Thanks!. Would you believe it took me a moment to recognize those names? That was a long time ago . . . .
Seska's ultimate demise was so unsatisfying. I really wanted to see her suffer! But, whatever ... just ... just get her story over with. I don't care anymore, what happens!
There was no reason for her to be a bad guy. The Federation and Cardassia were allies when Voyager was lost. If she had approached Tuvok or Janeway near the beginning, even if they continued to keep her identity a secret, Seska would have easily gotten the rank of lieutenant JG or full Lieutenant.
I would have to go with the Borg Queen and 8472 (although they were pretty much neutralized as villains by the end of "In the Flesh"). Annorax committed a crazy amount of genocide, so he is pretty horrible obviously. Kashyk was someone who I felt like wasn't really a villain, just a jackass. The Kazon were the ones I loved to hate only because they were just too stupid. Seska was manipulative and ruthless, but she had something of a heart under there I think.
Arturis was indeed a sad villain. You cannot really blame him considering his people were assimilated after Species 8472 were defeated by the Borg due to Janeway's help. Even Janeway felt bad when she realized his motivations for what he did.
I couldn't stand the Borg Queen. Putting aside the fact that her personality contradicts established Borg personality and pretending for the moment TNG Borg episodes didn't exist... Judging strictly from things established in Voyager Borg episodes, her weird Dominatrix personality was off-putting and her motivations for her actions were contradictory and didn't make any sense to the point where it seemed like they were just making her generically evil for the present story purposes. Like the whole reason she kidnapped Seven in Dark Frontier didn't make sense and it made even less sense that she tried to bargain with Seven to get her to surrender instead of just sending a few cubes after Voyager and grabbing her. Her entire use as a villain just didn't make any sense and she clearly only existed so Janeway could have repartee with the series' major villain. It's hard to say my favorite since most villains didn't get more than one episode. I'll go with what's his name from Year of Hell.
Janeway would be my answer if it wouldn't get me booed out of the forum, so, I'll go with Annorax. I find him to be the most interesting and most memorable adversary they faced, even all this time later.
That's because eventually every time he talked about his wife, how he was willing to rend the universe to get back to her, we were all thinking about Debra Jo Rupp,
Seska was one of the more well written characters on the show. Her arc was one of the biggest highlights of the early seasons for me.
Definitely one of my favorites too. Not as devious as Seska and Culluh and not as mean as the characters from the book "The Black Shore" I mentioned in a post earlier but definitely a great villain. And funny too! I just love some of his comments. "A virus! A virus! He thinks that I'm a virus!" "The spoil goes to the winner and you are the spoil Harry!" And many more! Another villain I really like was the incredible Henry Starling!
I had never thought of Arturis. I enjoy the fact that he was sad and had real motivations besides whatever the story dictated for him. I used to really love Kashyk, especially the last ten minutes of Counterpoint.
I almost forgot about the crew of the USS Equinox and their Captain Ransom. They were villains as well.
They were more antagonist than villains but I liked the Hirogen. I liked Species 8472 too, but they went as fast as they came. I was hoping for a prolonged conflict between the two. I'd imagine it like a pack of wolves (Hirogen) verses a Tiger (Species 8472) with zombies lurking about (Borg) all while the lost tourist stuck in the middle of it (Voyager) trys to get home.