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πŸŽ‰ Star Trek's 60th Anniversary on September 8, 2026 πŸŽ‰

Let's have some fun for Star Trek's upcoming 60th anniversary. I'll post questions that you can answer to share some of your Star Trek experience, and what you like and love about Star Trek.

There are no wrong answers. Only the answer that is right for you.

I'm using the hashtag on posts for the upcoming anniversary.

I hope you'll join in!

Live long and prosper.πŸ––πŸΎ

✨ 🌌 ✨

6. Who is your favorite antagonist?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/81f6f7a8-efbc-4927-9810-23345e8c801c/part-6RSS for NodeSat, 05 Sep 2026 23:25:35 GMTThu, 03 Sep 2026 13:36:06 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:17:30 GMT]]>@Nmyownworld

Q, forever and always. Just the right amounts of villainy, chaotic entertainment, and potential redeemabilty.

Khan, especially when he quotes Shakespeare.

The Borg Queen. Her first appearance ever,so insidiously weird, and her seduction of Data still freak me out these decades later.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/courtcan/statuses/117208242597850832https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/courtcan/statuses/117208242597850832Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:17:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:14:10 GMT]]>@Nmyownworld The Borg Queen but specifically Susanna Thompson’s character. I recently learned that Alice Krige was intended to return for but unavailable. So Thompson was cast and in script distinguished that this was a different character from the Queen in . She tried so hard to manipulate and seduce Seven of Nine into returning to The Collective, that she chased them around the quadrant but failed. Basically we had Seven hanging out with the friend your parent said was a bad influence. Then Mama Janeway warps in to protect her surrogate child.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/jacobrealo/statuses/117208229497468107https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/jacobrealo/statuses/117208229497468107Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:14:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:49:38 GMT]]>@giltay @Nmyownworld Arguably, you can't defeat Lwaxana, period. πŸ˜†πŸ˜πŸ’œπŸ––

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/courtcan/statuses/117208133016227710https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/courtcan/statuses/117208133016227710Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:49:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:43:54 GMT]]>@Nmyownworld Sergei Rozhenko. A good complex ethical dilemma

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sb17.space/users/j4yc33/statuses/117208110529531354https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sb17.space/users/j4yc33/statuses/117208110529531354Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:43:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:36:38 GMT]]>@Nmyownworld

Going to also give a shout out to Christopher Plummer as General Chang in The Undiscovered Country, and Wilbur Campbell as Trelane in the TOS episode The Squire of Gothos

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaosfem.tw/users/moriel/statuses/117208081907386185https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaosfem.tw/users/moriel/statuses/117208081907386185Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:36:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:21:17 GMT]]>@Nmyownworld
And let's not talk about the collective trauma we all have from this moment 😭

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/AndorianSoup/statuses/117208021577870585https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/AndorianSoup/statuses/117208021577870585Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:21:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:14:47 GMT]]>@Nmyownworld Armus! He’s literally pure evil, and he actually killed a main character!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/paulos/statuses/117207996014772883https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/paulos/statuses/117207996014772883Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:14:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:12:13 GMT]]>@Nmyownworld
I'm gonna follow this up with another choice. Because Chang is kind of a one shot character. My choice for long run, fleshed out, truly engrossing antagonists are Gul Dukat and Kai Winn. Both desperate for redemption, and both deserving of nothing. I hate(ish) to use a Babylon 5 reference here, but it's easy to compare to the rise and fall of Londo Mollari

πŸ––

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/AndorianSoup/statuses/117207985888557658https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/AndorianSoup/statuses/117207985888557658Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:12:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:07:44 GMT]]>@tamazon Excellent! Shran is such a good character. πŸ––πŸΎ

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/Nmyownworld/statuses/117207968307217957https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/Nmyownworld/statuses/117207968307217957Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:07:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:05:10 GMT]]>@gareth @lxskllr Yeah, Dukat gave me mental whiplash, sometimes within the same episode. Like in the episode "Indiscretion" (DS9 s4e4).

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/Nmyownworld/statuses/117207958160118436https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/Nmyownworld/statuses/117207958160118436Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:05:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:00:59 GMT]]>@Nmyownworld You know, Shran going from enemies to lovers with Archer was pretty memorable.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://indieverse.social/ap/users/117102183047455275/statuses/117207941739881688https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://indieverse.social/ap/users/117102183047455275/statuses/117207941739881688Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:00:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:51:13 GMT]]>@lxskllr @Nmyownworld
I'm going to have to think of someone else because two people have already said Dukat now, but look at him.

A character that they had to make ever more overtly evil because the actor playing him was so charismatic that the viewers still ended up thinking he wasn't so bad...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/gareth/statuses/117207903324934977https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/gareth/statuses/117207903324934977Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:51:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:46:44 GMT]]>@Nmyownworld

Gotta say Ricardo Montalban's Khan wins this one

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaosfem.tw/users/moriel/statuses/117207885738069230https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaosfem.tw/users/moriel/statuses/117207885738069230Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:46:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:46:38 GMT]]>@giltay @Nmyownworld DS9 has a lot of truly great antagonists, but she's the best of the best. Or, rather, she's the worst of the worst in the best way.

If you ever feel the need to cleanse yourself of the Winnness of it all, have a watch of Louise Fletcher's 1976 Oscar acceptance speech for Nurse Ratched. Makes me wish I knew her in real life.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://myside-yourside.net/users/StarkRG/statuses/117207649378126231https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://myside-yourside.net/users/StarkRG/statuses/117207649378126231Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:46:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:35:03 GMT]]>@giltay Louise Fletcher's portrayal of Kai Wynn is amazing. πŸ––πŸΎ

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/Nmyownworld/statuses/117207603857820152https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/Nmyownworld/statuses/117207603857820152Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:35:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:31:00 GMT]]>@Nmyownworld

How can it not be Q? He / it makes it personal and John Delancie brings a mountain of personality to the role. The simmering disdain with just a hint of condescending encouragement. The godlike power behind carefully cultivated aloofness that conceals his genuine affection for Jean Luc Picard. He seems to carry all of that effortlessly.

Nobody else comes close on my opinion.

Lower Decks made the Pakleds compelling antagonists by leaning into their already canon ability to use their appearance of simpleness to manipulate the larger powers. I never expected that.

Romulans are always nice as a dark mirror to what the Vulcans would be if they didn't turn logic into a religion.

I thought Klingons were boring until DS9 fleshed them out. Still not a "favorite" antagonist.

I feel like they dove into the Borg well a bit too often. I also played a ton of Star Trek Online where the early years built-up to the Borg returning and the first repeatable Task Force Operations were all Borg for too long. So that probably is another reason I got burnt out on the Borg. The game eventually brought in the Iconians and did an amazing job. If we were talking about STO, I'd put the Iconians at the top of the list.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jrdepriest/statuses/117207587929374544https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jrdepriest/statuses/117207587929374544Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:31:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:22:53 GMT]]>@cliftonmr I think Kurtwood Smith did a great job portraying Annorax. That's a character portrayal that could have gone very wrong. πŸ––πŸΎ

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/Nmyownworld/statuses/117207555982459941https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/Nmyownworld/statuses/117207555982459941Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:22:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:15:34 GMT]]>@Nmyownworld This is why, despite her faults, I like Lwaxana Troi as an antagonist. You just can't defeat her with violence.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/giltay/statuses/117207527254840823https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/giltay/statuses/117207527254840823Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:15:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:06:56 GMT]]>@Nmyownworld

Dukat is amazing! He could be very charming and likeable. You think "Well, ok. Maybe he's learned, and grew from his experience", and then he turns around and acts like an asshole again. The narcissist perfected.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.world/users/lxskllr/statuses/117207493309436827https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.world/users/lxskllr/statuses/117207493309436827Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:06:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:02:30 GMT]]>Dukat from DS9. A wonderful portrayal of a terrible person.

Asencia from PRO. So consumed by vengeance that she caused the very thing she sought to prevent. As well as nearly causing the literal erasure of her society.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/Nmyownworld/statuses/117207475837094132https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/Nmyownworld/statuses/117207475837094132Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:02:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:01:31 GMT]]>@Nmyownworld Maybe it's because I'm on a DS9 rewatch, but Kai Wynn is one of the greatest TV villains. Louise Fletcher's performance is sublime. Her smarmy backhanded compliments. That mix of righteousness and venal ambition.

I think the best Trek villains are the ones that you can't just kill or destroy and be done with. The ones where you have to learn some way of living with them.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/giltay/statuses/117207471996356093https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tenforward.social/users/giltay/statuses/117207471996356093Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:01:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:50:08 GMT]]>@Nmyownworld
For me it will always be the mighty General Chang. Christopher Plummer just owned the role, and seethed in Shakespearian madness πŸ”₯

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/AndorianSoup/statuses/117207427239067123https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/AndorianSoup/statuses/117207427239067123Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:50:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:50:03 GMT]]>@Nmyownworld I’ve always kind of sympathized with Annorax, trying everything that he can with his timeship to get back to his lost loved one. I mean, he kind of went numb to the destruction he was causing trying to bring back one person, but somewhere in there he wasn’t evil.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://en.osm.town/users/cliftonmr/statuses/117207426921572265https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://en.osm.town/users/cliftonmr/statuses/117207426921572265Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:50:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Part 6 on Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:42:47 GMT]]>@Nmyownworld

For an individual, Q. For a species, the Borg.

I hate personal transporters with a fiery passion. The only way they can work is with a cerebral implant. My unfleshed Borg fiction is the Borg are descended from Starfleet that went too far with the implants and lost the plot. They went from seeking new life/civilizations to assimilating them while seeking perfection.

I want to see that show. From personal transporters to Borg.

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