Star Trek's 10 Most Iconic English Villains

10. Idris Elba - Krall

Once known as Balthazar M. Edison, Krall was a respected soldier as part of Earth's Military Assault Command Operations, and was eventually given command of the USS Franklin when the MACOs were dissolved into the newly created Federation Starfleet. His captaincy was short lived however, as his ship soon became crashed and stranded on an uncharted planet, leaving just him and two other crew members to survive for a century using only their wits, and deserted alien life extending technology.

Famous on both sides of the Atlantic as an educated drug lord in The Wire, and a cop with questionable methods in Luther, it's no surprise that Star Trek would cast Idris Elba as the lead villain in its 50th anniversary feature film, Star Trek Beyond. With a history of portraying characters who tread the razors edge of morality so convincingly, he was undoubtedly the ideal choice to portray a sympathetic villain who, in the words of co-writer Simon Pegg, was designed to make us seriously consider the possibility of whether Star Trek's utopian United Federation of Planets "was just colonialism, whether it was just like the Borg, whether we’re just assimilating the galaxy"?

But instead of such a brave and bold questioning of Star Trek's core beliefs, all we were given was someone who despite having seen the worst horrors of war, saw adopting peaceful cooperation as a betrayal to all that he was, and vowed to take his vengeance on the Federation for everything which went wrong in his life.

Because what Star Trek movie villain doesn't.