in that! So it's kinda 'choose your own canon' at this point :) lol
The title should be "The Most Memorable" not "Most Powerful". There are many more powerful enemies in Star Trek than many of what yo mentioned. Here are a few which could quite possibly defeat The Dominion or even The Borg.
The First Federation - From TOS - The Corbomite Maneuver (Powerful enough to immobilize the Enterprise)
The Metrons - From TOS - Arena (Powerful enough to immobilize the Enterprise and The Gorn vessel)
Nomad - From TOS - The Changeling (Powerful enough to destroy entire planets)
Hennock - From TOS - Return To Tomorrow (Godlike powers to destroy with a single thought)
Gary Mitchell - From TOS - Where No Man Has Gone Before (Godlike powers to create and destroy at will)
Trelaine - From TOS - The Squire Of Gothos (Godlike powers to control matter and energy)
The Douwd - From TNG - The Survivors (Powerful enough to destroy an entire species with the single thought no matter where they were in the universe)
The Douwd! I completely forgot about that while watch this. Thank you! And that was one of my favorite episodes, especially the performance he gave.
Good list. There's even a current comic book about Q, Trelaine, Metrons and Organians to see who's most powerful.
Nagilum?
@@UnimatrixOne I don't remember that one. Which series was it from and what were the powers?
@@katherinkeegan8601 Ever heard of google? :P
memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nagilum
The Borg were ruined when they revealed a queen. They are just not as scary when they are led by a queen. The total hive mind with no individuals was far more terrifying.
I assume that this was done to make it easier for the viewer, viewers are used to some sort of hierarchy! In the Doctor Who universe, the CYBERMEN are supposed to have a "Hive-mind" as well, regardless they have "Cyber Controllers", "Cyber Leaders", "Cyber Lieutenants" and on one occasion a "Cyber King" ;)!
agreed pre-movie TNG Borg were the best
@@sgtmyers88 Both the movies and Voyager diluted the Borg so much as to make them a punchline rather than a credible terror. There is a pattern in trek of doing this though. The Ferengi also changed significantly and became something much different and less threatening thanks to DS9 and Enterprise.
Agreed
Funny enough a Queen can be explained by (orignal) Borg-logic.
Said that the Borg were unable to integrate a faction into their collective, even though they had superior technology. It could be said that the Borg-Queen is nothing but another adaption to that cause. That this was at least a thought in her creation can easily be assumed by Picard becoming Locutus. That her existence was retconned to be already established before Locutus is another thing.
This said, as the Borg thrive to perfection, they would actually adapt to individuality if they, for some reason, come to the conclusion that an individual mind could reach perfection faster than a collective mind. The extreme adaptibility of the Borg-philosophy is maybe the core problem of Borg story-writing. Depending on assimilated knowledge the Borg could turn into almost anything, without the slightest stretch.
Problem with all is, that the more and deeper you explore a certain topic, the less threatening it becomes. A threat that we do not understand is the most threatening of all. The more we know, the less terrifying something becomes.
So, having the Borg appear again and again, as favorite 'villains' would be impossible without the 'hero'-faction getting to know more about them each time, and therefor we. It's some kind of reappearing problem for writers of all sorts.
Some stories work best if not explored any further. But you know, the audiance doesn't like that either. So, the 'downgrade' of the Borg simply had to happen.
About Q:Data once said that his attitude towards Picard, was like a master and a beloved pet.
Tomalak ranked higher than Chang, Khan, and Dukat? i disagree strongly.
I wouldn't even put Chang on the list. Cool eyepatch but overall just a dumb villain from a bad movie.
Indeed.
@@pwnmeisterage WTF Star Trek VI is one of the best in the franchise and chang one of its best villains
@@pwnmeisterage The parts of the movie with Sulu in command of the Excelsior are parts of that movie I did like.
He must be talking about "Ambassador Tomalak." At least that was my thought after hearing this and du cat.
John de Lancie was an awesome vilain in Stargate SG-1 too. He's a great vilain everywhere ;-)
I wish there was a stargate video game, and starship troopers
@@torynnielsen5646 There's been a few video games. I still remember playing Stargate on the SNES. But no really good/big one.
@@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365 we need a big budget one. Not these shitty flashgames or computer games made in a weekend
@@torynnielsen5646 I agree.... A shame that so many great projects have been abandoned over the years. We missed out on so many great games that were in development
I really wish they would have brought him out as an ascended being, they aren't quite Q level but pretty close to the prophets.
Triggered by Gul Dukat being pronounced "Du Cat". Did you even watch the show? :P
That's just the guys accent
Forget that, he pronounced V'Ger with a soft 'G' instead of "Vee-Juhr."
@@ScottishLegend Its also an Ibiza test. Not really an accent thing.
apparently he didn't. neither did the script writer.
@@jsullivan2112 Obviously. But saying it that way would make for a far less punchy comment, wouldn't it?
The Xindi were fools for testing their prototype weapon on Earth. Surely there were planets in the expanse they could have used and not tipped their hand to Starfleet
Excuse you... Lt. Uhura had the idea. "Thing's got to have a tailpipe, hasn't it?"
She had the idea, but Spock came up with how to turn that into reality. Uhura: the what. Spock: the how
@@danij5055 Fair enough.
Other way around, Spock raised the point about gas and Uhura suggested they use the equipment they had on board for cataloguing gaseous anomalies. (Which was the Excelsior's mission at the beginning of the film, incidentally.)
Picard was NOT lured unknowingly into by Tomalak. Picard anticipated it and called on the Klingons to spring his own trap. It wasn't "timely intervention" like they just happened to be there.
DID YOU EVEN WATCH THAT EPISODE???
You got that right.
Most powerful has to go to Kevin Uxbridge (ST:TNG "The Survivors"). He killed more than all the others put together in an instant with a single thought. No other has come close to that level of destruction.
Yes, correct.
Kevin wiped out a whole race with a thought in TNG
I wouldn't exactly call Q a villain - though I do agree that he/it is THE MOST POWERFUL of all of the beings on the list - he is more of a troll if anything else. He sort of mellowed out a bit, but just about everything he's done was try to move humanity's way of thinking forward if you really look at it without bias. Q on Voyager was a little bit nerfed - but even then I think he was faking it somewhat.
Q is like a kid who has a model trainset in the basement. He goes down to play with his toys when nobody's looking and gets in trouble when he breaks them. He starts as Sid, but ends up like Andy.
Good Q analogy, @@swishfish8858.
Q is hands down, the Greatest Troll of All Time. But a semi useful one. That said can we please pretend Into Darkness never happened and bump Khan up past Chang and Tomalok at least?
Q mellowed out guess he met Fluttershy Oh thats Discord same character different show
I wouldn't call Q so much as a villain as he is a teacher/prankster who tends to take things too far.
I see Q as more of a troublemaker than a villain
@@jeffburdette2025Q is still an "adversary" and an "antagonist". Sometimes.
@IdleBigots Not always. He's wanted to "pay a debt", he's wanted to hide from Q, he's wanted to find a hidden Q, he's wanted to exact vengeance, he's been jealous over a girl. Very personal reasons, some self-betterment but not humanity-betterment.
What about Gary Mitchell, from ST:TOS episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before"?
Gary Mitchell is an interesting case of a hero character made villainous due to alien intervention. Unsure if that's why he didn't qualify.
Theres a video on youtube about the death of the SS Valiant the ship that left behind the data recorder the Enterprise picked up. Also Star Trek Continues on youtube, their last two episodes are about the Gary Mitchell effect, to much worse an ending.
Mitchell was interesting...He seemed to come out of his evil when his power was reduced and unaware of his actions. Yet he didn't seem possessed or controlled in any way. It was curious. Dr. Dana seemed less effected by her power but she was only a super being for a short time. Perhaps Koreb and Sylvia the intergalactic explorers of "Catspaw" were corrupted in the same way by their power, though Koreb kept some control and disciple.
Kahn has to be at the top of the list. He was totally evil and ruthless.
What about Professor Moriarty? He held the Enterprise crew captive not once, but twice, and managed to nearly outwit them too to the point, as mentioned by Harry Kim on Voyager, he's taught at the academy as being a danger of rouge holodeck/AI.
The Duras Sister, who schemes started the entire Klingon Civil War.
And what, no mention of Lore?
And why not Kruge? He killed Kirks son, seriously compromised the Genesis device, and destroyed an Enterprise.
Nagilum?
Doctor Soran?
Two things: Terran Empire, the Federation of the mirror universe, and also it was Kirk, Chekov and Scotty who activated the Enterprise destruct codes and beamed out of there in Search for Spock, although you are right, it was Kruge who instigated the conflict and ordered his soldier to kill a hostage, the soldier went for Savik but killed David instead.
That V'ger pronunciation though ,🤦🏻♂️
Yes. Hardly a question of "how" when they pronounce it for you during the film.
That cud be an accent or culture thing thou
@@kagomecc461 the place where this is filmed is a few miles away from me, so no
@@jcwol tis why I say cud be 😏💁
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1. BEST personal Villain - original Khan! 2. BEST Federation Antagonist - Romulan 2. Best Institutional Villain - Dominion. 4. Most Powerful Antagonist - 8472.
Q is not antagonist.
1000%
I'd agree with all, except the last sentence since Q was still an antagonist in a purely narrative sense, just not a villain. All villains are antagonists, but not all antagonists are villains.
always wanted a standalone Star Trek about war against Sphere Builders
Holy Crap! Did Bronzy actually watch Star Trek? So many mispronunciations of names (and I don't mean the lame Kardashian "joke"). The content of this vid is excellent but the executed narration is epically cringeworthy.
Yeah i mean V-grrrrrr?
Gul Du'Kat not Gul Du Cat. lol. That one gave me a twitch.
What got me was implying Tomolok tricked Picard into the ambush with the defector! Picard owned him, ffs
The reason Chang was able to shoot up the Enterprise.was because Kirk kept backing away from the planet with the sheilds down.Kirk wanted to bring Chang out into the open until Capt. Sulu shown up. Useing the Enterprise as bait.
The Enterprise went into Romulun space with the Klingons sneaking along behind. Tomelek
"80's hair and unmitigated violence.... Sounds like Mötley Crüe..
I'm pretty sure "All Good Things" explained why Q wouldn't be returning. Plus it's be pretty hard to explain why a Q, essentially a god, would have graying of his hair, after previously not being gray. Or they could do a dye job, like what they did with Data.
AustinFan4Life I think an aged Q could actually make sense, if the reason given is to be more like Picard at that age. He’d have to make a snide comment about getting older though.
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Omnipotent beings don't age though. They are ageless.
@@AustinFan4Life Q can manipulate his appearance, he would make himself look old to make fun of Picard.
I would put Annorax on this list too. While not well known for his name and while it was from Voyager (most peoples least favorite, but not mine), almost everyone knows and loves the two-parter "Year of Hell" episodes. Annorax's ship could erase anything from existence and also because the ship existed outside of time nothing could really damage it either.
I also have a problem thinking of Q as a villain as he's never really been shown to be truly evil. Maybe antihero would be a better description.
I agree... Q although insanely dangerous was more like an overgrown child with cosmic power. He was dangerous if he got mad, but mostly he just wanted to have a little fun with Picard by playing pranks on him.
"never really been shown to be truly evil" ??
Omg man...he was the one that messed around with the crew of the Enterprise many times! He did mostly shit-all to help the crew, unless they literally had to beg him for help. He threw the Enterprise in front of the Borg at J-25....yes, he did say if they could not take a bloody nose they should go back home, not safe out there.....but, he didn't save them from Wolf 359, he didn't help with saving many from the Dominion attacks. He just loved playing as a God, and "bully" Picard, and the others.
@@Ithinkiwill66 Data said it best when he said that Q and Picard's relationship was similar to that of a master and his beloved pet. Or did you miss that episode?
Charlie X frightened the crap out of me as a kid. I was probably about 6 when I first saw that episode, and I can't still can't bear blank, featureless 'faces'! *shudder*
Great show Trek Culture.
I really enjoyed Christopher Lloyd in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock as Klingon Commander Kruge. I wish the story line would of gave him more time and more interaction with Captain Kirk and the crew.
Whoa Dude you completely missed the mark. The nu.ber one villain (?) Was the Orgainians who imposed their will on both the Federation and the Klingon Empire! No one else ever did that.
I put the Organians at #3, only behind Q and The Duowd.
Nope! The Organians stopping the Klingon and Federation fleets with a flick of the wrist. Then they successfully wiped the minds of the entire Klingon and Federation population because THEY ARE NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN! or both sides are too embarrassed to talk that time they got their collective asses handed to them by a couple of old men dressed like Jesus.
@@Pulprat Excuse me? You're saying the they're more powerful than the duowd because they erased their mind? Yet by a single thought or whim Keven erased an entire population from existance? Your comment is illogical.
The Borg and Species 8472 should be at the top of the food chain. Even Q told his son Q2 “Don’t provoke the Borg!”
Totally agree with your list Marcus
I would not even consider Q to be evil. At worst, he is bored, and looking for entertainment, but even there, he is often benevolent, and out to teach the hard, but truly valuable lessons.
Fun fact - Andreas Katsulas, who played Tomalak also starred in another famous sci-fi show - Babylon 5, where he plays a kickass good guy (and one of the best characters in the show, in my opinion) - G'kar.
This was a solid voiceover, and I don't want to be picky here ... but:
Titch-u-ler, or tit-u-lar, but not title-ler
Bird of Prey "ship"? (We know what a BoP is)
Gul Du-Cot, not Gul Du-Cat
Romulans were villains in ... one Trek film: "Star Trek" (2009), and that guy was acting without official support. ST:N the villains were Remans led by a human clone.
V-j-er, not Vgur
I came here to say everything you already said
@@GELF thanks. I was expecting for someone to come along and "actually" me.
Yeah Remans led by the future "Bane"/"Venom". Good thing Professor X nipped that in the bud.
Kai Winn should have made the list. A power hungry, ambitious woman but always smiling. She reminds me of Umbridge from Harry Potter
The voice over guy sounds like he's never watched Star trek
Tomalok would be interesting. Unfortunately, his actor died in 2006. But, man... the sphere builders would make a great connection between _ENT_ and _Picard_ ... or in other words.... Archer and Picard!
But Q will definitely make the perfect antagonist for Picard! 🖖
Gul Dukat is not just my fave character of DS9 but all of Trek. He is the perfect example of moral ambiguity and as much of a dark character he is, he is just so darn likeable!... i know i shouldn't like him, his arrogance is annoying as hell but hes just too charming! He's a hate to love. character!
9:15 The Dominion was the alliance which was founded and ruled by the Founders. They were not the same thing.
Exactly! Founders on the top, the Vorta as administrators and the Jem'Hadar as warriors.
As a lot of people have pointed out... it sounds like this guy has never really watched much Trek
@@MedalionDS9 I think you might be right.
I do love how after a while, Picard wasn't really 'scared' of Q anymore. He was just kind of annoyed when Q showed up.~
He was more bothered when Lwaxana turned up...
The one that has Bern ignored a lot is Garth of Izar. He invented explosive so powerful that a small flask can destroy a plsnet, and one grain of it caused a big enough explosion that it was detected from space. It's possible that Captain Pike knows him, or even Admiral April. We've heard about the mission to Antos IV, but a'vr never seen what actual happened.
Q by far is the most entertaining.
Time displacement ship & crew in ST Voyager . Lore , is another entity in STNG ?And how about The Federation , in itself ?
Is it just me, or does the overall look and outfit of the Sphere Builders heavily resemble that of the Borg Queen?
There are some weird coincidences, like the Betazed and Trills looking exactly like humans.
@@anlumo1 Could it be that they are human actors playing a part?
@@colinp2238 You mean this documentary is fake!?
@@anlumo1 I once saw it as a serious question , why do scifi aliens look like humans, I mean how stupid is that?
@@colinp2238 Serious answer: There are three aspects to it: 1) it's cheaper, because less makeup/CGI; 2) human-like aliens are more relatable to a mostly human audience; 3) lack of imagination of the writers.
wasn't it Uhura who thought about the 'tailpipe' of Kang's ship?
She had the idea, but Spock came up with how to turn that into reality. Uhura: the what. Spock: the how
@@danij5055 Yup, I can see that, still feel it might be nice to acknowledge
@@pljdavies I agree. At least a mention of Uhura's contribution would have been nice.
I think just about every Trek fan (including myself) wants the Picard series to end with Q showing up and telling Picard the whole thing can be avoided if he does something differently somewhere in the events of Nemesis and it goes from there.
Tomalak is played by the same guy as G'Kar from Babylon 5, as a fan of both i screamed when i first saw him in TNG
Tomalak was wonderful, and woefully underused - it helped that he was played by the late (and very great) Andreas Katsulas.
Odo also died recently. And the Indian actress in the "V-ger" movie, Persis Khambatta, died at 49 from a heart attack, some years after having bypass surgey at just 35. Sad
Gul Dukat was one of my favorite characters. I loved the Cardassians in general. best villains
Plot twist about 90% the romulan navy was away when the plant was destroyed
The actor that played General Chang knew how to quote Shakespeare. He was a theater actor in Shakespeare plays at one time.
Played by Christopher Plummer, also seen in "The Sound of Music" (and a Canadian to boot)!
@@ispeakmytruth1549 At first I thought it was Patrick Stewart, especially the reference to Shakespeare.
I always thought Chang should have been the reluctant good guy, a conservative Klingon who chooses to save his friend Krull's dream and the daughter the real traitor. It would have been hilarious to see him become new Chancellor and ask for Kirk as his first Fed ambassador.
I would have mentioned Tralane from the original series. He had all the power of the Q, but was definitely more abusive in his use of said power. He was similar to Charlie in that it took Tralane's parents intervention to save Kirk.
I also think that Q was a kind of guide for humanity through Picard.
Humans were on the verge of meeting the Borg ( who they didn't even know about.) And the arrogance of Picard even at the beginning of that show, shows what the federation was like at that time. Q gave humanity a heads up about what was to come, so they could be ready, which they still weren't. Q wanted humans who explore space to think outside their limitations, ( or think outside the box). He wasn't a good guy, but he did save the federation on multiple occasions.
The Mariachi band scene always tickles me.
I would describe him after Farpoint as more a teacher/probation officer than a villain. Sure" he can extremely abrasive. But he did tend to give humanity more opportunities than he actually had to. Many of the times he genuinely wanted to help were denied simply because Picard held an especially nasty loathing of Q that tended to influence his decisions as well as outright blame Q for things. Many confrontations with Q were simply unjustified and acctually Picard looking for a scapegoat than actually having evidence Q was to blame.
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11.3K subscribers You forgot to list the iconic and ruthless Klingon Commander Kruge from "Star Trek III: The Search For Spock" who is well known for having his pet by his side, totally obsessed with the Genesis Torpedo Device, not tolerating failure from his underlings, responsible for destroying the science vessel USS Grissom, and also forcing Captain James T. Kirk to blow up the Enterprise after giving the order to kill Kirk's only son, which in turn made Kirk despise and not trust Klingon's. He should have been Number #1 in my opinion.
Q is very powerful, but I never saw him as a villian.
I like Gul Dukat. Some episodes made me feel like he can be a good guy too.
I think u missed Soran. He is very intelligent and even defeated Picard. It needed Picard and Kirk to bring him down. He is actually not really evil too. He does evil things, but his motivation is understandable. He wants back, what the Borg took from him.
I think Q needs his own series.
4:05 General Chang: "Imperial Battleship, halt the flow of time!"
q, the one who modified the probe and such are not vilain by any mean
and dominion above the bord? O_o
Whoa! First time seen the Sphere Builders - now the Borg Queen has the same facial structure, but the hooks holding her 'suit' onto her skin arent decorative, they are helping keep her top flappy fleshy bits in, it seems someone had an idea to retcon BQ into a Sphere Builder but then changed their minds
Really, they should bring back Q as a villain/antagonist for the next Star Trek movie - he reminds me so much of Loki in the Marvel movies; so perhaps Tom Hiddleston could play him.
... Can we just get John back in STP please, I will toss every single one of my English pounds to see my favourite character ever back on a screen
(Also, stuff this nonsense on him being 'too old'! Q 'aged' with Picard in All Good Things, and he now has a stressful kid, and he's been through a civil war featuring exclusively omnipotent beings - it's half a sentence of exposition to explain it at best, if it isn't just straight played as a gag.) I just need both of them being modern and mellowed and irritating to one another but also sort of MATES, thank you CBS
“Mates” 😂
@@TrekCulture ... I have too many headcanons, don't get me started lol xD
What about the giant Humpback Whale loving Sausage ship in The Voyage Home? But no. 1 is Q.
Q is the guy who makes Picard realize what a stuffed shirt he is. That's not a villain. That's what Riker ought to be and what Spock, to a lesser degree, was. Q's a good guy.
Janeway, Tuvok, and B'ellana let them selves get assimilated by the Borg also ..... wasn't just Picard
When I was younger, I used to wonder if the Borg had evolved from V'Ger.
In one of the many trek novels I've read over the years "The Return"; they said that V'Ger encountered a Borg faction that had embraced full technology and was upgraded by them. Hence V'ger thinking humans were a virus.
Thanks Thurgosh, I just put 'The Return' on my Amazon wish list. Since you've read a lot of Trek, I have a question that hopefully you know the answer to. Do you remember the Voyager episode 'Blink of an Eye'? The Doctor is transported down to the planet for a few minutes, but for him it was a few years. Do you know if there was ever a novel written about the time he spent there? Thanks!
There is a reason why Shakespeare was used by General Chang in the movie. It has to do way back when when Shatner and Plummer were Shakespearean theater actors.
would be cool to see him pop in startrek picard
Just a thought on this, is Q actually an enemy of Picard, the Federation and humanity or actually in a strange way been acting to accelerate the species?
I think the Q are our descendants who traverse time as easily as space. Q plays with his distant ancestors but more seriously acts to protect from other time-capable species and from events of critical importance which those time-capable enemies may seek to alter. Yet the Q can't risk Humanity either becoming complacent that they will triumph or dependent on their god-like help.
the actor that played q from T&G IS IN HIS 70S
6:47 "If not for the timely intervention of a few friendly Klingons." Well, Picard asked the Klingons to be there, so it wasn't really a timely intervention as a strategic plan by Picard.
You forgot the Doud. One of them wiped out an entire race everywhere in the galaxy with a single thought.
Q is awesome :)
Give uhura her props she came up with the idea, of a tail pipe.
I cant believe the krenim empire didnt make the list, they literally enabled janeway to defeat the borg.
Q is not a villian. Infact an argument can be made that everything he does helps them in some way and that he’s been their guardian angel throughout the entire show.
I think Douwd should be at the top of this list. With a thought he eliminated an entire species called the Husnack. Certainly a being that can do that is more powerful than General Chang :P
Indeed. Q's powers are unclear. But Kevin Uxbridge actually did kill billions.
Agree with Q as number 1 in this list and also with the Dominion and the Borg on 2 and 3 (I would have changed them and set the Borg as #2 and the Dominion as #3),
BUT: ...
... no Species 8472 in this list?
... no Tribbles?
... no Vidiians or Hirogens?
They forgot Nagilum, the powerful alien who treated the Enterprise crew like rats in a maze in Where Silence Has Lease.
I met John de Lancie, he's awesome!!
I would've been keen to see some more of Armus from the skin of evil.
No doubt everyone had a good laugh in real life. Bloopers forever! 😄
i feel like there were better choices for this list.
species 8472
most enemies in the OG series could go on here.
and so many more.
give me 2 videos with 2 lists.
one for villains by themselves and one for villian species
I would do that and have them divided by series with one set for all the movies- 10 villains in TOS, 10 villain species in TOS, etc, etc. You'd get some overlap but that's not a bad thing. Khan was such a great villain he'd have to be on a TOS villains list and be #1 for the film villains.
The sphere builders looks kinda like odo (DS9)
YES! Correct!
39 Starships were destroyed at Wolf 359 and so many people on RUclips have said 40. And 40 seems to be what's recorded in Wikipedia and Memory Alpha. I don't know when this changed but as far as I'm concerned it was always 39. I'm sure it's documented in a book or one of the Star Trek Encyclopedias.
Always loved the relationship between Q and picard then Janeway. Also loved Sisko just punching him. Man did not give a crap.
There is a reason Q never returned to DS9
What about trelane from T.O.S.? The one that is theorized to be a Q
1) Q Contiumum
2) Organians (TOS)
3) The Dowd(TNG)
4) Nagilum (TNG) + Cytherians (TNG)
5) Metrons (TOS)
6) Trelanes Species (TOS)
7) The Thasians (TOS)
8) Prophets & Pah’ Wraiths (DS9)
9) Sporecisian Aliens (voy)
10) John Doe (TNG)
_True Power houses ^
this is just off the top of my head - gotta watch the whole series for non-corporeal species , they thanos snap more than half your list. good job though ! my 4-7 could arguably be rearranged but I also went by feats performed . But I say these are the top 12 power house species in Trek. There is a few I def forgot too.