Memorable Treklit Villains?

[marlboro]

Definitely a great book to read. Cox does a great job tying Space Seed and TWOK together and addressing any inconsistencies between the two and giving a great back story as to why Khan is so singularly obsessed with Kirk in TWOK (and his slow decent into madness between Space Seed and TWOK.

I've since read it, and I agree with you 100%.

I was kinda hoping Khan's last scene in the book would have included the classic "What though the field be lost?" speech. It would have been the perfect lead-in to TWOK.

p.s. What the heck do you call an epigraph that you use at the end of a story? Still an epigraph, or is there another term?

 

[Damian]

I've since read it, and I agree with you 100%.

I was kinda hoping Khan's last scene in the book would have included the classic "What though the field be lost?" speech. It would have been the perfect lead-in to TWOK.

p.s. What the heck do you call an epigraph that you use at the end of a story? Still an epigraph, or is there another term?

I can see you couldn't put the book down either once you got started. I think I read it in a few days myself (it usually takes me about 3 to 4 weeks to read a book).

 

[Damian]

Black Omne. He beat the jungle out of Kirk. Nobody else did that

He was a good villain. "The Price of the Phoenix" was pretty decent, though there was a heavy dose of homoeroticism apparent between Kirk and Spock that was out of character for me (much more than "Killing Time" IMO, despite that books reputation).

I'm reading "The Fate of the Phoenix" now, but I'm finding that one to be a real slog. It's so convoluted, who's the real Omne, he's a really bad guy, but not really, but yes he is. And Kirk is depicted as being virtually powerless and Spock's personality is all but gone, and of course there's Kirk's double, and some prince who's beholden to some Queen who leads a society I think in the Romulan Empire. It's to the point I actually don't even care how it ends. Maybe I'm in the minority but "Fate..." is a very poor sequel---though I notice it did drop a lot of the homoerotic leanings of its predecessors. I've gotten very little of that feel in this novel.

 

[Kilana2]

I also really liked Buxtus Cross from the Prey trilogy.

Yes. He was a Betazoid. I didn't expect a Betazoid to be such a shrewd villain (does Lwaxana count as villain? I guess not for Deanna or Ian Andrew, but for Jean-Luc ). The typical villains so far were Orions, Nausicaans and so on. Speaking of Nausicaans..... Aggadak was also in Prey, but as a Goodie....

 

[USS Firefly]

Yes. He was a Betazoid. I didn't expect a Betazoid to be such a shrewd villain (does Lwaxana count as villain? I guess not for Deanna or Ian Andrew, but for Jean-Luc ). The typical villains so far were Orions, Nausicaans and so on. Speaking of Nausicaans..... Aggadak was also in Prey, but as a Goodie....

Lwaxana is one the greatest villians after Kahn

 

[DonIago]

Indeed. Rarely has a villain sent such fear into the hearts of Our Heroes as when Lwaxana announces her intention to visit!!!

 

[JD]

From The Price of the Phoenix:

You did not surrender. But the jungle in you did. You feel it now. You want to obey. You will always want to, and always want to fight. But you know me. You know me as master.

I really liked both Cross and Shift from the Prey. The big reveal with Shift was a great twist.

 

[Kilana2]

I really liked both Cross and Shift from the Prey. The big reveal with Shift was a great twist.

Shift could show up again one day under a different name. The Breen are alwas plotting and scheming.

 

[marlboro]

Reading "Hell's Heart" made me want to see a pre STIII Kruge book.


edited to add: lol I guess it would be kind of hard to have a post STIII Kruge book, wouldn't it?

 

[DarKush]

Some of my favorites:
Adrik Thorsen
Aventeer Vokar
Ethan Locken
Qagh

 

[DarKush]

More individuals (novels and comics):
Salatrel
Emperor Tiberius (sort of, but I didn't read enough to really say definitively)
Yuki Sulu
Mirror TNG crew (Broken Mirror, Through the Mirror)
Mirror TOS crew (Mirror Images)
Mirror Picard (Mirror Images)
Mirror Shenzhou crew (Succession)
Emperor Alexander
Trelane (Q-Squared)
Kasak
Morjod

Species (novels and comics):
Hive
Chakuun
Totality (didn't read this whole trilogy, but I liked the idea)
Herans
Borg (Vendetta, Resistance, Destiny trilogy)
Typhon Pact
Redeemers
Dogs of War
Bodai Shin
Klingons (Star Trek: Early Voyages, Star Trek: Blood Will Tell, and Star Trek: Manifest Destiny)

 

[Kilana2]

Qagh was the Albino if I'm not mistaken. I've almost forgotten Morjod. The Left Hand of Destiny was great.

Don't forget the novel adventures of Intendant Kira. And Iliana Ghemor is also memorable. She turned into an avanging angel after the things Dukat has done to her.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

He was a good villain. "The Price of the Phoenix" was pretty decent, though there was a heavy dose of homoeroticism apparent between Kirk and Spock that was out of character for me (much more than "Killing Time" IMO, despite that books reputation).

I'm reading "The Fate of the Phoenix" now, but I'm finding that one to be a real slog. It's so convoluted, who's the real Omne, he's a really bad guy, but not really, but yes he is. And Kirk is depicted as being virtually powerless and Spock's personality is all but gone, and of course there's Kirk's double, and some prince who's beholden to some Queen who leads a society I think in the Romulan Empire. It's to the point I actually don't even care how it ends. Maybe I'm in the minority but "Fate..." is a very poor sequel---though I notice it did drop a lot of the homoerotic leanings of its predecessors. I've gotten very little of that feel in this novel.

I couldn't stand any of the Myrshak/Culbreath novels. In fact I don't think I even finished one. Much, much too weird.

I didn't run into another Trek novel like that until the Lost Era WELL OF SOULS. Hell, if I didn't know any better, I'd have thought M/C wrote that one too.

Ishan Injar (I forget his real name offhand)

Baras Rodirya

Iliana Ghemor is also memorable. She turned into an avanging angel after the things Dukat has done to her.

Ah yes, then she goes on a rampage through the multiverse... "Crisis on Infinite Kiras".

 

[marlboro]

Indeed. Rarely has a villain sent such fear into the hearts of Our Heroes as when Lwaxana announces her intention to visit!!!

Not just the heroes - many an audience member has been laid low by the news of a Lwaxana episode.

 

[USS Firefly]

Not just the heroes - many an audience member has been laid low by the news of a Lwaxana episode.

I had nightmares that Lwaxana would visit me at home

 

[Kilana2]

So there we have the reason for Lwaxana not showing up in the Titan novels as proud grandmother of little Tasha. Maybe the announcement of her cameo would have kept readers from buying the novel.....

 

[DonIago]

Further prove that I'm innately evil then...I often love it when Lwaxana shows up to shake things up a bit...

 

[Kilana2]

Further prove that I'm innately evil then...I often love it when Lwaxana shows up to shake things up a bit...

I'll never forget her appearance in Q-in-Law. Finally someone who gave Q the hell of a time. Why on Earth did Q pick Lady Q as his wife after what happened with Lwaxana?

 

[Christopher]

Why on Earth did Q pick Lady Q as his wife after what happened with Lwaxana?

Umm, because he'd already been dating her for 5 billion years? I'm not sure "after" is the word there.

 

[Kilana2]

Umm, because he'd already been dating her for 5 billion years? I'm not sure "after" is the word there.

True. And I'm not sure if any other female Q would have liked to date Q.