The Malon -- What think ye?

[Six of Twelve]

I thought they were the worst antagonists on the show (of the recurring ones).
I actually didn't see them as villains, they were more like a nuisance. A thorn in Voyager's side.
As for the Kazon, I quite liked them. I thought it was a good idea the first enemy Voyager made was not too powerful. It might have been too much for them if they had been.
Of course, I liked the Vidiians as well.
As for the Hirogen, they are my favourite villains ever. I wish they had figured in a lot more episodes. (I've already said elsewhere it's a real shame no VOY author has given us a good Hirogen-based novel. Not even a bad one.)
As for the Borg, they are my second favourite villains. I wish we had had three times as many episodes with them.
And although I didn't like the Mallon at all, I still preferred them to having zero recurring enemies during the last two seasons.

Yeah, they were a nuisance, much like the Ferengi were a nuisance in the Alpha Quadrant.

 

[KelisThePoet]

Personally, I think it was a strength of the show that the same adversaries did not show up very often and a strength of the show's premise that it kept Voyager on the move, encountering different things.

It all depends on what kind of show you want to watch. If you want a soap-operatic show that keeps returning to the same characters and material, then recurring adversaries are a good idea. But Voyager was an episodic adventure show, like the original Star Trek. In the original show, even the main bad guys, the Klingons are only featured in three episodes--they're sort of a background nuisance in a handful of other episodes, most notably "Friday's Child" and "A Private Little War."

 

[Sophie74656]

Personally, I think it was a strength of the show that the same adversaries did not show up very often and a strength of the show's premise that it kept Voyager on the move, encountering different things.

It all depends on what kind of show you want to watch. If you want a soap-operatic show that keeps returning to the same characters and material, then recurring adversaries are a good idea. But Voyager was an episodic adventure show, like the original Star Trek. In the original show, even the main bad guys, the Klingons are only featured in three episodes--they're sort of a background nuisance in a handful of other episodes, most notably "Friday's Child" and "A Private Little War."

I think it was a good mix. There were enemies that were a one time thing and there were some that showed up a couple of times.

 

[locutus101]

Well, the Malon are not really villains. They don't want to attack Voyager for its own sake. They just want to dump their garbage, although you have to wonder why they don't just simply drop them in the gravity field of a star....

 

[Sophie74656]

Well, the Malon are not really villains. They don't want to attack Voyager for its own sake. They just want to dump their garbage, although you have to wonder why they don't just simply drop them in the gravity field of a star....

I got the impression from Juggernaut that they try to do things like that, that most of them find places to dump that doesn't affect anyone. It seemed to me that there were a minority that didn't care where they dumped

 

[locutus101]

I got the impression from Juggernaut that they try to do things like that, that most of them find places to dump that doesn't affect anyone. It seemed to me that there were a minority that didn't care where they dumped

That is plausible given the number of people who don't care now where they dump their garbage as long as they don't get caught.

 

[publiusr]

I liked that their ships actually had big tanks. In Trek--it is to hold waste, not more compact fuel. The ships reminded me of the sub in MAN FROM ATLANTIS
http://s185.photobucket.com/user/ZB2266/media/MFA/Cetacean0850_1_lg.jpg.html

 

[locutus101]

I liked that their ships actually had big tanks. In Trek--it is to hold waste, not more compact fuel. The ships reminded me of the sub in MAN FROM ATLANTIS
http://s185.photobucket.com/user/ZB2266/media/MFA/Cetacean0850_1_lg.jpg.html

The thing is that we never saw a malon not damaged by radiations and that's why they are so ugly.