Trek episodes that gave you the creeps

[Admiral Shran]

"Schisms" hands down. It freaked me right out of my skull when I first saw it, and I was about seventeen at the time. I still sleep with a nightlight on because of it. *whimper*

The scene in "Night Terrors" with the dead bodies sitting up was pretty creepy as well.

And call me crazy if you want, but I always thought that three scenes in the Voyager episode "The Raven" were creepy. First, when Seven sees a hallucination of a Borg drone with a Raven call coming out of its mouth. Second, when another drone, with a completely blank expression on his face, pulls a screaming Magnus Hansen away from little Annika. Third, when two drones reach down to grab Annika.

 

[Captain MAJ]

Just watched "The Lights of Zetar" last night. Those strange gurgling noises that the Zetarian's victims made were pretty creepy.

 

[TheKeeper]

Just watched "The Lights of Zetar" last night. Those strange gurgling noises that the Zetarian's victims made were pretty creepy.

Ah yes, good call! That one did have a lot of creepy moments.

 

[Too Much Fun]

There's a scene from "Wolf in the Fold", where the ghost of Jack the Ripper has been revealed, and after killing his host (Hengist) he enters into the computer, where it threatens to kill everyone in a weird voice.

It feeds on fear, and having control of the computer while threatening the crew like that comes off a bit scary.

Then after Kirk forces him out of the computer, it re-enters Hengist's body and he instantly comes alive again (it looks creepy for some reason) and he's still threatening them even as they drag him off and beam him out in to space...

I think with this being made in the late 60's, it had an odd, creepy feel to it..

I guess I can imagine it being effective if you'd seen the show when it was originally broadcast. In my case, seeing it for the first time about two years ago, I couldn't take it seriously. Why? I knew that the man playing Jack the Ripper's soul was the voice of "Piglet" from "Winnie the Pooh".

 

[Nightdiamond]

There's a scene from "Wolf in the Fold", where the ghost of Jack the Ripper has been revealed, and after killing his host (Hengist) he enters into the computer, where it threatens to kill everyone in a weird voice.

It feeds on fear, and having control of the computer while threatening the crew like that comes off a bit scary.

Then after Kirk forces him out of the computer, it re-enters Hengist's body and he instantly comes alive again (it looks creepy for some reason) and he's still threatening them even as they drag him off and beam him out in to space...

I think with this being made in the late 60's, it had an odd, creepy feel to it..

I guess I can imagine it being effective if you'd seen the show when it was originally broadcast. In my case, seeing it for the first time about two years ago, I couldn't take it seriously. Why? I knew that the man playing Jack the Ripper's soul was the voice of "Piglet" from "Winnie the Pooh".

Yeah, you have to get into the episode and block everything else out. What mad it creepy to me is that Hengist was already dead, and then the entity re-enters him and he just springs back to life again in a murderous rage.

Somehow picturing Winnie the pooh in his place made it even creepier!

By the way that stunt work and camera angling was pretty impressive..

 

[EJA]

I always felt the scenes in Night Terrors where Riker goes to his quarters and he feels some kind of presense in there were well creepy. And in Schisms were the crewmembers go to the holodeck to recreate their memories, and you hear that clicking from the darkness.

Then there's that DS9 episode where Bashir wakes up after being attacked, and the station's deserted. There's a scene where he's in a corridor and he sees the lights at the far end going out, getting nearer and nearer to him.

 

[M'Sharak]

Then there's that DS9 episode where Bashir wakes up after being attacked, and the station's deserted. There's a scene where he's in a corridor and he sees the lights at the far end going out, getting nearer and nearer to him.

"Distant Voices" -- yeah, that had some nicely creepy bits, as did DS9's "Empok Nor".

 

[SheliakBob]

As a kid, "Operation: Annihilate!" had me cringing and covering the back of my neck during the opening scenes.

And "The Empath"--I could barely watch that episode at all when it first came out. Had nightmares for a week. (All I can figure is that early in life I had already acquired an intense fear of interpretive dance as an artform...)

 

[tomalak301]

TNG's Eye of the Beholder is an episode I don't watch very much because I think it gave me nightmares for a whole week. The scene from Troi walking in on Worf and the other girl to Pierce telling her "You know what you have to do" was very chilling to me.

Some others:

TNG:

Schisms
Genesis
Night Terrors

VOY:

Waking Moments, Scorpion with all the dead Borg and Kim being ingested.

 

[Nick086]

When Silences has Lease, that a creepy episode. I'm surprise nobody mention that episode on Star Trek The Next Generation.

 

[Lethe]

Put me down as another person freaked out by Schisms. One of my favorite shows ever.

Charlie X's faceless crewmember also freaked me out...