On Friday, news broke that Oscar-winning actress Louise Fletcher had passed on at the age of 88. However most will probably recollect Fletcher for her award-prevailing upon turn as Medical caretaker Ratched in One Fled’s Home, Star Trip fans will know her as quite possibly of the greatest villain the franchise has at any point seen. Fletcher played Winn Adami, an ambitious Bajoran strict leader, in 14 episodes of Star Trip: Profound Space Nine. Her cleverness and political maneuvering put her aside from Star Trip’s all the more strikingly aggressive villains. While Star Journey has had its share of icily manipulative political antagonists, Profound Space Nine’s novel construction – – staying in one place and recounting somewhat more serialized stories – – allowed the series to profoundly foster Winn more.

Winn’s reactionary legislative issues couldn’t be more at chances with Star Journey’s vision representing things to come. From her presentation in “In the Hands of the Prophets,” where we consider her leveraging her situation to be a strict leader to plant dissension in Profound Space Nine by meddling in its school, demanding the teaching of Bajoran strict convictions. By the show’s subsequent season, she’s allied herself with a radical development trying to oust all non-Bajorans from the framework.

However, Fletcher and the show’s authors carried profundity to Winn. She may have been ambitious, yet her strict convictions were real. Her perspectives may have been hardline, however they were earnestly felt. Ultimately, in a tragic and fitting completion, her quest for power closes with her assisting in the release of the Pah-wraiths, the feared foes of the Prophets that she’d went through her time on earth revering, cooperating with a hated foe of Bajor, another great Star Journey villain, Dukat (played by Mark Alaimo). All through her appearances, Fletcher balanced Winn’s chilly, calculating nature with her pleased and presentable demeanor such that made her exactly the sort of villain that watchers hated however of whom they couldn’t get enough.

“She wanted power and she was ambitious,” Fletcher recalled of the character while speaking to StarTrek.com in 2012. “She was somewhat of a Margaret Thatcher in space, or, as I used to say, I was the Pope in space. Individuals would agree, ‘Goodness, you’re doing Star Journey. Who are you playing?’ I’d say, ‘Think the Pope in space, with the exception of she resembles an ancient Pope, from the past times when Popes were merciless and strong and applied their powers and battled wars and did all sorts of naughty things.'”

In that same meeting, Fletcher communicated how grateful she was for her time in the Star Journey universe. She said that “DS9 was one of the most mind-blowing recollections of my functioning life, of my day-to-day working life.”

“It resembled playing an orchestra for the 99th time,” she proceeded. “I actually get fan mail. Individuals are as yet intrigued. They actually want your autograph. Or on the other hand they’ll send those [trading] cards and ask you to sign them and send them back. I would agree that that my mail is 40% Cuckoo’s Home, 40% Star Journey, and 20 percent other shows and motion pictures. And that’s great. I’m glad I featured Trip. I’m so glad I’m part of that entire happening.”

While talking about the great Star Trip villains, attention frequently properly goes to Ricardo Montalban as Khan Noonien Singh or to the Borg. Fletcher’s Kai Winn merits the same attention and praise.