10 Most Irredeemable Star Trek Villains

Towards the end of the Star Trek: Voyager two-parter Equinox, Captain Janeway walks down the line of remaining reprobates from the (now destroyed) ship of the episode title, citing their names as she strips them of rank. "This time, you’ll have to earn our trust," she says. "Dismissed!"

There are a few faces missing from this perp parade, however. Most notably absent, for the purposes of this list, is a certain commander with lieutenant pips, 'I-stalk-my-exes-half-way-across-the-galaxy,' Maxwell 'Meatball Burrito' Burke.

If you’re familiar with Cockney rhyming slang, you'll know that never was a homophone more fitting than in this instance. Burke/berk describes him perfectly! He was slimy and sly from the start, getting arsey with Janeway when she wanted to make a stand on Voyager, and giving us full-on facepalm cringe during his reunion with B'Elanna. We wouldn't be surprised if Tom Paris introduced him to Captain Proton with the safeties off! There was something not quite right with this first officer.

When his Captain, Rudolph 'Rudy' Ransom, finally decided to stop committing murder to rev up the warp engines and surrender to Voyager, Maxwell mutinied and took a gaggle of fellow Berkeleys [pronounced 'Bark-leys'] with him to the slaughter. In the end, the four bridge insurrectionists try to escape to the Equinox's one remaining shuttle, but the aliens catch up with them. The last we see of Burke is his rapid desiccation death as the wronged interspatial lifeforms take their nucleogenic vengeance.