20 Most Messed Up Deaths From The Star Trek Movies

10. Fake Bullets, Real Impact

"This was Ensign Lynch," pronounced Captain Picard, coldly, in Star Trek: First Contact. Emphasis on the 'was,' twice over, Lynch was the undead of the Borg before he was dead in Dixon Hill. Though understandable, depersonalisation was the easy option for Picard. He'd returned from the depths of assimilation with the help of his crew. The lower decks weren't worthy of the same efforts, now? "Tough luck, huh?"

Picard had noted earlier in the armoury that firing on assimilated Enterprise crewmembers would be "doing them a favour". He took his own advice to the holographic nth degree, creating a Tommy gun trap for Lynch and another Borg drone, safeties off, of course. He all but emptied the magazine on his former ensign.

Captain Ahab would have piled it on further with the butt of the gun, were it not for Lily in Satin's "I think you got him". Picard still went hunting in guts for that neuroprocessor. In his own trauma, the captain had become all too comfortable with mercy, and merciless, killings. That famous 'line' needed to be drawn much closer.