No other death in the entire series was as gorey and gruesome as that head explosion. Fucker's right up there with the Scanners scene, or the dude that inflates and explodes in Big Trouble in Little China.
I mean, look at this shit!
That was revenge porn at it's best. It must be planned long in advance, as annoying as he was the whole time.
Picard: "I'm conflicted about shooting flag officers, even though they're already dead and just being controlled by hostile alien creatures."
Riker, loading another power cell into his phaser: "Shame!"