10 Most Messed Up Deaths In Star Trek: Enterprise
A bright, optimistic view of the future? Here's Star Trek: Enterprise with a body count and a grin
In what has become something of a grim tradition, TrekCulture has listed the most messed up deaths from The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. Star Trek: Enterprise has at times been accused of being a copy of those older shows. This list certainly holds its own when it comes to unpleasant and weird ways to die.
For a show that lacked much of the technological advancements of its predecessors (ironically), it sure did find inventive ways to bump off its crew. It also teased the audience, only killing its first crewmember in the third season - but wow did it make up for lost time. Jonathan Archer has the dubious honour of, statistically, having the most deaths under his command out of all of the main captains.
Congratulations?
Though this list has only ten entries, the grim truth about Enterprise is that it could probably fill a few lists - with eighteen entries for the Battle Of Azati Prime alone.
Get your Will in order, strap in, and let's count the dead.
10. First Past The Struts - Anomaly
Sometimes, it really is ok not to be first in the class. At least, Fuller must have been thinking that in the infinitesimal moments before he hit the deck in Anomaly. Credited as Enterprise's first fatality, Fuller had the dubious honour of being forever remembered as the first person in something. We assume, however, this is hardly the honour it sounds like.
When Enterprise was boarded by Osaarian pirates in Anomaly, Fuller was killed after being shot at point-blank range in Engineering. He was most likely dead before he hit the hull plating, which is the one mercy in this sad tale. Reed, in dialogue that was omitted from the episode, would go on to lay the melodrama on thick.
Fuller, apparently, had been hand-picked by Reed to serve on the ship. He had gone through the same training programs as him, he had learned more about photon torpedo technology than anyone else, and he had a young daughter as well. This daughter sent a letter to Reed, asking the latter to keep her daddy out of danger.
We'll assume he didn't read it in time.
Poor Fuller. File this unfortunately soul as yet another crewman just trying to do their job in a galaxy that seems hell-bent on wiping out all humans.