Just want to point out that we already have a Star Trek mod for Stellaris and it is still actively maintained by the community. It already have custom models, lore, species, and everything else in the game anyway. It offers more than what I would suspects that this game would offer:
Seriously, try it out.
It's one thing if he died alone and another when he took other 4 people with him. I would still chalk it up to greedy asshole, because he cheap out things that would've saved the four people.