10 Most Horrifying Star Trek Moments
6. Garak Hunts The Crew
One of the running gags in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is that Garak is much, much than a plain, simple tailor. He shows, again and again, that his experience and knowledge is far greater than anything a simple tailor should ever know. So, when that fearsome level of experience is turned against Starfleet - that is something to truly terrify those on the receiving end.
In Empok Nor, he is exposed to a drug that is a pyschoactive, turning him slowly more and more paranoid. His aggression builds, first in such a way that helps the team of engineers he is there to assist. Three Cardassian soldiers, also infected, are released as part of a booby trap. Thankfully, Garak hunts them down.
But he is not yet finished.
One by one, the team of engineers are picked off. Garak himself is repsonsible for the death of one of them - the team are distinctly lucky that he is not repsonsible for more, as the more derranged he gets, the more he plays on the fear of those remaining. Chief O'Brien, also a trained soldier, manages to incapacitate him - but it is a close thing.