10 More Star Trek Villains Who Killed The Most
These are the folks who scored the highest in Star Trek - in the absolute worst way possible.
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00:00Hello, hello, hello everyone and welcome back to a list that is quite frankly a bit deadly,
00:05if you will.
00:06Yes, we have in fact done a list on villains who killed the most before, but quite frankly
00:10the evil, evil people at Star Trek just kept creating them, didn't they?
00:15Ah, we can't really complain, it gives us a chance to do a second list.
00:18I'm Sean Ferrick for Trek Culture and here are 10 more Star Trek villains who killed
00:23the most.
00:24Number 10.
00:25Kor.
00:26Perhaps a controversial inclusion here, but one must remember that Klingons are, by and
00:30large, a warrior race.
00:32Kor's introduction in Errand of Mercy depicts him as a brutal overseer and tyrant.
00:37This was in keeping with the description of Klingon as a whole.
00:39It was only in Deep Space Nine's Blood Oath came around that the audience saw the softer
00:44side of John Kaleikos' betrayal.
00:46Kor arrives as a subjugator on Organia, bringing with him 500 of his troops.
00:51Unbeknownst to him is that both Kirk and Spock are on the planet posing as traitors who proceed
00:55to wage a guerrilla war against the occupiers.
00:58Kor, in response to this, seemingly has 200 Organians put to death.
01:02Here's where the controversy arises.
01:04Technically, Kor only gave the order, but even more than this, no one actually died.
01:09So what the heck was Kor doing on this list then?
01:11Well, the simple fact is this, the Klingon Empire was one of the most brutal organisations
01:15of the 23rd and 24th centuries.
01:18Kor, in being the first Klingon that the audience met on screen, ordering a mass execution no
01:23less, becomes a figurehead of this organisation.
01:26At least he died saving lives, so some hero points for that.
01:30Number 9, Redjack.
01:32Redjack appears in the original series episode, Wolf in the Fold.
01:35A non-corporeal entity, it travels from planet to planet via possession, committing murders
01:40for the simple pleasure of killing.
01:42It was during its tenure on Argelius II that it met its supposed downfall.
01:46Redjack is an outlier on this list, as it's not known for certain how many people it had
01:51killed.
01:52Redjack is actually hundreds of years old, as it was revealed to have been the infamous
01:55serial killer Jack the Ripper in the past.
01:58Travelling from planet to planet, it was responsible for murdering many women.
02:01Spock suggested this was because it enjoyed their fear more than the fear of men.
02:06The episode saw Redjack take control of the Enterprise, though it was then forced back
02:09into Hengist's body and was beamed into space.
02:12The expanded universe showed that it was not the end of this monster, as it latched onto
02:16another ship to survive, going dormant for a century before returning, this time to do
02:21battle with the Enterprise-D. It also appeared in the two-part comic Wolf on the Prowl and
02:26Wolf at the Door, where it was finally defeated.
02:29Number 8 Krell Mossett
02:32Krell Mossett was introduced in the episode Nothing Human.
02:35He was a Cardassian scientist appearing on the USS Voyager in the form of a hologram,
02:40created to assist the EMH.
02:42His affable, charming manner belied a dreadful secret.
02:45Mossett was to the Bajorans what Mengele was to the Jews, a monster through and through.
02:51Mossett had done most of his research during the Occupation, using Bajoran slaves as his
02:55own private test subjects.
02:56He conducted inhumane experiments, killing thousands in the pursuit of, as he saw it,
03:01scientific advancement.
03:02Though the outcome of his research allowed the EMH to save both Torres and an alien parasite
03:07that had attached itself to her, the cost of this knowledge was simply too high.
03:12The former Maquis members of the crew would have nothing to do with this hologram, and
03:16the EMH's own conscience couldn't allow for the continued use of this research, knowing
03:21how it had been achieved.
03:22Mossett, who was very probably still alive in the Alpha Quadrant at this point, received
03:27a small form of just desserts when his research, and the hologram used to embody it, was deleted
03:32from the ship's database.
03:34Number 7 V'ger
03:36Another example of accidental, yet highly destructive power here, V'ger was encountered
03:41by the newly refitted USS Enterprise in the 2270s.
03:45Massive beyond anything that Starfleet had encountered before, it dwarfed not only the
03:49ship, and the cloud that surrounded the main structure was said to be greater than the
03:53Earth's entire orbit around the sun.
03:56V'ger had displayed its power by destroying three Klingon Katinga-class vessels, Starfleet
04:01Station Epsilon-9, and, tragically, Lieutenant Ailea as well.
04:05Perhaps destroying may be a little inaccurate though, as all of these were examples of V'ger
04:10downloading, storing, and remembering each of them instead.
04:14Spock, fascinated by this new encounter, underwent a spacewalk that took him into the heart of
04:19V'ger's core.
04:20There, he discovered the recorded images of thousands of ships, planets, and entire galaxies,
04:25all of which it had encountered on its travels.
04:27It is unclear if V'ger had downloaded these as it had the Klingons and Ailea, though there
04:33is no reason to believe that it hadn't.
04:35If that is so, then there is little doubt that V'ger, in its quest to return to its
04:38maker, was simply far, far too efficient at its job, and the devastation that it wrought,
04:44despite creating a new form of life, is unparalleled in Star Trek history.
04:496.
04:50J'trell
04:51This is another controversial entry, as J'trell is effectively the Oppenheimer of Star Trek.
04:56His work allowed the creation of the Metreon Cascade, which in turn led to a devastating
05:01attack against the Talaxians.
05:03The man came aboard V'ger early into the ship's adventure in the Delta Quadrant, which
05:07led to a difficult meeting for Neelix.
05:09Neelix himself had suffered from J'trell's work, losing his entire family to the Cascade,
05:14though he was off-world, thankfully, when the device was detonated.
05:17Perhaps including J'trell as a villain is too simplistic.
05:20Neelix himself was able to, if not entirely forgive the man, then certainly come to an
05:25understanding that there was a difference between a despotic maniac and a misguided
05:29scientist, one who felt extreme remorse for his actions.
05:33It may be best to let history judge men like J'trell.
05:36He certainly was aware of the destructive power of his creation, though he personally
05:40didn't push the button.
05:41Much as Robert Oppenheimer has a complicated place in the history of mankind, so too does
05:46J'trell have in the annals of the Delta Quadrant.
05:49Number 5, Sauron.
05:51In our previous list, we discussed an entry that raised some eyebrows, Anorak's.
05:56Did he actually deserve a spot on the rankings, as the giant reset button was hit?
06:00Well, we're here to tell you that not only have we not answered that, but we're introducing
06:03another entry here just like it.
06:05Dr. Tolian Sauron was the mad scientist who would sacrifice anything and anyone so that
06:10he could return to the Nexus.
06:12His research involved the destruction of large stellar bodies, something that would have
06:16immediate and deadly results for anyone too close by.
06:19While the destruction of the Viridian Star was undone by the efforts of Picard and Kirk,
06:24that did nothing for any of the victims of Sauron beforehand.
06:27Sauron's research into Trilithium saw him allying with the Duras sisters.
06:31This in turn would lead to the deaths of Romulans and Federation citizens, along with
06:36the destruction of the sisters' own Bird of Prey and its crew.
06:39This is yet another reason why Picard and Kirk going back to that one bloody moment
06:43on the surface of Viridian III makes even less sense.
06:45If Kirk had simply gone back to the Enterprise B, he could have stopped Sauron long before
06:49any of it had happened by just pushing him out of an airlock.
06:51Number 4, General Nadar.
06:54Though the audience never actually heard this name on screen, the notes for Picard's first
06:58season identify the half-Vulcan Romulan Commodore O as Nadar, who held the rank of General within
07:04the Romulan fleet.
07:05As a member of the Zhat Vash, her hands were drenched in blood.
07:09It was she who was responsible for reprogramming the synthetics on Mars.
07:12Thus, this one individual is responsible for almost 20,000 deaths, and a planet that remained
07:19on fire into the early 25th century at least.
07:22Nadar's motives may, and that's a big may there, have come from a place of preservation,
07:28but that doesn't change the fact that her actions directly led to one of the worst massacres
07:33in Federation history.
07:35There has been nothing heard from this character since her disappearance after the arrival
07:38of Starfleet, though it is safe to say that she is still out there.
07:42The immediate threat may have passed, but this soldier infiltrated Starfleet with relative
07:48ease.
07:49There is no telling what she could do if she really put her mind to it.
07:523.
07:53Gul Darhil
07:55There are enough atrocities that occurred within the Cardassian occupation of Bajor
07:58to fill several of these lists by themselves, but for this entry, we look at Gul Darhil,
08:03the so-called Butcher of Galatep.
08:06Galatep Labour Camp was a grim and brutal destination for any Bajoran slave, analogous
08:10with Auschwitz or Dachau, and was well known to be a location full of torture and pain.
08:15By the closing days of the occupation, extreme crimes were commonplace, with murder as frequent
08:20as anything else.
08:22Darhil presided over some of the worst atrocities, often ordering his men to go out and, quote,
08:27kill Bajoran scum.
08:29Eamon Maritza, the poor man struggling with the Cardassians' lack of accountability
08:33for their crimes, delivered a chilling monologue as Darhil, one could well imagine this man
08:38celebrating in the evil that was orchestrated under his watch.
08:42The death of Maritza at the hands of a traumatised Bajoran could simply be added to Darhil's
08:47own tally.
08:482.
08:49Khan
08:50Oh, come on, you didn't think we'd forgotten about Khan, did you?
08:54Khan Noonien Singh is often the first name out of Trekkie's mouth when asked who the
08:58biggest, baddest villain of them all is.
09:00He has the dubious honour of being maniacal in several realities, as well as being a cold-blooded
09:06tyrant to boot.
09:08Khan Prime was a warlord in the original timeline's eugenics wars.
09:12For a period, he controlled much of Asia, brutally conquering and disposing of those
09:16he deemed inferior.
09:18At that point, it seemed as though everyone who wasn't genetically engineered was inferior,
09:23meaning everyone was on his hit list.
09:25When he found himself in the future, brilliant a tactician as he was, he was foiled not once
09:31but twice by James T. Kirk.
09:33The first time would be a relatively bloodless affair, whereas the second time would see
09:37much of the Enterprise's cadet crew, and of course Spock, killed in the attempt to
09:42stop him.
09:43The Kelvin-era Khan wasn't much better in terms of his goals, even if Spock got to survive
09:48in that universe.
09:49He was technically responsible for the death of Kirk, but don't worry, that didn't last
09:53for very long.
09:54Either way, Khan Noonien Singh is still a villain who should send a shiver of fear down
09:59the spine of anyone who hears it or is on the receiving end of,
10:03as from hell's heart he stabs at thee.
10:07Number 1.
10:08Gol Dukat
10:09Gol Dukat is, in essence, as close to Adolf Hitler that Star Trek has ever really come
10:14to portraying.
10:15His hard-boiled hatred for the Bajorans, hidden behind a veneer of trying to help them modernise,
10:21continuously showed its ugly head in the years after the occupation came to an end.
10:25Dukat's numbers are slightly off-centre – technically, the numbers of dead started to drop when he
10:31took over as Prefect of Bajor, yet, as he would later explain with glee to Weyoun, he
10:37tried to avoid killing people when possible.
10:40Instead, he wanted to dominate, bend others to his will, and force them to see why they
10:45had been wrong to oppose him in the beginning.
10:47With his negotiating Cardassia's entry into the Dominion, he then became the author of
10:51the Deaths of Millions, taking the lead in a war that would devastate the Alpha Quadrant
10:56for decades to follow.
10:58Dukat himself would fall out of favour with his Dominion masters, but this would do nothing
11:02to curb his bloodlust – he simply hitched his ride to another post, slinking into the
11:06service of the Parwraiths.
11:07Between the actual murders that he himself committed, and the deaths that took place
11:11under his orders, Dukat was, and remains, one of the deadliest foes Starfleet ever faced.
11:17That's everything for our list today folks, thank you so much for watching along.
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