If You Were A Bad Guy In Trek

[Herkimer Jitty]

I'd infiltrate the Feds from within, like Temis. Though I think undermining their tech is the way to go. They rely a lot on replicators and computer control, and seem to have lax security. If you could hijack Starfleet's transporters and replicators (with an artificial intelligence or a hidden command or virus or something) you could do some serious damage to Starfleet.

While Starfleet is presumably disabled from being beamed into walls, poisoned via replicator or outright mentally reporgrammed mid-transport, I'd wipe out the majority of the fleet and proceed to take out key industrial targets. At this point, I'd have a planet-killer type weapon like a Genesis Device or trilithium bomb or something ready for holding the core worlds ransom. I'd demand that the Federation permanently disband its military and surrender large amounts of its space to whatever power I represent (if I'm working on the behalf of no gov't... it goes to whoever would jump on it.) The Federation is forced to sign a treaty stating that they will not develop a military force of any kind and that they will disband Starfleet.

I would not have a personal show-down with Kirk/Picard/whomever (who no doubt would have heroically figured out the transporter and replicator sabotage in time to save themselves), but rather send a fair amount of my forces against him. Facing the good guys down personally is what gets Trek bad guys killed.

Even if the plan doesn't go all the way, each step of the plan would cause new levels of chaos and destruction, and I would feel complete as a bad guy (assuming I'm just a batshit dude who wants to see shit blow up, and not more deeply motivated).

 

[Nerys Myk]

Sharks with fricking phasers

 

[All Seeing Eye]

If I was the bad guy in Trek i'd build myself a ship that is highly manoeuvrable, heavily shielded, fast and with a cloaking device.

Let me be more precise. It would be a single manned vessel and the ship would be a collection of triangles which would connect together to create a sphere. Each triangle would be made of blocks. Should the ships hull get hit by weapons fire the blocks would break off like ablative armour and an on-board replicator unit would replicate replacement blocks and the ship would transport these blocks to replace where the other broke off.
The ship would be protected by a skin tight shield. The ship would comprise of a cloaking device.

Weapons would comprise of 1 single high yield phased polaron beam. The ships replicator unit would use data obtained from scanning enemy ships to determine what size matter/anti-matter warhead would be required to take it down. The replicator unit would then replicate the required warhead and using surprise attack the ship would decloak and beam the warhead onto the enemy ship destroying it.
It would also contain a stockpile of trilithium torpedos to destroy entire stars and subspace weapons.

What would be my evil plan?

I would be from an unknown species who wants his species to be the dominant species in the Galaxy. To do this my plan is to enter the star systems of other civilisations such as Earth, Quo'nos and Cardassia etc and destroy the stars using the Trilithium torpedoes causing the collapse of those Empires.

 

[Anticitizen]

Excelsior class ship + Orion slave girl harem = flying space brothel.

 

[Praetor]

Probably try to incite the other major Alpha Quadrant powers to war so I could pick up the pieces when they were finished beating the shit out of each other.

 

[Bear23]

Excelsior class ship + Orion slave girl harem = flying space brothel.

Sign me up!

Anyway... I would make a horrible villain.... I don't have a tacticle bone in my body. I'm a science kinda guy so the best thing i could do as a bad guy would be build some doomsday devices for the bad guys or create flesh-eating viruses or somethin.

 

[hellsgate]

Nah, Man. Just set-up a warp-capable freighter with optional toys that a legal ("non-combatant") Federation ship would never dream of taking-in-trade. A Freighter with a charismatic Captain that does whatever the frell he / she likes, while being duped by Maquis refugees and various aging mercenaries tiring of life under perpetual threat of retribution, both with warrants out for their arrests. Transporting illegals, partners in illicit teen rendezvous, and taking on sidejobs (with "plausible deniability") for Starfleet or The Klingon Empire, in exchange for The Emperor / Klingon High Council giving them back their honor.

Meanwhile, uncovering further partially asembled bluegill or shapeshifter / Founder conspiracies, working with a jilted sect of Jem Hadar still working on their own to track down more Iconian Gateways and other archeological treasures that will lead them to old dormant technology which may help catapult them to within Kill-strike diastance of Earth, Tellar or another key UFP homeworld.


"Firefly" meets DS9.

 

[kv1at3485]

Augment Civil Rights Movement.

If I wanted to hurt the Federation, I would hit them where they hurt the most, their sense of moral superiority. Their foundational core beliefs include extreme anti-transhumanism that goes far beyond mere prejudice and their history includes what can only be described as genocide against genetically engineered humans due to those prejudices that they refuse to abandon. As Quark once pointed out, the Federation's Hew-mons like to think that they're morally supperior to everyone else, even other hew-mons. They can rationalize away one Starfleet officer who does bad stuff, or even a whole covert agency of them, as just a few bad apples. But, demonstrating that a core foundational principle of the Federation, carried over from pre-federation days by prejudiced humans, is deeply immoral, would be an undeniable blow to their smug self-righteousness.

My Union! For such a just and noble cause I would be a willing conspirator in a moment!

Of course, I would push for civil rights for non-biological sentient entities as well.

 

[hyzmarca]

I'd also study the transporter accident from Rascals and discover a way to duplicate it at will. Then I'd file patents with every species that permits the patenting of inventions, thus cornering the immortality market.

My Union! For such a just and noble cause I would be a willing conspirator in a moment!

Of course, I would push for civil rights for non-biological sentient entities as well.

Of course. Just imagine the havok it would play on the holodeck industry. We know that every holoprogram, if allowed to run long enough, would eventually become sapient, and would do so sooner than later, as is the case with Vic Fontaine, Voyager's Doctor, and Voyager's Fairhaven. In essence, turning off your holodeck is the equivilant to abortion, and holodeck use, in general, is very close to absolute slavery. It's particularly nasty when you consider how many programs get killed for entertainment, and how many are forced to engage in sexual encounters.

 

[Skywalker]

I'd attack Tellar Prime instead of Earth, just to throw Starfleet off.

 

[Praetor]

No, no. Risa's first. Then Tellar Prime.

 

[hyzmarca]

No, no. Risa's first. Then Tellar Prime.

It is unwise to land troops to occupy Risa, as the native defense forces would merely Jahamaron your soldiers to death without any resistance at all. It is even more unwise to destroy it outright, as you'll have everyone in two quadrants out for your blood. Romulan, Klingon, Cardassian, it doesn't matter - everyone likes Jahamaron.

 

[Myasishchev]

Augment Civil Rights Movement.

If I wanted to hurt the Federation, I would hit them where they hurt the most, their sense of moral superiority. Their foundational core beliefs include extreme anti-transhumanism that goes far beyond mere prejudice and their history includes what can only be described as genocide against genetically engineered humans due to those prejudices that they refuse to abandon. As Quark once pointed out, the Federation's Hew-mons like to think that they're morally supperior to everyone else, even other hew-mons. They can rationalize away one Starfleet officer who does bad stuff, or even a whole covert agency of them, as just a few bad apples. But, demonstrating that a core foundational principle of the Federation, carried over from pre-federation days by prejudiced humans, is deeply immoral, would be an undeniable blow to their smug self-righteousness.

Goddamn right.

Gattaca! Gattaca!

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

If I were a bad guy on Star Trek, I'd wear a brightly colored piece of cloth around my neck, walk through the black curtain onto the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, and hand Captain Kirk the cancellation notice for the show.

 

[Praetor]

No, no. Risa's first. Then Tellar Prime.

It is unwise to land troops to occupy Risa, as the native defense forces would merely Jahamaron your soldiers to death without any resistance at all. It is even more unwise to destroy it outright, as you'll have everyone in two quadrants out for our blood. Romulan, Klingon, Cardassian, it doesn't matter - everyone likes Jahamaron.

You win this round.

 

[Harry Palmer]

I'd be in Section 31 doing the things our heroes can't be troubled with, but which are essential to the survival of the Federation.

You wouldn't be a 'bad guy' you'd be a realist.

I'd be in Section 31 doing the things our heroes can't be troubled with, but which are essential to the survival of the Federation.

Using unethical CIA like agencies seems a massive gamble given that Q told us "the trial never ends".

The threat from aggressor spieces like the Dominion are nothing compared to the power of Q or the Organians.

Our survival depends on enlightenment.

Not a problem Section 31 killed off both the Q and the Organians with a multi-dimensional ultraphasic quantum torpedo barrage during their monthly Omnipotent Beings Get together.

 

[M-Red]

launch a surprise attack on all the Alpha Quadrant's major dilithium crystal mining facilities...


occupy all (or most) of the dilithium crystal mines (or fields) through massive force and then hold the Feds, Klings, Cards, and whoever else over the barrel until they met my demands....or else they could run their interstellar operations on impulse power


essentially, I'd steal all the galaxy's "oil"



if that somehow goes against some canon I've forgotten (or never knew)....then I'd simply hope the episode's/movie's writing team bent canon so I could do it

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

No, no. Risa's first. Then Tellar Prime.

Risa's first on my list anyways. I wouldn't want another shitty Risa episode ever again.

 

[Colonel Green]

Two words: Android hookers.

 

[Praetor]

No, no. Risa's first. Then Tellar Prime.

Risa's first on my list anyways. I wouldn't want another shitty Risa episode ever again.

You know, more than any other reason, that was why I first thought of it.

On the plus side, no jamaharon makes for a demoralized Federation.