10 Most Gratifying Star Trek Deaths

10. Wesley Crusher

Early in the Enterprise-D’s mission, the omnipotent Q has made Commander Riker all-powerful like himself. Indignant, Riker refuses the supposed honor, so Q places the his crewmates in mortal danger on an alien world, and only Riker can save them.

As monstrous Napoleonic soldiers close in, Worf attacks and is cut down. Rushing to his aid, Wesley Crusher is stabbed through the chest. Both die. Riker is forced use Q’s power to undo things, including resurrecting Worf and Wesley.

So…yeah. Wesley dies but doesn’t stay dead. Welcome to sci-fi. We can still have a bit of ill-advised tittering glee at the thought of Wesley, that precocious, chirpy Mary Sue, being dropped like a bag of dirt, even if just momentarily.

And while the character wasn’t as bad as all that, really, there are still, decades later, more than a few in Trek fandom who wish that Q’s powers hadn’t included bring back the dead, even if it meant Worf got the short end of the stick too.