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Favorite Trek Lit villains

JD

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I'm in the process of reading The Soul Key right now, and the stuff with Iliana Ghemor has gotten me thinking about some of the other villains we've gotten over the years in Trek Lit. So I was just curious now to see who some of the other posters here favorite villains are.
Some of my other favorites include:
Kinchawn, Zife and the other conspirators (A Time to Kill/Heal)
Ethan Locken (DS9: S31: Abyss)
Kurl Parasites (DS9R)
Gothmara & Morjod (Left Hand of Destiny)
Ryjann, Zoran, Yoz (Mac's brother was part of the group but I can't remember enough of the story to say for sure if he was really a bad guy) (First NF story arc)
Redeemers (New Frontier)
I know there are probably others, but those are the only ones that stuck out for me while skimming through
 
Androvar Drake
Adrik Thorsen
Ethan Locken
Gothmara
Aventeer Vokar
Salatrel
The Hive
The Teuthis
The Nuyyad
The Herans
The Danteri
 
^
Not exactly a villain I would think. Powerful, misguided and uninformed anti-hero more like.
 
^ In order:

The Ashes Of Eden
Federation
The Return
Objective: Bajor (DS9 numbered)
The Valiant
Infiltrator (TNG numbered)
lots of New Frontier books

Of which I have only read Federation and New Frontier, but Memory Beta is my friend :)
 
Cool, thanks. I've seen references to some of them before, I just wasn't sure which books they came from. Other than the Danteri, I didn't notice them down there when I cleared out the other ones I know.

I can't belive I forgot to check MB.
 
^ Well, it seems obvious that hearing from readers about one or another of my characters would, in general, be a good thing. The fact that I do not often hear about individual characters, conversely, would seem to be a bad thing, though a couple of my characters--the adult Akaar, Lynn Dickinson--have garnered some approval, while other characters I've fleshed out--Captain Harriman and his first officer, Demora Sulu--have as well. All in all, I have no complaints with readers, to be sure, and I always appreciate their approbation.
 
I’d like to see Captain Sejanus from The Captain’s Honor return in the post-Destiny timeframe. He strikes me as the sort who would have done heroic things during the war, albeit more for his own ego than to help others. And he’s had over a decade to corrupt some dumpy overlooked planet somewhere…

The only problem is that Sejanus was supposed to be Picard’s Roman equivalent (to the extent they looked the same and acted similarly), but we’ve already had a big-screen Picard-off in Nemesis (where I am one of 4 people who thought that film was brilliant). Maybe it’d be a better fit for Titan, where Riker has to confront an ‘evil Roman’ version of his former captain?
 
^I could never buy that book's conceit that the Roman planet from "Bread and Circuses" joined the Federation mere decades after the episode. Given that they were an unrepentant slave-owning society at the time, I don't see them reaching UFP-worthy levels of social enlightenment so quickly. Also the portrayal of "Magna Roma" being essentially an exact duplicate of Earth that had the same history until the first Sejanus, rather than just a strikingly similar world, was hard to swallow.

Of course, the thing about Captain Sejanus being so similar to Picard was an in-joke to I, Claudius, in which the Ancient Roman Sejanus was played by Patrick Stewart.
 
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