What civilization/species in Star Trek is, in your opinion, most evil?

[Oddish]

The Cardassian Union was a classic evil empire. Cardassians individually were really the closest to Humans (ie, the opposite of being monolithically anything, certainly not monolithically evil) that any major Trek species has ever come.

There is no species in Trek that's harder to figure out than the Cardassians.

 

[Trogly]

My irony is intentional. The civilization that did this had no appreciation of what they were doing. They were more than careless, they were selfish. There is no justification. It was criminally negligent and not good.

Assuming the Skin's recounting is true, the people utterly failed to achieve their objective. And the assessment that they succeeded was made by the Skin, a creature that certainly had a malignant personality.

I'd compare it to the Ancients in SG1. They "ascended" and left their mess behind without a seconds thought.

 

[Oddish]

^ Armus's lot might be the most horrific of any Trek villain: he is condemned to face eternity in a hell of his own making.

 

[cooleddie74]

Armus' species (or at least his kind of sentient life form) would definitely rank at or near the top of my list of most objectively evil alien species, but the Borg can't be far behind. The Queen basically admits in FC, VOY and PIC that enslavement and assimilation of more primitive subject species is not only a good thing but should be imposed on unwilling sentient beings because, well, the Borg are badass and know better than the rest of the universe so fall in line.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Armus' species (or at least his kind of sentient life form) would definitely rank at or near the top of my list of most objectively evil alien species, but the Borg can't be far behind. The Queen basically admits in FC, VOY and PIC that enslavement and assimilation of more primitive subject species is not only a good thing but should be imposed on unwilling sentient beings because, well, the Borg are badass and know better than the rest of the universe so fall in line.

That makes Alternate Future Admiral Janeway infection of the Borg Collective with the Neurolytic Pathogen even more justified.

 

[Imaus]

I was under the impression that the Borg basically left primitive species alone since they had nothing to offer. They target Earth in the past as a cheap trick because the Earth of the Present is too strong (and only barely so, the Borg almost had it). Voy showed a lot of primitive societies in the Delta Quadrant didn't they, like how in Stargate there's these socities that are (intentionally or not) primitive to avoid the Wraiths.

But then again I'm still of the opinion that the Borg Queen is an odd inclusion - the borg should be faceless. If I had to justify it, the Borg Queen was some Federation Admiral and the Borg 'adapted' her as a 'face' to deal with humanity, but then why hasn't that situation happened before in other species - or maybe it has, and the Queen is transient.

 

[Uncle Sock]

I agree that the Borg Queen was an unnecessary retcon. The Borg were far scarier when they operated as a single hive mind. On the bright side, it gave us Alice Krige in Star Trek.

 

[cooleddie74]

At least the ENT Borg episode didn't show or even reference a Queen. Just lumbering, thawed-out drones from 90 years earlier who terrorize an Arctic research team and hijack their ship.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Hey if those people were still around maybe the Federation could do that goo guy Armus a a solid and return him to his homeworld /s

 

[Zolkar]

No mention of the Dominion/Founders? They seem to have no moral qualms whatosever about wiping out entire races - 800 million Cardassians, for example. Or the use of The Quickening, or trying to destroy the Bajoran sun. Or their use of the Vorta and the Jem'Hadar in the first place.

 

[Zolkar]

No mention of the Dominion/Founders? They seem to have no moral qualms whatosever about wiping out entire races - 800 million Cardassians, for example. Or the use of The Quickening, or trying to destroy the Bajoran sun. Or their use of the Vorta and the Jem'Hadar in the first place.

Nevermind, Donlago mentioned them on page 1, post number 4. But I still think my point stands.

 

[Mojochi]

I'm going to vote for the neural parasites from TNG Conspiracy. I mean, there's an argument to be made that they, like any other parasite shown using or feeding on creatures, are just following a natural design, that requires they exact this atrocity on whole species, but not only is that less certain as it is with other victimizers we've seen, they also seemed especially thrilled, particularly to the point of revelling in the fact that they were subjugating and enslaving beings, down to their very core.

They weren't just hunting, consuming, destroying, torturing or otherwise using people. They were choosing to deliberately do maybe all of that, for a seemingly less understood & possibly less necessary reason, & really seemed to enjoy that they were. It's a pretty nasty business, what they were up to, & despite being intelligent, they not only gave zero f**ks, they were actually cruelly loving it