That’s just the author getting fed up of their character and killing them off. From the character’s point of view the shot sort of comes from right-angles to reality.
Fed up, or desperate to add an emotional kick to the pants. (See the Defiant getting rocked by the Borg cube in First Contact, with no noticeable damage on DS9, but getting taken out by the Breen, only to be replaced two weeks later, with only new carpet to show for it.)
That’s just the author getting fed up of their character and killing them off. From the character’s point of view the shot sort of comes from right-angles to reality.
Fed up, or desperate to add an emotional kick to the pants. (See the Defiant getting rocked by the Borg cube in First Contact, with no noticeable damage on DS9, but getting taken out by the Breen, only to be replaced two weeks later, with only new carpet to show for it.)