10 Most Messed Up Deaths In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine often finds itself labelled as the darkest Star Trek series, which has a fair amount of truth to it. The characters who popped up throughout the show's seven years often faced trials and challenges that would break the majority of us all.

There was often a cruelty in some of the fates faced by these people. There were those who were inches from freedom, only to have that freedom snatched away. Others admitted to transgressions only to be brutally murdered for their honesty.

This list, by its very nature, outlines the sometimes shocking deaths that appeared in Deep Space Nine, so a full spoiler warning is in effect. This is not the happy and feel good list you may be looking for today. For that, we suggest playing with a puppy, or dancing in the rain. 

On this list, that puppy will probably try and eat you. 

Vargas was stationed on AR-558, tasked with holding the defences in place as Starfleet tried to crack an important Dominion communications relay. What should have been a relatively short, albeit certainly bleak, posting became hell. Vargas, along with the rest of his squad, were stuck in place for months.

They fended off repeated attacks from Jem'hadar columns, while also battling the constant fear of the Houdinis - deadly mines that popped up from subspace with no warning. 

The arrival of Captain Sisko and several of the Defiant's crew did little to raise Vargas's spirits, so thoroughly downtrodden as they were. The trauma that he carried was enough for a small army to deal with, while he shouldered it all. Then, in the final days of his posting (though he wasn't to know that) another assault by Jem'hadar soldiers saw the man brutally stabbed in the back, killing him before he could have any hope of rescue. 

This, truly, was one of the most messed up deaths in Star Trek - just how cruel did the writers need to be? Thus is the hell of war, depicted so perfectly in The Siege Of AR-558.