I don't know how exploding consoles didn't make the list, but they would be a distant second to Rick Berman.

Apparently the knowledge of fuses was lost during the Eugenics Wars.
- They don't run on electricity, they run on plasma for some reason. Meant to replicate what happens on ships with steam in the pipes. But still, weird that they do that lol
I came here to say this. I get that they use fucking plasma in their electrical systems, but you'd think some step-down transformers and circuit breakers could be installed. And why the hell do the defense systems feed back into the main power grid? Why isn't there a capacitor bank to dump feedback into for reuse in the weapons or something?
- I saw someone say a good reason for the consoles exploding all the time is that they wouldn't have I clouded breakers, because, in a red alert situation, the console staying on and responsive is more important than it not exploding
Ye, another vote for exploding console rocks!
- Yeah. If they're gonna explode, they should at least not be filled with rocks, for goodness sake.

Trick question. It's polarity.

It’s not JJ Abrams?

Pretty sure that's the lens flares.
- I feel like that’s letting JJ off the hook
It’s best villain. Not most evil.

What if everything in the Star Trek universe was just one grand holodeck simulation and everything we've seen them go through in all the shows, all the movies, all the animations and all the books were just a runaway holodeck program that some junior officer made.

And it turns out the actual Star Trek universe is a lonely empty experience as their ships go wandering around nearby star systems and haven't met any other species yet. It's just a boring repetitive experience that leaves everyone feeling a deep sense of Galactic loneliness as it will take them many centuries of exploration before they eventually meet another species .... and also a species that is not humanoid or familiar to us at all.

- "From you Dante"
Ah, so “realistic” space travel, where 100 years later, they’re still on their way to the first Star system and the most critical technology is how to pass the time
Inhales
Ok....wait, hear me out
Exhales
what if that's how Discovery ends?
- It wouldn't be the worst story-ending on the show...
We're still not sure if all of DS9 is in the shattered mind of an insane 1940's writer or not.
I needed more existential dread so thanks for this. <3
- Existential dread? ... they are my favourite scifi thought experiments
  Imagine being the first to travel far away from our star system to the point where you can no longer see our home sun ... hopefully you are able to navigate back to our home star system. Hopefully the science and technology is accurate enough to return you home. Otherwise if anything is off by even a small amount, you'll either become helplessly lost, or run out of fuel to make the return journey.
  Time travelling? ... any time you jump in time, it is either extremely complicated or more likely impossible to navigate back to an accurate reference point in the universe. You can go back six months in time but you'll never be able to pinpoint where in the universe you will end up because the earth is moving through space, the solar system is moving and so is the galaxy constantly through time ... so time travellers may be floating around in random space everywhere because they could never figure out where they would end up.
What if.. Hear me out on this. What if the whole Star Trek Universe is actually a TV show made out of wishful thinking before any real space exploration beyond our solar system takes place?

Q is not a villain!

I always thought of him as a bored god annoying one specific creation. Like the book of job but sci-fi!
- It's not just one creation though. He wiped out Guinan's people. He tortures other species for fun. He's pretty hostile towards a lot of species. I guess they failed their trial. Picard must be one of the only defendants who won his case, and that's why Q helps humanity, while dooming other races.
I've thought more of a reality foil.

What is “this motherfucker”?

That's the barrel that paralyzed Worf
- Lmao, oh, ok
- Lol, I thought it was just a background with logo, that it represented Starfleet as the villain.
Also confused. Star Trek branded 55gal drum of lube?
Edit: for posterity, the blue barrel reminded me of an older meme around an Amazon listing for a 55gal drum of lube that was also just a generic blue barrel
- Ad Astroglide Per Aspera
- Yes that is what it was

Kai Winn with Gul dukat in a super close second.

"My child" came out of Rick Bermans mind before it came out Kai Winns mouth.
Far from his only sin in trek, and not his worst, but it is enough. The source of evil is clear.

Objection: Q is a hero, not a villain.

Q is chaotic neutral.
- He's a good-making troll.
  He's neither chaotic nor neutral.

Q isn't a villain.

The worst villain is most certainly Paramount and the writers on the new shows.

the people writing the scripts for the show. they can stop all evil in the show, but they choose to create it instead. without them, all evil in the show wouldn't exist. so they are the real evil mastermind behind it all!

What if God was one of us?
- Just a slob like one of us.
- He would have created a much better world, for starters. All he would need to do was go to the hospital once and see what thousands of people are getting charged for a Tylenol and an overnight stay.
  I am convinced that if there is a god, it's mostly evil and it gives zero fucks.
- Yes! Exactly. It's a great book btw

Depending on our definition of best, I'm going to vote Worf's parenting, clearly the most devastating.

Once again, poor Jeremy Aster was forgotten about. lol Alexander isn't the only kid Worf abandoned.
- Jeremy who?
  (This is both a joke and a genuine question)

Berman is the worst lol

Gul Dukat, no question.

He's one of the best villains in all of media.
- Oh, my child...

Why doesn't species 8472 get villain love?

I wouldn't call them a villain, personally. They were a species trying to slap the Borg back home and became aware of our space. They saw us working with the Borg and started to prep for an invasion of Earth. But after diplomatic relations with Starfleet they realize that Earth may pose some threat but had ZERO interest in starting a war with any species, much less a species they'd never even heard of before.

Borg for me.

I wonder if there's any psychology behind responses to this question... While I genuinely love the idea of becoming a cyborg, the thought of becoming part of a collective that thinks as one is kinda horrifying to me as someone who works in a creative field.

Who did the Borg assimilate before they met the humans? Every Borg looks like an assimilated human.
- Every sentient species looks like a human into body modification.
  And yeah, there is a storyline about all sentient species being related.
- YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED (but only if you are bipedal)

Not the Vidiians? Those people harvesters were terrible. They didn't care who they violated.

Kinda like Rick Berman.

Berman. He cut a swath of sadness through many series.

Where can I read all the dirt about Berman? I'm sure I've heard it in the past but now I can't remember the details of why he's hated so much.

I've got a video but not sure about a text place.
The basics are hatred of women and having their characters raped, a misunderstanding of Trek leading to some awful storylines and characters (and Enterprise, as it was almost entirely his baby), he had zero TV experience save for a kids show, he was impossible to work with, he shot down stories for little to no reason, he was a bigoted piece of shit, he micro managed everything to fuck, he HATED gay representation and repeatedly shut it down, the show runner of DS9 had to actively lie to him to get the show made, he was an awful writer but insisted on writing anyway, he was toxic management type to the point of forcing names off of scripts and putting his own name on, pushed people to their breaking points, interfered repeatedly with everything in front of him to the point you can SEE the interference in certain episodes and was a particular cunt with contract negotiations.
That's not remotely all of it.
The correct answer to the post is that he is the villain.
If Gene is the great bird of the galaxy then Rick Berman is the Great Botfly.
- I've got a video
  Got a link? :-) I can watch videos too :-)
- Didn't he also kill Firefly?
I know it's mostly sexual harassment stuff
- It really really isn't.

That one guy's head that Riker exploded.

The Pakled. Final answer.

I feel like Darth Maul should be on the list, just to demonstrate the level of anger inspired by people mixing the two series.

Make it the Death Star, Maul has been through enough, let the man rest

For me it was the giant space virus mosquitos in Voyager. As a kid that shit was nightmarish.

I don't recall that one, have a link?
- Macrocosm, S03E12, those CGI motherfuckers with the big stingers

What is it with ricks?

Email me if you want a pizza roll

The shitty engineers that put too much power into those exploding panels.

oooo, toss up between Rick Berman and Lens Flare.

Lawful good evil - neutral good evil - chaotic good evil

Lawful neutral evil - neutral evil - chaotic neutral evil

Lawful evil evil - Neutral evil evil - Chaotic evil evil

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How about the warp drive? Works on two levels.

Jesus this gets dark fast.

The Borg, it's the only one non-treckies know. And maybe Holodeck. Q? Only because i read some fandom. Others? No clue.

In a "non-trekkie" though my nan loved it so I've seen a couple of the films, I know of The Borg, Q the holodeck (another I think most people at least understand the concept of) and pretty sure "This Motherfucker" is the federation or whatever they're called.
- and pretty sure "This Motherfucker" is the federation or whatever they're called.
  It's a barrel with the Star Fleet logo, because barrels are always falling on people in cargo bays when the ship shakes
How have you heard if the Borg but not knan

Where's the Crystalline Entity?

Where is Alex kurtzman?

The guy who essentially resurrected Star Trek, produced and co-created the two best star trek shows in at least 20 years? Yes, his work with JJ, Discovery and Picard (and in other franchises) is questionable but without him, we wouldn’t have SNW and LD either…
- Yeah but but but he was involved in a couple movies I didn't like and a show I don't like!! Clearly he is satan! /s