The look on Lursa and B'etor's faces in Generations as their ship drops shields to cloak and they see a photon torpedo coming their way has to be my favourite.
Khan Singh should have rated an honorable mention. Chang quoted Shakespeare; Khan quoted Melville..."From Hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee..."
The one that always gets me, is Captain Rachel Garrett in Yesterday's Enterprise at the moment she says that they are going back and she knows she is going to die. Self sacrifice at it's best.
" From Hell's heart, I stab at thee, for hates sake , I spit my last breath at thee, to the last I will grapple with thee!!". Khan quotes from " Moby Dick", while activating the Genesis device.
This actually made me tear up when he said good bye to Kirk. I know Spock came back, but still most touching death scene in the whole original Trek movies didn't even make top 10?? BOOOOOO
The best "I'm dead and I know it" moment is when Spock decides to head down to engineering in Star Trek II. He knew right then and there that he wasn't coming back up to the bridge.
I know it isn't a death, and isn't a particularly good episode, but the one where Lazarus chooses to save two Universes by going into limbo with his insane opposite and fight him forever is worth a mention.
Only note- if memory serves, it was Anti-Lazarus who was the hero here, with Lazarus wanting to destroy AL so much he was fine destroying both universes to do so.
How could you forget Spock?! That moment when he looks up from his console when the Genesis Device is activated and his face just says "if I do this, I die. If I don't do this, everyone dies."
How is it that Ricardo Montalban didn't get on this list? Or Spock? Methinks you're going to have to expand your lists to the top "however many is necessary" to make them complete.
They don't really have that "I'm dead and I know" shot that the list was going for, and both those deaths are rather drawn out compared to those on the list.
@@thundercat2000ca I would disagree; both were dead and they knew it pretty quickly, they just had a few extra minutes to stew in it, (like about 5 minutes each from the "I'm a pavement pellet" moment) Pretty sure Decker knew he was boned the second he started the shuttle craft up, and the Romulan "pilot" lived several minutes after seeing those Dominion ships appear on the scanners. Some definitely had an "oh shit" then splat within a few seconds, but some definitely had more time.
The TNG novel Vendetta retcons the Doomsday Machine to have been constructed as the prototype for a much larger version to be used against the Borg. And in the novel Armageddon's Arrow, an alien ship is modeled after the Doomsday Machine.
In ENT, the episode “Zero Hour” when Archer is fighting hand to hand with the Xindi Reptillian leader Dolem and slips a grenade type bomb into his armor, the look on Dolem’s face when he hears the beeping and observes the device on his back just before he blows up is priceless.
I believe her name was Valkris, Star Trek III. She was the Klingon agent that viewed the data video and realized she was going to die when Kruge asked her if she had watched it.
Janeway in "Deadlock"? Activates her self destruct to save the other Voyager from the Vidiians, welcomes them to the bridge just as the ship goes boom.
William Windoms Commodore Decker was brilliantly played!! How could you omit Mr Spocks death where he told Captain Kirk, "I have & always will be your friend" ?? 🖖🖖
And just think, Accoding to Mr. Windom's own recolation. All that agnst and sheer terror. Was one man Jonesing for a Jelly doughnut! It was his last scene in the episode, and he wanted that doughnut so badly he nailed the shot. Got cleaned up and got a tasty treat! ;-)
I will never forget Eric Bana's reaction whenever he was first introducing himself to Captain Pike after he just handed them their ass on a EFF'n platter: "Hi Chrisopher, I'm Nero." He just whooped your ass, and appears on screen and he's making jokes and it was funny to see Star Trek go down this route and it was well played on the new Trek movies.
Quark walking into his quarters after he's asked Garak to kill him quickly and stealthily. I know it never happens but Quark is convinced he's about to die.
What I liked about Kirk’s death is that it turned his prediction in The Final Frontier into a complete and total lie. He said he always knew he’d die alone and he didn’t. Picard was with him when he passed. He wasn’t alone.
@@y_fam_goeglyd It does explain Decker's changing expression. He knew it was an energy vortex that he was flying into- but when that Koala looked at him and smiled...
Ed. Begley. Junior. Spent two episodes as a cross between a Steve Jobs parody and baby Bart Simpson banging the pans going "I am so smart. I am so smart. Everybody loves me, I am so smart". Finally heads towards the temporal fissure laughing that they can't stop him because Voyagers weapons are offline... except the torpedo Janeway manages to launch manually. His face when he sees the tactical display followed by the weak " Oh no." - chef kiss good 😁
Decker #10??? Are you kidding? This was dagger in teeth, swinging from the chandeliers, shrieking at the sun, hey y'all watch this, with the Jaws music playing.... this was IT.
That Kirk died by having a bridge collapse on him was a rotten, horrible, terrible idea. But, the death scene itself was wonderfully acted by both actors, and well-written, with beautiful music. Very moving.
I like when in "The Omega Glory" captain Tracy gets the drop on Kirk in the alley. You see Kirk just drop his arms in resignation because he has no more tricks to play. He doesn't die, but Kirk didn't know that at the time.
it makes me sad that my all-time favorite episode bookends this list. Oh well, at least it's there and it's the friggin thumbnail! I love that giant, evil, planet-eating Windsock dipped in cement
Admiral Katrina Cornwell facing the torpedo should be on that list. She seals the bulkhead with Pike on the other side, the turns to the torpedo, clasps her hands being her back in a military posture, and calmly waiting for the end. She doesn’t even flinch. And she saves the Enterprise
General Chang didn't expect to be beaten by a communications officer who noticed a obvious weakness in a enemy vessel. I'm guessing that those months between Star Trek 3 and 4 served her well.
Captain - "Computer, Initiate self destruct sequence." Computer - "Confirm, all ship's computer panels will explode simultaneously it t minus 10 minutes..."
Willie the weeper strikes again .No body did it better the Mr Windom ..( R.I.P.) I have had several acting friends over the years said if you needed some crying done call him !! He could make you cry as well!! OUTSTANDING ACTOR!!
What about Kor? All through the episode he realises he's going senile and in the end embarrasses himself. Then he takes on the mission to stop the Jem Hadar. He knows he's not coming back. "Long live the empire!"
There's also the moment when Kirk smashes the transmuter in "Catspaw". One imagines that Korob and Sylvia were well aware that they were about to die, although it's hard to make out the expressions on their tentacled little marionette faces.
My biggest problem with Data's death is that they telegraphed it so early and so hard in that movie that there was no way you couldn't see it coming and be shocked. The only real surprise about it was that in Picard, they showed that B4 couldn't handle Data's personal information, because everyone _knew_ Data was coming back. Indeed, books were even written about it. I think that's the biggest problem I had with Nemesis from the beginning. Everything was telegraphed. It was like they had a List of Boxes to Check to Make a Good Movie, and every single one was stamped on there with a hammer.
I think this list is great, but what about in Star Trek: Insurrection when Ru'afo falls to his death in the collector? Or Admiral Dougherty when he gets his face stretched until he dies? Our Data's daughter, Lal? Tuvix? Or when Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemisis when Picard stabs him, and then he slides down the spear towards Picard and dies in his face?
Shax is an absolute lunatic who loves battle though. Like literally the only thing they'd have to change to make him a Klingon would be his appearance, because other than that he basically already is one. A very very bloodthirsty Klingon, living in a Bajoran body :P
One thing I can appreciate of Kirk's death in Generations... His whole career he's been decorated for his heroics, and his friends and crew and all of the Federation know this legendary hero... But he dies on a planet with just one other guy, no-one sees it, no-one notices, and because of it 8 million people in the Viridian system survive, proving he was utterly the hero we knew him to be, makingna difference because it's the right thing to do, not because of glory or fame
That could have worked. But truth is Brent Spiner requested Data be killed because Brent was showing his age and Data being an android shouldn't age, basically he was getting too old to continue playing the role.
The look on Lursa and B'etor's faces in Generations as their ship drops shields to cloak and they see a photon torpedo coming their way has to be my favourite.
I thought the exact same thing!
I love that look on her face right before impact: it's like, "Somebody do something! Nobody can anything? Fuuuuuu---!"
Khan Singh should have rated an honorable mention. Chang quoted Shakespeare; Khan quoted Melville..."From Hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee..."
yes and nobody cares about Lower decks
Was about to say "he quoted Moby Dick not Paradise Lost", but I then remembered that was Milton not Melville.
@@ReaverLordTonus "Sorry for a good Scotsman to admit it...but I'm not up on my Milton."
@@solo9378 speak for yourself, LD is great. If you're too up your own butt to appreciate it, that's your loss.
@@Dandelion_Stitches This. Lower Decks is the best Trek we've gotten since Enterprise.
The one that always gets me, is Captain Rachel Garrett in Yesterday's Enterprise at the moment she says that they are going back and she knows she is going to die. Self sacrifice at it's best.
The sad irony is that she didn’t even get to do that, being killed by a Klingon attack
Or Picard, "Lets make sure history never forgets the name, Enterprise"
@@texdan1 That line still gives me thrills.
How can you leave out Khan's "From Hell's heart I stab at thee" moment?
Or leaving out Lursa and B'tor?
It's a top 10. Not a top 11.
" From Hell's heart, I stab at thee, for hates sake , I spit my last breath at thee, to the last I will grapple with thee!!". Khan quotes from " Moby Dick", while activating the Genesis device.
@Keith Loree Then leave out the 2009 Star Trek one, that one I didn't think deserved to be on the list.
Lower Decks garbage beat Khan out. 😒
I’m Absolutely amazed you didn’t put Spock dying on this list, let alone number 1!!!!
Right? If the criteria was "died and didn't come back," why is Shaxs on the list?
This actually made me tear up when he said good bye to Kirk. I know Spock came back, but still most touching death scene in the whole original Trek movies didn't even make top 10?? BOOOOOO
Bumped for a Rick and Morty knockoff cartoon.
Honestly, not sure if I'd give it to Spock or (the real) Khan, but both feel like massive omissions. (And hell, in the same movie, minutes apart.)
"I'm sorry doctor, I have no time to discuss this logically"
The best "I'm dead and I know it" moment is when Spock decides to head down to engineering in Star Trek II. He knew right then and there that he wasn't coming back up to the bridge.
I was going to say the same, but at the moment when he mind melds with McCoy and says "remember."
Giving his life for his friends is a very human act. With his death, Data has achieved his life's goal.
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. - John 15:13
Seemed appropriate.
I know it isn't a death, and isn't a particularly good episode, but the one where Lazarus chooses to save two Universes by going into limbo with his insane opposite and fight him forever is worth a mention.
Only note- if memory serves, it was Anti-Lazarus who was the hero here, with Lazarus wanting to destroy AL so much he was fine destroying both universes to do so.
How could you forget Spock?! That moment when he looks up from his console when the Genesis Device is activated and his face just says "if I do this, I die. If I don't do this, everyone dies."
The duras sisters should have been on the list as well in my opinion
I will put my disappointment about one death which is missing from this video in one word:
*KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!*
How is it that Ricardo Montalban didn't get on this list? Or Spock? Methinks you're going to have to expand your lists to the top "however many is necessary" to make them complete.
Khan for sure. The look on his face while Kirk tries to speed away is priceless. It makes the whole movie.
Yes. Lt Shax may be the “OMG! They killed Kenny” character for Lower Decks.
maybe i missed it but didn't he only die once?
@@KenshiImmortalWolf, so far.
He only died once so i dont think so yet.
@@jwborion true but kenny dies every ep and shax has died once.
That would require a Bajoran Cthulhu cult.
That Spock and Khan (the real one) were not on this list is hugely disappointing.
They don't really have that "I'm dead and I know" shot that the list was going for, and both those deaths are rather drawn out compared to those on the list.
@@thundercat2000ca I would disagree; both were dead and they knew it pretty quickly, they just had a few extra minutes to stew in it, (like about 5 minutes each from the "I'm a pavement pellet" moment) Pretty sure Decker knew he was boned the second he started the shuttle craft up, and the Romulan "pilot" lived several minutes after seeing those Dominion ships appear on the scanners. Some definitely had an "oh shit" then splat within a few seconds, but some definitely had more time.
You Are Perfectly Correct!
@@thundercat2000ca oh...so like Kirk who is on the list? Yeah.
Spock looking at the dylithium chamber before melding with mccoy
I remember watching the Kirk death scene on the cinema and looking at my brother and we both had tears in our eyes.
The Planet Killer wasn't a space born entity.. they CLEARLY state in the show and in the novels it was a constructed Doomsday Machine.
I think he meant 'space borne'.
Berserker technology
Hence, the name Doomsday Machine!
The TNG novel Vendetta retcons the Doomsday Machine to have been constructed as the prototype for a much larger version to be used against the Borg. And in the novel Armageddon's Arrow, an alien ship is modeled after the Doomsday Machine.
@@jwborion Certainly wasn't Bloodborne
The only way Data knew what he was doing when he died saving Picard and the Enterprise was if he learned what it meant to be human.
Kirk staring into the abyss? No, he saw the Koala, and he was smiling 🐨😇
The 'thumbnail' is William Windom, playing Commodore Mastt Decker, from the episode, "The Doomsday Machine"
Oh no! Uncle Chuck is about to be eaten by the giant petrified space worm!
For some very weird reason I knew this despite having only seen TOS once.
Dr.Soran , " Who in the Hell are you ?."
Picard, " This is Captain James T. Kirk !". Best lines in the film.
Khan, Spock, Cornwell.. I would also put in this memorable mention list Admiral Janeway from the future in Endgame.
That moment when Lursa and B'Tor look to each other with the sure and certain knowledge that they are about to die should be included in this list.
They gave each other the 'see you in Stovokor' look.
“HOW we deal with death is at least as important as HOW we deal with life.”
I think that Decker's death scene should have ranked higher.
He's only missing.
@@Wh0isTh3D0ct0r he's talking about the Decker who is at #10.
@@ChrisLawton66 Oh, right…..Duh.
William Windom did a fantastic job with that scene!
"I'm dead and I know it" - what everyone in the audience felt watching Star Trek V: The Final Insult.
What about the romulan commander in TOS battle episode?
"We are creatures of duty, Captain; I have lived my life by it. Just...one more duty to perform."
In ENT, the episode “Zero Hour” when Archer is fighting hand to hand with the Xindi Reptillian leader Dolem and slips a grenade type bomb into his armor, the look on Dolem’s face when he hears the beeping and observes the device on his back just before he blows up is priceless.
Fifty years old and I still remember the Decker scene scaring me to tears around age five or six. Hated Trek til around age ten or so.
Captain Janeway ramming that time ship with Voyager
"Times...up!" ~ Janeway
You haven't heard Shakespeare until you've heard it in the original Klingon
I believe her name was Valkris, Star Trek III. She was the Klingon agent that viewed the data video and realized she was going to die when Kruge asked her if she had watched it.
"That is most unfortunate."
Janeway in "Deadlock"? Activates her self destruct to save the other Voyager from the Vidiians, welcomes them to the bridge just as the ship goes boom.
William Windoms Commodore Decker was brilliantly played!! How could you omit Mr Spocks death where he told Captain Kirk, "I have & always will be your friend" ?? 🖖🖖
And just think, Accoding to Mr. Windom's own recolation. All that agnst and sheer terror. Was one man Jonesing for a Jelly doughnut! It was his last scene in the episode, and he wanted that doughnut so badly he nailed the shot. Got cleaned up and got a tasty treat! ;-)
I can’t believe you didn’t mention that Kirk didn’t die on the bridge, he died with a bridge on him.
Bridge on the captain!
I started to choke up exactly when you did, LOL. Very well done, Sean. Always enjoy your segments. Keep up the stellar work! 😉👍🏼
KHAAAAAAAN’s death & Spock’s death were two you didn’t bring up!
How could you not include Gorkon? His beseeching Kirk "Don't let it end this way" as he is litterally bleeding out, always moved me
I'll disagree with Shax on being dead and he knows it when he was having the "best day ever!". That would make even the most hardcore Klingon proud.
I think Kira would be proud
Kruge's wife, or significant other in "The Search for Spock" should be on the list.
ooooooh good one. The cargo hauler crew had no idea they were about to bite it, but she did.
The Duras sisters!!!
And Nicholas Meyer screwed up BIG time not having Khan's mouth drop open when the Enterprise warped out at the last second.
Great list. Very glad that Chang made it at least #2 - fine Trek moment.
I will never forget Eric Bana's reaction whenever he was first introducing himself to Captain Pike after he just handed them their ass on a EFF'n platter:
"Hi Chrisopher, I'm Nero."
He just whooped your ass, and appears on screen and he's making jokes and it was funny to see Star Trek go down this route and it was well played on the new Trek movies.
Quark walking into his quarters after he's asked Garak to kill him quickly and stealthily. I know it never happens but Quark is convinced he's about to die.
What I liked about Kirk’s death is that it turned his prediction in The Final Frontier into a complete and total lie. He said he always knew he’d die alone and he didn’t. Picard was with him when he passed. He wasn’t alone.
He was alone on the Enterprise B. As far as everyone else in the 23 century knows......he did die alone.
@@jsldj except he didn't actually die
@@americanthundergod9749 But the people on the Enterprise B, including Scotty, think he did!
@@jsldj nah, Scotty forgot about that. I blame scotch and a short stay in a transporter buffer.
Will Windom was brilliant in that TOS episode
The reason Kirk said "Oh my" was because he saw the koala...we don't mention that...
My new headcanon and no one can convince me otherwise
Lol! I am going to think that with every "I'm dead and I know it" moment from now on. In everything!
@@y_fam_goeglyd It does explain Decker's changing expression. He knew it was an energy vortex that he was flying into- but when that Koala looked at him and smiled...
Another great am dead and I know it moment: Lursa and B’Tor in Generations!
There's nothing that Christepher Plumber can't do. He is such a great actor
He really was.
He can’t breath, now can he?
Love that wibbily wobbly timely wimey
Ed. Begley. Junior.
Spent two episodes as a cross between a Steve Jobs parody and baby Bart Simpson banging the pans going "I am so smart. I am so smart. Everybody loves me, I am so smart".
Finally heads towards the temporal fissure laughing that they can't stop him because Voyagers weapons are offline... except the torpedo Janeway manages to launch manually.
His face when he sees the tactical display followed by the weak " Oh no." - chef kiss good 😁
True, "a somewhat relaxed stare".... However, in The Deer Hunter John Savage turns in a heart wrenching and beautiful performance.
I enjoyed watching Lursa and Bator getting blown away! I wish Worf would have gotten to press the trigger.
thanks for the tears...teared up at Data and at Kirk..*sniff* *sniff*...
William Windom should have received some kind of award. An outstanding performance!
5. "They're dead! *You're* dead. Cardassia is dead. Your people were doomed the moment they attacked us."
How about the Duras sisters in Generations.
"Never saw the sun shining so bright." RIP my man Data.
Wibbly wobbly timely wimely! Brilliant!
Doctor Who reference for a Star Trek movie.
Did I miss Spock's "I have been ... and always will be ... your friend. Live long and prosper."?
Spock knows he will die I’m the end of wrath of Khan. Then that emotional goodbye scene with him and Kirk. Number one for me.
Decker #10??? Are you kidding? This was dagger in teeth, swinging from the chandeliers, shrieking at the sun, hey y'all watch this, with the Jaws music playing.... this was IT.
“…and Captain Kirk dies.”
And then gets revived using Borg nanites
The Return, written by William Shatner?
That Kirk died by having a bridge collapse on him was a rotten, horrible, terrible idea. But, the death scene itself was wonderfully acted by both actors, and well-written, with beautiful music. Very moving.
Better than the original version…he was shot in the back. No fight, no race for a control…just shot in the back.
A mention would have to go to the Romulan commander from that TOS episode. The one played by the Mark Leonard.
I like when in "The Omega Glory" captain Tracy gets the drop on Kirk in the alley. You see Kirk just drop his arms in resignation because he has no more tricks to play. He doesn't die, but Kirk didn't know that at the time.
The destruction of the Enterprise gets me EVERY TIME!!!
it makes me sad that my all-time favorite episode bookends this list. Oh well, at least it's there and it's the friggin thumbnail!
I love that giant, evil, planet-eating Windsock dipped in cement
Admiral Katrina Cornwell facing the torpedo should be on that list. She seals the bulkhead with Pike on the other side, the turns to the torpedo, clasps her hands being her back in a military posture, and calmly waiting for the end. She doesn’t even flinch. And she saves the Enterprise
#3 is symbolic, indeed: all these years, the Captain was on the bridge... but this time, the bridge is on the Captain!
Not to mention Sisko and Gul Du Kat in the fire caves!! What were you thinking!!!!
"Captain on the bridge"
The bridge - "Hold my beer".
I'd like to mention Captain Pike from Discovery, although that's more like "I'm gonna get much worse than death and I know it" territory.
One from ST: VOY "Drone" would have been on my list.
Idr that one. Who died in it?
@@paulbabcock2428 'First' died. He was an accidentally created drone who named himself. 😢😭
General Chang didn't expect to be beaten by a communications officer who noticed a obvious weakness in a enemy vessel. I'm guessing that those months between Star Trek 3 and 4 served her well.
Might is alright, but knowledge is power.
Nine words:
"I have been - and always shall be - your friend."
(I think you missed one...)
Captain - "Computer, Initiate self destruct sequence."
Computer - "Confirm, all ship's computer panels will explode simultaneously it t minus 10 minutes..."
Picard in Tapestry! Yes he didn't die, but obviously in this list the requisite was only that he thought he was going to be dead
Willie the weeper strikes again .No body did it better the Mr Windom ..( R.I.P.) I have had several acting friends over the years said if you needed some crying done call him !! He could make you cry as well!! OUTSTANDING ACTOR!!
There was a highlight in 2009's Star Trek?
Could have fooled me!
What about Kor? All through the episode he realises he's going senile and in the end embarrasses himself. Then he takes on the mission to stop the Jem Hadar. He knows he's not coming back.
"Long live the empire!"
What about George Kirk?
I was think the same thing.
When you get to hell, tell the pah-wraiths that Shaxs sent you! Special delivery straight from Bajor!
Ah, shaddup.
There's also the moment when Kirk smashes the transmuter in "Catspaw". One imagines that Korob and Sylvia were well aware that they were about to die, although it's hard to make out the expressions on their tentacled little marionette faces.
LOL!!!
Haha
My biggest problem with Data's death is that they telegraphed it so early and so hard in that movie that there was no way you couldn't see it coming and be shocked. The only real surprise about it was that in Picard, they showed that B4 couldn't handle Data's personal information, because everyone _knew_ Data was coming back. Indeed, books were even written about it.
I think that's the biggest problem I had with Nemesis from the beginning. Everything was telegraphed. It was like they had a List of Boxes to Check to Make a Good Movie, and every single one was stamped on there with a hammer.
I like the look the Duras sisters get in Genrations right before they go boom.
I think this list is great, but what about in Star Trek: Insurrection when Ru'afo falls to his death in the collector? Or Admiral Dougherty when he gets his face stretched until he dies? Our Data's daughter, Lal? Tuvix? Or when Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemisis when Picard stabs him, and then he slides down the spear towards Picard and dies in his face?
Janeway's decision to undo the Tuvix accident, was so sad.
I felt sorry for him, begging for his life.
kirk did go where no man has gone before
Decker’s deep fear is the BEST!
He's dead Jim.
That timey whimey stuff is the Tenth Doctor. ❤️
I would have included DS9's "The Visitor". The elder Jake Sisko's elaborately planned self-sacrifice deserved a mention in this list.
Of course, we ALL know what should be #1:
Every returning extra who picks up his costume and discovers that, this week, he'll be wearing a RED SHIRT.
Shax is an absolute lunatic who loves battle though. Like literally the only thing they'd have to change to make him a Klingon would be his appearance, because other than that he basically already is one. A very very bloodthirsty Klingon, living in a Bajoran body :P
One thing I can appreciate of Kirk's death in Generations...
His whole career he's been decorated for his heroics, and his friends and crew and all of the Federation know this legendary hero...
But he dies on a planet with just one other guy, no-one sees it, no-one notices, and because of it 8 million people in the Viridian system survive, proving he was utterly the hero we knew him to be, makingna difference because it's the right thing to do, not because of glory or fame
I also expected the Duras Sisters on Generations.
Commodore Decker should be #1. He set the mold.
What about David he had to pay for his mistakes on the genesis device and die Saving saveik and spock from the klingon executioner
Saavik was going to let the Klingon murder her by letting him stab her and save David and young Spock live instead.
9:27 at least captain kirk went out a winner.
Galileo Seven, when Mr Gaetano loses his phaser, and the creature is coming for him. There's some terror.
There was also the Klingon commander in ST3. "So you've seen the genesis plans?"
Data should have had a spare transport enhancer thingy and put his phaser to overload to destroy Shinzon's weapon, beaming out just in time.
That could have worked. But truth is Brent Spiner requested Data be killed because Brent was showing his age and Data being an android shouldn't age, basically he was getting too old to continue playing the role.