History Sandbox / MagnificentBastardStarTrek

->"''That's why you came to me, isn't it Captain? Because you knew I could do those things that you weren't capable of doing. Well, it worked. And you'll get what you wanted: a war between the Romulans and the Dominion. And if your conscience is bothering you, you should soothe it with the knowledge that you may have just saved the entire Alpha Quadrant, and all it cost was the life of one Romulan senator, one criminal… and the self-respect of one Starfleet officer. I don't know about you, but I'd call that a bargain."''

-->--'''Elim Garak''', ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E19InThePaleMoonlight In the Pale Moonlight]]"

* ''[[Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds Strange New Worlds]]''' "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS1E07TheSereneSquall The Serene Squall]]": Captain Angel is a [[SpacePirates pirate captain]] who has [[DeadPersonImpersonation replaced Dr. Aspen]], a Federation scientist, abandoning the real Dr. Aspen to a barren planet. Angel as Aspen makes up a story about human colonial ships being attacked by pirates. When Pike and the crew investigate, Angel lures them into a trap and has pirates capture the ''Enterprise''. Angel tricks Spock into lifting the computer lockdown on the ''Enterprise'' so they can take over the ship. Angel wants to use Spock as a bargaining chip with Spock's fiancee T'Pring, wanting T'Pring to free their husband, [[Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier Sybok]]. When Angel is foiled, they manage to escape, leaving their crew in Federation captivity.

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** [[TricksterMentor Q]] is a clever [[PhysicalGod transcendent being]] who [[ObfuscatingInsanity masquerades as a rambunctious psychopath]], demonstrating his powers by teleporting the ''Enterprise'' across the galaxy. Forcing the ''Enterprise'' to confront the terrifying Borg and for Jean-Luc Picard to beg for Q's help, Q saves them out of respect for Picard's humility. After the Q Continuum strips him of his powers, Q asked to be teleported to the ''Enterprise'', knowing that Picard's nobility will force Picard to protect him against his various enemies. After regaining his powers Q uses his gifts on Picard to let him change his past so a series of events will allow him to avoid an untimely death, though at the cost of not being as highly-promoted within the Federation, in order to teach him the importance of learning from mistakes and taking risks. In his final appearance in the series, Q is tasked by the Continuum to destroy humanity, but Q does so in a way that Picard can prevent, where Picard creates a TimeParadox when Q shifts him through time and Q provides hints to Picard to resolve the paradox and save humanity.

* ''[[Series/StarTrekDiscovery Discovery]]'': Philippa Georgiou is the ruler of the [[TheEmpire Terran Empire]] in the MirrorUniverse. Although she is a cruel leader, she has a soft spot for her adopted daughter Michael Burnham and takes in Prime Burnham when she arrives in the Mirror Universe. Burnham helps Georgiou deal with an insurrection by [[TheStarscream Captain Lorca]], whose supporters have taken over Georgiou's flagship. Burnham pretends to have captured Georgiou and offers her to Lorca so that Lorca can lower his guard. Georgiou ends up in the Prime Universe and offers to help the Federation end their war with Klingons, by planning to sneak onto the Klingon homeworld and have a bomb destroy their planet's core. Later she joins Section 31 and protects a pro-Federation Klingon Chancellor from hardliners, and saves the galaxy from an AI. When Georgiou is sent to the far future, she uses fighting skills to save Tilly and Saru from the Emerald Chain and helps Burnham bluff her way into a labor camp. Being in the far future is killing Georgiou and she is given an opportunity by a man named [[TricksterMentor Carl]] to go back to the Mirror Universe. Controlling the Terran Empire again, she tries to [[CharacterDevelopment rule with a gentler hand]] and tries to save Mirror Burnham, but is prepared when Burnham tries to betray her. This is all a [[SecretTestOfCharacter test]] to see Georgiou was worthy of being saved.

-->--'''Elim Garak''', ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E19InThePaleMoonlight In the Pale Moonlight]]"

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E14BalanceOfTerror Balance of Terror]]": The Romulan Commander is [[WorthyOpponent Captain James T. Kirk's equal and opposite]] within the Romulan fleet. [[OfficerAndAGentleman An honorable soldier]], he was tasked by the Praetor to attack Federation outposts on the Neutral Zone and is in command of an experimental ship armed with a cloaking device and a powerful plasma weapon. Despite being [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusted]] by the Praetor's reckless schemes, the Commander enacts this mission and when the ''Enterprise'' chases after the Romulan ship, Kirk and the Commander engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse, with the Commander countering several of Kirk's attempts to catch him. The Commander also manages to trick Kirk into firing on a nuclear weapon, damaging the ''Enterprise''. When the ''Enterprise'' defeats the Romulan ship, the Commander shows respect and kinship to Kirk, but [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled chooses death over surrender]] by destroying the ship.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':

* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E18InAMirrorDarkly In a Mirror, Darkly]]": The MirrorUniverse version of [[BadassBookworm Hoshi Sato]] stands in stark contrast to her reserved Main Universe version as a conniving SocialClimber who seduces men in the Terran Military who can advance her career while being no less important to the mission for her [[CunningLinguist linguistic skills]] in communicating with hostile aliens. Hoshi supports Archer's mission to recover the ''Defiant'' from the Tholians and helps him to maintain control over the ship, even exposing a plot by T'Pol and other alien members of the crew in time to stop the uprising dead in its tracks. Seducing Archer's bodyguard Mayweather and tricking Archer into [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink downing a poisoned drink]] while his guard is down, Hoshi emerges the victor out of the continual backstabbing and uses the threat of the ''Defiant'''s advanced weapons systems to declare herself Empress of the Terran Empire.
* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'': Philippa Georgiou is the ruler of the [[TheEmpire Terran Empire]] in the MirrorUniverse. Although she is a cruel leader, she has a soft spot for her adopted daughter Michael Burnham and takes in Prime Burnham when she arrives in the Mirror Universe. Burnham helps Georgiou deal with an insurrection by [[TheStarscream Captain Lorca]], whose supporters have taken over Georgiou's flagship. Burnham pretends to have captured Georgiou and offers her to Lorca so that Lorca can lower his guard. Georgiou ends up in the Prime Universe and offers to help the Federation end their war with Klingons, by planning to sneak onto the Klingon homeworld and have a bomb destroy their planet's core. Later she joins Section 31 and protects a pro-Federation Klingon Chancellor from hardliners, and saves the galaxy from an AI. When Georgiou is sent to the far future, she uses fighting skills to save Tilly and Saru from the Emerald Chain and helps Burnham bluff her way into a labor camp. Being in the far future is killing Georgiou and she is given an opportunity by a man named [[TricksterMentor Carl]] to go back to the Mirror Universe. Controlling the Terran Empire again, she tries to [[CharacterDevelopment rule with a gentler hand]] and tries to save Mirror Burnham, but is prepared when Burnham tries to betray her. This is all a [[SecretTestOfCharacter test]] to see Georgiou was worthy of being saved.

* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery: [[ComicBook/StarTrekIDW Succession]]'': In this tale from the MirrorUniverse, Airiam is a cyborg crewman abroad the Terran ship ISS Shenzhou, who resents being [[FantasticRacism treated as a second class citizen]] by the bigoted Terran Empire. Airiam [[KlingonPromotion stages a coup]] on the Shenzhou, cutting life support to the bridge and killing the entire bridge crew, as well as rerouting the ship's computer functions to only serve her, demanding absolute loyalty from the rest of the crew. Learning that the Empire's new ruler, Emperor Alexander, is a psychopathic mad man who plans to exterminate all nonhuman life in the universe with a virus that will kill all nonhuman aliens it comes into contact with, Airiam decides to [[EvenEvilHasStandards stop him]], destroying a ship transporting the virus. Later Airiam destroys the ''ISS Enterprise'' before it can destroy the Klingon homeworld Qo'noS and rescues a rival of Alexander, Michael Burnham, and her Klingon allies. After disposing of two crewmen who were plotting against her, Airiam brings Michael to Earth and helps her kill Alexander and his treacherous second-in-command, Admiral Cornwall, allowing Michael to become Emperor. But on her coronation, Airiam uses the virus on the imperial palace, changing it only target humans, killing Michael and her supporters, so she can take the throne for herself.

* ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'': [[BigBad Commander Kruge]] is a [[ProudWarriorRace Klingon]] officer who learns of the Genesis device from Valkris and when Kruge learns Valkris has reviewed the Genesis device information, Kruge has her killed to [[HeKnowsTooMuch maintain the secrecy of his mission]]. Kruge's ship goes to the Genesis planet. When Kruge orders his gunner to disable the ''USS Grissom'' in orbit, the gunner accidentally destroys the ''Grissom'', Kruge [[EvenEvilHasStandards kills him in disgust]]. Kruge takes the remaining Star Fleet personal on the planet prisoner. When the ''Enterprise'' arrives and Kruge attacks them, both ships are damaged, but the ''Enterprise'' is left dead in the water. When Kirk tries to bluff Kruge and demands his surrender, Kruge sees through it and demands Kirk surrenders and says he will kill one of the hostages to prove he is serious, with Kruge's underling killing Kirk's son David. When Kruge confronts Kirk on the planet while it is destroying itself, [[NotAfraidToDie not caring if he dies]] while fighting Kirk. Though Kirk kills Kruge, the cost is heavy, with Kirk losing the ''Enterprise'' and his son in the process.
* ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'': [[FriendlyEnemy Sybok]] is Spock's [[LongLostRelative long-lost half-brother]], who was banished from Vulcan for embracing his emotions. Sybok gets visions from a being that he believes is God and travels to the planet Nimbus III. Sybok is able to mind control people by using mind melds, allowing Sybok to form a cult. Sybok and his cult kidnap Federation, Romulan and Klingon diplomats and [[HostageSituation hold them hostage]]. Sybok demands a Federation vessel go to Nimbus and parlay for their freedom. Sybok captures Kirk and an away team when they try to rescue the diplomats and hijacks the Enterprise. Sybok has the Enterprise go to a barrier in the Centre of the Universe, correctly believing the barrier is an illusion. Crossing the barrier, the Enterprise arrives at the planet Sha Ka Ree and investigates Sybok's claims. When this God turns out to be false, an evil being who wants to escape Sha Ka Ree and cause havoc and reveals its true nature by torturing Kirk and his crew, Sybok turns against this false God and uses his mind control powers against him, so Kirk and his friends can escape, [[DyingMomentOfAwesome at the cost of his own life]].
* ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'': [[GeneralRipper General Chang]] is a Klingon traditionalist who opposes peace with the Federation. After the moon of Praxis explodes due to over mining and threatens the Klingon home world, Klingon Chancellor Gorkon begins peace talks with the Federation and Chang forms a conspiracy Star Fleet admiral Cartwright to scuttle the peace talks. Chang has developed a Klingon bird of prey that can fire while cloaked and after Gorkon meets Kirk on the ''Enterprise'' and returns to his ship, Chang has the bird of prey fire on Gorkon's ship, making it look like the ''Enterprise'' did it. This disables the ship's shields and gravity, allowing 2 Star Fleet officers loyal to Cartwright to come aboard and kill Gorkon. Kirk and Bones come aboard to help Gorkon, Chang has them arrested. Chang prosecutes them at their trial and when the judge sentences to life in the penal colony of Rura Penthe, instead of executing them, Chang arranges for agents in the prison to free Kirk, so the guards will kill him in an escape attempt. After the ''Enterprise'' rescues Bones and Kirk, Chang uses his cloaked ship to guard the site of the new peace talks, planet Khitomer. Chang plans to destroy the ''Enterprise'' when it gets in orbit, in order to allow the conspirators to assassinate the President of the Federation, scuttling the peace talks for good.
* ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'': Dr. Tolian Soran was once a peaceful man of the long-lived El-Aurian race whose wife and children were murdered when his planet was invaded and destroyed by the Borg. After gaining access to the Nexus, a dimension of pleasure where he could be reunited with his family, Soran becomes obsessed with getting back into it after he is pulled from it against his will. Realizing that the energy ribbon could only be accessed by altering the gravitational fields around it, Soran designed a star-killing probe to [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds make the Nexus come to him while destroying all other lifeforms in the vicinity]]. Soran is rescued by the ''Enterprise'' after Romulans raid his science station, deceiving the ''Enterprise'' crew before kidnapping Geordi [=LaForge=] with the help of his Klingon allies, the Duras Sisters. Soran modifies Geordi's visor to make him an unwitting spy which ultimately leads to the ship's destruction, proves himself immune to [[ShutUpKirk Picard's attempts to talk him down from his plan]], and eventually succeeds at everything he set out to do, embracing the Nexus as it sweeps him up, with only subsequent TimeTravel managing to undo it.
* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'': [[Characters/StarTrekTheOriginalSeriesKhanNoonienSingh Khan Noonien Singh]] is a superhuman with incredibly high-intelligence. Though believed to be genocidal and seeking to dispose of any race not on the same superiority level as his own kind, the tie-in comic ''Star Trek: Khan'' reveals Khan to have been a beloved and benevolent leader over his people despite being a conqueror. Preserved along with his crew for hundreds of years in cryo-sleep, Khan is awoken by the warmongering Admiral Alexander Marcus and as Commander John Harrison is forced to design the fighter starship the ''USS Vengeance'' and torpedos to go with it. Khan rebels by inciting a bombing of the secret Defense division and then mowing down several Starfleet officers, including Admiral Christopher Pike, in an ambush where he specifically targets Marcus. Khan learns his crew still lives in their pods in the torpedos he hid them in and surrenders himself to Captain James T. Kirk and the ''USS Enterprise''. Khan then provides the info of the Vengeance and helps Kirk take it over, brutally kills Marcus and then attempts to escape and fights off Lieutenant Spock after nearly crashing the damaged ship into Starfleet Headquarters.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'': "[[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS1E8TheMagicksOfMegasTu The Magicks Of Megas Tu]]": Asmodeus is a leader on the planet Megas Tu. The Megans came to Earth hundreds of years ago to use their magic to help humanity but were [[WitchHunt persecuted]], leading to the [[SalemIsWitchCountry Salem witch trials]] and causing the Megans to flee Earth and became distrustful of humanity. When the ''Enterprise'' accidentally discovers Megas Tu, one of the Megans, Lucien, helps the ''Enterprise'' crew. Asmodeus puts the ''Enterprise'' crew on trial for the crimes of humanity, in a setting similar to the Salem witch trials. Asmodeus allows Spock to defend humanity and Asmodeus studies the ''Enterprise'''s records and concludes humanity has changed, but declares Lucien a traitor for helping them and intends to send him to Limbo forever. Kirk defends Lucien and Asmodeus reveals that Lucien is really [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] and asks if he still will defend him and Kirk says yes, causing Asmodeus to battle Kirk for the fate of Lucien, though ultimately [[SecretTestOfCharacter this was all test]] to see if humanity had truly changed.

* ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'': [[FriendlyEnemy Sybok]] is Spock's [[LongLostRelative long-lost half-brother]], who was banished from Vulcan for embracing his emotions. Sybok gets visions from a being that he believes is God and travels to the planet Nimbus III. Sybok is able to mind control people by using mind melds, allowing Sybok to form a cult. Sybok and his cult kidnap Federation, Romulan and Klingon diplomats and [[HostageSituation hold them hostage]]. Sybok demands a Federation vessel go to Nimbus and parlay for their freedom. Sybok captures Kirk and an away team when they try to rescue the diplomats and hijacks the Enterprise. Sybok has the Enterprise go to a barrier in the Centre of the Universe, correctly believing the barrier is an illusion. Crossing the barrier, the Enterprise arrives at the planet Sha Ka Ree and investigates Sybok's claims. When this God turns out to be false, an evil being who wants to escape Sha Ka Ree and cause havoc and reveals its true nature by torturing Kirk and his crew, Sybok turns against this false God and uses his mind control powers against him, so Kirk and his friends can escape, [[DyingMomentOfAwesome at the cost of his own life]].

* Khan Noonien Singh, introduced in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed Space Seed]]" was once a benevolent dictator who controlled a quarter of Earth during the Eugenics Wars. Defeated and frozen, Khan plays on his own charisma and charm to ingratiate himself to the ''Enterprise'' before overthrowing Kirk to take it over and continue his conquests. Eventually overthrown and left on the savage, lush world of Ceti Alpha Five, Khan is found [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan 20 years later]], bitter and furious over a cataclysm that has left him with only twenty of his followers, even his beloved wife gone. Using infected spies, Khan lures Kirk into a trap, intending to bury him alive and leave him suffering, showing the strategic brilliance he is known for, even using his final moments to quote ''Literature/MobyDick'' to illustrate his hatred for Kirk.

* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'': Khan Noonien Singh is a superhuman with incredibly high-intelligence. Though believed to be genocidal and seeking to dispose of any race not on the same superiority level as his own kind, the tie-in comic ''Star Trek: Khan'' reveals Khan to have been a beloved and benevolent leader over his people despite being a conqueror. Preserved along with his crew for hundreds of years in cryo-sleep, Khan is awoken by the warmongering Admiral Alexander Marcus and as Commander John Harrison is forced to design the fighter starship the ''USS Vengeance'' and torpedos to go with it. Khan rebels by inciting a bombing of the secret Defense division and then mowing down several Starfleet officers, including Admiral Christopher Pike, in an ambush where he specifically targets Marcus. Khan learns his crew still lives in their pods in the torpedos he hid them in and surrenders himself to Captain James T. Kirk and the ''USS Enterprise''. Khan then provides the info of the Vengeance and helps Kirk take it over, brutally kills Marcus and then attempts to escape and fights off Lieutenant Spock after nearly crashing the damaged ship into Starfleet Headquarters.

* "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E11DatasDay Data's Day]]": Subcommander Selok is a [[DeepCoverAgent Romulan spy]] who poses as a Vulcan diplomat named T'Pel in the Federation and Admiral Mendak is secretly her commanding officer. Selok has been gathering intelligence and secrets within the Federation for years and when she needs to be extracted, Mendak contacts the Federation and claims to want to sign a peace treaty if "T'Pel" negotiates it. Picard meets Mendak in the Neutral Zone and he agrees to bring T'Pel aboard his ship to begin the peace talks. T'Pel is seemingly [[FakingTheDead killed in a transporter accident]], but in reality, Mendak sends a second transporter signal and beamed Selok aboard his ship, leaving fake remains in her place. Data discovers that remains are fake and Picard confronts Mendak, resulting in Mendak revealing that T'Pel is Selok and Mendak summons several other Romulan ships to force the Enterprise to retreat. Selok and Mendak are among the [[KarmaHoudini few adversaries]] to hand Picard a defeat.

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* ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'': [[GeneralRipper General Chang]] is a Klingon traditionalist who opposes peace with the Federation. After the moon of Praxis explodes due to over mining and threatens the Klingon home world, Klingon Chancellor Gorkon begins peace talks with the Federation and Chang forms a conspiracy Star Fleet admiral Cartwright to scuttle the peace talks. Chang has developed a Klingon bird of prey that can fire while cloaked and after Gorkon meets Kirk on the ''Enterprise'' and returns to his ship, Chang has the bird of prey fire on Gorkon's ship, making it look like the ''Enterprise'' did it. This disables the ship's shields and gravity, allowing 2 Star Fleet officers loyal to Cartwright to come aboard and kill Gorkon. Kirk and Bones come aboard to help Gorkon, Chang has them arrested. Chang prosecutes them at their trial and when the judge sentences to life in the penal colony of Rura Penthe, instead of executing them, Chang arranges for agents in the prison to free Kirk, so the guards will kill in an escape attempt. After the ''Enterprise'' rescues Bones and Kirk, Chang uses his cloaked ship to guard the site of the new peace talks, planet Khitomer. Chang plans to destroy the ''Enterprise'' when it gets in orbit, in order to allow the conspirators to assassinate the President of the Federation, scuttling the peace talks for good.