"Behind the sofa" moments

[drt]

Trek never bothered me as a kid, Planet of the Apes on the other hand scared the bejezus out of me (I can remember actually hiding behind the couch when it was on)...

 

[Tracy Trek]

Trek never bothered me as a kid, Planet of the Apes on the other hand scared the bejezus out of me (I can remember actually hiding behind the couch when it was on)...

I never hid behind the sofa when it was on. But I did find it kind of disturbing when they found the remnants of the Statue of Liberty.

 

[Richard Baker]

As a kid, the woman with the "frog" voice in Lights of Zetar really freaked me out a lot.

That glowing croaking woman really got to me when I first saw it - I was eleven at the time.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

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?

No, "Demon" and "Course: Oblivion" were the only eps where the copy was seen.

 

[Cyfa]

The aforementioned Ceti Eel (more going in than coming out) from The Wrath of Khan had my skin crawling, and McCoy walking into the hanging bodies on Regula One really gave me a jump-scare when I was young. Then came the Borg - they replaced my 'being chased by Daleks' nightmares for a good while!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

At least you can kill Borg when they chase you, even if the shields adapt physical violence will kill them. Not so with a Dalek

 

[ebusinesstutor]

The Doomsday Machine episode of Star Trek really scared me as a kid. I loved it of course and couldn't stop watching, but it really frightened me.

 

[Zonker]

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.

I always thought that was one of the most disturbing deaths in Star Trek. Not graphic or gory, just downright creepy. Being crushed to death while in a form that's completely alien to you, what an awful way to die.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Were the Kelvans just plain dicks? Or was that supposed to frighten and intimidate Kirk?

 

[JRoss]

I never hid behind the sofa when it was on. But I did find it kind of disturbing when they found the remnants of the Statue of Liberty.

Wait, we the Planet of the Apes Earth the whole time!?!?

 

[Danny99]

The scene in Night Terrors with Crusher alone in the cargo bay when all the bodies sit up. The music, her reactions, still sends chills up my spine.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Wait, we the Planet of the Apes Earth the whole time!?!?

That is exactly what the writers intended that the planet they are on is our Earth.

 

[The Old Mixer]

More spoilers:

IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!

 

[JRoss]

That is exactly what the writers intended that the planet they are on is our Earth.

SPOILERZ DOOD!

 

[publiusr]

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.

What was worse, is that--to get her to breathe, you'd have to cut into that skin or throat to each a cavity...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

What was worse, is that--to get her to breathe, you'd have to cut into that skin or throat to each a cavity...

Yep....... Gross indeed

 

[UnknownSample]

What's worse, no time for that probably.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

What's worse, no time for that probably.

More then likely unless McCoy can do a tracheotomy quickly. They don't have pens on the Enterprise.

 

[Seven of Five]

Genesis was a lot of fun when I was younger. I used to watch TNG round my cousin's house, and me, him and his mother jumped through the ceiling when Spider-Reg appeared.

I still have fondness for that episode, but I have to not think too much when I'm watching.

That's the only time Trek ever scared me, unless we start going into The Way to Eden/Code of Honor/Profit and Lace/Spirit Folk/A Night in Sickbay...

 

[Greg Cox]

Not STAR TREK, but . . ..

The credits sequence for the original OUTER LIMITS tv series: "We have taken control of your television. We control the horizontal. We control the vertical," etc.

Scared the hell out of me as a kid. I didn't even want to be in the same room during that part.