10 Most Messed Up Deaths In Star Trek: The Next Generation

'D' is for 'deadly' in TNG's disturbing Enterprise alphabet of doom.

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[GRAHFXENO]

So, for the #1 entry - That's not what happened. The floor didn't open up and close in on her. She phase shifted into the floor. Meaning she wasn't crushed, she was merged with the floor.

[rslansky]

Van Mayter's death always reminded me of the Philadelphia Experiment (1984) where the warship rematerialized with crew members embedded in the deck.

[metricmine]

As a child, the lady in the floor was unnerving for me. That one stuck in my memory.

[Ryoku]

"They got an MP3 of their own doom!"
*YouTube plays an ad for headphones

[AceSpadeThePikachu]

I'd argue that anyone assimilated by the Borg suffered a fate worse than death...as literally everyone who ever managed to be freed from that fate will tell you. But considering how fleetingly few people come back from Borg assimilation, it might as will be called "death."

[erictraylor]

How about Lieutenant Daniel Kwan jumping into the plasma injector from an empathic echo in episode 18 season 7 "Eye of the Beholder"

[pjpless]

You guys put Sean's name in front of Ellie by accident. 😩

[charlesjohnson]

and AFTER I watched this list = Where's Varia's death in 'The Most

[CAMintmier]

"Boldly go where no one has gone before." Just hopefully not halfway into the floor...

[AlteredBuzzard]

Lets not forget when Nagilum just horrifically killed a bridge officer.

[richtheobald]

Yup, polymerisation and floor embedding haunted me as a kid.

[medicman]

I'm just imagining what poor crewman had to go extract the floor plates with Van Mayter still stuck in them. And how that order was phrased. "Crewman Jones, we're gonna need you to, um... 'repair' these deck plates. Bring a mop.'

[BrianSikorski]

Poor Ellie not even getting credited properly.

[BeeWhistler]

Okay, but Picard defending his ship and preventing the horrific things that could be done with the trilithium was a moment of him being a certified badass. It was Kingsmen stuff. Manners maketh man! And it proves his right to be captain. He should be able to make hard decisions and act with deadly force for the right cause.

[DanielSolis]

That lady in the floor happens SO randomly in an otherwise chill episode.

[xaingo]

#2 Lt. Hagler: Picard's Captain's Log said everyone was safe and sound...until Riker reminded Picard about Hagler in the tag of the episode.

[JaguarCats]

To quote Q from "Q Who"
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid"

[Joe_Okey]

How about the deaths of everyone on the USS Lantree of artificially caused old age?

[geoffreygose]

"Where Silence Has Lease" Poor Ens Haskell after meeting Nagilum.

[michaelhughes]

You know why this is a TNG-only list? Because if it was all Trek, we all know the transporter failure in STTMP would be number 1. And also number 2.