The four Star Trek: The Next Generation films gave us memorable villains who challenged Captain Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise in dramatically different ways. From grief-stricken scientists to assimilating cyborgs, these antagonists ranged from menacing masterpieces to disappointing duds. Let's rank them from first to worst.
1. The Borg Queen - Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Alice Krige's Borg Queen is the best villain in all of TNG movies and one of the best villains in all of Star Trek. What makes her so special is that she changed the Borg from a faceless group into something much scarier: a hive mind with a seductive personality and evil plans.
The Borg Queen added seduction, manipulation, and a personal vendetta to what was once an emotionless threat. As she tries to get Data to join her side, she uses Picard's trauma from his assimilation to her advantage in her scenes with both. Krige's performance is sinewy, commanding, and truly creepy.
She makes the audience understand why "resistance is futile." First Contact is a great action-thriller and a great psychological horror movie. The Borg Queen is what makes both of these things work. She is Picard's worst nightmare come to life, and her plan to corrupt the past in order to take over Earth raises the stakes to franchise-defining levels.