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** Two different starships Enterprise get this in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "Yesterday's Enterprise". Short version: A Captain Picard from a timeline where the Federation is losing a war against the Klingons pulls a [[You Shall Not Pass]] against a squadron of Klingon battlecruisers, sacrificing the ''Enterprise-D'' in order to allow the ''Enterprise-C'' to return to her own time and get destroyed defending a Klingon outpost from a Romulan attack, cementing the Federation's status as a [[Fire-Forged Friends|Fire Forged Friend]] to the Klingon Empire.

** Also in ''Next Generation'', in "Face of the Enemy", Troi is persuaded [[Got Volunteered|(well okay, forced)]] to act as a double agent for a member of a Romulan underground resistance movement named N'Vek, who uses surgery to disguise her as a Romulan officer of the [[Gestapo|Tal Shiar]]. At the climax of the episode, when Troi is about to escape back to the ''Enterprise'' after completing the mission - helping three high-level dissenting members of the Romulan government defect to the Federation - the Romulan Commander is onto her, and N'Vek threatens the Commander to buy Troi time. The angry Commander vaporizes him using [[Disintegrator Ray|a disrupter]], but the stalling works, and Troi manages to escape.

** Non-lethal [[Played for Laughs]] example in the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode. After Harry Kim breaks up a fight between Ch'Rega, (a Klingon woman) and a male Klingon, she becomes determined to mate with him (as any Trekkie knows, Klingons are aroused by shows of strength and power) and won't except "no". Kim clearly does ''not'' want to, but then Neelix offers to takes her off his hands and causes the same arousal in Ch'Rega by threatening to disembowel Kim if he takes more than his share of food again, causing Kim to cower and appear weak. ([[Engineered Heroics]], by the way - they planned this.) [[Black Comedy Rape|Given the screams Tuvok hears from Neelix later]], this was very much a noble act of sacrifice on Neleex's point.

* Done in a recent{{when}} episode of [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|the 2004 ''Battlestar Galactica'' reboot]]: after having her criminally shady past revealed, the pilot Kat voluntarily exposes herself to lethal levels of radiation while guiding a passenger ship through a star cluster. The episode was well-written and actually made sense, as well as providing an unexpected degree of depth to a heretofore slightly two-dimensional character. Kat had already taken too much radiation when she made the decision; for her, it was a choice between staying behind and probably dying anyway, or going out there and ''definitely'' dying, but making a difference - atoning not only for her past, but for losing the other ship earlier in the episode.

** Also, in the BSG DVD movie ''Razor'', {{spoiler|Kendra, who shot some civilians under direct order of her commanding officer, [[General Ripper|Helena Cain]], and was troubled with guilt over it ever since. This trope was invoked extremely obviously - someone had to stay behind and manually trigger a nuke, she forced the team at gunpoint to let her be the one to do it, and after her death, she was awarded a frakking medal. Also, the Cylon ship she died to destroy ''told'' her, specifically, that it knew what she had done and she was absolved, right before the nuke went off}}.