Star Trek: 10 Characters Who Got Away With Murder

10. Garak And Accessory

One of the highest-regarded episodes in all of Star Trek sets up its main character as an accessory to murder or, rather, to an assassination. That's not a criticism: it is murder and morality that makes In the Pale Moonlight one of the best. We all knew Garak would be involved — just another 26-hour day in and out of the tailor's shop for him — but the Captain? That came as more of a shock. In doing whatever it took to get the Romulans into the war, Sisko surprised himself.

Neither Garak nor Sisko were ever going to face any (legal) repercussions for their actions. Part of their plan, at least, was already Starfleet-approved, and if the Romulans had ever found out, the consequences would have been galactically catastrophic. Think: the entire Romulan senate shouting 'It's a faaake!' in unison.

From the start, that road to hell Joseph Sisko liked to remind his son about was paved with latinum bribes, right next to a river of biomimetic gel. Only at the end did Vreenak meet the murderous magician. Pay no attention to that Cardassian behind the curtain! To move metaphors, and movies, if you're going to dance with the devil in the pale moonlight, you probably shouldn't worry about scuffing your shoes. For the magician's assistant, the most damning thing, as Sisko himself stated, is not that he was party to murder and got away with it, but that he'd do it all again. Learning to live with that fact was the price he'd have to pay for the security of the Alpha Quadrant. As for Garak, well, if he only had a heart… 

The real victim in all this? Quark's shirt.

Computer… Erase that entire entry.