Star Trek: Enterprise may not be anyone's favorite Trek series, but it wasn't all bad. It had some seriously good moments in its five year run. Quite a few of those involved the many villains the crew ran into along the way. Enterprise had the unique experience of sharing some of the earliest forms of classic Star Trek species like Romulans, Klingons, and Andorians. And even more fun, they were almost all adversaries in the early days. But there were also quite a few unique races, too.
And from all these options, Star Trek fans got a lot of really enjoyable, hateable villains. Some because they were complex villains, and other just because fans really, really wanted to see them go.
10 Vosk (Just Hate)
The Temporal Cold War wasn't ENT's strongest storyline, playing a little too much with time and space. At the head of all that was General Vosk, the leader of the Na'kuhl. The species was desperate to restore their galactic standing and were trying to manipulate time to achieve it.
However, they worked with Nazis. Understandably, fans aren't very forgiving of something like that.
Vosk, at the head of it all, really dragged his entire species and their goals down to the depths of hateability. Nobody can really come back from helping the Nazis. When Vosk disintegrated and reset the timeline, fans were just happy to have his reign of time crime over with.
9 The Borg (Just Hate)
Remember when The Borg were the coolest villains in all of Trek? It's hard sometimes not to miss those days.
The second that ENT re-wrote Trek history and brought The Borg into their time, it really cheapened the foreboding villains. If the 24th century tech could barely fight them off, how did they stand a chance two hundred years earlier?
In order to make the episode make sense, ENT had to dumb down these beloved baddies and use some very convoluted science. ENT, The Borg, and the fans deserved so much better.
So it's no wonder that Trekkies hated ENT Borg and their episode so, so much.
8 Emory Erickson (Just Hate)
Early transporters were already sort of spooky, and that's without a mad scientist trying to bring his son back to life. "Daedalus" has a lead transporter scientist, Emory Erickson, trying to trick people into helping him save his son. Y'see, while experimenting with transporters, his son's matter was lost in test practices. It makes sense he wanted to try to find his son but, perhaps, he could've just asked for help instead of lying to everyone?
Emory's biggest crime is just existing in a tiresome episode with a depressing conclusion. Where his concept was interesting, the timing and circumstances just made him a confusing and weak villain. Fans were happy to see his story end and watch him move on.
7 Arik Soong (Love To Hate)
Data is a fan favorite character that Trekkies always love a reference to. Well, ENT delivered in "Borderland", an episode about Data's heritage. It followed Arik Soong, an ancestor of his creator, Noonien Soong. Arik was a geneticist who firmly believed that abandoning enhanced genetic programs after the Eugenics War was a mistake, and wanted to prove everyone wrong.
Well, brilliant and idealistic, unfortunately Arik was wrong. While some of his "Augments" as he called them were kind, lovely children, others were what people feared: hostile and violent like Khan himself.
Arik was jailed for his crimes and decided that maybe he should find a different way to construct better humans. His interesting arc (and that hint towards Soong-type androids) made him a great villain. People hated his arrogance, but they loved his passion and dream.
6 "Pod Mom" Archer (Just Hate)
During an encounter with an abandoned Xindi ship, Archer got sprayed by some of the eggs. The crew just assumed it was a little gross and moved on. That is, until Archer started acting erratically to protect the little pods. Phlox eventually discovered that the eggs spewed maternal pheromones on him to ensure their survival.
In short, Pod Mom Archer was a jerk. He put the entire ship in danger and, more concerningly, no one questioned it until he was causing severe chaos. Archer really is that messy as captain, huh?
Conclusively, Archer's short adventure into egg parenthood was bad and everyone hated it.
5 Alien Poachers (Just Hate) (Rogue Planet)
If you ever talk to a Trekkie whose watched ENT all the way through, any of them will cringe if "Archer's slug girlfriend" is mentioned.
Yes, in one bizarre episode named "Rogue Planet", there are these alien poachers decimating a telepathic slug species. They used their abilities, then, to attract Captain Archer and get their help. And yes, correct, that means that the Enterprise only helped these people because Archer had a slug boner.
The alien poachers are totally forgettable but, in theory, it's their fault that "Rogue Planet" happened. So, when needing someone to blame, fans always have the alien poachers. Poachers always suck.
4 Empress Hoshi Sato (Love To Hate)
Throughout all of Star Trek, the Mirror universe has been a fascinating, weird, and kinda sexy part of the experience. In ENT, the highlight of the Mirror Universe was Hoshi as the manipulative, ambitious, and awesomely awful Empress Sato.
Using her wiles and influence among the crew, she took over the Enterprise and named herself Empress of it.
Of all the ENT Mirror folk, Empress Sato really evoked the classic Mirror vibes of Intendent Kira and facial hair Spock. And, she paved the way so that Mirror Phillipa could be the amazing woman she is.
Sure, still a bad guy, but an enjoyable one.
3 Gannet Brooks and Terra Prime (Just Hate)
The idea of a human-based group trying to prove a point that humanity is better on its own isn't a bad idea. It's very akin to white nationalist groups, thinking their people are the best and should stay separate.
Moreover, the worst of this group was Gannet Brooks. Okay, not the worst person, but the easiest to hate. She gave fair, unloved Mayweather his first serious romance, she manipulated the Enterprise crew, and she used her relationships and job to further her way-too-radical political beliefs.
While they have every right to believe in something, maybe kidnapping genetic code to create a hybrid baby to prove a point. And then still failed to prove that point.
Anyway, they suck and fans hate them (but particularly Gannet).
2 Phlox in "Dear Doctor" (Just Hate)
Don't Trek fans love when the Prime Directive is used to destroy an entire species?
Yeah, they really don't. In "Dear Doctor", the ENT cast encounters a planet where an entire race is being decimated by a plague. They have been spending decades trying to figure out space travel to beg higher-tech species for help. When they pass by, Phloc, Archer, and co. debate on what to do and try to find a cure.
However, by the end of the episode, Phlox chooses not to give the cure to the people. He says it would be too dangerous to interfere, saying other species could be hurt. Doesn't ignore the whole "allowing genocide" thing, but okay.
No surprise fans hate this version of Phlox and this episode.
1 Shran (Love To Hate)
According to Star Trek history, some of the best villains are ones that aren't villains all the time. See Gul Dukat, The Borg, Kai Winn, and others.
In ENT, that guy is Andorian commander Shran. At first, Shran was leading raids on Vulcan monasteries and helping incite the conflict between Andorians and Vulcans. However, after some Starfleet intervention, Shran and his people back down. He put aside his xenophobic tendencies for the betterment of his people. After that, he was even an ally and advocate of human/Andorian relations.
While Shran always will put himself and his people first, and he's not the nicest guy, he can be a villain and a hero. Of course fans love him, hate him, or most often, both at the same time.
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