Which faction you expect to be antagonist in some next Star Trek story?

Settle down Satan!

GHAAAAAAAARNNNN!

a goon!

You should check out SFA!

The Gorn in Strange New Worlds are very far from the Gorn in TOS. The animalistic violence and body horror make for a really interesting enemy and there is a great deal of psychology to the conflict too. People are scarred by past experiences… they live through some really horrific terror. This is a long way from fisticuffs with a dude in a rubber mask.

I’m not sure if you consider them just recycled nostalgia bait. But I’d say if something gets sufficiently re-imagined it is still “something new” even if one can argue it isn’t “original.”

Kirsten Beyer’s had a very creepy and innovative follow up to the Schisms aliens in her Treklit Voyager Full Circle sequence of novels.

Discovery borrowed one of her plots for the 4th season. I wouldn’t mind if they adapted some of their alien concepts for SFA.

Was it in the S1 finale of Discovery we saw some "Conspiracy" crawlies sizzling on a flat-top grill at the Qo'nos marketplace? No wonder they were pissed off a 100+ years later.

Ship the size of a continent slips out of the skein alongside a Federation starship and immediately runs a scan that siphons up all the art and science records onboard.

"Science officer, wtf?"

"Hey there! We are The Culture! We've been partying for the last few hundred cycles, and this month has been particularly wild. Everybody thinks y'all seem cool. Wanna get fucked up, go lava surfing, and chat about life? Just park that thing anywhere."

I'd love to watch that one.

This is interesting, even without the benevolent AI, though that could be interesting as well. But what happens when The Federation runs into essentially another Federation? Do they combine and double their knowledge and territory or do they clash over differing ideals? There's no way humans were the first species to say "hey, let's work together," but if they ran into, say, space capitalists, we could wind up being the USSR of a new galactic Cold War.

And how can be that new antagonist?

I have this in mind, That's why I ask about the Breen in other post, but to be honest, I think when more you know about the Breen, more lame it becomes and works more in a mysterious way than a strong antagonic faction.

yeah, and make them binary gendered, last time we had a ternary gendered alien, we were sad.

For adventure purposes, yes, all story need it. The other is, be trapped in another anomaly, but most of the time there is evil people doing bad stuff like controlling bodies, so yes.