7. Captain Pike's death | Into Darkness
John Harrison, aka Khan Noonien Singh, launches a devastating attack that kills James T. Kirk’s mentor and father figure, Christopher Pike. Pike is lured into an unforeseen ambush at an emergency session of Starfleet Command and assassinated, shot several times before Kirk's eyes. Kirk, especially, is hit hard by Pike’s death because he was the moral compass that led the impulsive young captain toward greatness.
Pike saw potential where others saw a reckless troublemaker, and he believed in Kirk when nobody else would. Pike is murdered, and Kirks learns to stop using random luck as an excuse for playing God with people's lives, while experiencing the repercussions of his flippant approach.
The loss pushes Kirk to grow up from a skilled but immature officer to the thoughtful leader he needs to be. There may be no ceremony to Pike’s death as there has been to past Trek farewells, but it’s brutally powerful in its sheer suddenness.
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