Creepiest looking creature in the entire history of Star Trek?

[GNDN18]

That slow approach sequence with the fiery gullet enhanced by the rhythmic, trodding beat of Sol Kaplan's score literally drove me to duck behind my father's preferred Danish Modern chair

Thanks for unlocking that particular repressed memory for me. For an instant, I was five years old again, in my parents’ starter home, hiding behind a LazyBoy recliner, all the while being equally aghast at Decker’s final anguish.

One wonders why we ever watched that show again.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

Sorry, I find that hilarious. It looks like Big Bird's hippie uncle.

The fact that it doesn't or couldn't speak and that it resembled an oversized raven or crow, which are really creepy animals irl, makes the creature very scary for me.

And on top of that, we know absolutely nothing about it. Neither if or how intelligent it is or its intentions.

 

[Herbert]

The Bigfoot robot from Six Million Dolla Man scared me more as a kid than anything on Star Trek. Having said that, those that mentioned the Salt Vampire and the FC Borg are spot on.

 

[Herbert]

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Humanoid_bird

For me this humanoid bird from "The Cage" looks like a pure nightmare fuel and way more horrific and creepy than every other creature or species.

I get shivers by only looking at a pic of it.

Anyone else feeling the same?

It's a shame that none of the later shows ever did anything with the bird creatures.

 

[at Quark's]

While they may not have looked too scary, I think the parasites from Operation Annihilate are by far the scariest creatures in Trek.

They are quite scary, yes. A thought on how other Captains would have handled this:

TNG: Captain tries to reason with them, convince them that their actions are morally wrong.
DS9: Captain tries to enlist help of Romulans to stop the incursion
VOY: Captain orders crew to build 'some kind of' quantum intermix hyperfractal chamber to decontaminate the infected
ENT: Captain tries gazelle speech on them.
DIS: 'Hmmmm....perhaps these can serve as a tardigrade substitute...'

 

[Jayson1]

Whatever was in that egg Picard ate while being tortured in "Chain of Command part 2."

 

[Redfern]

Thanks for unlocking that particular repressed memory for me. For an instant, I was five years old again, in my parents’ starter home, hiding behind a LazyBoy recliner, all the while being equally aghast at Decker’s final anguish.

One wonders why we ever watched that show again.

Honestly, I can't remember which "slow zoom" sequence was the one to make me "duck and cover", the initial reveal as it looms towards the Enterprise, or later when Decker makes his suicide run or Kirk's "gobstopper maneuver" inn the final act. But I suspect it was during Decker's sacrifice because William Windom conveyed what the creators wanted the audience to experience, his abject terror, wanting to flee, but also knowing he should pay for his (perceived) failure to save his crew.

Of course, I was too young to comprehend any of that. But his squirming in his seat and clenched teeth was something a 4 year old could understand!

 

[Commander Troi]

Thanks for unlocking that particular repressed memory for me. For an instant, I was five years old again, in my parents’ starter home, hiding behind a LazyBoy recliner, all the while being equally aghast at Decker’s final anguish.

One wonders why we ever watched that show again.

The same reason all those kids who hid behind the sofa from Daleks still watch Doctor Who. There's scary that scars you for life and then there's scary that's also awesome. I don't claim to understand it, but I know it's so.

 

[WarpTenLizard]

The fact that it doesn't or couldn't speak and that it resembled an oversized raven or crow, which are really creepy animals irl, makes the creature very scary for me.

And on top of that, we know absolutely nothing about it. Neither if or how intelligent it is or its intentions.

It may in fact have a voice like Oscar or the Count, and share the latter's extraordinary mathematical powress, and thirst for blood.

 

[Herbert]

Whatever was in that egg Picard ate while being tortured in "Chain of Command part 2."

I think that was Cardassian balut

 

[GNDN18]

But I suspect it was during Decker's sacrifice because William Windom conveyed what the creators wanted the audience to experience, his abject terror, wanting to flee, but also knowing he should pay for his (perceived) failure to save his crew.

Of course, I was too young to comprehend any of that. But his squirming in his seat and clenched teeth was something a 4 year old could understand!

That’s the one for me.

Spoiler: Warning: potential trigger

 

[Commander Troi]

Yeah, Windom gave an amazing performance!

 

[vandevere]

Honestly, I can't remember which "slow zoom" sequence was the one to make me "duck and cover", the initial reveal as it looms towards the Enterprise, or later when Decker makes his suicide run or Kirk's "gobstopper maneuver" inn the final act. But I suspect it was during Decker's sacrifice because William Windom conveyed what the creators wanted the audience to experience, his abject terror, wanting to flee, but also knowing he should pay for his (perceived) failure to save his crew.

Of course, I was too young to comprehend any of that. But his squirming in his seat and clenched teeth was something a 4 year old could understand!

Decker's terror was what terrified me when I first saw it...

 

[XCV330]

BTW what about V'ger?
A former probe that has "evolved" into a gigantic super powerful entity that travels the universe I'm passively "recording the data" about lifeforms... ships... planets... by destroying everything (or at least a good portion) of what it scans. Not out of malice, but just to follow its corrupted programming..
Edit: oops forgot that this was about creepy *looking* things. Sorry

that. especially the "intruder alert scene" the noise, the overexposure, Spock and Checkov being attacked then the look on Ilia's face, the silence and sound of her tricorder dropping all led to well the 2nd most gruesome scene in TMP.

 

[Commander Troi]

that. especially the "intruder alert scene" the noise, the overexposure, Spock and Checkov being attacked then the look on Ilia's face, the silence and sound of her tricorder dropping all led to well the 2nd most gruesome scene in TMP.

I'm curious - what's the 1st?

 

[XCV330]

I'm curious - what's the 1st?

the transporter accident or Decker's trousers.

 

[Brobdingnag]

Yeah, Windom gave an amazing performance!

That is why we can see him guest-starring in all the major series of the time, "The Wild Wild West", "Mission Impossible", "The Fugitive", "The Invaders"... you name it.

 

[GNDN18]

the transporter accident or Decker's trousers.

There was nothing you could have done, Rand. It wasn't your fault.

 

[jackoverfull]

That’s the one for me.

Spoiler: Warning: potential trigger

the planet killer was something really terrifying, yes. And one of the bigger failings of TOS-R, imho: the new model and the new angles didn’t work at all for me.

 

[publiusr]

The “Shroomies” from SILENT ENEMY on Enterprise in recent years…the flying parasites…but the image that wigged me out was the faceless girl from Charlie X.

Only the crewman partially phased through the deck came close to that in TNG…Van Mayter from IN THEORY.