Villain species/character

If you were going to create a new adversary species or character for a Trek show, what qualities should they have that would make them compelling, dangerous, and unique?

 

A race that is ridiculously photogenic, fuzzy and cute that a mere sight of them would drive a Vulcan to madness.

 

Moopsy?

 

Medusanoopsy.

 

Humans are only sufficiently different in physical characteristics when they're augments or Borg, though. Though I suppose Humans raised on another planet with a cultural background entirely foreign to anything we know in real life could work.

 

Of course. Star Trek shows both sides.

 

I did think a sort Religious fundamentalist race could be interesting, especially if they had some sort of manifest destiny about the stars or something.

Star Trek never really went all in on that (no, Dominion doesn’t count). The Orville kinda did it with the Krill, though.

 

Hallowed are the...ugh, some of the language got annoying towards the end with that arc.

 

Hmmm. Kill those who dare to occupy their sacred space?

 

Sort of like if the Bajorans were villains.

Hmm. This makes for an intriguing story idea about militaristic Bajorans in some alternate universe that worship the Pah Wraiths and are on a mission to suppress the peaceful Cardassians and expand into the Gamma Quadrant to hunt shapeshifters.

 

Frustrating, ultra pedantic space politicians.

 

Like the Vogons?



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The Bajoran Ascendency from the "bad ending" in Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens' Millennium trilogy. Sure, they're immanentizing the eschaton and are allied with the N̶e̶c̶r̶o̶n̶s̶ Grigari,
but they did restore Bajor to its full former prosperity, unearth all of B'hala, and made the Bajorans a major political power in the quadrant. Can't be all bad, right?

 

For my suggestion, I put forward canonizing the Grigari from ye olde First Splinter litverse.

At first blush, they're a race of cybernetic uber-Ferengi, always eager to make a deal and sell exotic technologies like life extension and transwarp, and miraclous medical procedures far beyond anything found in known space. Sounds great, right?

Going from world to world, they offer their cures, they wait until it's too late and such unwary people realize that the seeming miracles have a huge price, and then they extract that price.

No Grigari will take "no" for an answer. They'll make the sale, even if they have to let phasers do the talking to make the pitch.

 

I believe these are called "admirals."

 

Yeah that would be another similar example, though maybe we wouldn't actually see the beings that they worship.

 

'Cause they died.

 

How about a species even the Q fear, a species mightier than them, that are not of the (Star Trek) universe but created it?

And, to make matters worse, created it for their entertainment?

A species that thought up things like the Dominion War, and the Battle of Wolf 359, and that had Picard assimilated simply because they thought they would make for a good story?

Such a species would be pretty evil, wouldn't it.

 

So, Chuck/God from SUPERNATURAL?