Bernie Clifton
Ensign
Anyone else agree that the ear slugs are the most horrific moment in any Star Trek?
The ear slugs in TWOK
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Bernie Clifton
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I cannot think of anything worse than the ear slugs. It's the knowing about it...Instantaneous death would be easier.
I thought it was pretty grim. Scared me as a kid. I wish Star Trek still had a little more of this kind of thing in it to be honest. This, along with the transporter accident in TMP lent it an air of seriousness back in those days before the movies became more cheesy so to speak.
And this is just scratching the surface. The number of brain parasites in the world terrifies me.
I can't really think of anything that's worse than Harry Kim. 
Yes, the slugs are worse. Remmick's head kind of looks like a cartoon to me, but the slugs are something I could imagine actually happening. There's a reason I cringe at the latter and not the former, is the best way I can describe it.
The Remmick scene was so gory as to be ridiculously comical and over-the-top. Cartoonish, yes. Silly, even. Kind of like Paul Verhoeven films.
The TWOK slugs, on the other hand, were just scary enough - they were truly chilling and horrific. Plus they involved mind control, which adds an extra element to the mix.
I can't really think of anything that's worse than Harry Kim.
How about Joe Piscopo as the holodeck comic?
I can't really think of anything that's worse than Harry Kim.
How about Joe Piscopo as the holodeck comic?
lol
Anyone else agree that the ear slugs are the most horrific moment in any Star Trek?
I agree except their sariness was diminished when Chekov sort of got away relatively unscathed at the end.
Originally I thought the eels were in there eating your brain.
That was a really memorable moment in the movie. I well remember the huge close-up shots of the slugs creeping towards their ears, then crawling into their ear canals. On the huge movie screen, there was just no escaping that moment. All you could do was squirm in your popcorn crumbles on your seat. It never was quite as effective on the small screen.
Anyone else agree that the ear slugs are the most horrific moment in any Star Trek?
I agree except their sariness was diminished when Chekov sort of got away relatively unscathed at the end.
Originally I thought the eels were in there eating your brain.
Yeah, I think that's one of the few missteps of TWOK. They should have had bones surgically remove it or something. Just have the worm crawl out was lame.
Yeah, but we got to see Kirk's fantastically accurate aim with his phaser: that slug he fried couldn't have been more than a couple of inches from Chekov's head, at best!
Besides, it was rather unsettling to see that the slug was larger than it was when it went in!
Some might say that Chekov's behaviour in later films confirms that may in fact have happened!
I found it unintentionally comical with that big plastic ear and the black fake fur masquerading as a sideburn.
As written this is what happened:
...so apparently Bones' injection "poisoned the well" and the eel decided to vamoose. They should have left that business in.
Perhaps they did of sorts. McCoy did so something before the eel came out. We got a light shown at us, and while it seems like just having a look-see my today's medical standards, perhaps it was some sort of sonic or other decive in place of a hypospray. A less invasive version of McCoy's device that repaired Chekov's blood vessels in Star Trek IV. Whatever it was, the eel didn't like it.
Speculative of course.
Speculative of course.
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