Surely Seska

[Tallis Rhul]

She may not have been in thousands of episodes, she may not have been the Borg Queen, and I know loads of people had a beef with the Kazon (who, I'll go out on a limb, I actualy liked). But isn't Seska GENIUS?

Discuss.

 

[Pemmer Harge]

Yeah, I thought she was cool. Martha Hackett is great.

 

[TheGodBen]

She desperately wanted to get back to the Alpha Quadrant as fast as she could so she sided with bunch of space-bikers and helped to capture Voyager for them so that they could stick around in the Delta Quadrant stirring shit up.

I liked Seska, she was an interesting character and I think it was a mistake to kill her off, but she wasn't a genius.

 

[Lynx]

I can only agree. Seska was a genius in her own way.

She's definitely one of my favorite villains and yes, I like the Kazon too.

The episodes with Seska and Culluh are among my favorites. Great villains both of them.

 

[RyuRoots]

No. Seska had potential to be that, yes. She had potential to be an amazing puppetmaster character, but she was stuck in the role of merely being an advisor to Culluh, who probably couldn't put two lego bricks together if he had instructions.

 

[USS Kongo]

I loved Martha Hackett; her Seska was a great character. Too bad they turned her into a second fiddle to the Kazan dude.

Sean

 

[KimMH]

Seska could've been great but Cullah and the Kazon were too primitive for her purposes. She certainly was entertaining and it is a great pity they did her in so soon

 

[Lynx]

No. Seska had potential to be that, yes. She had potential to be an amazing puppetmaster character, but she was stuck in the role of merely being an advisor to Culluh, who probably couldn't put two lego bricks together if he had instructions.

Oh, come on now. Give Culluh some credit. This charming Nistrim leader actually managed to take over Voyager.

 

[Tallis Rhul]

I liked the look on Janeway's face when he did

Just one more thing while I'm here... the whole "the baby is yours, Chakotay"... I'm sure he would have remembered sex 9ish months (or however long Cardassians gestate for) before... and if it ended up being Culluh's then it was while they were in the Delta Quadrant yet she was kinda brutally rebuffed at every turn when she cracked onto him...

Has she been at the microtransporters in his mind or something?

And no, that's not a euphemism

 

[kimc]

I liked the look on Janeway's face when he did

Just one more thing while I'm here... the whole "the baby is yours, Chakotay"... I'm sure he would have remembered sex 9ish months (or however long Cardassians gestate for) before... and if it ended up being Culluh's then it was while they were in the Delta Quadrant yet she was kinda brutally rebuffed at every turn when she cracked onto him...

Has she been at the microtransporters in his mind or something?

And no, that's not a euphemism

She had stolen his DNA in a previous episode. I'm not sure what the gestation period for Cardassians is - it may not be nine months though.

As for Seska - love to hate her.

 

[USS Kongo]

The title of this thread, Surely Seska, would make for a great Star Trek-themed sitcom featuring Seska.

Culluh comes home to find that the dylitium chamber has exploded...again.

Culluh: "Seska, you've got some 'plaining to do...."

Sean

 

[Tallis Rhul]

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... let's all bombard Martha Hackett with mail and see if she'll agree to it!

 

[Anwar]

Funny, I was thinking of a musical number along the lines of "Suddenly Seymour" from Little Shop of Horrors.

As for Seska being a Puppetmaster villain, she'd need her own crew of pirates or mercenaries separate from the Kazon to be able to pull that off. Sort of like becoming a local space crimelord. I don't think it would've worked.

 

[Cuhl]

Funny, I was thinking of a musical number along the lines of "Suddenly Seymour" from Little Shop of Horrors.

Me, too! I can hear Robert Beltran singing it now.

 

[nx1701g]

I always liked Seska and thought that she should've stayed around a bit longer. It's not surprising to me that she was in one of my favorite episodes of Voyager: Worst Case Scenario.

 

[Polgara]

She was just one of those characters you loved to hate.

 

[Unicron]

Meh. I never really cared for Seska, and I don't think the show would have suffered greatly without her. I think Martha Hackett is a capable actress, but I just don't think Seska was ever really given the chance by the writers to evolve into more than a one-note villain.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

See, if they'd left her fate unknown or open...she could've shown back up as...

Part of Equinox's crew

As the new Borg Queen

An ally of psycho aged Kes

one of those aliens who used dead bodies they find to create new aliens

 

[Bad Atom]

I think we saw just enough of Seska. The Kazon (and Seska's) storyline went on way too long as it was. On my rewatch marathon, I watched all those episodes and skipped the rest and it was a decent little story arc - much better than being played out over two seasons.

And on the subject of Seska, I especially enjoyed the fact that she was so evil that she re-programmed Tuvok's holodeck program to kill him in her spare time.

 

[Tallis Rhul]

Funny, I was thinking of a musical number along the lines of "Suddenly Seymour" from Little Shop of Horrors.

As for Seska being a Puppetmaster villain, she'd need her own crew of pirates or mercenaries separate from the Kazon to be able to pull that off. Sort of like becoming a local space crimelord. I don't think it would've worked.

Due to a conversation about Doctor Who I had with my next door neighbour this evening, I read that as space timelord. Oh dear.