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Most hated characters in Star Trek

I like Kes, she just never got much to do, and was dragged down from the start by her connection to Neelix. She's fun in "Lifesigns", "Warlord", and a few others.
 
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Which are your most hated Star Trek characters? You get 3.

Rules:

1. Please don't say Neelix. I really loved him in VOY.
2. Don't say Wesley either. I don't love him but give the kid a break!
3. Say Picard, if you can. And justify it.
4. Everybody loves Leonard Nimoy so if I hear that name on this list I'll personally persecute you.

My list:

1. Khan (Space Seed/WoK). Overrated as a villain. The Borg were truly terrifying and they would have assimed Khan in a second.
2. Geordi (TNG/PIC). The man needs to have some principles. Every "relationship" of his on TNG was .... cringe! Except Data.
3.Travis Mayweather (ENT): Who selected him?

So.... You are asking this board how it feels but only if they play according to your rules AND you're naming characters we're not allowed to name? That makes sense.
 
No. Well. Yes. What I'm trying to say is that ... If Star Trek is to be revived for the 21st century, perhaps Ethan, Jeri and obviously Patrick? After all, both Ethan and Jeri were in my favourite legal dramedy. (Boston Legal.)
 
??? The only people in TNG who had a successful relationship were O'Brien and Ogawa.

I don't think I really hate any Star Trek characters and I certainly don't blame the actors for my frustrations with them. But you want three names so I'll come up with something.

I got very tired of anything to do with mental health in Discovery, so Counsellor Culber became a character I dreaded seeing.

Rizzo in Picard. I was always disappointed whenever she appeared in a scene.

Third spot I'm going to give to Captain Pike, because he was fantastic in Discovery and he's been letting me down recently.
It was a joke but I'm sorry. I hate Kes, O Briens wife and Deanna.

Still, it's just a joke. Please don't mind me.
 
I got to be honest here, there are no characters in Star Trek that I "hate".
Exactly. Hate is such a strong word and I don’t think I ever outright “hated” any of the characters on Star Trek. Just like real people most of them can be annoying, grating or just badly written in any given episode, but then in another they are interesting, relatable or funny. So while I don’t really hate any of the characters on Trek, here’s the ones I find least enjoyable …
  • Harry Mudd, because I find him unfunny and sleazy and not very entertaining.
  • Lwaxana, she definitely has her moments, but most of the time I thought she was annoying as hell.
  • Captain Liam Shaw; I guess I understand what the writers were going for with him, and I really like Todd Stashwick as a person, but the character didn’t click with me at all.
  • Emperor Giourgou, because she had a horrible disregard for the life of other beings and it often felt like they didn’t even attempt to redeem her as a character. Her humor, which I guess was supposed to be crass and cool seemed just cringe to me most of the time.
  • Pelia, because half the time I find the humor they are attempting with the character just cringeworthy.
  • Worf, who’s very annoying with his honor schtick and over-the-top machismo.
Additionally, as a kid first watching Trek I really didn’t like Quark, finding him just sleazy, weird and annoying. However, getting older I grew to like him, appreciating his more caricature-like aspects.

1. Garrett Wang: Talent-less actor who keeps spinning his series credits into convention appearances. I'm glad his character never got promote: it meant we suffered less of his acting. If only they could have killed his character and transferred Nog in.

2. Marina Sirtis: Obsessively rude and mean-spirited. Just because the Roddenberry's adopted her does not mean we should trust her. I'm tired of the one-line insults she tosses around.

3. Patrick Stewart: Post-TNG, he made bad decisions on scripts and stuff that hampered the health of the franchise on big and small screen.
Did you perhaps not read the OP right? Considering almost nothing you wrote is about the characters but about the actors portraying them. :shrug:
 
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I don't think I hate any character in Star Trek but there are some that I either don't like or don't care for. Since you said not Neelix, I will say there are episodes where I think Neelix really works. Mortal Coil, Fair Trade, and Homestead come to mind. In terms of characters I don't like:

Deanna Troi (Except for Face of the Enemy, Dark Page, and the movies and Voyager)
Rom
Dr. Crusher (She is ok, but there are times I wish Pulaski had stayed)
Post season 1 Stamets (He became whiny and lost an edge. Ironically, I liked Culber when he came back, though I didn't like killing him off in the first place)
 
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"I'm not a fan of Charlie from 'Charlie X' or those creepy, thong-wearing humans from 'Justice' (my most hated episode of Star Trek [any series]; 'Spock's Brain' is better, and I actually rooted for Wesley in Justice , hoping Picard would break the Prime Directive)."
 
No. Well. Yes. What I'm trying to say is that ... If Star Trek is to be revived for the 21st century, perhaps Ethan, Jeri and obviously Patrick? After all, both Ethan and Jeri were in my favourite legal dramedy. (Boston Legal.)
At the risk of being pedantic, there has been lots of Star Trek produced in the 21st century spanning the tenures of Berman, Abrams, and Kurtzman. I don't see how Trek is "to be revived for the 21st century."

Beyond that I honestly have no idea what your message even means.
 
If Star Trek is to be revived for the 21st century,
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What did the poor goldfish do to you? How can you hate it?

Deanna Troi

Not all the time just the times the writers didn't know what to do with her or her powers and the fact they work sometimes, but only if the plot needs it or they don't work at all or are never used.
 
What did the poor goldfish do to you? How can you hate it?
The goldfish committed the heinous crime of not being a goldfish at all but being a lionfish. But they don't roar like lions, are not floofy like lions, are venomous unlike lions so the name is false adversing.

Evan Connoly was a dick, he existed just be a hue-shifted redshirt. Why in the middle of his bragging he felt the need to specify his roommate at the Academy was half-Caitian still doesn't make sense to me.
 
Emperor Georgiou, which was a terrible concept, being a space Hitler who Discovery kept trying to tell us was a great badass awesome character but just was annoying. Then she got her own movie and it was of course absolutely awful.

This!

Spot #1 is definitely mirror Georgiou for me. Not Michelle Yeoh's fault, though.

#2 is Michael Burnham.

And sorry, I just have to break the op rule ... imo, Neelix is the Jar Jar Binks of the Star Trek universe.
 
??? The only people in TNG who had a successful relationship were O'Brien and Ogawa.

I remember doing a huge eye roll the first time I saw him making that claim on the TNG DVDs. The character went from being a lowly navigator to chief of engineering and almost always integral to whatever story was being told. But boo hoo, he wasnt the ladies man so the writers must be racist. :rolleyes:

Reg Barklay wasnt great with women either. The only ladies man was Riker and even that got downplayed in the later years.
 
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