Lots of people die in Star Trek , and do so pretty horrifically. Boldly going is deadly business, but there’s always something particularly grim when tragedy strikes at the lowest rung on Starfleet’s officer ladder: the lowly ensigns that keep any good starship or space station humming along as they try to survive long enough to eke it out to lieutenant junior grade and beyond. In last week’s episode of Strange New Worlds , we got to sadly see poor Ensign Gamble pay the ultimate price in a particularly awful way, so to… celebrate? We’re taking a look back at some of his fellow ensigns who’ve also met similarly grim fates.

O’Herlihy

The original Star Trek may have the reputation that gave us “redshirt” as a broad cultural term for an easily doomable support character, but rea

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