10 Most Messed Up Deaths In Star Trek: Lower Decks
In our series of messed up deaths, have we seen anything as horrible as the black mountain?
In Star Trek: Lower Decks, the stakes tend to be fairly low. It's a comedy, after all! Who wants to see the characters that make them laugh explode into smithereens, or even disappear up the chimney of a transporter accident? No one, that's who! End of list, thanks for joining.
Although.
Lower Decks still is a Star Trek series and, as such, features the same kinds of danger that one might find in Discovery or Deep Space Nine. The Jem'hadar may be lying in wait while a giant anomaly slices its way through the galaxy, hoovering up all of the particles in its wake. Standard Tuesday in the final frontier.
While this show is admittedly a little lighter on the horrific body count, it still contributes a few examples for our series. Things may seem grim at TrekCulture towers when we concentrate on the grizzly demise of our favourite heroes but then what's life without a bit of balance? And what's death without the chance to come back, hiking boots and all?
Lower Decks gave us the great get out of jail free card that is the black mountain, but how many officers and crew have passed over it? And, more pointedly, how many of them were junior officers, or just those exalted senior staff?
Join us as we take a look through the obituary section of the USS Cerritos and beyond.
10. The Genesis Of Locarno
In 1982, audiences were treated to the awesome power of the Genesis Device. As it detonated, exploding the USS Reliant, Khan, and any remaining survivors aboard, it began to reshape all of the matter in the Mutara Sector while the Enterprise escaped at warp. It was a beautiful sight, watching a new planet form in the stars, even if it didn't have a long shelf-life.
Jumping forward one hundred years and, wouldn't you know it, the Ferengi had managed to get their hands on this technology, despite bans from Earth to Qo'Nos. Tom Locarno, disgruntled with his place in society, sought the means to bolster his 'Nova Fleet' and hold the quadrant to ransom.
He acquired a Ferengi Genesis Device as insurance, but activated it during a fight with Lt. Jnr. Grade Mariner, having badly misjudged his former Academy classmate. While she was beamed away, he attempted to deactivate the device, only to discover that the Ferengi had installed a paywall in front of any deactivation commands. Out of time and out of latinum, Locarno was vaporised in the resulting explosion, though it didn't end there. His atoms, molecules, and every part of him were reshaped and reformed, becoming the basis of a new world - Locarno.
While an explosion to the face isn't the best way to go, having your atoms reform into a world that would be used for refugees to resettle is, actually, a bit of a consolation.