10 Most Pointless Deaths In Star Trek

Deep Space Nine is hailed as many as the most underrated of Star Trek’s series, due to its use of over-arching narratives and morally ambiguous explorations of post-colonialism, military paranoia and the horrors of war.

With so much heavy material in the scripts, the call would occasionally rise for a very silly episode starring everyone’s favourite Ferengi; Quark. Although even they took one opportunity to open with a touch of manslaughter. Attempting to settle a tab with a drunken Klingon during a particularly abysmal night at the bar, Quark ends up enraging his inebriated patron, who lunges with a knife at the terrified Ferengi before losing his balance and fatally stabbing himself.

A dead Klingon in any situation is never a good omen, even less so when it transpires that said Klingon is head of a House of some influence within The Klingon Empire, and that the House in question is subject to some quite serious disputes over lineage. Em-broiled in the middle, Quark finds himself unwittingly married to the widow Grilka, before smart-talking out of armed combat and narrowly escaping with his life.

‘The House of Quark’ comfortably sits in the realm of DS9’s ‘daft Ferengi episodes’, but Kozak’s death doesn’t exactly kickstart a gripping narrative like other onscreen fatalities, and is unlikely to take him to The Halls of Sto’Vo’Kor any time soon. Whatever else, it can truly be said; this was not a good day to die.