10 Most Messed Up Deaths In Star Trek: Picard

Star Trek: Picard's very first episode, Remembrance, began with a bang over a spot of tea. It continued with murder after a glass of wine (and whatever was about to come out of that replicator). Time for the Xahean was cut short with a knife to the chest. The even more secret police of the Romulan secret police was after Dahj. Her life — and death — was only going to get worse.

"Because everything inside of me says that I'm safe with you," Dahj later told Picard at the vineyard. Err, have you seen his galactic track record? Besides, one man and his wine are not an army against the Zhat Vash. Dahj did her android utmost on the San Franciscan rooftop, but it wasn't enough. Death was fairly swift but spectacularly gruesome.

It was a particularly brutal execution method to spit acid. For the Romulan executioner, death was excruciating. The lower half of his face burnt away. For Dahj, her entire upper body was seemingly impacted. Her agonising screams were only afforded a reprieve by the explosion of a disruptor weapon, also hit by the acid. She was vaporised on the spot. 

Oh, dear. It's Oh, dear. Those shades should have been sufficient warning not to let her put a hand on your head, Doctor! What Agnes Jurati lacked in home cooking, she certainly made up for in homicide. "Alien-induced temporary insanity" was fair enough after the fact. On the biobed, death was doubly messed up for Bruce Maddox.

Want the measure of a man? Start with his vital signs! More specifically, re-activate his "hematic micro-repair treatment" to prevent critical organ failure. Is there much point in having an Emergency Medical Hologram if it can't do anything in an emergency? In any case, the apparent step-back in holographic rights was a boon to Jurati.

Looking up at his lover and colleague, Maddox was more confused than anything. And in pain, a loooot of physical pain! Bruce had beamed up from Freecloud with "massive abdominal haemorrhaging". Turning off the treatment presumably meant he died as his entire circulatory system collapsed in a pool of its own blood. If Ganmadan doesn't give you nightmares, that will!

Happy First Contact Day, y'all! Let's party like it's 2385, and in "designated recreational areas during regularly scheduled alpha and beta shift breaks," of course! April fifth's not a holiday for everyone, and Mr Pincus and colleagues would certainly regret not giving the "plastic people" time off. 

Thanks to Oh and co., Mars' F8 was sealed. It was either that or the A500s just got sick of all the dad jokes. We'd already had glimpses at the First Contact Day death and destruction in Children of Mars and Remembrance. In Maps and Legends, we got up close and personal with the whole bloody, sticky, messed-up mess. Backdoor code uploaded at the Utopia Planitia Shipyards, it was time for some killing everywhere and in Tri-hy Station A19.

Snap of the neck with one hand barely affected the touch typing. Shot through the neck, shot through the chest with a welding gun was only delaying the inevitable. As all of Mars cascaded towards a fiery destiny, F8 turned the weapon on itself.

At the beginning and the end, Édith Piaf's 'Non, je ne regrette rien' was certainly fitting. With only a ten-second countdown, no one aboard the Stargazer and in the rest of the fleet had time to have any regrets. "Je me fous du passé," sang Piaf. Picard and co. would have to check that, if they wanted to keep on living.

Requirements for activation of the self- or auto-destruct sequence have varied over the years. "Picard zero-zero-zero-destruct-zero" had some precedent, despite normally being one of several necessary codes. No way to take a vote whilst that version of the Borg Queen was hacking in. The fact that one line, from one man, could wipe out so many, was still pretty messed up.

Naturally, Q would snap them out of it, and back into it, but they all still blew up in the first place, at least on the Stargazer. We can only assume that billions of lives were also lost in that particular timeline during the creation of the gigantic transwarp conduit. 

Keep your friends close, and your enemies' skulls even closer in the trophy room, as the saying goes. Never meet your heroes either, especially not this version of Jean-Luc. General Picard of the Confederation of Earth was a despot — "The most bloodthirsty, merciless, ruthless human to ever set out to conquer the galaxy". 

Picard of the alternate universe made Emperor Georgiou look like a mild-mannered hotel manager who liked a bit of mischief during her downtime. The General had spilled oceans of un-washable blood. In that trophy room alone were the fleshless heads of countless victims.

Grand Nagus Zek, precise cause of death unknown, was present, as was Director Sarek, "decapitated on the steps of the Vulcan Science Academy in front of […] his wife and son". Like Georgiou, the alternate Picard had also dabbled in genocide on the Klingon homeworld.

Let's not forget about poor Elnor either! Shot in the chest by the President's husband, he was technically, temporally, and temporarily one of the Confederation's last victims. 

Most Ferengi would sell their own desiccated Moogie for a quick profit. Not all were as sinister as Sneed. Drug baron of M'talas Prime, and himself a 12 Monkeys 'reference' along with narcotic 'splinter,' Sneed was co-conspirator of the Starfleet recruitment centre attack. As the 125th Rule of Acquisition states, "You can't make a deal if you're dead". Typically, you also can't make a deal without a head.

No one deserves death, but comeuppance was due. Sneed's was foreshadowed by his own hand. Who keeps a severed head behind the sofa as a trophy? General Picard, probably. Lurak T'Luco was well past his Slug-o-Cola and Romulan ale days. Mess with Raffi and you'll get the Klingon cavalry with camomile tea.

Stabbed in the hand, Sneed's guards were stabbed in the back (and every which way). Worf made quick work of lopping off the lobed part of the Beheader-in-Chief. Messed up, though oddly comical, the rest of Sneed took slightly longer to drop down to the floor. Not even time travel could help Sneed now.

Quantum tunnelling technology was really just an excuse to play a very large game of Portal. Stolen in the experimental stage from Daystrom Station, it did have disastrous applications. The statue of the Red Lady down in District Seven would soon be no more, as would 117 others. I do hate that for us.

The Red Lady (of the Enterprise-C) was a red herring, a rogue changeling distraction for something even more grandiose. Along with the 'portal weapon,' the shapeshifter splinter faction had also nabbed frosty Picard for a bit of Borgification. All that mattered zilch if you were only in the building to sign up. A promising future in Starfleet began and ended by being scooped up out of the ground, then dumped out of the sky. Vadic was just keeping it lively!

Out of the 117, we can only imagine that some were still alive on the way back down. The gravity-defying horror of it all! Chaos and many manners of death would follow when Generation Next of the Collective was activated. In the end, however, isn't chaos just the friend-with-benefits we haven't met yet?

For Commander Ro Laren, even without a boat and a paddle, 'no body, no death' still applies. The maxim is no good, however, if we've actually seen the person vaporise before our eyes.

Vadic and fellow rogue changelings would be responsible for many deaths in Picard's third season. Down the streaming line a little from Imposters, in Surrender, would come one of the most terrifying, most effed-up, deaths at the shapeshifters' hands.

"I can make the halls boil or the crew mess snow with cold," Vadic noted over the comm, having commandeered the Titan-A. On the bridge, Vadic played games with their very souls. She walked down the line of officers, baiting them with the fear of death at the barrel of her weapon, until the trigger was suddenly pulled on Lieutenant T'Veen.

Vadic's own death in the episode was no less messed up. Flushed out into space to a "Oh, f**king solids," she floated and froze, unable to withstand the rigours of the vacuum like her unmodified brethren. Colliding with the Shrike, Vadic shattered into countless bloody, and ultimately solid, pieces.

Life was far from child's play for Icheb. Before birth, he had been genetically engineered to become a biological weapon against the Borg. He fulfilled his macabre destiny — almost twice — and was partially assimilated or 'matured' as a result. Deemed 'unworthy' for reassimilation, the Collective abandoned its children.

Rescued by Voyager, Icheb thrived as an individual under Seven's tutelage, even beginning his Starfleet Academy training before the crew arrived home. Kal-toh and no more would have been a much finer ending for the character. 

There is only one way to say it. The manner of Icheb's death at the start of Stardust City Rag was gratuitous in the extreme. Strapped to a table, fully conscious, the adult Icheb, had his left eye ripped out.

"Where's your cortical node, buddy?" his butcher then asked. Was that supposed to be funny? Moments later, Seven has to put him out of his misery with her phaser. Rarely had we witnessed such visceral horror in Star Trek. 'Vergessen,' from German, means, amongst other things, 'to forget'. We certainly won't!

It took 27 years (in the real world) for another beloved Borg character to return to our screens. It took less than a month to kill him off. Icheb could only dream of such longevity! For Hugh, a quick death was all manner of messed up. Almost in an instant, in Nepenthe, the xB was no more. 

Hugh's death was equally gratuitous — a little freebie for shock value and to show off Narissa's knife skills. Bleeding out (from the neck), Hugh was barely given a minute for a last goodbye, with only Elnor there to speak the words to. 

Like Icheb's, Hugh's death also seemed to serve merely as a pretext to give Seven the one-liners she never needed for us to like her in the first place. "He was a son to me, Jay. This is for him," Seven had said to Bjayzl before opening fire in Stardust City Rag. "This is for Hugh," Seven would then say as she kicked Narissa over the edge inside the Artefact in Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2.

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