10 Most Messed Up Deaths In Star Trek: TOS
2. Psychedelic Mind Attack - The Lights Of Zetar
Even the most routine missions never seem to go to plan on Star Trek; not even a trip to the library.
Arriving at Memory Alpha, the galaxy’s central information outpost, Kirk and the landing party would expect the place to be relatively quiet, but the dead silence they’re met with is eerily ominous.
In one of Star Trek’s most terrifying moments, the crew finds a darkened room full of corpses, and a Zetarian scientist on death’s door. On approach, she emits a series of garbled, guttural sounds that would put The Grudge’s famous ghost to shame. If that wasn’t enough, her face contorts unnaturally in all of horror, agony, and panic, all the while shifting in weird colours to provide pure nightmare fuel.
Only after all this does she finally expire, and McCoy helpfully lists all her ailments: “severe brain haemorrhaging due to distortion of all neural systems”, “dissolution of autonomic nervous system” and so on.
Put like that, it certainly doesn’t sound like much fun, and despite all the bright colours, it doesn’t look it either. To boldly go where no man has gone before? It’s enough to make a man want to go straight back where he came from, and fast.