>>713624041
>Vulcans are animals who send their children into the wasteland to become adults and need to kill (or have sex) every few years not to die
>Romulans were Vulcans who were genocided (displaced) and they're not very nice people
>>>Klingons
>the Q
>the Borg
>Cardassians have a game show where everyone's guilty
>of the two positronic androids in existence, synthetic life, one of them is a psychotic monster
>ferengi are legally distinct from slavers
>multiple genocidal races that only show up for the sake of the plot (Data had to evacuate a human colony all by himself once)
>the Orion syndicate
Captain Kirk met literal gods who used him as a plaything and only at the end of the episode would they say "It was all a test! You passed!" or he would only escape because he destroyed the source of their power. I'll let you figure out which is a scarier in your opinion.

I am less familiar with Star Wars but you pick 2 from this list when visiting any planet:
>evil magicians/witches/wizards/sorcerers
>monsters
>tribals who can go toe-to-toe with modern armies
>pirates/Hutts/smugglers/bounty hunters/scum/villainy
>bigger monsters
>galaxy ending robots
>galaxy ending plague
>galaxy ending species
>a cosmopolitan menagerie of every "civilised" species in the galaxy, perpetually pissed off, underpaid and eyeing your wallet, and half of them are wanted men with the death penalty on five systems