Delta's Most Evil Species

[MeanJoePhaser]

Kegek said:
While we're on it, I'm giving a nod to the sinister, outsider-killing Swarm from 'The Swarm', a genuinely weird and creepy insectoid race, unlike their silly Enterprise counterpats.

Oddly, a swarm alien appears later, far from his homespace, watching the Rock battle Seven of Nine or something like that. Guess they aren't always hostile, just hate outsiders in their zone. Remember, Voyager knowingly crossed over into their territory. If the Swarm were more human-like, would they seem as evil for attacking?

 

[mythme]

Yeah the makeup department got a bit lazy in later episodes. I believe it was the episode with the 3 disconnected Drones, where Voyager was docked at a spaceport, the ship was filled with alien species - several of which was Alpha Quadrant species!

Anyway, I cannot call the Krenim evil because that was the action of one unstable individual. I can pity the Viidans, although they're creepy as hell. I would agree with the above poster about the Haakonians. There are rules, even in war.

 

[Caswin]

Did anyone expect more from the Swarm? In their very first scene, they struck me as being designed to look as sinister as possible - their appearance, that purple beam-up effect, and then Neelix's spiel about their enigmatic hostility and everyone either coming back dead or not at all... basically, I was expecting them to be the next Kazon/Borg-style over-arching threat.

Did anyone else feel like that the first time around?

 

[TheMasterOfOrion]

EMHMark613 said:
8472

Those guys were nasty but they caved in once the going got tuff

I think the Vidiians were horrible

 

[Arianwen]

I would like to nominate the hair-raisingly creepy "Macrovirus" things that BUZZZZZ freak me out!!!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Nebusj said:

Mallory said:
Beyond a doubt the Vidiians. Harvesting other species organs and leaving them to die is just plain creepy.

I need my memory refreshed ... was it standard policy to take enough organs to force another to die, or did they -- except under extreme duress -- limit themselves to tissue that would regrow, or organs for which there was a redundant duplicate, or the like? Not that it's pleasant or won't have repercussions for the victims, but stealing one kidney out of life-or-death need is a more forgivable thing than stealing two.

There was never any indication that the Vidiians cared about who they were harvesting from. They took whatever they wanted, whatever they needed. If you had a heart they needed, they'd take yours. If you had skin they wanted, off it goes. They did not seem to give a damn about who they were stealing organs from, or how many organs they had to take from any one person. (Look what they did to the duplicate Voyager in "Deadlock": they just rampaged through the corridors, harvesting pretty much every organ from anyone they happened to stumble across)