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*** And to lure the Vorlons and Shadows into the battle, a shipfull of Rangers (led by Bryan Cranston!) have to die protecting a piece of misinformation, so it will be convincing enough.
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' examples:
** ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' has a rather heart-wrenching subversion in "[[Star Trek: The Original Series/Recap/S2/E06 The Doomsday Machine|The Doomsday Machine]]". Commodore Decker and his crew are facing an unbeatable foe, so he beams his crew down to a nearby planet and intends to go down with the ship. Except it doesn't play out like that. The enemy in question is a [[Planet Killer]], and his ship isn't what it's after. However, since Decker is a [[Four-Star Badass]], he still gets his Heroic Sacrifice...
** 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.
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