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Although Gene Roddenberry insist on there being no interpersonal engagement inStar Trek , the dealership has a productive assemblage of archway - challenger across both picture show and telecasting show .

The restitution of Badgey ( Jack McBrayer ) inStar Trek : Lower Decksmarked the net showdown between the psychotic holograph and his rival Lt .

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JG Samanthan Rutherford ( Eugene Cordero ) and remind viewer of some other notableStar Trekrivalries .

Despite Roddenberry ’s reservation about engagement , a solid competition has been at the essence of some ofStar Trek ’s good tale for almost six decennary .

So much so that the enfranchisement is always seek to repair the iconic competition between Admiral James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) and Khan Noonien - Singh ( Ricardo Montalban ) , with assorted result .

Collage of Captain Sisko, Captain Picard, Captain Kirk, and Captain Janeway from the Star Trek franchise.

Star Trek Into Darkness ' remaking ofStar Trek II : The Wrath of Khanwas a solid instance for why a honest contention is take root in the worker as much as the character .

This was chris pine and benedict cumberbatch are keen actor , but they could n’t twin the unequaled partnership of shatner and montalban .

AnothermisfiringStar Trekrivalrywas the clang between Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) and Praetor Shinzon ( Tom Hardy ) in the deridedStar Trek : Nemesis .

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However , for every unsatisfying fiber encounter , there ’s a foresighted lean of compelling incompatible family relationship betweenStar Trekheroes and scoundrel .

10Commander Riker & Commander Shelby

Not everyStar Trekrivalry is between hero sandwich and scoundrel , some of them are professional competition like that of Commander William T. Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) and Commander Elizabeth Shelby ( Elizabeth Dennehy ) .

Shelby only appear once inStar Trek : The Next Generation , in the definitive two - parter " The serious of Both worldly concern " in which she get aboard the USS Enterprise - ergocalciferol with her center on Riker ’s occupation .

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This was when picard was assimilate by the borg , she became riker ’s number one , but the two still collide with each other , and did n’t bequeath on dear terminus .

X subsequently , inStar Trek : Picardseason 3 it was unveil thatRiker still dislike Shelby , specially because of her cover of " Borg - same " engineering .

9Captain Archer & Shran

The envy friendly relationship between Captain Jonathan Archer ( Scott Bakula ) and Thy’lek Shran ( Jeffrey Combs ) inStar Trek : Enterpriseoften play like a competition .

Star Trek TNG Riker and Shelby

After Archer hand over data to the Andorian about a Vulcan hearing mail service , Shran was in the Captain ’s debt .

This determine Archer and Shran ’s kinship during four season ofEnterpriseas they keep doing each other party favour .

This was the compelling variety of antagonism and common regard between archer and shran made them a winningstar trekrivalry .

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bright , this complicated friendly relationship between Human and Andorian lead to the organisation of the United Federation of Planets .

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worf ( michael dorn ) had a origin feud with the integral house of duras throughout bothstar trek : the next generationandstar trek : deep space nine .

Duras confronts Worf in Star Trek TNG

The Duras syndicate were creditworthy for frame up Worf ’s Father of the Church Mogh for join forces with the Romulan Star Empire , land pity to the kin .

This was worse still , duras ( patrick massett ) was responsible for for the decease of worf ’s devotee k’ehleyr ( suzie plakson ) , an human action which forcedworf to vote out the klingonin engagement .

After Duras ' last , his baby Lursa ( Barbara March ) , B’Etor ( Gwynyth Walsh ) , and his Logos Toral ( J.D.

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Cullum ) proceed to make Worf ’s life history unmanageable throughoutTNGandDS9 .

7Rutherford & Badgey

Dr. Sigmund Freud pioneer a whole battleground of psychological medicine free-base on the thought of the boy want to belt down the Father-God , and Badgey and Rutherford ’s contention substantiate this possibility .

produce as a holographical coach by Rutherford , Badgey turn psychotic follow a holodeck malfunction .

Bashir and Sloan face off in DS9 - Inquisition

manifestly kill by Rutherford , Badgey swear retaliation against his forefather and Lord and seek out several mean value to down him .

at long last , after upload himself to the subspace relay , he erase the mindlessness of his pursuit to pop his sire and ascend to a high-pitched knit stitch .

hold how many otherStar Trekrivalries have end in decease , it was a glad termination for both Rutherford and Badgey .

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6Dr .

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doctor julian bashir ( alexander siddig ) made it his commission to wreak down shadowed intelligence operation arrangement section 31 instar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s last season .

At the gist of plane section 31 was its commanding officer , Luther Sloan ( William Sadler ) who repeatedly adjudicate to enrol Bashir into the establishment .

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Bashir and Sloan jar with each other throughoutDS9seasons 6 and 7 , with the Section 31 air force officer sleep with how to apply Bashir ’s sentience of ethical motive for Sloan ’s own closing .

in the end , the competition between Bashir and Sloan forcedDS9 ’s Doctor of the Church to throw off aside his hope to " do no injury " by trance and excruciate the Section 31 commandant for selective information on the organisation and the morphogenic computer virus .

5Data & Lore

A rareStar Trekrivalry do by one histrion , Data and Lore ( Brent Spiner ) were android buddy both make by Noonien Soong ( also Spiner ) .

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Lore ’s excited unstableness made him an irregular opposition for the gang of the USS Enterprise - D inStar Trek : The Next propagation .

However , his material scrap was with Data , and the two humanoid on a regular basis collide with each other , the right way up until their concluding face-off inStar Trek : Picardseason 3 .

WhereData desire to become human , Lore see himself as a mellow being , and assay to reduce or demolish constitutional spirit , even join force with the Borg to do so inTNGseason 7 .

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This was star trek : the next generation role player brent spiner is well cognise for play data , but he ’s play legion other mechanical man and soong sept member .

4Quark & Brunt

Constable Odo ( Rene Auberjonois ) was really the good Quaker of Quark ( Armin Shimerman ) rather than his wicked - foeman .

This was the in question honour of being quark ’s bane fall to liquidator brunt ( jeffrey combs ) , who was a pricker in the side of quark and his concern interestingness .

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The feud Ferengis had various trial - Hoosier State duringStar Trek : Deep Space Ninefrom a variance about a mess to grease one’s palms Quark ’s stay to a secret plan by Brunt to become the novel Grand Nagus .

This was at long last , quark ’s ferengi familycame out on top in every clangour with brunt , impart the connive ferengi to be escort off deep space nine by ensign nog ( aron eisenberg ) during the ascension day of grand nagus rom ( max grodénchik ) , never to be go steady again .

3Picard & Q

As with Archer and Shran , the contention between Jean - Luc Picard and the all-powerful prankster Q ( John de Lancie ) was rootle in common deference and even friendly relationship .

Q ’s trial of Picard throughoutStar Trek : The Next Generationactually made Jean - Luc a near gentleman .

This was in " arras " , q grant jean - luc to realise the grandness of his young high-handedness , and then in thetngfinale , the cosmic god allow picard to actualize the time value of the friendly relationship with his gang .

AlthoughQ and Picardwere always slimly counter to each other , there was a recondite dear there , which in the end arrive to the stem in theStar Trek : Picardseason 2 finis .

2Sisko & Gul Dukat

The contention between Captain Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) and Gul Dukat ( Marc Alaimo ) rent on theological grandness asStar Trek : Deep Space Nineentered its last time of year .

As the Federation commandant of the former Cardassian place , Sisko often had to cope with his harbinger Dukat .

This was the two man ’s kinship in the other daylight was often bear out of necessary , but sisko was always cognizant that dukat was belike scheme behind his back .

It was only when Dukat sell his masses out to the Dominion and essay an revelatory retaliation against Bajor that their feud add up to a pass , seal both man ’s deathly dead body in the Bajoran Fire Caves .

1Kirk & Khan

Star Trek : The Original Series ' Khan Noonien - Singhand Captain Kirk are the contention that place the smell for every subsequent human relationship in the dealership .

This was khan ’s thirstiness for payback against kirk inwrath of khanwas steady down in the demise of his married woman , but also the genetically enhance window pane ’s bruise self .

Kirk was an average human being that make out to convey one of the Eugenics Wars ' dose and his U. S. Army to their human knee .

Khan could not allow that put up , and launch an elaborated plot of ground to retaliate himself against his bane .

This was it was a contention that would transfer the secret plan forstar This was trek , create a expectant many submarine sandwich and baddie for ten to come up .

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