Louise Fletcher's performance as Kai Winn on DS9 created one of StarTrek's greatest villains.
On Friday, news broke that Oscar-winning actress Louise Fletcher had died at the age of 88. Though most will likely remember Fletcher for her award-winning turn as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Star Trek fans will know her as one of the greatest villains the franchise has ever seen. Fletcher played Winn Adami, an ambitious Bajoran religious leader, in 14 episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
But Fletcher and the show's writers brought depth to Winn. She may have been ambitious, but her religious beliefs were genuine. Her views may have been hardline, but they were earnestly felt. Ultimately, in a tragic and fitting ending, her pursuit of power ends with her assisting in the release of the Pah-wraiths, the feared enemies of the Prophets that she'd spent her life worshipping, working together with a hated enemy of Bajor, another great Star Trek villain, Dukat .
In that same interview, Fletcher expressed how grateful she was for her time in the Star Trek universe. She said that"DS9 was one of the best memories of my working life, of my day-to-day working life."
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