What should the next great villain be ?

[Infinite-Possibilities]

I could get into an evil AI, but not one related to replicators. Preferably one that was a singular entity.

[GhostPoet]

I could get into an evil AI, but not one related to replicators. Preferably one that was a singular entity.

hmm..I suppose it would depend on how that was done. Have to be careful to not get too Borg-like.

[Browncoat1984]

hmm..I suppose it would depend on how that was done. Have to be careful to not get too Borg-like.

I was actually thinking more V'Ger than The Borg.

[Infinite-Possibilities]

I was sorta thinking more like something of SHODAN or CABAL. Perhaps a little bit of Any animated Brainiacthrown in.

[TheHumanElement]

How bout some killer tomatoes ?

Actually that might not be such a bad idea. Maybe a race of plant like humanoids which are able to move. Who knows, maybe their entire technology is based on plant life.

perhaps a race that are very old and have and use high tech, but they have forgotten how it works or how to fix it, and it's slowly degrading and falling apart.

or a race with a hive mind like the borg, but completely biological, or perhaps an insectoid race with non sentient workers and warriors but with one sentient queen who controls the workers telepathicaly

Like the Talons from Earth Final: Conflict, another great idea, but don't use bugs. Can't stand bugs. I don't want to see them on screen.

enemy who won't be destroyed by another alteran superweapon of doom

It would be nice if they returned to that story. Maybe explained what exactly the weapons did. Perhaps even go as far as to say that there are dire consequences resulting from the use of that weapon. Maybe some other power in the universe (doesn't have to be ascended beings) noticed the use of the weapon and now this power (like the giests) have begun to move in to fill the vacuum the Ori left behind.

If there were other ascended powers in the universe (not Ancient) it would explain why the ancients can't intervene of affairs in the mortal plane. Maybe there is some type of treaty or non-aggression pact in place among them and intervention would unleash a war among ascended being on a scale far more destructive then the war between the Ori and the Milky Way. Think Doctor Who time war type war where the mortal world is collateral damage. The Ori weren't on the same level as the ancients so they were able to get away with their mortal world activities.

Another idea for a villain, what if the villain was the SGC, from a parallel universe where that evil organization succeeded in taking over the planet earth with their advanced tech. But because of their irresponsibility somehow they end up destroying their universe and so this anti-SGC is forced to travel to another parallel universe. A large number of the evil SGC arrive in the universe with the good SGC. Now the evil SGC is in the good SGC galaxy in force using their advanced tech to try to take over this galaxy with the ultimate goal of taking over earth. Maybe their forming an evil federation? Think Star Trek Mirror universe. This concept might even create a chance to reuse old SGC heroes as villians in Universe, like they did in Star Trek.

[Commander Zelix]

What about a couple of races with the same level of technology who fight with each other?

That's what I wish for too. I wish the arrive in a galaxy that have already its conflicts and political situations. A situation where we dont' know which aliens races is good or evil, but which hates each other deeply because of their long conflictual history. The destiny crew is stuck between a rock and a hard place trying to manage their relations between the warring parties and other species around them.

Related or not to that idea. I wish they make their villain not one-dimentional. They should be aliens people with aspirations and hopes for themselves their races and their family (and children). But which have been endured by longs centuries of war and conflicts, where the only way out seems to the total domination of their enemies and environments. Which make them turn to do some bad immoral things, which must be stopped by our crew.

I wish they are no real big player which are straight up good guys (besides some minor aliens on some planets), beside our Destiny crew. Every aliens in this galaxy should be in some gray area in that department.

[Platschu]

It doesn't matter how will be the next the enemy, but I hope we will have more information about them. I always liked such alien races, when we could see the buildings, the different classes, units and ships and we could understand their history, religion and other social skills. I would like to see some named heroes with back story. For example: Zerg and Protoss are so detailed in StarCraft that if only a single member appears, than we know what is it and where he belongs. I like that they began to bring the Wraith in this way in SG, but the best written were the Ori. We knew enough about theirs servants, theirs plans, theirs society, theirs skills. So I am sure I will remember them for years.

[Ltcolshepjumper]

Apes, perhaps? Highly intelligent, sophisticated apes with a nihilistic view of the universe?

Seriously though, any race with a civilization as complex as our own.

[Shpinxinator]

I would like to see something metaphysical or paranormal...something on a higher plain of existence than the Ascended Ancients....something not even on their scale of ascension but much much higher...something so vast its unknowable something which can only been seen in it's effects on the universe something like Cthulhu (not Cthulhu himself). Something that is pure evil...not power hungry...not needing to feed to survive...but something that devours everything because it wants to

[Ltcolshepjumper]

What would an ascended nihilist look like? Taking a concept from Star Wars, a being whose belief in complete nothingness and death causes everything around it to literally die. Almost the opposite of an ascended being. pure evil/darkness/death, etc. absent of every remotely good quality.

[Ripple in Space]

Parasites? Nope...
Vampires? Nope...
Evil Cousins of the Ancients? Nope...
Evil Cousins of the Asgard? Nope...
Replicators that have Ancient Tech? Nope...
Replicators that have Asgard Tech? Nope...

[Ltcolshepjumper]

Parasites? Nope...
Vampires? Nope...
Evil Cousins of the Ancients? Nope...
Evil Cousins of the Asgard? Nope...
Replicators that have Ancient Tech? Nope...
Replicators that have Asgard Tech? Nope...

humans? Nope...
Ascended Beings? Nope...
Furlings? Nope...
Nox? Nope...
Foothold Aliens? Nope...
Grace Aliens? Nope...
Any one of insignificant SG-1 aliens? Nope...
Any one of insignificant SGA aliens? Nope...

[ShadowMaat]

I'm still in love with the Hunters of the Dawn from the various trilogies by Ian Douglas... which is basically a version of the "destroyer of worlds" concept that's already been suggested. These guys take the Survival of the Fittest theme to extremes, hunting down and eliminating all traces of ANY sufficiently advanced race (space-faring, I think, or possibly just technology in general) under the principle that anything that isn't of the Hunters is an offence unto Nuggan WRONG and must be wiped from the universe to assure the Hunters' position as the supreme and ONLY race in existence. They do fun things like blow up stars and use micro black holes as weapons. There is no possibility of communication or negotiation with them because they are too busy trying to kill you and/or your home system to bother and quite frankly think you are too far beneath them to be worthy of their parlay. All non-Hunter life is nothing but an infestation. Like bugs. Or germs. And they have a giant can of Lysol.

I'd absolutely LOVE to see something like that on SGU, but I know it'll never happen. Audiences need not-very-alien aliens and they need to be able to identify with and understand the bad guy's motives because, apparently, we're not intelligent enough to grasp the concept of otherness.

[Ltcolshepjumper]

I'm still in love with the Hunters of the Dawn from the various trilogies by Ian Douglas... which is basically a version of the "destroyer of worlds" concept that's already been suggested. These guys take the Survival of the Fittest theme to extremes, hunting down and eliminating all traces of ANY sufficiently advanced race (space-faring, I think, or possibly just technology in general) under the principle that anything that isn't of the Hunters is an offence unto Nuggan WRONG and must be wiped from the universe to assure the Hunters' position as the supreme and ONLY race in existence. They do fun things like blow up stars and use micro black holes as weapons. There is no possibility of communication or negotiation with them because they are too busy trying to kill you and/or your home system to bother and quite frankly think you are too far beneath them to be worthy of their parlay. All non-Hunter life is nothing but an infestation. Like bugs. Or germs. And they have a giant can of Lysol.

I'd absolutely LOVE to see something like that on SGU, but I know it'll never happen. Audiences need not-very-alien aliens and they need to be able to identify with and understand the bad guy's motives because, apparently, we're not intelligent enough to grasp the concept of otherness.

I doubt there will be any one major enemy, but with SGU's projected formatr, I'm sure a race like that could pop up. Sounds interesting, taking the Wraith to a higher level (the whole technology-intolerance).

[Shpinxinator]

humans? Nope...
Ascended Beings? Nope...
Furlings? Nope...
Nox? Nope...
Foothold Aliens? Nope...
Grace Aliens? Nope...
Any one of insignificant SG-1 aliens? Nope...
Any one of insignificant SGA aliens? Nope...

Ticky? Nope
Shirty? Nope
Face? Nope
Acceptance of Substitutes? Nope