20 Most Messed Up Deaths From The Star Trek Movies

15. And All Of Vulcan, Too

Only by absence of the USS Kelvin is it called the 'Kelvin Timeline'. In Star Trek (2009), Captain Richard Robau was brutally murdered by the vengeful Nero. First Officer George Kirk (father of) then sacrificed himself on a collision course. Absence on a much larger scale would also come to distinguish Kelvin from Prime. Absence of one was just as painful for Spock.

After a bit of a break — on Rura Penthe, if you watch the deleted scenes — Nero made his way to Vulcan to do a spot of mining, right down to the planet's core. Red was the matter of the black hole McGuffin, but not before Chief Engineer Olson was red-shirted off the side of the drilling platform.

Spurious science aside, a singularity at its centre meant Vulcan was singularly screwed. In fact, the entire planet and its six billion inhabitants had only a matter of minutes. Spock's bid to save the Vulcan High Council, and his parents, in the interim, was not entirely in vain, but for a few falling rocks. A couple of council members were crushed beneath once tall statues. Amanda Grayson then plummeted to her death mid-beam-out as her son watched helplessly on.

With only around 10,000 left of the six billion, Kelvin Spock was, in his words, "now a member of an endangered species".