10 Biggest Idiots In Star Trek

3. Ambassador Robert Fox (Star Trek The Original Series)

When someone tells you to stay away from him, don't you think that's good advice? Why doesn't Ambassador Robert Fox do that in the TOS episode 'A Taste of Armageddon? Because he's a pencil-pushing, bureaucratic, career-obsessed idiot, that's why.

Remember that enigmatic speech made by Prime Minister Chamberlain in 1938, when he returned from Munich saying that he believed that he had secured peace in our time? There you go. I'm sure Chamberlain wasn't that daft he must have been a pretty smart guy to rise to the position he held, but history can be cruel and the result is that this guy has been perceived as one of the world's biggest idiots.

The same can be held true for Fox. It's his conviction that opening up relationships with Eminiar 7 takes greater priority than the safety of the crew of the USS Enterprise. Really? What moron would endanger the lives of over 400 people simply to initiate diplomatic relations with a planet that told him to stay away in the first place? Oh right, didn't that happen with Japan in 1854? Yeah, look how well that turned out 90 years later.

Fox is one of those civil servants who thinks that this is his chance to make a mark on the face of history. Of course, Fox almost pays the price for his stupidity by almost winding up in a disintegration chamber. He is saved by Spock and agrees to stay on the planet to assist in negotiating a treaty with Eminiar 7's enemy, Vendikar. Great. That's like asking Toronto mayor Rob Ford to manage a rehab clinic's appointment schedule.

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