20 Most Messed Up Deaths From The Star Trek Movies

12. Stone-Faced Politicians

Well, that intro was all very dramatic, wasn't it? Shall we calm down and vote on those trade negotiations with Celes II? Senator Tal'aura can't stay, however. She has a "meeting with the Tholian ambassador". Perfectly normal quick exit, never to be mentioned again. Exit also the galaxy's worst Penn & Teller tribute act.

If only politics were that simple! The Romulan version makes the Federation look like a high school debating society. Tal'aura had also left a little trinket behind. The revenge of Remus, of Shinzon, or the echo over the voice, began by military putsch in the gruesome assassination of the Senate. A little thalaron radiation goes a long, long way.

That's Roman mythology, but it's all Greek to me. The mechanics of consumption of organic material at the subatomic level were about as comprehensible as they needed to be. The result of staring at the technological Gorgon on the table was still being turned to stone. Petrification was truly petrifying, as the Romulan senators took their last gasps in a shower of eerily beautiful green. Shinzon, the floor is yours, though you might want a dustpan and brush.