A whole race of Mr Mordens from Babylon 5, just out there taking the souls of the desperate and leading them into damnation.
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At this point in Trek I think a single adversary alien species doesn't cut it anymore.
The Klingons & Romulans worked as adversaries against primarily humans. But by now, the Federation has grown by SO many members, that a single species threatening that entire coalition isn't realistic anymore (cough Breen/Orions on DIS...).
The last Villain threats that IMO worked well:
The Borg - forced assimilation of many species
The Dominion - a clear "tier" system of races
The Xindi - a chaotic coalition of species
So a "modern" threat has to be a kind of enemy coalition as well, simply to overcome the resources gap, probably some form of forced coalition to make it actually antagonistic.
Maybe mind-controlled. If the members remain autonomous beings, an expanding religious order is a good one.
Otherwise self replicating robots.
Or locusts, like fast-growing bugs.
The Klingons & Romulans worked as adversaries against primarily humans. But by now, the Federation has grown by SO many members, that a single species threatening that entire coalition isn't realistic anymore (cough Breen/Orions on DIS...).
The last Villain threats that IMO worked well:
The Borg - forced assimilation of many species
The Dominion - a clear "tier" system of races
The Xindi - a chaotic coalition of species
So a "modern" threat has to be a kind of enemy coalition as well, simply to overcome the resources gap, probably some form of forced coalition to make it actually antagonistic.
Maybe mind-controlled. If the members remain autonomous beings, an expanding religious order is a good one.
Otherwise self replicating robots.
Or locusts, like fast-growing bugs.
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They have to have some quality that unites them. I suppose a technology that can be weaponized or a biological advantage could also work.
Imagine a race that can create unlimited holographic weaponry and warriors, and turn any space at all into a holodeck, with the safeties settings at their command.
Perfect
It also raises questions about how an entire planet ended up with only one religion.
In any case, "Discovery" has religious fanatics in the Breen, and "Strange New Worlds" and "Discovery" both use the Klingons as adversaries with a religious-fanatic bend.
And Season 3 of "Picard" had the Borg and the Dominion allied against the Federation. That's gonna be pretty hard to top.
Species 8472 was a relatively fresh villain, being from another dimension. "Voyager" didn't use them much, probably due to the effects costs in the 90s. But a modern streaming service could probably use them as a main adversary.
Otherwise, Human villains might be the most fresh next step. Human supremacist fringe groups were touched on in "Enterprise." For any "Trek" set in the 23rd or 24th centuries, Human supremacists would have to be a fringe terrorist group. But "Discovery" could've had an even larger villainous Human adversary, in the oost-Burn dystopia where the Federation had collapsed.
To avoid just repeating the antics of the Mirror Universe and the Confederation, I'd say that new Human supremacist villains should have the attitude that they're saving aliens from themselves, and that the galaxy needs humans to shepherd it. Like Starfleet's well-intended ideals taken to a nefarious extreme.
Another idea is AI rights extremists. Touched on in Season 1 of "Picard" and a couple episodes of "Voyager." As a main adversary, evil AIs might be really threatening if they were able to hack and take over Starfleet holograms, androids or ships.
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