Neck The neck was a part of the body found on humanoid s , used for supporting the weight of a head as well as protecting nerves which carried sensory and motor information from the brain through to the rest of the body . Those who had their neck severely injured wore a neck brace . ( ; ) The Vulcan nerve pinch was sometimes called the " Vulcan neck pinch " by Human s . ( ) A necklace was a jewelry accessory worn on the neck . ( ; ; ; ) The Hunter s of the Gamma Quadrant used a neck manacle on the to humiliate them if they were ever captured alive and brought back to their homeworld . ( ) Specifics . The servo mechanisms found in Soong - type android s ' necks were designed to approximate Human movement . ( ) A sudden neck break will result in instant death . ( ; ; ) Outside engineering on the in 2063 , Lieutenant Commander Data broke the neck of a Borg drone who nearly assimilated Captain Jean - Luc Picard . ( ) In 2254 , Captain Christopher Pike told The Keeper to stop with all the illusion s and let him and his crew leave Talos IV or he would break The Keeper ' s neck . ( ) In 2374 , Worf killed a Jem ' Hadar soldier by breaking his neck after he and a group of Jem ' Hadar located both Worf and his wife Jadzia Dax while they were on a mission to the jungle planet Soukara . ( ) The next year , Worf killed Weyoun 7 , en route to Cardassia , the same way . ( ) Charles Tucker III referred to the " Khavorta " posture as " that neck thing " to T ' Pol in 2153 . ( ) " In 2258 of the alternate reality , grabbed by his neck and attempted to strangle him after Kirk provoked Spock by telling him that he had never love d his mother , , as he had shown no emotion for her death by the hand of Nero . Spock afterward released his grip on Kirk ' s neck after his father , , persuaded him to control himself . " ( ) In 2267 , Trelane , acting as a judge , sentenced Captain James T . Kirk to death on Gothos , telling him , " " You will hang by the neck , captain , until you are dead , dead , dead ! " " ( ) In 2293 , Captain Spock theorized that whomever had assassinated Chancellor Gorkon would be unable to dispose of their incriminating gravity boot s on the without drawing suspicion . Spock told Valeris that the boot s would cling to the killer ' s necks like a pair of Tiberian bat s . ( ) Chakotay ' s mother used to repeatedly get a sore neck , which , as a young boy , he used to massage . ( ) In 2367 , William T . Riker told Jean - Luc Riker , his son in an illusion created by Barash , that he would break his neck , eventually , if he continued to play parrises squares . ( ) In 2368 , an Ux - Mal criminal possessing Data ' s body held Captain Picard up by his neck and threatened to kill him unless a plasma shock in Ten Forward was deactivated . ( ) In 2369 , Zayra , the leader of a Bajoran mob accusing Odo of murder ing Ibudan , yelled out to them , " " How do you get a rope around the neck of a shapeshifter ? " " ( ) Later that year , Captain Picard rendered Devor unconscious with what appeared to be a Vulcan neck pinch . ( ) Odo had performed a technique called the Cardassian neck trick while he was on Terok Nor during the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor , to the amazement of the Cardassians . A mysterious Cardassian informant of his asked him , in 2371 , if he still performed it , to which Odo simply replied , " " No . " " ( ) In 2372 , Seska injected a needle through the back of Commander Chakotay ' s neck to obtain his DNA . ( ) Later on , Vedek Porta murdered Imutta by pushing him off the second level of Deep Space 9 ' s promenade . The impact of Imutta ' s body hitting the floor broke his neck , which led to his death . Porta killed Imutta because of his " D ' jarra " caste , which had been reintroduced to Bajor by Akorem Laan . ( ) In 2373 , Miles O ' Brien rubbed Kira Nerys ' neck to relax her during a time she was staying with the O ' Brien family in their quarters on Deep Space 9 while carrying Miles and Keiko O ' Brien ' s child Kirayoshi . ( ) Later , O ' Brien ' s neck began to get sore after holding his son Kirayoshi for many hour s . ( ) In 2374 , threatened to snap Sarina Douglas ' neck if Julian Bashir didn ' t call Miles O ' Brien right away to fix a slight ringing , which was extremely annoying to Jack , as well as to Patrick , Lauren , and Douglas . It was caused by the plasma flow being out of sync . ( ) Later that year , The Doctor asked the EMH Mark II to stop breathing down his neck while The Doctor was trying to pilot the during a Romulan attack . The EMH Mark II replied that his breathing was only a simulation , to which The Doctor replied , " " So is my neck ! Stop it anyway ! " " ( ) In 2375 , Counselor Deanna Troi playfully stroked Commander William T . Riker ' s neck while they were in the " Enterprise " - E ' s library , researching the Son ' a . ( ) In 2376 , after being turned into a cow by Tom Paris as part of a prank on Harry Kim in the ' s holodeck , Maggie O ' Halloran told Seamus and Milo , after being returned to Human form , that she remembered having a around her neck . ( ) Injuries and ailments . A blow to the neck from an opponent in a boxing match will collapse the carotid artery and stop the flow of blood to the brain . ( ) In 2151 , Ensign Travis Mayweather complained about his neck being sore after falling a sleep in a cave located on a class M planet later known as Archer IV . The neck was a common place for Borg drones to inject their nanoprobe s during assimilation . ( ; ; ) In 2267 , Khan Noonien Singh incapacitated Lieutenant Kyle in the ' s transporter room by applying a considerable amount of force to Kyle ' s neck with his hand s . ( ) In 2268 , an officer on the , suffering from violent paranoia due to the " Defiant " being trapped in interphase , killed the captain of that starship by breaking his neck . ( ; ) After a member of a species of parasitic being s crawled into Dexter Remmick ' s mouth , his neck showed the alien creature by bulging out . ( ) Lieutenant Worf ' s neck and spinal cord were severely damaged in 2368 due to a heavy cargo container falling on his back . He temporarily lost the ability to walk , but was able to regain all of his mobility due to a medical breakthrough in genetronic replication by Doctor Toby Russell . ( ) In 2372 , Captain Kathryn Janeway ' s neck was injured after being shot by Mokra Order soldiers on a Mokra - controlled planet during an attempt to obtain tellerium . ( ) In 2373 , Constable Odo asked Jadzia Dax if she hurt her neck after having a night of intimate relations with Worf . ( ) Later , a macrovirus infected the crew of the USS " Voyager " . After each host of the macrovirus became infected , the person began to develop a fever and fell unconscious . Eventually , the macrovirus hatched through the skin by flying out of the occupant ' s neck . ( ) Neelix ' s neck became sore if he did not sleep on pillow s that were specific to him . ( )