What civilization/species in Star Trek is, in your opinion, most evil?

[BohandiAnsoid]

Star Trek has many alien civilizations and species and, while they are generally not entirely good nor entirely evil, I would like to ask you this. Which one ios the most evil of all?

My own opinion is Pagh - Wraiths. Even Borg had more redeeming qualities. And every main character that wasn’t a villain didn’t try to negotiate with them, just destroy them or seal them off forever. And the show seems to endorse this.

 

[Nyotarules]

Tribbles

 

[TheFlutteringHorde]

Moopsy!

 

[DonIago]

While I understand how they became that way, the Founders are probably in the running given how many deaths can likely be laid at their feet...even before the Dominion War.

 

[Warp Core Breach]

Tribbles, Moopsy, the Pakleds, and most especially those space jellyfish in Encounter at Farpoint.

 

[publiusr]

Klingons may kill you
Vidians harvest your organs

But Devidians eat your soul

 

[DonIago]

(insert mandatory Army of Darkness reference here)

 

[BillJ]

None are really evil. There is no species out there that would simply be that binary.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The people that made the Skin of Evil, and just left it lying around.

 

[Finn]

Talaxians. Don't let Neelix fool you!

 

[Nerys Myk]

Everyone has their bad days/centuries.

 

[JoseNoodles]

Borg seem like the obvious choice. Also don't care much for the godlike aliens (Q, Organians, etc.) that want to get involved in our business or the business of other mortal species.

 

[Daedalus]

Whatever Nagilum is.

 

[DonIago]

The people that made the Skin of Evil, and just left it lying around.

Wouldn't they be the opposite of evil because they shed their evil and left it behind?

 

[BohandiAnsoid]

Wouldn't they be the opposite of evil because they shed their evil and left it behind?

They were at the very least careless.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Wouldn't they be the opposite of evil because they shed their evil and left it behind?

They were at the very least careless.

My irony is intentional. The civilization that did this had no appreciation of what they were doing. They were more than careless, they were selfish. There is no justification. It was criminally negligent and not good.

Assuming the Skin's recounting is true, the people utterly failed to achieve their objective. And the assessment that they succeeded was made by the Skin, a creature that certainly had a malignant personality.

 

[Oddish]

Some examples, though not necessarily bad to worst. These are all bad.

- Armus. Pure evil, by admission.
- The Founders. Their idea of first contact is mass murder, and the Jem'Hadar are abominations.
- The Nazi planet. It's Nazis.
- Planet Omelas, in "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach".
- Those people in "Half a Life", for whom genocide is near-universal.
- Yeah, those Pagh Wraiths are pretty bad. I mean, they're basically demons.
- The Hirogen, who hunt and kill sentients.

 

[Riley]

What ever Nagilum is.

Yes!

 

[DonIago]

My irony is intentional. The civilization that did this had no appreciation of what they were doing. They were more than careless, they were selfish. There is no justification. It was criminally negligent and not good.

Assuming the Skin's recounting is true, the people utterly failed to achieve their objective. And the assessment that they succeeded was made by the Skin, a creature that certainly had a malignant personality.

I guess I do wonder how reliable a source Armus is. I can see him lying his oil-slick butt off to try to score sympathy or just screw with people.

 

[Artoo Atari]

Those ghost piranha on SNW look pretty monolithically evil.