10 Most Messed Up Deaths In Star Trek: The Next Generation

10. Called Me Mother — Commander Remmick And Parasite

Guess who's back in the house, and with our (mostly) sincere apologies for bringing the bluegills/butt bugs back up again! It's not an 'obsession' — that's an episode of The Original Series we covered in the previous incarnation of this list. Plus, if you can stomach the body horror of it all, the final fate of Lieutenant Commander Dexter Remmick in Conspiracy was without a doubt one of the worst in Star Trek, although his fictional serial killer first-namesake would have probably just called that breakfast.

Just how long Remmick had been walking around with mother butt bug inside him was never made clear, but given the size of the thing, it's no wonder he needed a good sit-down near the end there! "You don't understand," Mother Remmick says to Picard and Riker. No, not completely, and I'd prefer we keep it that way! Well, much like a good meal at Starfleet Headquarters, it seems, we can't always get what we want.

Everyone ends up learning a lot more than they bargained for about Remmick's innards and butt bug biology when Riker and Picard aim both their phasers and fire. Their combined power causes the Lieutenant Commander's head to explode, followed unceremoniously by 'melting-chest effect,' exposing 'mother,' who emerges snarling like she's been disturbed mid-xenomorph reunion. Picard then gives a look of most mild disgust, as though someone had scuffed the bridge carpet rather than just eviscerated a fellow Starfleet officer. And, of course, the crew of the Horatio was still very dead!