10 Most Messed Up Deaths In Star Trek: TOS
10. A Pinch Of Salt - The Man Trap
0What better way to start off than a gnarly fate seen in "The Man Trap", the very first episode aired in Star Trek’s original run? Clearly, freakish fatalities were to be a mainstay on the show, and they had no issue raising the curtain with among the most grotesque.
The Original Series begins with the Enterprise visiting the planet M-113 to deliver supplies, conduct routine medical exams… the usual. What’s also established as “usual” however, is the doomed fate of whichever poor schmuck happens to accompany any combination of Kirk, Dr McCoy, and Spock on a new planet.
In this case it’s Crewman Darnell, who falls for what he believes to be a beautiful woman, but is in fact a shape-shifting, salt-sucking monster. Standard Star Trek fare. After Darnell is disposed of, the chameleonic killer proceeds to stalk the corridors of the Enterprise, relieving the unlucky crewmen it encounters of both their salt and their lives.
It turns out to be not so much a rampage as it is a simple matter of the creature’s survival, but that’s of little comfort to the salt-devoid corpses of those unlucky enough to come across a pretty woman.