A tall ship and a star to steer her by (starwreck) wrote in valarnet,
Not as bad as you expected. He belonged to a species of reality warpers that had once visited Earth and were responsible for many of the myths and legends across the world. They left after the Salem Witch burnings.
But Lucifer missed humans. Apparently we were fun.
His people were upset with him for luring the Enterprise there because they were afraid of humans. They were going to banish him to Limbo, which would have killed him. They were ironically acting like the humans they so feared from so long ago.
So I defended him. As my friend told me, that was the second time that Lucifer was cast out. And the first time he was saved.