Star Trek: 10 Dumbest Decisions By Starfleet Officers

10. Deactivating Ripper's Forcefield - Ellen Landry

Ripper is the giant Tardigrade who powers the spore drive of the USS Discovery in the first season of Star Trek: Discovery. This Tardigrade is a big and beefy creature, one who can survive in the harshness of space and is, frankly, tougher than humans. Why Ellen Landry thought she had a chance with a knife and phaser simply baffles the mind.

Ripper is beginning to rebel against his captors, which is exactly what the Starfleet crew are toward him. In order to force him to cooperate, Landry decides that she will deactivate his containment field and beat him into submission. In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Ripper lives up to his name and tears into her.

Landy is an officer who survived the destruction of the USS Buran and managed to endear herself to the Mirror version of Gabriel Lorca, even though she didn't know that he wasn't her original captain. Still, all are forgiven for not realizing that. So, her previous achievements and strategic victories seem to have abandoned her memory as she decides that her little knife stood a chance against Ripper.