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Where Are the Rogues and Scoundrels in Star Trek?

Probably the interesting version of a TNG-era Star Trek rogue is people like those guys who crashed on the planet in "Angel One" - people who are a massive thorn in Starfleet's side and yet are acting within their legal rights as Federation citizens.

There could be civilian ships who just follow Starfleet ships around, and whenever a Starfleet ship refuses to intervene in some crisis, the civilian rogues just sweep in and tackle it themselves.
 
There could be civilian ships...

See fan series Star Trek: Aurora

Although, they don't follow Starfleet ships around. But they could fit this request for rogues.


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This thread is reminding me of the DS9 novel Rising Son, a novel from the post-finale continuity in which Jake Sisko ends up on a freighter in the Gamma Quadrant and spends several months journeying with them as they go about on various escapades, basically seeing Gamma Quadrant life from the perspective of "street level" every day folks just trying to get by. The reason I bring it up is at the time it was released, many compared it to a Gamma Quadrant version of Firefly, with the freighter standing in for Serenity and the Dominion standing in for the Alliance. The novel was released mere weeks after Firefly finished its run on Fox, so these similarities could only be coincidental.

As far as onscreen Trek goes, IIRC Okona was basically created specifically to be a store brand version of Han Solo.
 
See fan series Star Trek: Aurora

Although, they don't follow Starfleet ships around. But they could fit this request for rogues.


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An excellent series.
 
TNG season 2 gave us "The Outrageous Okona" (Troi literally described him as a "Rogue"), we as a fandom said, "No, thank you," and that was the end of that. ;)
 
They work best as on off guest stars, rather than regulars. When ever they go "rogue" with a character they wind up like Paris, homogenized. But then, that's Voyager in a nutshell.
 
Wouldn't it have been interesting if they had gone ahead and given us another Okona episode a couple seasons later even though the character wasn't a big hit with audiences?

Personally I could have done without Harry Mudd ever showing up again.

Kor
 
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