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raynor May 19th, 2001 01:13 AM

Re: What polarity can we reverse today?
 
Who is your favorite arch-villain from the four ST series? Trellane (sp?) certainly had flair. Holo Moriarty was good. But my favorite is still omnipotent Q. Do you remember the episode when Q causes the warp core breech just to test if the child of two Q has their powers? When they asked Q what would have happened if she hadn't contained the explosion that would have destroyed the entire ship, Q replied,"Well, then I would have known she wasn't a Q"

Of course, the ultimate villain was whichever writer ignored the pleas of all of us asking for the death of Wesley Crusher and instead deified him... *sigh* http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

dogscoff May 21st, 2001 09:50 AM

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Yeah, I likd Q as well bcause he wasn't so much evil, just Subscribed to a whole different set of priorities.

Lore was pretty good as well- nothing like an evil doppleganger to mix things up=-)

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Puke May 21st, 2001 09:54 PM

Re: What polarity can we reverse today?
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by raynor:
Who is your favorite arch-villain from the four ST series? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


would have to be that danm singing hologram Vic Fontaine, or perhaps that dingle Rick Borman who gave him so much air time and is ARSING UP all things trek-ish.


anybody watch space above and beyond? was that one mentioned earlier?

rdouglass May 22nd, 2001 06:56 PM

Re: What polarity can we reverse today?
 
My fav is Harry Mudd.....

GruelThePurple May 22nd, 2001 07:38 PM

Re: What polarity can we reverse today?
 
I'm thinking... Wesley Crusher.

Oh... You said favorite villian... How about just a villian, or vile entity? There is nothing favorite about him.

[This message has been edited by GruelThePurple (edited 22 May 2001).]

dmm May 22nd, 2001 08:13 PM

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by raynor:
Who is your favorite arch-villain from the four ST series<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Ceska (sp?) from STV was pretty good. Such a slimey traitor. Unmatched deceitfulness.

The power politics of the two Klingon sisters from STTNG & STDS9 was pretty good, too.

Q didn't make a good villain for me. He wasn't really mean or even unfeeling. Wouldn't have been such a bad guy at all if he weren't so powerful.

IMHO, the best short-term (one episode and a movie) villain was Khan, and the best long-term villain was Gul Dukat. Each of them had admirable qualities, but their lust for power and revenge drove them to extreme evil.

Deathstalker May 22nd, 2001 08:17 PM

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My vote is on Gul Dukat, esp in junction with Kai Wynn (sp?), made a good evil duo.

And on another note, for all the grumblers about Captain Janeway (not so many here, but lots elsewhere) just remember who else was in the running for the position, Lesley Wagner, (the Bionic Woman), personally I like the current Captain.

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dmm May 22nd, 2001 08:32 PM

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I liked the basic premise behind Wesley Crusher (boy supergenius), but he was SO poorly written. No angst, no frustration, no anger, no failures, nobody who didn't like him (nobody on the show, I mean). But then, a LOT of the early STTNG characters (ALL of them?) were poorly written. For instance, Worf's character was horrible at first, and Tasha's lines were so bad that she was unrecoverable so they had to kill her off.

capnq May 23rd, 2001 04:36 PM

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Actually, Tasha was killed off because Denise Crosby wanted out, because she wasn't getting much to do besides look good. She was a lot happier coming back as Commander Sela.

I was just starting to get fed up with Wesley when the Traveler declared him the Mozart of warp engineering; for some reason I found him easier to cope with after that. But I stopped following the series relatively early in its run, because I moved to a place where I couldn't get the station it was on, and can't afford cable.

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DirectorTsaarx May 23rd, 2001 06:10 PM

Re: What polarity can we reverse today?
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Puke:

would have to be that danm singing hologram Vic Fontaine, or perhaps that dingle Rick Borman who gave him so much air time and is ARSING UP all things trek-ish.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hey - I LIKED Vic... yeah, the episodes were just filler-fluff, but think of them as palate-cleansers. You know, to get you ready for the next "serious story" episode.


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