Star Trek: 10 Minor Villains Who Were Awesome
It's all well and good claiming an assignment and sitting down to write it with zest and gusto but understanding the title is perhaps key to anything that emerges from the tappings on a keyboard thereafter.
In this case it's that definition of a minor villain. There are a ton and a half of simply stunning villains running through every fibre of the Star Trek franchise since the arrival of The Cage; the Khans, the Kangs, the Kazon (ok...maybe not that one) but what about all those other ones? Well these are the minor villains - the ones that ended up on the wrong end of a Kirk double-hander, a Picard monologue, a Sisko manace, a Janeway hip stance or a jolly good ticking off from Archer. The ones whose light shone bright for a short period and then were never seen again.
So here we are to celebrate the ones that got away and never came back, or those that attempted escape and just didn't. So my concept of a minor Star Trek villain is this - one story or episode and a memory burned for eternity from one generation or another, one universe of the JJ-next. With over 700 episodes and films to flick through it can't be that hard can it? Yes. It can. You'd be shocked by just how many came back for a second, third or fourth attempt at being devious and we're looking at more than Q or Weyoun here. There are a lot but those are for another day. In fact it's even more difficult if you consider some of the also-rans that I counted out.