Most Shafted Star Trek Side Characters
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 6:50 am
Yes, they stand in the background. They're often the most memorable part of the scene and appear quite extensively in Star Trek's expanded universe.
But sadly, they never quite get their due. I present my personal top ten shafted Star Trek Characters. Feel free to point out the ones I miss.
10. Dr. Selar (TNG)- So you're a Vulcan, a doctor, and you're at the top of your field. You get assigned to the Enterprise D, the choicest spot in the whole fleet and what happens? You're constantly upstaged by either a doddering old biddy or a soft-hearted single mom and her whiny punk kid!
9. Klaa (Final Frontier)- There have been a lot of memorable Klingon villains, men and women who harassed and haranged Captain Kirk from one end of the Galaxy to the other. But none of them were as stupid as Captian Klaa. He didn't get to fight anybody, he didn't get to kill anybody, and when that fat general shows up, you gotta toe the line. Songs will be sung about his battles with space probes and his rather mannish girlfriend.
8. Hawk (First Contact)- You're a bad ass. You look like a bad ass, you talk like a bad ass, you're even played by a bad ass actor. You might even be gay which would make you a history making bad ass! You get your first real fight scene with the Borg and...you get assimilated. Then Worf shoots you. Even Boba Fett was treated better then this.
7. The Gorn-Nothing makes people wet themselves like giant lizards. Luckily for us, but sadly for them, they've been scene ONCE in the regular universe and only ONCE in the Mirror Universe where their imposing monster size is replaced by a Jurassic Park Reject. Ouch.
6. Leeta (DS9)- Ah, such a nice Bajoran girl! A real sweet heart even though she works for a scumbag. Still, she's dating a nice handsome doctor...what? Okay, so that didn't work out. No biggie, she'll find someone-ROM!?
5. Hugh (TNG)- You're the first Borg with a personality. You've got charm and you're funny. When it's time for you to go back to your collective, your departure is met with tears and waves. So what happens to you? I mean you are a once in a lifetime fluke of programming after all. Surely this little detail would be worthy of future refrence. You get a two parter...where you're upstaged by Data's evil twin and never get mentioned again.
4. T'Pau (TOS, ENT)- You are the most fear Vulcan in history. People love you so much they carry you on their shoulders. But instead of getting your due on ENT, where you were almost a main character, you are felled by something more powerful then logic: A Dead Writer's Royalty Payments.
3. Quark (DS9)- You're a main character on a Star Trek show, a criminal master mind (sort of) but you're stuck slinging drinks to that fat Irishman and the snobby doctor. To top it off, for some reason they keep giving your retarded brother screen time. This reaches the point of ridiculous when the idiot stumbles his way into, get this, the Ferengi Presidency. Yeah, that's right. Somebody actually made that little turd the Grand Nagus. Kinda makes that bar look a little smaller.
2. The Borg- You are the scariest Star Trek villains in the show's history. You're story line is the first real continuing plot to hit the Trekverse. Then somebody gets the bright idea to water you down and take away the specialness. Who had the bright idea to give them a queen anyway?
1. Voyager's Original Chief Medical Officer (VOY)- You could've been awesome. You could've been great. You were probably the best damn medical character in the universe. We would've been astounded by you and your amazing skills as a doctor. Then you got aced in the first episode and replaced by a bunch of floating photons.
Honorable Mention- Kelby (ENT)- All the green women in the universe aren't going to help you deal with not getting the big promotion at work.
But sadly, they never quite get their due. I present my personal top ten shafted Star Trek Characters. Feel free to point out the ones I miss.
10. Dr. Selar (TNG)- So you're a Vulcan, a doctor, and you're at the top of your field. You get assigned to the Enterprise D, the choicest spot in the whole fleet and what happens? You're constantly upstaged by either a doddering old biddy or a soft-hearted single mom and her whiny punk kid!
9. Klaa (Final Frontier)- There have been a lot of memorable Klingon villains, men and women who harassed and haranged Captain Kirk from one end of the Galaxy to the other. But none of them were as stupid as Captian Klaa. He didn't get to fight anybody, he didn't get to kill anybody, and when that fat general shows up, you gotta toe the line. Songs will be sung about his battles with space probes and his rather mannish girlfriend.
8. Hawk (First Contact)- You're a bad ass. You look like a bad ass, you talk like a bad ass, you're even played by a bad ass actor. You might even be gay which would make you a history making bad ass! You get your first real fight scene with the Borg and...you get assimilated. Then Worf shoots you. Even Boba Fett was treated better then this.
7. The Gorn-Nothing makes people wet themselves like giant lizards. Luckily for us, but sadly for them, they've been scene ONCE in the regular universe and only ONCE in the Mirror Universe where their imposing monster size is replaced by a Jurassic Park Reject. Ouch.
6. Leeta (DS9)- Ah, such a nice Bajoran girl! A real sweet heart even though she works for a scumbag. Still, she's dating a nice handsome doctor...what? Okay, so that didn't work out. No biggie, she'll find someone-ROM!?
5. Hugh (TNG)- You're the first Borg with a personality. You've got charm and you're funny. When it's time for you to go back to your collective, your departure is met with tears and waves. So what happens to you? I mean you are a once in a lifetime fluke of programming after all. Surely this little detail would be worthy of future refrence. You get a two parter...where you're upstaged by Data's evil twin and never get mentioned again.
4. T'Pau (TOS, ENT)- You are the most fear Vulcan in history. People love you so much they carry you on their shoulders. But instead of getting your due on ENT, where you were almost a main character, you are felled by something more powerful then logic: A Dead Writer's Royalty Payments.
3. Quark (DS9)- You're a main character on a Star Trek show, a criminal master mind (sort of) but you're stuck slinging drinks to that fat Irishman and the snobby doctor. To top it off, for some reason they keep giving your retarded brother screen time. This reaches the point of ridiculous when the idiot stumbles his way into, get this, the Ferengi Presidency. Yeah, that's right. Somebody actually made that little turd the Grand Nagus. Kinda makes that bar look a little smaller.
2. The Borg- You are the scariest Star Trek villains in the show's history. You're story line is the first real continuing plot to hit the Trekverse. Then somebody gets the bright idea to water you down and take away the specialness. Who had the bright idea to give them a queen anyway?
1. Voyager's Original Chief Medical Officer (VOY)- You could've been awesome. You could've been great. You were probably the best damn medical character in the universe. We would've been astounded by you and your amazing skills as a doctor. Then you got aced in the first episode and replaced by a bunch of floating photons.
Honorable Mention- Kelby (ENT)- All the green women in the universe aren't going to help you deal with not getting the big promotion at work.