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.
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?