Best and worst of Star Trek

all according to the San Fransisco Chronicle!

Best "Trek" movie villain

Khan (Ricardo Montalban, "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan")
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Best smackdown: "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" with Leon...Best villain: Ricardo Montalban's Khan.

Best "Trek" movie villain? How about the best movie villain ever? Khan was strong, sexy and sympathetic, but when it came time to shove a giant mutant space maggot into Chekov's ear, he was ready to throw down. Give him credit for keeping his crew alive - and their hair looking fantastic - for years on an abandoned planet that appeared to have nothing but sand as a resource. In an industry filled with synthetic bad guys, Khan was a rich Corinthian villain.

Honorable mention: General Chang (Christopher Plummer, "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country")
Worst "Trek" movie villain

Ad'har Ru'afo (F. Murray Abraham, "Star Trek IX: Insurrection")

Abraham is a fine villain for a Mozart biopic, but he's just not cut out for world domination. If the choice of the spindly Abraham as the film's main bad guy wasn't enough, the screenwriters gave his character a plastic surgery addiction that made him seem more pitiful than fearsome.

Honorable mention: Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill, "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier")
Most random "Trek" cameo

Christian Slater ("Star Trek VI")

Slater is a big "Star Trek" fan, and his mother was in charge of casting for the movie. So he shows up - for about six seconds - as the spaceship Excelsior night duty officer. His mission: to wake up Capt. Sulu. They don't have alarm clocks in the 23rd century?

Honorable mention: Kirstie Alley ("Star Trek II"); Kim Cattrall ("Star Trek VI")
Best "Trek" smackdown

Spock ("Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home")

"Star Trek IV" was a little too whale-heavy for some hard-core Trek fans, but we thought the Leonard Nimoy-directed movie was a lot of fun - especially the time travel plot that brought the crew to modern-day San Francisco. The most cathartic moment was on a Muni bus crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, where Nimoy's Spock puts a Vulcan sleeper hold on a punk playing his music too loud. The ovation from his fellow passengers said it all.

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