Poll of the Month: Starfleet's Current Villains

[Genkos Adea]

Now we’re on the other side of the Frontier Day blockbuster (well done to everyone who participated, it was a nail-biter!) we thought we’d throw up an interesting query to all of you… Who do you think is the biggest threat to peace in the galaxy?

We’ll start off with the two most obvious answers - the Borg and the Changelings. As the architects of the Frontier Day disaster, they were responsible for the huge loss of life experienced across Starfleet on that day, as well as the sudden assimilation of every officer under the age of 30. But apart from that, both have been huge threats even before they joined forces.

The Borg have posed a legitimate existential threat to life in the Alpha Quadrant ever since Q zapped Picard halfway across the galaxy to meet them, and they only became more credible as a danger at the Battle of Wolf 359 and in their encounters with Janeway. Ruthless and without feeling, the Borg are legitimately terrifying.

The Changelings were responsible for the Dominion War, the largest and most bloody conflict in recent memory, scars of which still crisscross the galaxy. Whether you lived on occupied Betazed or fought them at Deep Space Nine, nobody can forget the threat of not truly knowing who your friends were coupled with the relentless march of the Jem’hadar.

The Lattice Alliance, a xenophobic alliance of Tholians and Sheliak have pooled their technology to use weapons based on sencha radiation, using crystalline technology. This has allowed them to focus and amplify the effects of the radiation, creating cannons and blast weapons of a destructive power seldom seen before. The USS Ronin first encountered sencha radiation in 2400 and barely escaped the conflict in one piece, and the Alliance continues to menace the quadrant to this day.

Also, we have the Orion Syndicate - possibly more insidious than the others in that they’re not actively engaged in battle with the Federation, but their methods can be brutal and barbaric. Skin colour to dye for, though!

Or do you have another suggestion? Let us know in the comments!

[LCDR Aine O. Sherlock]

If you were to ask the Vulcans, it's always been Humans.

[Hannibal Parker]

The Orions are still out there, most likely trying to figure out how to exploit the current situation. I'd keep an eye and a few starships on them...

 

[Gogigobo Fairhug]

At this moment in time, I’d say the Lattice Alliance. The Borg and the Changelings will have to recover from Frontier Day, but so will the Federation - leaving them vulnerable to this new alliance.

[+ TAma]

All the officers I know who have tangled with the Lattice Alliance and then experienced Frontier Day were very blasé about the Borg. The reports of time cancer from that Sencha radiation has me considerably concerned as an El-Aurian despite the Borg having historically destroyed the El-Aurian species.

[Serala]

The Romulans. Always the Romulans. 😂 Who needs a homeworld anyway? We'll just assimilate a Borg cube and keep on being insidious.