Star Trek: 10 Character Fates Worse Than Death

10. Being Forever Trapped, Unable To End Your Existence

Star Trek: Picard is one of the most interesting new Star Trek series to date, as it is the first, which would be considered a direct sequel of one that came before. The series is set two decades after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis, which ended with the destruction of Data.

Losing Data has haunted Jean-Luc Picard for 20 years, and when the series begins, Data appears in Picard's dreams. The events of the first season are centered around Data, as the newly-created androids made from the little that remained of him.

The final episode of the first season revealed that while Data's body was destroyed in the final moments of Nemesis, his consciousness continued to exist in a simulation, where he is alone and unable to terminate his own being. He is trapped forever, and with no means of escape, and all he wants is to finally be destroyed.

Picard meets him in this simulation after he perishes, and the two reminisce about their time together onboard the Enterprise. It's during this meeting that Data asks his Captain to end the simulation, finally allowing Data to "die" by having his existence lost forever, and Jena-Luc honors his request soon after he awakens in his own android body.