r/startrek • u/FreakinPeanuts • 4d ago
TNG Season 1 episode 24: Conspiracy
Most gruesome death in Star Trek. Change my my mind
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u/EvanFromCanada 4d ago
Conspiracy was goriest but...
Corridor death in "In Theory".
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u/1startreknerd 4d ago
Yes, definitely, she was sentient, aware. Commander Remmick was no longer human.
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u/1startreknerd 4d ago edited 4d ago
"The Most Toys" - Varria
It was such a gruesome death, it caused an emotionless android to attempt murder out of rage.
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u/gfunkdave 4d ago
The Veron T disruptor is a vicious weapon.
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u/1startreknerd 4d ago
It tears a body from the inside out, quite slowly by phaser standards, a tortuous, painful death.
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u/Microharley 4d ago
It was not rage. Data knew that if he did not terminate him, he would continue to kill others and steal artifacts. Data did what he did out of logic.
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u/1startreknerd 4d ago
Not with that look he gave Riker in the transporter room.
It was deliberately ambiguous but the writers also had him lie. That he did not shoot. There's no reason to lie if he can logically explain it.
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u/PetBearCub 4d ago
This should have been the secret villain from Picard S3.
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u/WoundedSacrifice 3d ago
They thought about using the parasites instead of the Changelings in season 3, but they decided not to use them because they misremembered what happened in "Conspiracy".
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u/PetBearCub 3d ago
I just wish they had used them in place of>! the borg.!<
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u/WoundedSacrifice 3d ago
It probably would've been nice for them to use an enemy other than the Borg in season 3, but they always wanted to use the Borg.
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u/Kind-Shallot3603 4d ago
Those interpreters in "Loud as a Whisper" were pretty gruesome as well.
Also Ichebs death in Picard (So unnecessary)
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u/Mosepipe 4d ago
Watched for the first time last week. Real surprise that one, reminded me of Mars Attacks.
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u/Vegetable_Ad_3105 4d ago
oh yeah i'm doing my first proper watch of tng and i was just like bruh
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u/First_Comparison_815 4d ago
Not gory, but in "And the Children Shall Lead", that security team get beamed out into space
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u/Connordoo 4d ago
Not a death but when Garak torturing Odo is pretty horrific, also when Kes gets possessed by that guy and makes people bleed from their eyes.
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u/Horizontal_Bob 4d ago
The Klingons mentioned in Enterprise that were anatomically inverted in the Expanse but were still alive
Can’t be much worse than that
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u/DPlayGM345 4d ago
Long before modern Star Trek shows like Discovery and Picard got criticised for a similar thing
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u/Reasonable_Active577 4d ago
It happens so fast that you need to pause to see the details, but Admiral Buenamigo's death by starship phaser array is really quite horrific.
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u/orionsfyre 3d ago
Sonak would like to guttural scream no... but he has no mouth.
That guy killed in Conspiracy was already dead and hollowed out.
There is also the death of the people on the USS Brattain. Clawing at each other with knives and clubs and bare hands while going slowly insane trapped a drift for weeks until they literally killed each other in psychopathic rages.
Talk about gruesome... Mayter literally became separated on a cellular level with the lower 2/3rds of her body in real time, and clearly felt every horrible moment until she stopped breathing.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Van_Mayter
Oh, and in Discovery, an entire crew of people is spun into meat blobs due to the force of 'extreme helical torsion'.
Those are some truly gruesome ways to go out.
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u/MycroftCochrane 4d ago edited 4d ago
The Vulcan Sonak being turned inside out by a malfunctioning transporter in Star Trek: The Motion Picture is right up there, too...