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* The Suliban Cabal in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' was directed by a mysterious employer who communicated with them via a hologram that disguised their face, voice and even species. All that was known about them was that they were an agent of one of the factions of the [[SpaceColdWar Temporal Cold War]] opposed by Agent Daniels. One of the various plot threads [[LeftHanging that went unresolved]] was who exactly were they and what was their ultimate end goal.
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Can be a SuperTrope of BigBad or BigGood, but more often than not the Employer is a neutral party who benefits from pushing the heroes/villains down a particular path.

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Can be a SuperTrope of BigBad or BigGood, but more often than not the Employer is a neutral party who benefits from pushing the heroes/villains down a particular path.
path. Of course, there is a non-zero chance that this archetype is [[UsingYouAllAlong actually the villain, who was playing the heroes like a fiddle all along]].

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