9 Times Vulcans Were Villians...

UGHHHHH!!!... They ain't always the good guys!!!... ;) ...Vulcan villains in Star Trek often act out of a fanatical devotion to Vulcan logic or a struggle to suppress their emotions. The Vulcans in Star Trek: Enterprise had a darker side, exemplified by a Vulcan monastery spying on Andorians. Administrator V'Las of Vulcan High Command in Star Trek: Enterprise was willing to betray his own people and ally with Romulans to defeat the Andorians. The Vulcans have been a core part of the Federation from the very beginning, but they've not always been a positive influence as these Vulcan Star Trek villains demonstrate. The Vulcans were the first alien species created by Gene Roddenberry for Star Trek and were immortalized by Leonard Nimoy's Spock. There have been several notable Vulcans across the whole franchise, from Sub Commander T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) in Star Trek: Enterprise to Provisional Lieutenant T'Lyn (Gabrielle Ruiz) in Star Trek: Lower Decks. No matter how fraught relations were between T'Pol and Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula), she was always on the side of good. The same can't be said of Star Trek's evil Vulcans, who often act out of a fanatical devotion to Vulcan logic, or their own difficulties in suppressing their emotions. Although the Vulcans aren't as well known for their villainy as their Romulan cousins, there has been a considerable amount of Vulcan villains peppered throughout Star Trek history. 1.The Vulcan "Monks": The Andorians appear to be the main villains of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Andorian Incident", when they take a Vulcan monastery hostage. The Andorians believed - rightly - that P'Jem wasn't a Vulcan spiritual retreat and was, instead, a listening post for spying on their Andorian neighbors. By the end of the episode, Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) is briefly held at gunpoint by an initiate in a desperate attempt to prevent the information from leaking out. It was an early indicator that the Vulcans in Star Trek: Enterprise weren't as squeaky clean as their 23rd and 24th-century counterparts. 2. Tolaris: In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Fusion", Tolaris (Enrique Murciano) assaulted T'Pol when he continued an invasive mind meld without her consent. At this point in Star Trek history, mind-melding was taboo in Vulcan society, which meant that Tolaris had not been properly educated in the procedure. Tolaris' invasive psychological abuse of T'Pol led to him being forcibly ejected from the Enterprise NX-01 after he lost control of his emotions and violently attacked Captain Archer. T'Pol also contracted Pa'nar syndrome from this procedure, but due to the taboo around mind melds in Vulcan society, it took a long time for her condition to be cured. 3. V' Las: Administrator V'Las (Robert Foxworth) was the leader of Vulcan High Command in Star Trek: Enterprise so would have sanctioned the use of P'Jem as a listening post. V'Las' devious nature becomes more pronounced in the Enterprise season 4 two-parter "Awakening/Kir'Shara" when he allies with a Romulan infiltrator. V'Las and Talok (Todd Stashwick) were plotting a military alliance that would have enabled the invasion of Andoria. However, V'Las was willing to sell his own people down the river, agreeing to have Vulcan pass into the Romulan Star Empire's rule, just so he could defeat his old enemies, the Andorians. Thankfully, Archer, T'Pol, and a younger version of Star Trek: TOS' T'Pau (Kara Zediker). 4. The Vulcan Logic Extremists: They were a group of fanatics who believed in the "true" Vulcan ideology of logic above all else. In the Star Trek: Discovery episode "Lethe", V'Latak (Luke Humphrey) infiltrated the inner circle of Ambassador Sarek (James Frain). Piloting Sarek to crucial diplomatic talks during Discovery's Klingon War, V'Latak turned himself into a bomb with the intention of killing the Vulcan diplomat. Sarek was a frequent target of the extremists, because of his involvement with the Federation and his marriage to his human wife Amanda Grayson (Mia Kirshner). A crucial part of the backstory of Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) is the terrorist attack that nearly killed her as a child. In an earlier assassination attempt against Sarek, Logic Extremists bombed the Vulcan Education Center, intending to kill him and his wife Amanda. Sarek and Amanda survived the blast, but their adopted daughter Michael was clinically dead for three minutes. Sarek revived Michael with a Vulcan mind meld, transferring a portion of his katra and bonding the two for life. 5. Sybok: Spock's half-brother Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill) was introduced as the main antagonist in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Sybok rejected Vulcan logic in favor of embracing emotion like his ancestors which saw him incarcerated in the Ankeshtan K'Til rehabilitation center. Sybok later embraced spirituality and hijacked the USS Enterprise-A to pursue a vision he experienced of what he believed to be God himself. Although Sybok had taken criminal means to pursue his quest, he redeemed himself by sacrificing his life to defeat the malevolent entity masquerading as God, which helped the Enterprise to escape. 6. Lt. Valeris: Lt. Valeris (Kim Cattrall) betrayed her mentor Captain Spock by being complicit in the Khitomer Conspiracy to derail peace talks with the Klingon Empire and the Federation. Valeris supplied the Klingon conspirators with a personal log that implicated Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in the murder of Chancellor Gorkon (David Warner). Valeris also murdered her two Starfleet co-conspirators, Yeomen Burke and Samno to prevent them from sharing information about their role in actually assassinating Gorkon. Valeris believed that peace with the Klingons was illogical, which was why she joined the vast conspiracy to prevent those peace talks from taking place. 7. Tuvok: Although he was under the psychic influence of Teero Anaydis (Keith Szarabajka), Lt. Commander Tuvok (Tim Russ) was the villain of the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Repression". Having received a subliminal message from the villainous Bajoran unlocked the mental conditioning that Tuvok had received years earlier. Tuvok was effectively a Maquis sleeper agent, who had been reactivated and set about planting Teero's subconscious messages into Voyager's Maquis crew members. This led to a Maquis uprising aboard Voyager that was almost successful until Tuvok broke free from his conditioning and averted the mutiny. 8. Lt. Chu'lak: In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Field of Fire", Lt. Chu'lak (Marty Rackham) was a rare thing, a Vulcan serial killer. Chu'lak suffered a psychological breakdown following the destruction of the USS Grissom by the Jem'Hadar. The Vulcan officer lost control of his emotions and set about murdering members of the DS9 crew, targeting his victims with a TR-116 rifle equipped with a micro-transporter. Chu'lak selected his victims based on whether they had images of people showing emotion on display in their quarters, because "logic demanded it". Lt. Ezri Dax (Nicole de Boer) eventually brought Chu'lak to justice. 9. Krinn: Vulcan gangster Krinn (Kirk Acevedo) was kingpin of the V'Lashi crime syndicate in Star Trek: Picard season 3. Krinn used Vulcan logic in his criminal endeavors, brokering for a device that exploited the illogical flaws in the Daystrom Station's security systems. Krinn also believed it was logical, in a utopia like Star Trek's future, for there also to be crime, something which he excelled at. Captain Worf (Michael Dorn) and Commander Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd) exploited Krinn's logic by threatening his life in exchange for the device that was used to break into Daystrom. ~ From Screenrant.