Future Enemies

[Photon]

What I would like to see.

I blv the Romulans,Cardassians, Klingons, and Borg are (now) off the table.

Other than the Dominion, who'd you like to see become the bad guys. Or.....

What unintroduced race-type would you like to see injected into the future?

Personally, I'd like to see:
1-Alliance of past troublemakers- Breen, Tholians, Tzenkathi brewing morass for our heroes

2-Bad ass Redemption aliens come back to stir the pot

3-New alien race,perhaps from the outskirts of our galaxy-sensing Fed encroachment-comes blitzing into Fed territory and into our hearts.

4-Lastly, I wouldn't mind seeing disgruntled:Andorians, Vulcans, Bajorans, and others come together perhaps orchestrated by an outside entity in rebellion against the Feds.

 

[hellsgate]

I've begun a similar thread here.

"Villains We'd Like To See Return In Fan Fiction"

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=47858

I'd personally like to see a return of the Preservers, even if its' only hinted/implied.

The Sphere-Builders, perhaps?

 

[Apogeal Alpha01]

Those small symbiont like creatures that nearly took over Starfleet in TNG would make interesting enemies.

 

[Good Will Riker]

The Remans need to overtake Deep Space Nine and collapse the wormhole.

I honestly don't know what their motives are, but it makes just as much sense as Shinzon's desire to conquer Earth when it was actually the Romulans who enslaved him in the first place...

 

[HRHTheKING]

1- The Andorians, leaving the Federation and pursuing aggressive expansion.
2- The Gorn, after a revamp, because they look ridiculous.
3- The Breen
4- The Tzenkethi
5- The Orions
6- The Tholians, who also need a revamp due to their comical appearance.
7- New races
8- Old races expanded.

 

[nx1701g]

Those small symbiont like creatures that nearly took over Starfleet in TNG would make interesting enemies.

I agree with that. They haven't been explored nearly as well as they could have been.

 

[AdmiralGarak]

^They returned in the DS9 Relaunch novels. That was fine, as they were tied into DS9 quite cleverly. Otherwise, I'm not too keen on seeing them again. They don't offer anything we haven't already had from the Founders. "Are they a Changeling?" is merely replaced with "Are they infested?"

I don't see much potential from Alpha Quadrant races.
Klingons and Romulans have been done to death, and are more interesting as allies.
Tholians and Gorn seem to be on good terms with the Federation in the 24th Century. Sisko's friends with the Tholian Ambassador. The Gorn have allowed the Federation to return to Cestus III. Besides, they're minor players at best.

I'd be happy to assume the Borg were completely destroyed in "Endgame", and forgotten.

I want new foes, not old ones. It's much more fun to force enemies into working together against a common new foe.

 

[-Brett-]

1. Might've worked at the height of Trek's popularity, but now it's too incestuous.

2. Uhh... huh? "Redemption aliens"?

3. Something like this seems the most likely, although it's been done to death now.

4. As a fan, I think a Federation civil war story might be interesting (although sides shouldn't be drawn along species lines), provided you can find a plausible and interesting catalyst for it. But given the state of things now, I don't see how you could get the audience to go for it.

In any new Star Trek, the antagonist group is either going to be one even casual viewers are familiar with (Klingons, Romulans, Borg) or something all new.

 

[anti-matter]

The Breen are nothing but an empty suit...the Borg have been domesticated. I'd rather take a 2nd round with the Cardassian or Romulans at least they were compelling characters.

The Founders themselves were boring but very capable thank god they had someone like Weyoon as their point man.

Excuse my rambling but after ENT I rather deal with the enemy I know.

 

[trash80]

I'd like to see all-out war between the Fed and the Orion Syndicate. No space war maybe but plenty of bombs, assassinations, hacking, blackmail, betrayal et cetera. And the Orion lot would get up to a bit of mischief as well

 

[HoundDog]

I think if the producers ever decide to produce a film/series set in the time after TNG/DS9/VOY, they will introduce a knew, yet unknown enemy. Personally, I would like to see an insectoid species (I know we had the Xindi-insectoids in Ent, but they were rather one-dimensional).
I also like the Federation-civil-war-idea, but not as an action-loaded festival of explosions. If they ever go that road, I hope they do it more like a thriller (political conspiracies and so on).

 

[AdmiralGarak]

The Breen are nothing but an empty suit

Apparently, literally. I've never been to keen on how nobody knows what a Breen looks like, yet Kira keeps stealing their clothes. Sloppy writing like that sours me on a return of the Breen. They were just henchmen, anyway.

 

[Jaro Stun]

if they didn't humanize the species 8472, i think the'd be the first choice for adversary in the upcomming 25th century.

However, with Federation posessing the advanced Borg nanoprobe technology, the war would be settled pretty quickly I suppose (especiallyafter the 8472 would realize that the win against Feds wouldn't be as quick and painless as against Borg, who ain't as resourceful as Federation is - at least in VOY they aren't).

There would be 1-2 bloody engagements and 8472 would be willing to negotiate.

Or even there might be no war at all - if they really managed to insert undercover agents in starfleet, they'd learn that they are in no danger, but with this assumption we're back to In the Flesh episode....so ignore it

 

[James Pike]

Well, I've always thought the Romulans are still a good enemy. After Nemesis, the Romulan Star Empire would be in major turmoil. The Senate is dead, there is going to be a grab for power.
The Klingons took huge loses during the Dominion War and the Romulans, having not spent near as much time and resources, can use the destruction of the Klingons as a rally to unify the warlords/admirals/rouge starship captains.
Our (my friend and I) fanfic has the Romulans wiping out most of the Klingon planets, and casting the remnants of the Klingon Empire into Federation Space. Basically the prediction in ST:VI (They'll become the trash of the galaxy) comes to fruition. The Dominion can still be an enemy, as it still has all of it's might in the Gamma Quad, and since the founders planet is known, someone (section 31) gives info to someone there to destroy it. Letting some Vorta or other alien take control.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Ah, bollocks to it - let's just have the Daleks in and be done with it!

 

[scorpius1701]

The Suliban. We need to find out who Future Guy is!

 

[Red Ranger]

I'd like to see all-out war between the Fed and the Orion Syndicate. No space war maybe but plenty of bombs, assassinations, hacking, blackmail, betrayal et cetera. And the Orion lot would get up to a bit of mischief as well

Hmm, not a bad idea. Orion Syndicate as a cross between the Mafia and Islamo-fascist terrorists, perhaps, bent on spreading nihilism throughout the galaxy, all in the name of profit! Yeah, I could get behind this! After all, didn't the Orions try to foment interstellar war in "Journey to Babel"? -- RR

 

[erastus25]

Well, I've always thought the Romulans are still a good enemy. After Nemesis, the Romulan Star Empire would be in major turmoil. The Senate is dead, there is going to be a grab for power.
The Klingons took huge loses during the Dominion War and the Romulans, having not spent near as much time and resources, can use the destruction of the Klingons as a rally to unify the warlords/admirals/rouge starship captains.
Our (my friend and I) fanfic has the Romulans wiping out most of the Klingon planets, and casting the remnants of the Klingon Empire into Federation Space. Basically the prediction in ST:VI (They'll become the trash of the galaxy) comes to fruition. The Dominion can still be an enemy, as it still has all of it's might in the Gamma Quad, and since the founders planet is known, someone (section 31) gives info to someone there to destroy it. Letting some Vorta or other alien take control.

I agree completely. We haven't really seen an all out conflict with the Romulans. They spent most of TNG staring at the Feds from across the neutral zone with some minor skirmishes. They could very well have a civil war which draws in the Feds and any number of other races. The groundwork for this was laid in Unification as well - the federation could aid the Spock sympathizers in their attempt to gain control now that the senate is dead and another race could aid the other side.

As for the Dominion being a threat in the near future, it seemed resolved for at least for awhile at the end of DS9.

 

[Maniarek]

1. Might've worked at the height of Trek's popularity, but now it's too incestuous.

2. Uhh... huh? "Redemption aliens"?

3. Something like this seems the most likely, although it's been done to death now.

4. As a fan, I think a Federation civil war story might be interesting (although sides shouldn't be drawn along species lines), provided you can find a plausible and interesting catalyst for it. But given the state of things now, I don't see how you could get the audience to go for it.

A civil war is a FASCINATING concept IF done right.

If not you might have fans crying that ST has jumped the shark...

 

[Maniarek]

Well, I've always thought the Romulans are still a good enemy. After Nemesis, the Romulan Star Empire would be in major turmoil. The Senate is dead, there is going to be a grab for power.
The Klingons took huge loses during the Dominion War and the Romulans, having not spent near as much time and resources, can use the destruction of the Klingons as a rally to unify the warlords/admirals/rouge starship captains.
Our (my friend and I) fanfic has the Romulans wiping out most of the Klingon planets, and casting the remnants of the Klingon Empire into Federation Space. Basically the prediction in ST:VI (They'll become the trash of the galaxy) comes to fruition. The Dominion can still be an enemy, as it still has all of it's might in the Gamma Quad, and since the founders planet is known, someone (section 31) gives info to someone there to destroy it. Letting some Vorta or other alien take control.

I agree completely. We haven't really seen an all out conflict with the Romulans. They spent most of TNG staring at the Feds from across the neutral zone with some minor skirmishes. They could very well have a civil war which draws in the Feds and any number of other races. The groundwork for this was laid in Unification as well - the federation could aid the Spock sympathizers in their attempt to gain control now that the senate is dead and another race could aid the other side.

As for the Dominion being a threat in the near future, it seemed resolved for at least for awhile at the end of DS9.

With the Dominion severely weakened, the Romulans will probably make the best villains again.

A season 8 of DS9 would’ve been really cool. We would’ve seen how the all the major powers of the Alpha Quadrant would position themselves politically, territorially and militarily.