When did Star Trek scare you?

[at Quark's]

I don't believe I've ever been really scared by Star Trek.

Though those Ceti eels were pretty gruesome, as were the evil-looking zombie-Borg from FC. (they looked more menacing than the original Borg from Q who and BOBW)

I also always liked the 'dead bodies sitting up in the morgue' scare scene in Night Terrors, too.

 

[Sim]

When I first saw "Devil in the Dark" at age 7, it scared me pretty much. The aliens in "Operation Annihilate" kind of scared me, too. (Today I think of them as the pizza and omelette aliens, respectively.)

And even later, I found TNG "Night Terrors" and "Schisms" maybe not outright scary, but enjoyably unsettling.

 

[Etbj SMY]

When I first saw "Devil in the Dark" at age 7, it scared me pretty much. The aliens in "Operation Annihilate" kind of scared me, too.

Then one had to fly right at the camera. A similar SLIDERS episode used the same tactic.

 

[Jack Wolfe]

The Salt Vampire from "Man Trap." I was just at the time it first aired, and the thought of a monster that could hide in plain sight, able to strike almost at will was terrifying.

 

[DonIago]

Oh, since nobody's mentioned him, Ruk also scared the heck out of me when I was watching TOS as a kid.

 

[Sim]

Oh, and I found TNG "Frame of Mind" unsettling and intriguing at the same time. Still one of my favorite episodes.

 

[NCC-73515]

"I'm not crayzay!"

 

[JesterFace]

"I'm not crayzay!"

STNG - Frame of Mind ?
Watched that one today and.... ew probably....

 

[at Quark's]

I forgot about a very strong contender, the Hair Pasta Incident between Paris and Neelix in VOY: Parturition.

(Oh, the horror of it!)

 

[at Quark's]

Not really scary perhaps, but I thought the Silent Enemy alien looked nasty.

Wonder what happened to said species and how relations between them and TNG-era Federation are. They must have run into them more often since the ENT era.

 

[Cyfa]

Not really scary perhaps, but I thought the Silent Enemy alien looked nasty.

Wonder what happened to said species and how relations between them and TNG-era Federation are. They must have run into them more often since the ENT era.

~ They featured in Christopher L. Bennett's Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures novel, but I don't recall reading about them in any of the TNG-era novels, pre or post Nemesis.

The way they moved in Enterprise's darkened corridors reminded me very much of the terrifying home video of an alien in Signs. Brrrrrrrrr!

 

[publiusr]

The Elachi

Elachi

The Elachi are a species native to Gamma Veritis IV, as well as the Mycelial Network, somehow, they are known to have at one point been a servent species of the Iconians

aliens.fandom.com

 

[Laughing Dragon]

The one in the first or second season where Riker and Picard are shooting that alien symbiote implanting themselves in the body of star freeters in that guy's body. Not only was it terrifying but the squeaky scream it let out as it was being phased to death freaked me out, lol.

 

[JamesRye]

There was that jump scare in TNG's Genesis.

 

[oberth]

when tos first came on german tv i hid behind the couch whenever one of those evil klingons showed up

 

[Laughing Dragon]

I want to add those slimy dog things/pets in TSFS. I was very young when I saw it. The ear things that were going in starfleeters ears to control them too in the TWOK.

 

[maneth]

The Ceti Eels for sure.

The first time I watched TOS was in reruns in the mid-80s when I was in my early teens. The first time I saw Spock's dead eyes in Spock's Brain freaked me right out. So did the Archons and their weird behavior.

I'd had a pretty sheltered upbringing with very little access to TV or movies (we didn't have a TV until I was 15, except for the year when we rented a furnished house in the UK, and my parents weren't big moviegoers), so a kiddie movie like E.T. gave me nightmares for weeks. My sister and I were invited by a friend to go, I was 10 and my sister was a couple years younger, and it was the first movie I saw without an adult because my friend's parents didn't join us.

 

[GhoulEddie74]

This moment in the second TOS pilot episode creeped me out as a child and still creeps me out as a grown adult.

 

[Paul755]

I was a kid during TNG S7 and Worf’s transformation in “Genesis” freaked me the fuck out. Especially when he’s chasing Picard thru the Jeffries tube.

Now it’s no big deal. But back then…damn.

 

[Etbj SMY]

This moment in the second TOS pilot episode creeped me out as a child and still creeps me out as a grown adult.

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