I just saw Star Trek Enterprise Season 4 Episode 18: ‘In A Mirror Darkly’ and I noticed that someone that looks vaguely like Karl Marx leads the mob to raid the Vulcan ship.
Also on another note … what the hell kind of fever dream did the writers drift into with this side story that lasted a few episodes? They just come out of left field for no apparent reason.
We definitely align on favorite ENT characters. As for Weyoun, like with Kai Winn, hating them meant they did their job well.
I like segments of DISCO, like how season 2 was just an elongated backdoor pilot for SNW. That last season though… yeesh.
That was the thing about DS9 … the acting and writing was so good.
Even the villains like Weyoun and Kai Winn are great and memorable because you dislike them so much … even characters like Dukat … or questionable allegiances like Quark or Garak
The main DS9 cast was made greater because the villians were so good … when you think of it, it’s what made Batman so good because the villains were so memorable … Batman is nothing without the Joker … Superman is nothing without Lex Luther … or with the X-men series of having Professor X and Magneto.
That was the problem with ENT, it was too moralistic against faceless enemies … there was never a real story as to why they had enemies … bad guys were just there and played no real memorable role in anything. It was like watching Batman fighting random thugs and there is never any Joker.
VOY had a similar problem. Tried the Kazon, the Vidiians, the Hirogen, a few one-offs, and then back to the Borg once the Queen concept had been established. The main goal of reaching home over such a distance left them leaving behind any credible ongoing threats. Why else create the transwarp network if only to allow the Borg to become a consistent nuisance?