10 Most Messed Up Deaths In Star Trek: Lower Decks
8. Death By Neck Break
When you're an AI being with a heart full of digital hatred for you creator, is there anything worse than having that same creator lay his hands on your head and twist it violently around? If you want to know what that feels like, it's best to ask the original version of Badgey, if one can get in touch with him on the higher plane.
When Rutherford's errant AI started to show its true maniacal leanings, things were looking grim for the young ensign and his friends. Trapped on the holodeck, surrounded by a frozen tundra and running out of time, Rutherford tried to reason with the charmingly-murderous Starfleet Delta. Having run out of options, and with diplomacy rapidly failing, he tried the only option left - a little mercy killing.
Rutherford snapped Badgey's neck, despite the anatomical questions raised, killing him, and saving the ship. Things obviously didn't end there, as Badgey was directly responsible for Shaxs's death later in the season, and is currently an omnipotent being travelling the very highways of reality, but in the moment it was a fairly brutal way to go.
Death by parent has got to be grim, Delta shaped body or not.