Antagonists Faceoff - Season 1

[EMHMark613]

before I post the poll, I have a number of possible characters who could go in the poll.

please let me know if I should add or remove anyone.

• Nancy Crater/M-113 creature - The Man Trap
• Charlie Evans - Charlie X
• Gary Mitchell - Where No Man Has Gone Before
• Evil Kirk - The Enemy Within
• Harry Mudd - Mudd's Women
• Roger Korby - Crhistine Chapel's fiance who made an android in his form and transferred his consciousness into it; he created an android Kirk - What are Little Girls Made of?
• Andrea - female android built by Roger Korby; vaporized the android Kirk thinking he was the real Kirk - What are Little Girls Made of?
• Ruk - android built by the "Old Ones"; killed Matthews and Rayburn - What are Little Girls Made of?
• The Onlies - the children led by Miri - Miri
• Dr. Tristan Adams - director of the Tantalus Penal Colony; tried to kill Kirk with the Neural Neutralizer - Dagger of the Mind
• Spock - hijacked the Enterprise to take Pike to Talos - The Menagerie
• The Talosians - The Menagerie
• Anton Karidian - Kodos the executioner - The Conscience of the King
• Lenore Karidian - murdered the witnesses to her father's atrocities; desperate to protect her father from his past - The Conscience of the King
• Romulan commander (Mark Lenard) - Balance of Terror
• The Romulans - Balance of Terror
• Finnegan - Shore Leave
• Black Knight - Shore Leave
• Taurus II creatures - The Galileo Seven
• Trelane - the Q of TOS - The Squire of Gothos
• The Gorn - Arena
• The Metrons - captured Kirk and the Gorn captain and made them fight to the death; threatened the Enterprise crew with death if Kirk did not win; did the same to the Gorn crew if the Gorn did not win - Arena
• Ben Finney - faked his own death to get even with Kirk - Court Martial
• Landru - The Return of the Archons
• Hacom - The Return of the Archons
• KHAAANNNN - need I say more? - Space Seed
• The Augments - Space Seed
• Anan 7 - High Council of the Eminian Union - A Taste of Armageddon
• The Spores - This Side of Paradise
• Elias Sandoval - This Side of Paradise
• The Horta - The Devil in the Dark
• Kor - Errand of Mercy
• The Klingons - Errand of Mercy
• Lazarus - The Altrnative Factor
• drugged McCoy - saved Edith Keeler, thereby altering history - The City on the Edge of Forever
• neural parasites - Operation - Annihilate

I know that some of the characters in this poll aren't considered "bad guys". However, they were the primary antagonists in the episodes that featured them. That's why they're on the poll.

 

[sbk1234]

I'd take out the two from Shore Leave. They weren't even characters. They were artificial constructs of the planet itself.
I also don't see Elias Sandoval as an antagonist. It was the influence of the spores that was the cause of the problem.
Spock from the Menagerie and McCoy from City on the Edge of Forever I'd also lose.
Just my opinion, but you got to cut down the list somehow.

 

[Kegek]

Another vote for the Space Spores, not Sandoval. Sandoval was fine when the spores were removed; they were the clear nemesis of the episode.

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

There's the Organians themselves from Erand Of Mercy - Kirk, Spock and Kor are pretty antagonistic towards them...

 

[Anubis]

sbk1234 said:
I'd take out the two from Shore Leave. They weren't even characters. They were artificial constructs of the planet itself.

NO!! Finnegan is the greatest character in Star Trek history, Jimmy me boy!

 

[Kenobi]

I like Evil Kirk.

Iii'm Captain Kiiirrk!

 

[Hambone]

Kegek Kringle said:
Another vote for the Space Spores, not Sandoval. Sandoval was fine when the spores were removed; they were the clear nemesis of the episode.

Likewise, in COTEOF, the Guardian was the antagonist because its "time displacement waves" caused the Enterprise crew to get involved in the first place. You could also consider Cordrazine the antagonist.

 

[sbk1234]

Anubis said:

sbk1234 said:
I'd take out the two from Shore Leave. They weren't even characters. They were artificial constructs of the planet itself.

NO!! Finnegan is the greatest character in Star Trek history, Jimmy me boy!

I will say that as "non-characters" go, Finnegan was one of the most charismatic that I've ever encountered, and I would have loved to see the real Finnegan at some point. I always imagined he eventually became an admiral who toughened up and was a hard-as-nails, by-the-book type with no more sense of humor.

 

[Maurice]

Let's not confuse "antagonist" with "obstacle". Not every story has an antagonist.

antagonist n.

1. One who opposes and contends against another; an adversary.
2. The principal character in opposition to the protagonist or hero of a narrative or drama.