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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 series episode Wolf in
01:34the Fold, a non-corporeal entity it travels from planet to planet via possession, committing
01:39murders for the simple pleasure of killing. It was during its tenure on Argelius II that it
01:44met its supposed downfall. Redjack is an outlier on this list as it's not known for certain
01:50how many people it had killed. It was clearly hundreds of years old as it was revealed to
01:54have been the infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper in the past. Travelling from planet
01:58to planet it was responsible for murdering many women. Spock suggested this was because
02:02it enjoyed their fear more than the fear of men. The episode saw Redjack take control of
02:07the Enterprise, though it was then forced back into 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. 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 may
04:06be a little inaccurate though, as all of these were examples of V'ger downloading, storing, and
04:12remembering each of them instead. Spock, fascinated by this new encounter, underwent a spacewalk that
04:18took him into the heart of V'ger's core. There he discovered the recorded images of thousands of
04:23ships, planets and entire galaxies, all of which it had encountered on its travels. It is unclear
04:28if V'ger had downloaded these as it had the Klingons and Ilea, though there is no reason to
04:33believe that it hadn't. If that is so, then there is little doubt that V'ger, in its quest to
04:38return
04:38to its maker, 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.
04:49Number 6, Jatrell. This is another controversial entry, as Jatrell is effectively the Oppenheimer of
04:55Star Trek. His 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 in the
05:06Delta Quadrant, which led to a difficult meeting for Neelix. Neelix himself had suffered from Jatrell's
05:11work, losing his entire family to the Cascade, though he was off-world, thankfully, when the device was
05:16detonated. Perhaps 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 of
05:38his 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 here
06:04just like it. Doctor Tolian Sauron was the mad scientist who would sacrifice anything and anyone
06:09so that he could return to the Nexus. His research involved the destruction of large stellar bodies,
06:15something that would have immediate and deadly results for anyone too close by. While the destruction
06:20of the Viridian Star was undone by the efforts of Picard and Kirk, that did nothing for any of the
06:25victims of Sauron beforehand. Sauron'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 the destruction
06:36of the sisters own bird of prey and its crew. This is yet another reason why Picard and Kirk going
06:41back
06:42to that one bloody moment on the surface of Viridian 3 makes even less sense. If Kirk had simply gone
06:46back to the Enterprise B, he could have stopped Sauron long before any of it would have happened by just
06:50pushing him out of an airlock. Number 4, General Nadar. Though the audience never actually heard this
06:55name on screen, the notes for Picard's first season identify the half-Vulcan Romulan Commodore
07:01O as Nadar who held the rank of General within the Romulan fleet. As a member of the Jat Vash,
07:07her hands were drenched in blood. It was she who was responsible for reprogramming the synthetics on
07:12Mars. Thus, 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. Nadar's motives may, and that's a big may there,
07:25have come from a place of preservation, but that doesn't change the fact that her actions directly
07:31led to one of the worst massacres in Federation history. There has been nothing heard from this
07:36character since her disappearance after the arrival of Starfleet, though it is safe to say that she is
07:41still out there. The immediate threat may have passed, but this soldier infiltrated Starfleet with
07:47relative ease. There is no telling what she could do if she really put her mind to it.
07:51Number 3. Gul Darjeel. There are enough atrocities that occurred within the Cardassian occupation of
07:58Bajor to fill several of these lists by themselves, but for this entry we look at Gul Darjeel, the so
08:04-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. By the
08:15closing
08:16days of the occupation, extreme crimes were commonplace, with murder as frequent as anything else.
08:21Darjeel presided over some of the worst atrocities, often ordering his men to go out and quote,
08:27kill Bajoran scum. Eamon Maritza, the poor man struggling with the Cardassian's lack of accountability
08:32for their crimes, delivered a chilling monologue as Darjeel one could well imagine this man celebrating in the
08:39evil that was orchestrated under his watch. The death of Maritza at the hands of a traumatised Bajoran
08:44could simply be added to Darjeel's own tally. Number 2. Khan. Oh come on you didn't think we'd
08:52forgotten about Khan did you? Khan Noonien Singh is often the first name out of Trekkie's mouths when
08:57asked who the biggest, baddest villain of them all is. He has the dubious honour of being maniacal in
09:03several realities, as well as being a cold-blooded tyrant to boot. Khan Prime was a warlord in the
09:10original timeline's eugenics wars. For a period he controlled much of Asia, brutally conquering and
09:15disposing of those he deemed inferior. At that point it seemed as though everyone who wasn't
09:21genetically engineered was inferior, meaning everyone was on his hit list. When he found himself in the
09:26future, brilliant a tactician as he was, he was foiled not once but twice by James T Kirk. The first
09:33time would be a relatively bloodless affair, whereas the second time would see much of the Enterprise's
09:38cadet crew, and of course Spock, killed in the attempt to stop him. The Kelvin era Khan wasn't
09:45much better in terms of his goals, even if Spock got to survive in that universe. He was technically
09:50responsible for the death of Kirk, but don't worry that didn't last for very long. Either way, Khan Noonien
09:56Singh is still a villain who should send a shiver of fear down the spine of anyone who hears it
10:01or is on the
10:01receiving end of, as from hell's heart he stabs at thee. Number one, Gol Ducat. Gol Ducat is, in essence,
10:11as close to Adolf Hitler that Star Trek has ever really come to portraying. His hard-boiled hatred
10:17for the Bajorans, hidden behind a veneer of trying to help them modernize, continuously showed its ugly
10:22head 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.
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
11:24off this, go and check the other one as well. If there's anything that you would like us to know,
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11:42look
11:42as pretty as it does. Everyone live long and prosper, look after yourselves, look after everyone
11:47else. The world is continually showing us why it is so important now more than ever for us to come
11:55together and try and make things better. So if you can do one thing today, it's reach out and show
12:01some kindness. Thank you very much, talk to you soon!
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