I haven't voted one way or another in the poll, but I've always thought that, if the writers weren't constrained by the limits of censorship, that Armus could very easily have been Star Trek's answer to a Hellraiser movie*. The extremes of mortal vice and evil made manifest would be a horrific walking predator of a nightmare. It's not that far of a stretch to link scorn with pleasure, which is what Armus did.
(*nevermind that Armus and the Hellraiser franchise debuted at roughly the same time, and that one was written by Clive Barker).