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 if you
00:05will. Yes we have in fact done a list on villains who killed the most before but quite frankly the
00:10evil evil people at Star Trek just kept creating them didn't they? Ah we can't really complain it
00:16gives us a chance to do a second list. I'm Sean Ferrick for Trek Culture and here are 10 more
00:21Star Trek villains who killed the most. Number 10. Core. Perhaps a controversial inclusion here
00:27but one must remember that Klingons are by and large a warrior race. Core's introduction in
00:33Errand of Mercy depicts him as a brutal overseer and tyrant. This was in keeping with the description
00:38of Klingon as a whole. It was only in Deep Space Nine's Blood Oath came around that the audience
00:43saw the softer side of John Colecos's betrayal. Core arrives as a subjugator on Organia bringing
00:49with him 500 of his troops. Unbeknownst to him is that both Kirk and Spock are on the planet posing
00:54as traitors who proceed to wage a guerrilla war against the occupiers. Core in response
00:59to this seemingly has 200 Organians put to death. Here's where the controversy arises.
01:04Technically Core only gave the order but even more than this no one actually died. So what
01:10the heck is Core doing on this list then? Well the simple fact is this the Klingon Empire
01:13was one of the most brutal organizations of the 23rd and 24th centuries. Core in being the
01:19first Klingon that the audience met on screen, ordering a mass execution no less, becomes
01:24a figurehead of this organization. At least he died saving lives so there was some hero
01:29points for that.
01:30Number 9 Redjack. Redjack appears in the original series episode Wolf in the Fold, a non corporeal
01:36entity it travels from planet to planet via possession, committing murders for the simple
01:40pleasure of killing. It 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. It was clearly hundreds of years old as it was revealed to have been the infamous
01:55serial killer Jack the Ripper in the past. Travelling from planet to planet it was responsible
01:59for murdering many women. Spock suggested this was because it enjoyed their fear more than
02:04the fear of men. The episode saw Redjack take control of the Enterprise, though it was then
02:09forced back into Hengist's body and was beamed into space. The expanded universe showed
02:14that it was not the end of this monster as it latched onto another ship to survive, going
02:18dormant for a century before returning, this time to do battle with the Enterprise D. It
02:23also appeared in the two part comic Wolf on the Prowl and Wolf at the Door where it was
02:27finally defeated.
02:29Number 8 Krell Mossett. Krell Mossett was introduced in the episode Nothing Human. He was a Cardassian
02:36scientist appearing on the USS Voyager in the form of a hologram created to assist the EMH.
02:41His affable, charming manner belied a dreadful secret. Mossett was to the Bajorans what Mengele
02:47was to the Jews, a monster through and through. Mossett had done most of his research during
02:52the occupation using Bajoran slaves as his own private test subjects. He conducted inhumane
02:57experiments killing thousands in the pursuit of, as he sought, scientific advancement. Though
03:02the outcome of his research allowed the EMH to save both Torres and an alien parasite that
03:07had attached itself to her, the cost of this knowledge was simply too high. The former
03:12Maquis members of the crew would have nothing to do with this hologram, and the EMH's own
03:17conscience couldn't allow for the continued use of this research knowing how it had been
03:21achieved. Mossett, 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. Number 7, V'ger. Another example of accidental yet highly destructive
03:39power here, V'ger was encountered by the newly refitted USS Enterprise in the 2270s. Massive
03:45beyond anything that Starfleet had encountered before, it dwarfed not only the ship, and the
03:50cloud that surrounded the main structure was said to be greater than the Earth's entire orbit
03:54around the sun. V'ger had displayed its power by destroying three Klingon Katinga-class vessels,
04:01Starfleet Station Epsilon-9 and, tragically, Lieutenant Ilea as well. Perhaps destroying
04:06may be a little inaccurate though, as all of these were examples of V'ger downloading,
04:11storing, and remembering each of them instead. Spock, fascinated by this new encounter, underwent
04:17a spacewalk that took him into the heart of V'ger's core. There, he discovered the
04:21recorded images of thousands of ships, planets, and entire galaxies, all of which it had encountered
04:26on its travels. It is unclear if V'ger had downloaded these as it had the Klingons and
04:31Ilea, though there is no reason to believe that it hadn't. If that is so, then there is
04:36little doubt that V'ger, in its quest to return to its maker, was simply far, far too efficient
04:41at its job, and the devastation that it wrought, despite creating a new form of life, is unparalleled
04:48in Star Trek history. Number 6, Jatrell.
04:51This is another controversial entry, as Jatrell 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. The man came aboard Voyager early into the ship's adventure
05:05in the Delta Quadrant, which led to a difficult meeting for Neelix. Neelix himself had suffered
05:10from Jatrell's work, losing his entire family to the Cascade, though he was off-world, thankfully,
05:15when the device was detonated. Perhaps including Jatrell as a villain is too simplistic. Neelix
05:20himself was able to, if not entirely forgive the man, then certainly come to an understanding
05:25that there was a difference between a despotic maniac and a misguided scientist, one who felt
05:30extreme remorse for his actions. It may be best to let history judge men like Jatrell.
05:36He certainly was aware of the destructive power of his creation, though he personally didn't
05:40push the button. Much as Robert Oppenheimer has a complicated place in the history of
05:44mankind, so too does Jatrell have in the annals of the Delta Quadrant.
05:49Number 5. Sauron. In our previous list we discussed an entry that raised some eyebrows.
05:55Anoraks. Did 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! Dr. Tolian Sauron was the mad scientist who would sacrifice anything
06:09and anyone so that he could return to the Nexus. His research involved the destruction of large
06:14stellar bodies, something that would have immediate 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. Sauron's research into Trilithium saw
06:29him allying with the Duras sisters. This in turn would lead to the deaths of Romulans and Federation
06:34citizens along with the destruction of the sisters own bird of prey and its crew. This is yet another
06:40reason why Picard and Kirk going back to that one bloody moment on the surface of Viridian 3 makes
06:44even less sense. If Kirk had simply gone back to the Enterprise B he could have stopped Sauron long
06:48before any of it would have happened by just pushing him out of an airlock. Number 4. General Nadar.
06:53Though the audience never actually heard this name on screen, the notes for Picard's first season
06:58identified the half-Vulcan Romulan Commodore O as Nadar who held the rank of general within the
07:04Romulan fleet. As a member of the Jat Vash, her hands were drenched in blood. It was she who was
07:09responsible for reprogramming the synthetics on Mars. Thus this one individual is responsible for almost
07:1620,000 deaths and a planet that remained on fire into the early 25th century at least. Nadar's motives
07:23may, and that's a big may there, have come from a place of preservation but that doesn't change the
07:29fact that her actions directly led to one of the worst massacres in Federation history. There has
07:35been nothing heard from this character since her disappearance after the arrival of Starfleet,
07:39though it is safe to say that she is still out there. The immediate threat may have passed but
07:44this soldier infiltrated Starfleet with relative ease. There is no telling what she could do if she really
07:51put her mind to it. Number 3. Gul Darjeel. There are enough atrocities that occurred within the
07:57Cardassian occupation of Bajor to fill several of these lists by themselves, but for this entry we
08:02look at Gul Darjeel, the so-called Butcher of Galatep. Galatep labour camp was a grim and brutal
08:08destination for any Bajoran slave, analogous with Auschwitz or Dachau, and was well known to be a
08:13location full of torture and pain. By the closing days of the occupation, extreme crimes were commonplace,
08:19with murder as frequent as anything else. Darjeel presided over some of the worst atrocities,
08:24often ordering his men to go out and quote, kill Bajoran scum. Eamon Maritza, the poor man struggling
08:31with the Cardassian's lack of accountability for their crimes, delivered a chilling monologue as
08:35Darjeel one could well imagine this man celebrating in the evil that was orchestrated under his watch.
08:41The death of Maritza at the hands of a traumatized Bajoran could simply be added to Darjeel's own tally.
08:48Number 2. Khan. Oh come on, you didn't think we'd forgotten about Khan, did you?
08:53Khan Noonien Singh is often the first name out of Trekkie's mouths when asked who the biggest,
08:58baddest villain of them all is. He has the dubious honour of being maniacal in several realities,
09:05as well as being a cold-blooded tyrant to boot. Khan Prime was a warlord in the original timeline's
09:11eugenics wars. For a period he controlled much of Asia, brutally conquering and disposing of those he
09:17deemed inferior. At that point it seemed as though everyone who wasn't genetically engineered was
09:22inferior, meaning everyone was on his hit list. When he found himself in the future, brilliant a
09:28tactician as he was, he was foiled not once but twice by James T. Kirk. The first time would be a
09:34relatively bloodless affair, whereas the second time would see much of the Enterprise's cadet crew,
09:39and of course Spock, killed in the attempt to stop him. The Kelvin era Khan wasn't much better in
09:45terms of his goals, even if Spock got to survive in that universe. He was technically responsible for
09:51the death of Kirk, but don't worry, that didn't last for very long. Either way, Khan Noonien Singh is
09:56still a villain who should send a shiver of fear down the spine of anyone who hears it or is on the
10:01receiving end of, as from hell's heart he stabs at thee. Number one, Gull Ducat. Gull Ducat is,
10:10in essence, as close to Adolf Hitler that Star Trek has ever really come to portraying. His hard-boiled
10:16hatred for the Bajorans, hidden behind a veneer of trying to help them modernize, continuously showed
10:22its ugly head in the years after the occupation came to an end. Ducat's numbers are slightly off-center.
10:28Technically, the numbers of dead started to drop when he took over as Prefect of Bajor,
10:33yet, as he would later explain with glee to Weyoun, he tried to avoid killing people when
10:39possible. Instead, he wanted to dominate, bend others to his will, and force them to see why
10:45they had been wrong to oppose him in the beginning. With his negotiating Cardassia's entry into the
10:49Dominion, he then became the author of The Deaths of Millions, taking the lead in a war that would
10:55devastate the Alpha Quadrant for decades to follow. Ducat himself would fall out of favour with his
11:00Dominion masters, but this would do nothing to curb his bloodlust, he simply hitched his ride to
11:04another post, slinking into the service of the Pa Wraiths. Between the actual murders that he
11:09himself committed, and the deaths that took place under his orders, Ducat was and remains one of the
11:14deadliest foes Starfleet ever faced. That's everything for our list today folks, thank you so
11:19much for watching along. As I say, this is one of two lists that we have done like this, so if there's
11:23anyone you think is missing off this, go and check the other one as well. If there's anything that you
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11:54for us to come together and try and make things better. So if you can do one thing today, it's reach
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