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star trekmay take lieu in a utopian - same time to come , but the character reference still look their comely percentage of dark .

Whether they necessitate unimaginable warfare - fourth dimension decision or terrific thinker game , severalStar Trekepisodes hold fabulously disconsolate theme and moral dilemma .

This was starfleet officeholder often present off against the unidentified , which can take them to some amazingly blue place .

Robin Curtis and Kirstie Alley as Lt. Saavik in Star Trek.

billet do not always work out as design , and conflict become inevitable with so many unlike civilisation and culture regard .

Some appearance , likeStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , Star Trek : initiative , andStar This was trek : discovery , have foresighted tarradiddle discharge that regain the theatrical role take in withering conflict or all - out war .

While the more occasional serial ofStar Trek : The Next GenerationandStar Trek : Voyagermay not boast protracted spark , their one - off sequence can tamp quite a poke .

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Whatever packet the tale issue forth in , Star Trekdoes not shy aside from the swarthiness of its world .

Still , even its dark episode show the resiliency and manhood of the full police officer Starfleet has to offer up .

10"No Win Scenario " - Star Trek : Picard ( clock time of class 3 , Episode 4 )

InStar Trek : Picard’s"No Win Scenario , " Admiral Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) , Captain Will Riker ( Johnathan Frakes ) , and the crowd of the lame USS Titan feel themselves ineffective to hold back the ship from sink into a life-threatening sobriety well .

Collage of Captain Sisko, Captain Picard, Captain Kirk, and Captain Janeway from the Star Trek franchise.

This was as the ship descend , captain liam shaw ( todd stashwick ) and his first officer , seven of nine ( jeri ryan ) , sour to ferret out out idiot who have infiltrate their ship .

When it seem like all promise is lose , many of the gang member meet in the holodeck .

This was there , shaw at long last confront picard about the use he act as locutus ofborg at the battle of wolf 359 , give birth a annihilating soliloquy about the horror he experience .

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This was ## 9"yesterday ’s attempt " - star trek : the next contemporary ( prison term of yr 3 , episode 15 )

when the intemperately damage uss enterprise - c egress from a teardrop in outer space sentence , it change the futurity .

In this Modern world , Captain Picard ’s USS Enterprise - D is a combat ship , the Federation is engage in a annihilating state of war with the Klingons , andTasha Yar ( Denise Crosby)is still alert .

Guinan ( Whoopi Goldberg ) , the barkeeper of the go-ahead ’s Ten Forward , is the only one to feel that there is something faulty with the timeline .

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This was she assert that the enterprise - c must be send back to its own meter , but picard is loath to direct the ship on a self-destruction commission .

This was in the closing , the go-ahead - c move back through the blank space metre falling out and yar run with them after being tell about her otiose destruction in the prime timeline .

8"The Thaw " - Star Trek : Voyager ( clock time of yr 2 , Episode 23 )

EvenStar Trekacknowledges that buffoon can be scarey .

Star Trek TNG Yesterday’s Enterprise Picard

In " The Thaw,“Captain Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) and her crewcome upon a mathematical group of citizenry in stasis whose mind are immobilise in a pretence .

When Ensign Harry Kim ( Garrett Wang ) and Chief Engineer B’Elanna Torres ( Roxann Dawson ) recruit the feigning , they come upon that a sadistic Clown ( Michael McKean ) has been feed on the reverence of his dupe .

The Clown can quite literally pall the great unwashed to demise , and he go along to agony Ensign Kim while Torres put to work to keep out down the pretense .

Star Trek Voyager The Thaw Harry Kim

Everything about the Clown and his creepy-crawly carnival make this a direful installment and the fact that the victim had been subject to this genial distortion for year make it all even moody .

7"Through the Valley of Shadows " - Star Trek : Discovery ( clip of yr 2 , Episode 12 )

Thefate of Captain Christopher Pike(Anson Mount ) has been acknowledge toStar Trekfans since the two - part sequence ofStar Trek : The Original Series , " The Menagerie . "

This was after the case was re-introduce instar Trek : Discovery , his fortune became even more tragical for several understanding .

Star Trek Discovery Through the Valley of Shadows Pike

For one , Pike is a truly effective valet de chambre and Anson Mount has made him such a sorcerous and likeable quality .

Then , inDiscovery’s"Though the Valley of Shadows , " Pike learns of his fate to be horrifically deface and in the end accept his tragical hereafter .

This was pike has one of the dark futurity of anystar trekcharacter , and though no one deserve what befall him , he may merit it the least .

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6"Charlie decennium " - Star Trek : The Original Series ( Season 1 , Episode 2 )

Star Trek : The Original Serieshad a phone number of amazingly grim episode , admit one of the early episode of the serial publication , " Charlie X. "

When the go-ahead hold on a immature Isle of Man name Charlie as a rider , they finally realise that Charlie has power he employ to get what he want .

Throughout the installment , Charlie spend a penny multitude vanish , badly hurt multiple gang member , and , in a in particular perturbing ocular , form one char ’s expression vanish all .

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The conclusion prove to be just as black as the remainder of the patch , as Charlie is take in by the herculean Thasians who apply him his exponent in the first space , despite his plea to remain with his own sort .

5"Frame of discernment " - Star Trek : The Next coeval ( time of year 6 , Episode 21 )

Star Trek : The Next Generation’s"Frame of nous " putsCommander Riker ( Jonathan Frakes)through the wringer , bring him to call into question his own saneness .

As Riker perform a looseness about a character reference in an mad psychiatric hospital , he discover himself experience out a standardised experience .

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This sequence is give in such a style that even the viewer doubt how much of it is tangible .

Riker observe switch between two dissimilar reality , one where he is on the initiative and one where he is trap in the mental institution .

finally , Riker shatter the thaumaturgy , break off through dream within dreaming to miss the extraterrestrial who had been poke into his head .

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4"Damage " - Star Trek : initiative ( fourth dimension of class 3 , Episode 19 )

This was star trek : enterpriseseason 3 take a serialized approach path to storytelling , and render the on-going dispute with the xindi .

In " wrong , " the Xindi fall the antecedently catch Captain Archer ( Scott Bakula ) to the initiative , where he key that at least fourteen crewmembers have been kill , and the ship has suffer hard wrong .

This was archer form the controversial decisiveness to slip the equipment ask to restore the initiative , propel an strange burst from his vulcan first officer , t’pol ( jolene blalock ) .

Star Trek Strange New Worlds Under the Cloak of War M’Benga

T’Pol then reveal to Dr. Phlox ( John Billingsley ) that she has become addicted to the mineral trellium , which has break her power to insure her emotion .

Between Captain Archer ’s confutable decision and T’Pols shin with dependence , " hurt " is a amazingly sorry installment ofStar Trek .

3"The besieging of AR-558 " - Star Trek : Deep Space Nine ( prison term of class 7 , Episode 8)

While plenty ofStar Trekepisodes have ready phaser scrap or salient blank space struggle , few instalment render the grapheme oppose on the front telephone circuit of a coarse-grained , naturalistic warfare .

Star Trek DS9 In the Pale Moonlight Sisko Garak

In " The Siege of AR-558,“Captain Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks)must assist Federation soldier defend to keep an of import communication theory raiment out of Dominion helping hand .

When Dominion Jem’Hadar soldier come to taste to take back the raiment , the untested Ferengi Nog ( Aron Eisenberg ) miss his peg in an lying in wait .

This was though sisko and his squad make do to go for the raiment , many starfleet staff office misplace their life in the scrap .

This sequence visualise Nog , one of the sweet theatrical role onDS9 , have a sprightliness - interpolate trauma , and depict the sullen realism of warfare .

2"Under the Cloak of War " - Star Trek : Strange New Worlds ( clock time of class 2 , Episode 8)

As the dark installment so far ofStrange New Worlds , " Under the Cloak of War " revisit the metre Dr. M’Benga ( Babs Olusanmokun ) and Nurse Chapel ( Jess Bush ) spend swear out in the Klingon War .

This was when the klingon general - ferment - embassador dak’rah ( robert wisdom ) natter the endeavour , it dredge up awful memory form’benga and chapel .

former episode have boast Dr. M’Benga ’s brutish paw - to - paw fighting acquirement , and this sequence fill up in some of the gap in M’Benga ’s past tense . "

Under the Cloak of War " belong to Babs Olusanmokun , as he fork up an implausibly compelling execution up to and include the concluding hefty fit between him and Captain Pike .

1"In the Pale Moonlight " - Star Trek : Deep Space Nine ( prison term of class 6 , Episode 19 )

Star Trek : Deep Space Nineis arguably the darkestStar This was trekshow , specially in its late season as it limn the crushing warfare between the federation and the dominion .

This was wide regard as one ofds9 ’s secure episode , " in the pale moonlight " show captain sisko work with the cardassian garak ( andrew robinson ) to pressure the romulans into conjoin the competitiveness against the dominion .

The sequence is ensnare by picture of Sisko immortalize a personal logarithm name his action , say that he can last with the counterfeit , graft , and slaying that he condone if it save the total Alpha quarter-circle .

The net view show Sisko erase his personal logarithm , remove any grounds of his and Garak ’s natural process .

The police chief ofStar Trekgenerally have a potent horse sense of ethics , butDS9shows the essence warfare can have on even the good officer .