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Best Screen Villains

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 5:51 pm
by Granitehewer
Noone quibble,its just for fun and i'm bored! :P
Its just gauging opinion, in terms of peoples' favourite baddies, in terms of coolness, character, menace, severity of threat, guile etc, lightweight stuff

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:17 pm
by Thorin
Borg Queen without doubt.

Though the most awesomeness award would have gone to Khan. KHHHHHAAAAANNNN!!

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:20 pm
by Captain Seafort
The Cardies as a whole were pretty generic Space Nazis, but Dukat and Garak were brilliant - the former because you never tell whoes side he was on (apart from his own), and the latter by his continued insistence that he was just "plain, simple Garak" even when the cat was well and truly out of the bag.

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:21 pm
by Aaron
There's no Khan so I voted for the Tholians. Nothing compares to the old TOS characters, they have a certain undefinable essence about them.

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:35 pm
by Granitehewer
Damn, i really should have put; Khan and his augments, as an option.
It didn't spring to mind, as i don't really like TWOK.

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:41 pm
by Captain Peabody
Darn, that's a tough one. It took me a while to decide between Dukat and the Cardies, and Weyoun and the Dominion; but in the end I went with the Dominion.
So...any other Weyoun fans out there? :P

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:48 pm
by Granitehewer
i'm a weyoun fan, for his ability to mix trivialities with the profoundly serious, but even more so, am a jeffrey coombs fan, for 're-animator' and 'the frighteners'

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:25 pm
by Mikey
I went for Dukat et. al. While the Cardies were not the toughest opposition to face, Dukat and Garak were true evil pleasures to watch as characters. :evil:

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:32 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Meh, the cardassians are mediocre villains, mostly uninspired. Besides, they're B&B evil, AKA, the diet coke of evil.

I went for the Tholians, though I would have picked Khan were he there, for several reasons.
1) They're one of the few unusual creatures we've ever seen in Trek.
2) They're not 'mwahahahaha!' evil, more of a quiet, subtle, scheming evil.
3) They're inteligent. Most Trek vilains barely qualify as sentient.
4) They didn't need to be some Federation-destroying threat to be evil in their own way.

That's why Tholians are my favourite race from Trek. They're evil, with style.

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:34 pm
by Mikey
Truth to tell, I probably wouldn't have considered the Tholians to be actual villains.

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:38 pm
by Sionnach Glic
True, another reason I like them. They're more of an uncaring group that really dosen't give a damn what's going on outside their borders. Neutral, but isolationist.

I'd say the Tholians actions in In a Mirror, Darkly were pretty vilanous though. Opening a tear in the space-time continuum just to steal a ship from another universe?

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:42 pm
by Mikey
Is that villainous, or smart?

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:43 pm
by Granitehewer
are the notions of 'good' and 'evil', 'hero' and 'villain', objective, or subjective? :P

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:43 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Is that villainous, or smart?
Both. 8)

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:50 pm
by Thorin
Rochey wrote:True, another reason I like them. They're more of an uncaring group that really dosen't give a damn what's going on outside their borders. Neutral, but isolationist.

I'd say the Tholians actions in In a Mirror, Darkly were pretty vilanous though. Opening a tear in the space-time continuum just to steal a ship from another universe?
Wouldn't that mean in the normal universe that they're actually nice guys, then?