Worst Star Trek character ever

[Mary Ann]

I'm in the minority and like Pulaski but shudder at Beverly Crusher, even moreso than at her son. Pulaski was on board for only one season but her character developed as she learned more about Data and outgrew her prejudice against him. Beverly simply reminds me of fingernails on a chalkboard and is badly acted.

 

[erastus25]

Neelix, Troi, Chakotay for regulars.
Q in the bad episodes for semi-regulars. He's basically kazoo from the Flintstones.
Lazarus for one timers.

 

[kirsten187]

I'm not too keen on any of the characters from either Voyager or Enterprise, with the exception of Tuvok. I also don't particularly like Data.

 

[Capt_Pickirk]

Spock cause he's a sell out

Spock
(Sell out)

What is it with you thinking that Spock is a sell out??? This makes no sense

 

[Commodore_Rook]

TOS: Kevin Riley
TNG: Wesley/Yar/Barclay (3 way tie) (Thou Wesley got better while Beverly got worse)
DS9: Rom
VOY: Janeway/Neelix/Kez/Chakotay (4 way tie)
ENT: ALL!

 

[kirsten187]

How could I forget Riley? I will never be able to hear or see the name Kathleen again!

 

[Captain Mike]

Spock cause he's a sell out

Spock
(Sell out)

What is it with you thinking that Spock is a sell out??? This makes no sense

Careful, you are playing into the spamsters hand...

 

[Captain Mike]

TOS: Kevin Riley
TNG: Wesley/Yar/Barclay (3 way tie) (Thou Wesley got better while Beverly got worse)
DS9: Rom
VOY: Janeway/Neelix/Kez/Chakotay (4 way tie)
ENT: ALL!

What is wrong w/ Riley? He played a key pivotable role in "Conscience Of The King". I never saw him as a worst character.

 

[Capt_Pickirk]

Spock cause he's a sell out

Spock
(Sell out)

What is it with you thinking that Spock is a sell out??? This makes no sense

Careful, you are playing into the spamsters hand...

Good point.

 

[Utopianvista]

Spock cause he's a sell out

Spock
(Sell out)

What is it with you thinking that Spock is a sell out??? This makes no sense

He's probably talking about Nimoy. And yeah Nimoy kind of destroyed his legacy appearing in Abrams Trek.

Worst character by series

TOS: Rand
TNG: Crusher (BOTH!)
DS9: Ezri
VOY: All (except doctor)
ENT: All

I didn't think a captain could be worse than Janeway until Bakula came along. Yikes.

 

[Jonas Grumby]

Of the Treks I've seen, I don't recall being actually irritated by any of the characters. About the closest I could come would be finding myself bored to tears whenever I found myself watching any episode featuring Lwaxana Troi.

Oh, wait, I take it back! The early first season of TNG, easily excitable, hip-cat version of Geordi LaForge was pretty irritating!

 

[Commodore_Rook]

Of the Treks I've seen, I don't recall being actually irritated by any of the characters. About the closest I could come would be finding myself bored to tears whenever I found myself watching any episode featuring Lwaxana Troi.

Oh, wait, I take it back! The early first season of TNG, easily excitable, hip-cat version of Geordi LaForge was pretty irritating!

Yep agree with both as well!

 

[Captain Mike]

Of the Treks I've seen, I don't recall being actually irritated by any of the characters. About the closest I could come would be finding myself bored to tears whenever I found myself watching any episode featuring Lwaxana Troi.

Oh, wait, I take it back! The early first season of TNG, easily excitable, hip-cat version of Geordi LaForge was pretty irritating!

Yep agree with both as well!

As Lwaxana was written in that very first episode back then, those were the days of having to write a character "you just love to hate"....I despised Lwaxana until the later seasons but she grew on me as times changed.
As for Geordi, I wasn't sure about him until he assumed the Chief Engineer position and I liked him a helluva lot more than Travis...unlike Sulu, he didn't have that "likability" to him. Maybe Montgomery didn't try to advance his acting abilities and TRY to make the character his own?

 

[starfox]

As for Geordi, I wasn't sure about him until he assumed the Chief Engineer position and I liked him a helluva lot more than Travis...unlike Sulu, he didn't have that "likability" to him. Maybe Montgomery didn't try to advance his acting abilities and TRY to make the character his own?

Despite having seen all (or almost all) of Enterprise, I only remember one scene in which Travis spoke, and that was his intro scene with Reed in Broken Bow. It's weird, I really can't remember him in any other scene (aside from the time he was abducted by the mechanized space station and turned into a computer processing node).

Also, regarding my earlier post of the most annoying/boring crew, one can substitute Captain Archer as the most boring captain.

 

[Captain Mike]

As for Geordi, I wasn't sure about him until he assumed the Chief Engineer position and I liked him a helluva lot more than Travis...unlike Sulu, he didn't have that "likability" to him. Maybe Montgomery didn't try to advance his acting abilities and TRY to make the character his own?

Despite having seen all (or almost all) of Enterprise, I only remember one scene in which Travis spoke, and that was his intro scene with Reed in Broken Bow. It's weird, I really can't remember him in any other scene (aside from the time he was abducted by the mechanized space station and turned into a computer processing node).

Also, regarding my earlier post of the most annoying/boring crew, one can substitute Captain Archer as the most boring captain.

I think Scott did an excellent job during his tenure. He wasn't Kirk, AND definitely wasn't Picard. Definitely is above Sisko & Janeway! (although, I have loved most of everything they have been in.)...

 

[BlobVanDam]

T'Pol - poorly written and poorly acted

May I extend this to every single Vulcan on Enterprise for the same reason? I swear nobody ever bothered to tell the guest actors that Vulcans aren't supposed to show emotions, because every time I see them they seem to be yelling angrily at a human.

And in an episode I watched yesterday, Archer asked T'Pol to read something over for him and she said I'D BE HAPPY TO. HAPPY.

I think emotional Vulcans (mostly angry ones) is what put me off of the show.

I find it one of the most off-putting aspects of the show (and I actually like Enterprise). The emotion really ruined T'Pol (Why did she always look on the verge of tears?!)

On Voyager, Tim Russ was an amazing Vulcan, and when he slightly deviated from the Vulcan way even the tiniest bit, it was a huge thing. Seeing him do a half-assed leg dance for Neelix was an emotional moment of the series, and seeing him fumbling to improvise when Janeway put him on the spot was hilarious.

But T'Pol goes against the Vulcan ways so often that it doesn't have any impact when she lies, or improvises. In Acquisition she is stringing along a Ferengi with ease, then in another episode she's pretending to sentence an alien to death with no trouble. None of these have any impact when you don't establish these traits to be out of character.

 

[Captrek]

T'Pol - poorly written and poorly acted

May I extend this to every single Vulcan on Enterprise for the same reason? I swear nobody ever bothered to tell the guest actors that Vulcans aren't supposed to show emotions, because every time I see them they seem to be yelling angrily at a human.

And in an episode I watched yesterday, Archer asked T'Pol to read something over for him and she said I'D BE HAPPY TO. HAPPY.

FWIW, this is somewhat belatedly (and, IMO, poorly) explained away in Season 4, when lost writings of Surak are discovered and it is implied that this will have a profound impact on Vulcan culture, which is why 23rd- and 24th-century Vulcans behave very differently from 22nd-century Vulcans.

 

[sevenstars]

FWIW, this is somewhat belatedly (and, IMO, poorly) explained away in Season 4, when lost writings of Surak are discovered and it is implied that this will have a profound impact on Vulcan culture, which is why 23rd- and 24th-century Vulcans behave very differently from 22nd-century Vulcans.

Oh lord. I'm dying to see what they said.

 

[Gary7]

There's the "character" and then there's the "actor" who portrayed them. I thought Neelix was played well, but I found the writing for him to be a bit too... annoying. He should have been more of a background character.

For me, the runner up is Wesley. Yeah, the "boy wonder" idea was meant to attract the young boy audience, so I understand the need. But Wheaton played him too much like a dweeb. Wesley is another character who I thought would have worked better with less screen time. An occasional main character episode, like "The Game" is fine (pretty good episode), but that's about it. Having him on the bridge so often just didn't feel right. And I really didn't like most of Will Wheaton's performances.

 

[The Inquisitor]

When picking my most annoying character I imagined myself having to spend an evening in the pub with them.

Rom won out in the end but Janeway and Chakotay were up there (and I bloody love Voyager) simply for the fact they would bore you to death or end up lecturing you.

Theres no way I could spend an evening with any of them.

T'Pol may have been annoying but looks go a long way so an hour down the local would be bearable.