I always thought that if they'd cast another actor to play Sulan, rather than the actor that played Durst, and Michael Westmore put a cast of Durst's face on the other actor, that would have been even creepier.
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I always thought that if they'd cast another actor to play Sulan, rather than the actor that played Durst, and Michael Westmore put a cast of Durst's face on the other actor, that would have been even creepier.
This one is hardly a "behind the sofa" moment for me. But I guess it would have been pretty creepy for Janeway. Her nightmare in Waking Moments when she goes into the mess hall, sees her dead, cobweb covered crew sitting there and Neelix says "You took too long getting them home".
I don't think I've ever actually been really scared by Trek. But there's some nice creepy scenes to be had.
One of the best (imho) is an old one: The Beverley morgue scene in Night Terrors. She is in the morgue, to conduct autopsies, when suddenly she hears something, looks around, and sees all bodies sit right up on the tables -- still covered in shrouds. Bev shudders, walks backwards, bounces into another sitting corpse, realises she must be hallucinating, and says "go away!". Next instant she looks around and everything is as it should be, the corpses lying quietly on the tables again.
Nothing "spectacular". After all those years, still extremely effective in creeping me out
I could put a link to the scene on youtube here, but I believe that is against the forum rules?
Thanks, I knew the name of that episode wasn't Eyes in the Dark.
Oh, oh, Cake Troi!
Voyager's "Twisted", when Janeway's trying to speak after being caught in the distortion field. Brain damage freaks me out.
Frame of Mind was a freaky episode.
The abductions in Schisms were pretty freaky.
As a kid, the woman with the "frog" voice in Lights of Zetar really freaked me out a lot. As did the faceless woman in Charlie X, as mentioned above.
But I've never seen anything in Trek to genuinely terrify me.
The abductions in Schisms were pretty freaky.
As a kid, the woman with the "frog" voice in Lights of Zetar really freaked me out a lot. As did the faceless woman in Charlie X, as mentioned above.
But I've never seen anything in Trek to genuinely terrify me.
Very first thing that came to mind.
My runner up is Home Soil in TNG. A poor scientist gets blasted by a drilling laser controlled by mineral lifeforms. The thing is, though, he was blasted several times, and alive for each one, so he suffered. Even worse, our heroes were only mere feet away from him, unable to bypass the locked door, and could do nothing more but listen to his screams of pain. Help was so close, yet so far away. What a bad way to go!
The defacing of the woman in Charlie X? Oh god yes that was terrifying. They even used a similar scene in the Twilight Zone movie if I remember.
When the Enterprise gets caught in some phantom rift and Worf & Riker are exploring a deserted duplicate enterprise that starts to dissapear, and Riker tries to leave the bridge only finding himself walking in from another door....i was little when i first watched it so it was a bit scary
Magic?
Which episode is this, I don't remember it.
"Where Silence Has
"Where Silence Has Lease" ep 2 , season 2.
The Enemy Within
Oooh, the death of Thompson in "By Any Other Name." She and another crewman are turned into mineral cubes of pure human essence. The Kelvan says, "the flesh and brain, ... and even what ... Humans ... call personality", before crushing Thompson.
The thing is, the Kelvan's outright stating personality creates my most gruesome head canon -- that Thompson was fully conscious when she was turned into powder, teased/tormented, and then finally crushed with his fingers. Conjuring that thought in my head as a kid frightened me for days.
The thing is, the Kelvan's outright stating personality creates my most gruesome head canon -- that Thompson was fully conscious when she was turned into powder, teased/tormented, and then finally crushed with his fingers. Conjuring that thought in my head as a kid frightened me for days.
The moment in "Identity Crisis" when LaForge lifts his hand and sees his fingers have all changed scared the shit out of me when I first saw it, age 9 or 10. "Schisms" entire concept and the clicking noises gave me plenty of sleepless nights. I was terrified I'd be sucked into a vortex and have my arm amputated and re-attached!
Shit that's the one......... Schisms scared me for a couple of weeks after seeing that episode. It was perfect as a scary episode..
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Probably copies everything at the quantum level.... So makes sense that it copies the computers and their programs.
The 2nd time we see the copied Voyager and the real Voyager finds them all they find is a cloud of demon fluid particles...... They got there too late. But that freaked me out. Did that mean all the adventures we had seen up to that point was the copied Voyager?
There was a Voyager novel called Battle Lines, which reads a lot like Not!Chakotay's description of one of the Silver Blood Voyager's adventures.
That's interesting.
I always wonder if what we've seen of the show from the first time they encounter the Demon planet to the last time was that ship, and I guess we don't get that as an answer but to me that is a nice bit of headcanon I can live with..
Not just one scene. But most of the rest of the episode "Tuvix" after he started saying he was being murdered and it seemed that most of the crew was on his side. First time I've seen this episode since it first came out. Seems to me that he contradicted himself in his argument by saying that Tuvok and Neelix live on in him and they didn't murder them. He would live on in them once they were restored. Duh.
The deadly years in TOS really gave me the creeps, but I was 9 when I saw it for the first time.
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