Star Trek: 30 Greatest Ever Villains
17. Gul Madred
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In Chain of Command, a two part TNG episode, this Cardassian commander tortured Picard brutally, trying to convince him that instead of four lights there are five (just like in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four).
The brutality of the torture, and the impact on the Enterprise’s Captain, justifies his place here.