Star Trek: 20 Characters Who Bored Us Senseless

By Amarpal Biring / March 14, 2013

3. Vic Fontaine

Vic Fontaine was introduced towards the latter half of DS9€™s run. A crooner who became a semi regular character, Fontaine was a hologram that was fully aware he was a hologram. He knew of all the goings on in the outside world and was €˜€™councilor€™€™ to some of the crew on DS9. But his skills didn€™t stop there, he was also reasonable for bringing Odo and Kira together in a relationship that was much more interesting if they hadn€™t got together. The thing with his character was that if you were a fan of the Rat Pack scene and that particular style of music, you could get some enjoyment from his introduction. For the rest of us, he was a guy taking up valuable episode time. Yes it was a fantasy in the Holosuite and the whole point is that you can go anywhere and create any setting, but it was just nauseating to watch all the crew suddenly find a deep love for crooner music. Played by James Darren, he was best known for playing Tony Newman in 60€™s TV series, The Time Tunnel. An accomplished singer, he released many of the songs he belted out on the show on his 1999 album €˜€™This One€™s From The Heart.€™€™ The original plan was to have Frank Sinatra Jr. in the role but apparently he only would take the job if he was allowed to be an alien. Series head Ronald D. Moore stated that the writers were quite keen on doing a musical DS9 episode similar to the one seen on Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Not only would that have been a bad idea but I image it would have had Vic Fontaine in a starring role. Most entertaining moment: Being dead in the mirror universe.

2. The Ba€™ku

Star Trek: Insurrection was a huge let down from the commercial and critiacl hit that was Star Trek: First Contact. It put the brakes firmly on any momentum that First Contact gave the Next Generation movie series. The story of eternal youth would have made a great two-part TV episode but as a movie, it struggled. The movie centered on the Ba€™ku, a group of people who happened to be living on a planet that also gave them eternal youth. It also turned them into one of the most boring and bland aliens to ever appear in Star Trek. Let€™s ignore the beige clothes and the fact that the prosthetic department must have been on strike as they all look human; the whole Ba€™ku village has the feel of a separatist cult. They even talk like one as they smugly inform the Enterprise crew about how they have rejected all technology. Star Trek: Insurrection is often called the most boring TNG movie and the Ba€™ku are partly to blame. Most entertaining moment: The lady Ba'ku getting Picard to add Viagra to his next shopping list.