Spoilers Speculation: Who's the Main Villain?

[Kor]

The villain of the show is Picard's sheer f@$#&!%* hubris.

Kor

 

[eschaton]

The villain of the show is Picard's sheer f@$#&!%* hubris.

Kor

Yeah, so far the show's central conflict is as much internalized "man vs. himself" as it is "man vs. man."

 

[tribbleorlfl]

Added a spoiler thingie since there's a lot of info from the episodes flying around here.

Oops, sorry, I thought when I titled the thread "Speculation" that the discussion would naturally indicate spoilers.

 

[Aragorn]

Spot is the main villain.

 

[Thanos007]

It's gonna be an ancient AI. Maybe Control.

 

[Heimchen]

I agree that the Romulan lounge lizard guy--Narek?--seems the obvious choice, but I think he's more the soap opera redeemable bad boy sort, so...villainous, kinda, but he'll do something unexpectedly 'good' before the end...

Honestly? For my money, Starfleet Command is the 'villain', given the couple of episodes' worth I've seen of them so far! Really useless-seeming bunch for the most part... Reminds me of the equally useless bunch leading the Jedi just before everything went to hell for them when the evil ol' Emperor revealed himself. THEY didn't see what was right under their noses and some of the Starfleet higher-ups now seem equally clueless and/or corrupt. Just my opinion...

 

[Unimatrix Q]

The Borg?

Can't shake the feeling that the cube is a trojan horse...

 

[FreddyE]

For me the main villian is starting to be the overly sloooooowww pace of this. I get that they wanted this to be more character based and slower paced, which I liked in the beginning. But they´re overdoing the "slow". This is really starting to feel like we´re watching an 9 episode intro to episode 10.

 

[Hythlodeus]

It turns out the true main villain was inside us all along

 

[The Old Mixer]

For me the main villian is starting to be the overly sloooooowww pace of this. I get that they wanted this to be more character based and slower paced, which I liked in the beginning. But they´re overdoing the "slow". This is really starting to feel like we´re watching an 9 episode intro to episode 10.

Or maybe it's a 10-episode intro to Season 2...

 

[Pindar]

Dr. Agnes Jurati, it must be her.

It's obvious she is the new Borg Queen.

Her name is an anagram of Junta Regia(s), this clearly means she is the Queen who usurped power.

:P

 

[Lord Garth]

For me the main villian is starting to be the overly sloooooowww pace of this. I get that they wanted this to be more character based and slower paced, which I liked in the beginning. But they´re overdoing the "slow". This is really starting to feel like we´re watching an 9 episode intro to episode 10.

Or maybe it's a 10-episode intro to Season 2...

I'm a fan of Better Call Saul.

Picard moves like a racejet by comparison.

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

The villain of the show is Picard's sheer f@$#&!%* hubris.

Kor

You might have called it.

Spoiler

Dr. Jurati might agree based on comments in episode 8

 

[Anters]

Short answer: Lore, long answer see:
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/innocuous-question-important-answer.303483/

 

[eschaton]

I think it's pretty clear now the main villain of the show is racism.

 

[ITDUDE]

Per Chabon, it supposedly it was the TKon Empire that was wiped out by the unknown Big Bad
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tkon_Empire
They are the ones that left the artifact that drives this whole season arc.

So who is the Big Bad? Is it O from the books? Where there is O there is Q... Speculations, thoughts?

 

[TedShatner10]

I thinking a more advanced, older version of Control (not Control per de, a convergent development) and it is a machine swarm that is partially transcendent.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Maybe, whatever built the Doomsday Machine was fighting it?

 

[Crazyewok]

It wont be anything from the books.

You had the iconians at that time and the Borg according to Guinean emerged at that time to.

 

[ITDUDE]

It wont be anything from the books.

You had the iconians at that time and the Borg according to Guinean emerged at that time to.

I thought Borg are only a thousand years or so old?
From that Voyager episode.