Worst Punishment...

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In Trek, we see from time to time people getting sentenced to various prisons. All the way from Tom having to relive his victims death every 14 hours in the episode "Ex Post Facto", which was a lot like when The Chief getting his 20 years sentence in 20 minutes in DS-9 "Hard Time".

To more conventional ones like Tom got in "30 Days" or like Tom had to spend time on the Detention Colony in "Caretaker" (Tom always seems to be the one getting busted) To Kirk and McCoy getting sent to Ruta Penthe, Cyrano Jones got a sentence which was to clean up Station K-7 of all the Tribbles, Spock gave him an estimate on how long it would take him, I forget how long it was, but it was a long time. But the worst sentence in Trek history has to go to...

Harcourt Fenton Mudd who's sentence was to be left behind on that planet with 500 Stellas who sole reason to exist was to nag him for the rest of his life...

 

[BillJ]

In Trek, we see from time to time people getting sentenced to various prisons. All the way from Tom having to relive his victims death every 14 hours in the episode "Ex Post Facto", which was a lot like when The Chief getting his 20 years sentence in 20 minutes in DS-9 "Hard Time".

To more conventional ones like Tom got in "30 Days" or like Tom had to spend time on the Detention Colony in "Caretaker" (Tom always seems to be the one getting busted) To Kirk and McCoy getting sent to Ruta Penthe, Cyrano Jones got a sentence which was to clean up Station K-7 of all the Tribbles, Spock gave him an estimate on how long it would take him, I forget how long it was, but it was a long time. But the worst sentence in Trek history has to go to...

Harcourt Fenton Mudd who's sentence was to be left behind on that planet with 500 Stellas who sole reason to exist was to nag him for the rest of his life...

Worst punishment by far... making someone watch Insurrection/Nemesis back-to-back.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Pain booths in the Mirror Universe.

 

[clint g]

Forcing Odo to live as a solid. That must have sucked pretty bad

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Borg assimilation

 

[Marie1]

"Hard Time" would be hard mentally. Terrible things kept happening to O'Brien, the Cardie prison etc.

I'd say a Cardie prison would be worse. Crazy as it sounds, Dominion internment camps seemed alright... what was up with that?

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Maybe it's because the Dominion thinks they're merciful. They don't bat an eye at genocide, but when they actually have to see results of their actions up close and personal, they're all nice-nice to try and pretend they're just and merciful?

Kind of reminds me of Comitus in Gladiator, after staging that fight where Maximus is fatally wounded, parading around and screaming, "AM I NOT MERCIFUL?"

THAT deluded.

BTW, Marie...shall I start calling your favorites "Jemmies"? ;-P

 

[Marie1]

I dunno... wouldn't they look at destruction like genocide with satisfaction? After all they'd done, I'd think their consciences would've kicked in my now, I mean their actions are horrible no matter what happened to them in the past.

But its possible... I mean, they knew they were going to eliminate all Cardassians, so why keep them in the IC? Unless to try and say they were good... even tho they told Garak there were no survivors, and yet... where'd all these Cardassians come from?? Ahah!!

But I love your Gladiator analogy- shows how really twisted the Dominion is- Founders and Vorta (creepy little things!) I'm amazed Kira never lost it with them, at least the one on DS9... but that would be at the risk of being shot...

Nerys, if I'm going to get lazy and call Cardassians "Cardies" by all means feel free to call the Jem'Hadar "Jemmies" (which I do sometimes) so I can feel better about slacking... :P Or I can make a concentrated effort to spell...

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I suspect they DO look at genocide with satisfaction. After all, it's just numbers to them, just solids.

But with individual prisoners--I suspect they see them like pets or playthings. There were cases of the Nazis regarding particular Jewish prisoners in that manner even though they were ready to wipe out the entire Jewish population.

It's pretty shocking what some people seem to be able to compartmentalize. "But that's different!"

Riiiiiiight.

 

[Red Ranger]

Surprised no one has mentioned Lazarus's fate in The Alternative Factor -- forced to fight a homicidal version of himself forever in a small room to prevent the annihilation of everything. That's got to suck pretty bad! -- RR

 

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Agreed, I totally forgot about that one...

 

[Jono]

Been trapped with Ezri Dax in a Breen and then Cardassian cell. Execution would come as sweet release.

 

[Marie1]

^

And where those some awkward and weird moments!!

 

[jgdst]

Hmm, I'm torn between O'Brien's fake memories in Hard Time, and the induced mental anguish the prisoners go through in The Chute.

If it's just punishment in general, rather than imprisonment, then the redshirt (redfaced) Doctor in Cold Station 12 that gets put in the virus chamber has one of the most gruesome deaths I think Star Trek showed.

 

[Marie1]

I suspect they DO look at genocide with satisfaction. After all, it's just numbers to them, just solids.

But with individual prisoners--I suspect they see them like pets or playthings. There were cases of the Nazis regarding particular Jewish prisoners in that manner even though they were ready to wipe out the entire Jewish population.

It's pretty shocking what some people seem to be able to compartmentalize. "But that's different!"

Riiiiiiight.

Thats true, the did tend to "keep" the different races and peoples they didn't like bottled up, even during the Final Solution. Enjoying the power, having the people at their mercy. And, you'd hope, a twinge of guilt. But probably not.

Its interesting the amount of reliance the Founders have on solids, the Jem'Hadar, the Vorta, even though everyone in the Dominion has the potential to rebel. I'm kinda surprised the Jem'Hadar weren't engineered with the ability to shapeshift... wouldn't that be awful? That would be a punishment for the AQ...

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Well, since the Founders saw solids as less-evolved life forms, I think they probably wanted to have a way of holding power over the Jem'Hadar rather than creating something equal to (and potentially even stronger than) themselves, that could then take over if someone did the right genetic tampering.