10 Most Messed Up Deaths In Star Trek: TOS
9. Speared - The Galileo Seven
No, that’s not a reference to any kind of wind-knocking wrestling move; it’s quite literal. A wandering redshirt (well, technically it’s more yellowy) gets impaled by an almost comically oversized spear, and falls to his death with it still sticking out of his back.
When the shuttlecraft Galileo is pulled off-course, the crew is marooned on Taurus II, a desolate and dreary planet. Clearly, a perfect choice for an emergency landing. Immediately, Lieutenants Latimer and Gaetano are sent on that cruel death sentence of a duty; scouting the area.
Sure enough, they quickly encounter the planet’s monstrously aggressive and primitive inhabitants, who greet their new visitors by way of throwing a very large and unwieldy spear at the first intruder they see.
Thus, poor Latimer meets his end via the pointy end of an obscenely large stick. If that wasn't enough, the weapon remains lodged in his corpse, sticking absurdly high in the air as he lays lifeless on the ground. You have to think that in most cases, Kirk leaves the cause of death out when breaking sad news to the families of his hapless redshirts.