"In a Mirror, Darkly" on Enterprise. They made the whole crew mean & nasty. Major Reed scared me - he seemed to enjoy it when Tucker was being "interegated" in the torture tube!!
Most Scary Star Trek Episodes and Movies
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Frame of mind was always the worst for me.
STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT... watching the process of assimilation, particularly the probes coursing through the veins of people. We saw it once or twice on VOYAGER and ENTERPRISE. But seeing that the first time dent a chill down my spine.
No one was scared by all the dark stormy nights, ghostly visitations, and candle masturbating of "Sub Rosa"? 
Though, elsewhere in bad episodes, I think I was legitimately frightened by "Genesis" the first time.
But I doubt anything can ever top "Conspiracy" in frightening Trek for me. I recently posted about this over on the TNG forum, but I initially discovered that ep in near-perfect conditions... when I was a kid, they would rerun TNG at 2 AM on weeknights. I'd try to sneak downstairs to the TV to watch it, and it was a whole process to not wake up my parents... must carefully make it through the dark house silently, not making any noise, not rousing the dogs, not stepping on any of the squeaky spots on the floor, not turning on any lights. And on top of all of this, we lived deep in the woods, very isolated, so the house was already spooky to start with. If I managed to successfully reach the TV, I had to sit close to it and watch at low volume (and hit mute the second the opening or end credits started -- that fanfare would always resound more loudly in the house than anything else)
To this day, if I put on that episode, I am back to being a little kid up alone in the middle of the night, surrounded by total darkness as the creepy possession horror unfolds.
Though, elsewhere in bad episodes, I think I was legitimately frightened by "Genesis" the first time.
But I doubt anything can ever top "Conspiracy" in frightening Trek for me. I recently posted about this over on the TNG forum, but I initially discovered that ep in near-perfect conditions... when I was a kid, they would rerun TNG at 2 AM on weeknights. I'd try to sneak downstairs to the TV to watch it, and it was a whole process to not wake up my parents... must carefully make it through the dark house silently, not making any noise, not rousing the dogs, not stepping on any of the squeaky spots on the floor, not turning on any lights. And on top of all of this, we lived deep in the woods, very isolated, so the house was already spooky to start with. If I managed to successfully reach the TV, I had to sit close to it and watch at low volume (and hit mute the second the opening or end credits started -- that fanfare would always resound more loudly in the house than anything else)
To this day, if I put on that episode, I am back to being a little kid up alone in the middle of the night, surrounded by total darkness as the creepy possession horror unfolds.
Major Reed scoffs "he's a tellarite... aren't they all guilty of something..."
The scariest episode clearly was A Night in Sickbay. We were all so worried about the lil doggy. 
The two scenes that scared the hell out of me as a kid were...
1) That ghastly distorted scream during the transporter accident in TMP. I wanted to look away, like Rand does. I actually relieved when they disappeared. (There's no way this movie would get a "G" rating today!)
2) Dexter Remmick's head being blown up in "Conspiracy", and the horrible howl of that "mother" parasite that emerges from what's left of his chest afterward.
1) That ghastly distorted scream during the transporter accident in TMP. I wanted to look away, like Rand does. I actually relieved when they disappeared. (There's no way this movie would get a "G" rating today!)
2) Dexter Remmick's head being blown up in "Conspiracy", and the horrible howl of that "mother" parasite that emerges from what's left of his chest afterward.
TNG's Frame of Mind is great and scary; DS9's Empok Nor has the best scary atmosphere and Voyager's The Thaw is creepy but also really explores the nature of fear. Maybe the scariest for me is DS9's Whispers because the fear and unease comes from a really troubling, psychological, paranoid place that I find more effective than most traditional horror tropes. Plus I just love the ending and find it quite tragic.
Conspiracy is just creepy all the way around. Especially before they blast him the way his neck is all bulging from the parasites.Yuck!
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