Funniest Deaths in Star Trek

[Peach Wookiee]

Okay, guys, we’ve heard all the red shirt jokes, mourned favorite characters and asked why it took so long to kill off a character. But now… what is a death that makes you?

I would say one on my list is Keevan. My fellow Niners know why…

 

[Dukhat]

Trip Tucker's death has to be the funniest. Because it was so ridiculously stupid and over the top, how could it not be?

 

[Takeru]

I always have to laugh when the ensign at the conn in Where silence has lease is killed. He filled in for Wesley only to be immediately taken out by some curious alien.

 

[Orac]

I nominate the redshirt at the start of Friday's Child.. "A Klingon!"

 

[publiusr]

The two assassins in ST:TUC.... idiots

 

[Tosk]

Jean-Luc Picard. Dude was only dead for five minutes before everyone started acting like the robot copy of him was the real thing.

 

[Jayson1]

How can it not be the Vorta accidentally being killed in "The Magificent Ferengi" and then having the body, with the gizmos on, bumping into the wall over and over as they leave.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The two assassins in ST:TUC.... idiots

Not idiots. Valeris simply killed them when they'd outlived their usefulness.

"First rule of assassination...kill the assassins."

 

[BK613]

With all due respect to our Resident Receptacle*, Henoch's death. Nimoy is brilliantly over-the-top on this one.
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*(@Henoch )

 

[Shat Happens]

Star Trek is mostly drama, I can't think of any funny deaths.

I can think of episodes that failed to correctly dramatize the death:

Tasha
Soran
Kirk
Trip

But these are more "ridiculous deaths" than "funny deaths"

Kruge repeatedly kicked in the face could be funny but that death was at the climax of that movie so it was more of a "serious death"

I think I remember Wesley being impaled in a Q episode, but I'm not sure

Newer trek, probably according to modern audience's tastes, is much more violent. It's not enough anymore to disintegrate a villain, or make him fall from a great height. His body must now be ripped in the smallest pieces possible. I am thinking of the changeling lady in PIC with was spaced, frozen and crushed. Or Icheb (not a villain but still gored). Or Idris Elba in Beyond. Those were rEALly fUNny

Frankly I don't even know what "funny death" means.

 

[Forbin]

Speaking of that Q episode - Worf getting run through, and Wesley yelling "WORF!!!" - It was an early 1st season ep, se we weren't really used to these folk's names yet, so it sounded like Wesley was woofing like a dog. I laughed hard.

 

[Sakonna]

No one shouts out "The Apple" yet? I die laughing at all four redshirt deaths in this.

And I just went to Memory Alpha to check my (apparently false) recollection that "The Apple" has the greatest number of redshirt deaths in a single TOS episode, and instead found trivia that the stunt man was seriously injured in the filming of one of these hilarious deaths! Well, that takes the comic edge right off that one.

I hate "The Changeling", but I do laugh at the expressions and stiff walks of the two redshirts Kirk assigns to escort Nomad... mere moments after Nomad has vaporized the previous two redshirts who had that job. The guys really exude "fuck my life, I can't believe this is how I die" energy, as the stiffly trudge to their pointless and obviously imminent deaths.

I suppose I also chuckled at the "it's was his last day before retirement!" style intros of the two soon-to-be-killed guest characters in SNW "All Those Who Wander." First mission after receiving a big promotion, and last mission of a cadet's training rotation!

I think that's it for me in terms of Star Trek deaths that amused me, though I do recall being disgusted by Disco "Brother" and "Star Trek '09" when they each had redshirt deaths intentionally played for comedy. Hard to think of a more un-Star-Trek sentiment than that.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

“OLSON!”
“Olson is gone, sir!”
Correction: Olson was fried to a crisp!

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

I thought the circumstances around Garak killing holoQuark in the holosuite were amusing.

 

[Farscape One]

No one shouts out "The Apple" yet? I die laughing at all four redshirt deaths in this.

And I just went to Memory Alpha to check my (apparently false) recollection that "The Apple" has the greatest number of redshirt deaths in a single TOS episode, and instead found trivia that the stunt man was seriously injured in the filming of one of these hilarious deaths! Well, that takes the comic edge right off that one.

I hate "The Changeling", but I do laugh at the expressions and stiff walks of the two redshirts Kirk assigns to escort Nomad... mere moments after Nomad has vaporized the previous two redshirts who had that job. The guys really exude "fuck my life, I can't believe this is how I die" energy, as the stiffly trudge to their pointless and obviously imminent deaths.

I suppose I also chuckled at the "it's was his last day before retirement!" style intros of the two soon-to-be-killed guest characters in SNW "All Those Who Wander." First mission after receiving a big promotion, and last mission of a cadet's training rotation!

I think that's it for me in terms of Star Trek deaths that amused me, though I do recall being disgusted by Disco "Brother" and "Star Trek '09" when they each had redshirt deaths intentionally played for comedy. Hard to think of a more un-Star-Trek sentiment than that.

"THE APPLE" and "THE CHANGELING" both had four redshirts die... each! I think the episode with the most deaths is "OBSESSION". (Rizzo and the two guards in the teaser, one of Garrovick's team, and an unseen crewman McCoy mentioned after the creature got aboard.) "THE MAN TRAP" is up there, too. (Blue shirt in the teaser, Green, Sturgeon, and crewman in white outfit.)

That's 17 crew in 4 episodes. Serving under Kirk was not safe. Neither was Picard... though most of the crew that died on his watch happened while on board the Enterprise, ironically.

Regarding funny deaths... Keevan in "THE MAGNIFICENT FERENGI" comes immediately to mind. Garak killing hologram Quark, as mentioned above, is also funny. (That entire scene was hilarious, with Garak running through the list of deaths not approved by Quark.)

I would be remiss if I didn't mention Worf snapping Weyoun's neck, and Damar's reaction afterward... plus him telling Weyoun 8, "Maybe you should talk to Worf again!"

 

[SCE2Aux]

Clown/Fear: "Drat"

 

[Oddish]

Those Borg in ST:FC. The ones where Worf says "Assimilate THIS!" and blasts them into oblivion.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

I nominate the redshirt at the start of Friday's Child.. "A Klingon!"

They clearly had little to no faith in their security men. Grant was the sole landing partier not invited to the briefing. Check out his doomed expression as he stares about.

I hate "The Changeling", but I do laugh at the expressions and stiff walks of the two redshirts Kirk assigns to escort Nomad... mere moments after Nomad has vaporized the previous two redshirts who had that job. The guys really exude "fuck my life, I can't believe this is how I die" energy, as the stiffly trudge to their pointless and obviously imminent deaths.

While doing the exact same thing Frick and Frack previously failed at, right down to the dialogue.

"THE APPLE" and "THE CHANGELING" both had four redshirts die... each! I think the episode with the most deaths is "OBSESSION". (Rizzo and the two guards in the teaser, one of Garrovick's team, and an unseen crewman McCoy mentioned after the creature got aboard.)

APPLE, CHANGELING and OBSESSION all have four on-screen redshirt croakings if we count Rizzo. Since he was shown under attack, that's fair. But before we give OBSESSION the grand prize for five, multiply that by two, add two more, ship nine of them below decks to die off-screen, and voila: WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE. That's an even dozen for Kirky's earliest mission for TOS. So if he wrote ''Never lost more than five crewmen after Delta Vega'' on his resume, he'd still be factual about things.

 

[Farscape One]

They clearly had little to no faith in their security men. Grant was the sole landing partier not invited to the briefing. Check out his doomed expression as he stares about.



While doing the exact same thing Frick and Frack previously failed at, right down to the dialogue.



APPLE, CHANGELING and OBSESSION all have four on-screen redshirt croakings if we count Rizzo. Since he was shown under attack, that's fair. But before we give OBSESSION the grand prize for five, multiply that by two, add two more, ship nine of them below decks to die off-screen, and voila: WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE. That's an even dozen for Kirky's earliest mission for TOS. So if he wrote ''Never lost more than five crewmen after Delta Vega'' on his resume, he'd still be factual about things.

That's right, "WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE" did have the most deaths. Only 2 were seen on screen, but it is in dialogue.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Don't forget Kelso. He's TOS's first onscreen death.