Best Star Trek villian
 

Do the borg represent the pinnacle of villians when it comes to the star trek universe? I'm torn between them and the Klingons from original star trek. Any others worth mentioning.

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I have always hated the Ferengei. Just whiny little bitches all the time. They weren't always villains but I hated them the most. Just my personal feelings. I wouldn't say they were the worst villians but I liked them the least.

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The Borg were a truly great villian, in part, because they threatened you with a fate worse than death. That's hard to do.

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I have always hated the Ferengei. Just whiny little bitches all the time. They weren't always villains but I hated them the most. Just my personal feelings. I wouldn't say they were the worst villians but I liked them the least.

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I always had a theory that the writers of Star Trek were anti-semitic and the ferengi were the worst of jewish stereotypes.

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The Borg were a truly great villian, in part, because they threatened you with a fate worse than death. That's hard to do.

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I had never thought of it in those terms. That is a really astute observation. The season finale - premier combo of the borg in TNG are two of favorite episodes if not absolute favorite.

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I always had a theory that the writers of Star Trek were anti-semitic and the ferengi were the worst of jewish stereotypes.

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I watched a lot of TNG in middle school and then during high school and college hardly watched any Star Trek whatsoever. I have been getting back into it a lot now because of the reruns they show on the Spike Channel around noonish. I guess I never caught on to what you are saying. It makes a lot of sense.

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Nah. As kids, they'd merely seen those old Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers serials in which the villians were based on thinly-velied racial stereotypes. The recent Star Wars films have probably done worse in that regard. With some characters, they're almost as bad as the old serials themselves.

I agree with the (TNG-era) Borg choice. Loss of self can be a pretty scary thing.

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I always had a theory that the writers of Star Trek were anti-semitic and the ferengi were the worst of jewish stereotypes.

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They were meant to represent the worst parts of 20th century American capitalism. The whole first season is loaded with comments along the lines of "20th century humans were barbaric".

The Ferengi were very poorly done. They should have been intergalactic gangsters instead of comic relief.

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