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. Number 9. Redjack. Redjack appears in the original
01:33series episode Wolf in the Fold, a non-corporeal entity it travels from planet to planet via possession,
01:39committing murders for the simple pleasure of killing. It was during its tenure on Argelius
01:442 that it met its supposed downfall. Redjack is an outlier on this list as it's not known
01:49for certain how many people it had killed. It was clearly hundreds of years old as it
01:53was revealed to have been the infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper in the past. Travelling
01:58from planet to planet it was responsible for murdering many women. Spock suggested this
02:02was because it enjoyed their fear more than the fear of men. The episode saw Redjack take
02:07control of the Enterprise, though it was then forced back into Hengist's body and was beamed
02:11into space. The expanded universe showed that it was not the end of this monster as it latched
02:16onto another ship to survive, going dormant for a century before returning, this time to
02:21do battle with the Enterprise D. It also appeared in the two-part comic Wolf on the Prowl and Wolf
02:26at the Door where it was finally 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.
02:42His 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 the
03:02outcome of his research allowed the EMH to save both Torres and an alien parasite that had attached
03:08itself to her, the cost of this knowledge was simply too high. The former Maquis members of the
03:13crew would have nothing to do with this hologram and the EMH's own conscience couldn't allow for
03:18the continued use of this research knowing how it had been achieved. Mossett, who was very probably
03:24still alive in the Alpha Quadrant at this point, received a small form of just desserts when his
03:29research, and the hologram used to embody it, was deleted from the ship's database.
03:34Number 7. V'ger. Another example of accidental yet highly destructive power here, V'ger was
03:40encountered by the newly refitted USS Enterprise in the 2270s. Massive beyond anything that Starfleet
03:47had encountered before, it dwarfed not only the ship and the cloud that surrounded the main structure
03:52was said to be greater than the Earth's entire orbit around the Sun. V'ger had displayed its power by
03:57destroying three Klingon Katinga-class vessels, Starfleet Station Epsilon-9 and, tragically,
04:03Lieutenant Ilea as well. Perhaps destroying may be a little inaccurate though, as all of these were
04:08examples of V'ger downloading, storing and remembering each of them instead. Spock, fascinated by this new
04:15encounter, underwent a 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 on its
04:26travels. It is unclear if V'ger had downloaded these as it had the Klingons and Ilea, though there is no
04:33reason to believe that it hadn't. If that is so, then there is little doubt that V'ger, in its quest
04:38to return to its maker, was simply far, far too efficient at its job, and the devastation that it
04:44wrought, despite creating a new form of life, is unparalleled in Star Trek history.
04:49Number 6. Jatrell. This 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 attack against
05:02the Talaxians. The man came aboard Voyager early into the ship's adventure in the Delta Quadrant,
05:06which led to a difficult meeting for Neelix. Neelix himself had suffered from Jatrell's work,
05:11losing his entire family to the Cascade, though he was off world thankfully when the device was detonated.
05:16Perhaps including Jatrell as a villain is too simplistic. Neelix himself was able to,
05:21if not entirely forgive the man, then certainly come to an understanding that there was a difference
05:26between a despotic maniac and a misguided scientist, one who felt extreme remorse for his actions.
05:33It may be best to let history judge men like Jatrell. He certainly was aware of the destructive power
05:38of his creation, though he personally didn't push the button. Much as Robert Oppenheimer has a complicated
05:43place in the history of mankind, 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.
05:54Anoraks. Did he actually deserve a spot on the rankings as the giant reset button was hit? Well,
06:00we're here to tell you that not only have we not answered that, but we're introducing another entry
06:04here just like it. Dr. Tolian Sauron was the mad scientist who would sacrifice anything and anyone
06:10so that he could return to the Nexus. His research involved the destruction of large stellar bodies,
06:14something that would have immediate and deadly results for anyone too close by. While the
06:20destruction of the Viridian Star was undone by the efforts of Picard and Kirk, that did nothing for
06:25any of the victims of Sauron beforehand. Sauron's research into Trilithium saw him allying with the
06:30Duras sisters. This 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. This is yet another reason why Picard
06:41and Kirk going back to that one bloody moment on the surface of Viridian 3 makes even less sense.
06:45If Kirk had simply gone back to the Enterprise B he could have stopped Sauron long before any of it
06:49would have happened by just pushing him out of an airlock. Number 4. General Nadar. Though the audience
06:54never actually heard this name on screen, the notes for Picard's first season identify the half-Vulcan
07:00Romulan Commodore O as Nadar who held the rank of general within the Romulan fleet. As a member of the
07:06Jat Vash, her hands were drenched in blood. It was she who was responsible for reprogramming the
07:11synthetics on Mars. Thus, this one individual is responsible for almost 20,000 deaths, and a planet
07:18that remained on fire into the early 25th century at least. Nadar's motives may, and that's a big may
07:25there, have come from a place of preservation, but that doesn't change the fact that her actions
07:30directly led to one of the worst massacres in Federation history. There has been nothing heard
07:36from this character since her disappearance after the arrival of Starfleet, though it is safe to say
07:40that she is still out there. The immediate threat may have passed, but this soldier infiltrated Starfleet
07:46with relative ease. There is no telling what she could do if she really put her mind to it.
07:52Number 3. Gul Darheil. There are enough atrocities that occurred within the Cardassian occupation of Bajor to
07:58fill several of these lists by themselves, but for this entry we look at Gul Darheil, the so-called
08:04Butcher of Galatep. Galatep labour camp was a grim and brutal destination for any Bajoran slave,
08:10analogous with 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 as anything
08:21else. Darheil presided over some of the worst atrocities, often ordering his men to go out and
08:26quote, kill Bajoran scum. Eamon Maritza, the poor man struggling with the Cardassian's lack
08:32of accountability for their crimes, delivered a chilling monologue as Darheil one could well
08:37imagine this man celebrating in the evil that was orchestrated under his watch. The death of Maritza
08:42at the hands of a traumatised Bajoran could simply be added to Darheil's own tally.
08:48Number 2. Khan. Oh come on you didn't think we'd forgotten about Khan, did you? Khan Noonien Singh is
08:55often the first name out of Trekkie's mouths when asked who the biggest, baddest villain of them all
09:00is. He has the dubious honour of being maniacal in several realities, as well as being a cold-blooded
09:06tyrant to boot. Khan Prime was a warlord in the original timeline's Eugenics Wars. For a period he
09:12controlled much of Asia, brutally conquering and disposing of those he deemed inferior. At that point
09:19it seemed as though everyone who wasn't genetically engineered was inferior, meaning everyone was on his
09:24hit list. When he found himself in the future, brilliant a tactician as he was, he was foiled
09:30not once but twice by James T. Kirk. The first time would be a relatively bloodless affair, whereas
09:36the second time would see much of the Enterprise's cadet crew, and of course Spock, killed in the
09:41attempt to stop him. The Kelvin era Khan wasn't much better in terms of his goals, even if Spock got to
09:48survive in that universe. He was technically responsible for the death of Kirk, but don't worry,
09:53that didn't last for very long. Either way, Khan Noonien Singh is still a villain who should send a
09:58shiver of fear down the spine of anyone who hears it or is on the receiving end of, as from hell's
10:04heart he stabs at thee. Number one, Gul Dukat. Gul Dukat is, in essence, as close to Adolf Hitler that
10:13Star Trek has ever really come to portraying. His hard-boiled hatred for the Bajorans, hidden behind a
10:18veneer of trying to help them modernize, continuously showed its ugly head in the years after the
10:23occupation came to an end. Dukat's numbers are slightly off-center. Technically, the numbers of
10:29dead started to drop when he took over as Prefect of Bajor. Yet, as he would later explain with glee to
10:36Weyoun, he tried to avoid killing people when possible. Instead, he wanted to dominate, bend others
10:43to his will, and force them to see why they had been wrong to oppose him in the beginning. With
10:47his negotiating Cardassia's entry into the Dominion, he then became the author of The Deaths of Millions,
10:53taking the lead in a war that would devastate the Alpha Quadrant for decades to follow. Dukat himself
10:58would fall out of favour with his Dominion masters, but this would do nothing to curb his bloodlust.
11:03He simply hitched his ride to another post, slinking into the service of the Pa Wraiths. Between the
11:08actual murders that he himself committed, and the deaths that took place under his orders,
11:12Dukat 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. As I say,
11:21this is one of two lists that we have done like this, so if there's anyone you think is missing
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11:43as it does. Everyone live long and prosper, look after yourselves, look after everyone else.
11:48The world is continually showing us why it is so important now more than ever for us to come together
11:56and try and make things better. So if you can do one thing today, it's reach out and show some
12:01kindness. Thank you very much, talk to you soon!