What are the most scary Star Trek episodes and movies?
Most Scary Star Trek Episodes and Movies
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TOS: Where No Man Has Gone Before, What Are Little Girls Made Of, Return of The Archons, The Devil In The Dark, Catspaw.
TNG: Skin Of Evil, Conspiracy, Q Who, Night Terrors, Identity Crisis, Frame of Mind, Genesis.
DS9: Empok Nor.
Movies: Star Trek II: TWOK, Star Trek: First Contact.
TNG: Skin Of Evil, Conspiracy, Q Who, Night Terrors, Identity Crisis, Frame of Mind, Genesis.
DS9: Empok Nor.
Movies: Star Trek II: TWOK, Star Trek: First Contact.
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Hmmm...my memory sucks. You guys may have to mention a few "scary' episodes to refresh my memory. I'm watching Enterprise right now, so I'll throw out a couple of episodes that have a bit of a horror theme:
Impulse
Dead Stop
There was a Borg dream sequence in an episode of Voyager that was pretty neat, too. i think it may have been in "Infinite Regress", but I can't be sure.
Impulse
Dead Stop
There was a Borg dream sequence in an episode of Voyager that was pretty neat, too. i think it may have been in "Infinite Regress", but I can't be sure.
TOS- The Man Trap
Voyager- Faces
Voyager- Faces
I know people don't like this Voyager ep but Cathexis-the dark and forboding atmosphere, alien possession. I loved it.
Only because it hasn't been mentioned yet, but "Schisms" (TNG) was pretty freaky. As was the Voyager episode with the experimenting Aliens for much the same reasons. Throw in (TNG) "Where Silence has Lease". The crewman dying solely for demonstration purposes sticks with you.
Also, just for one moment "Charlie X"-No mouth girl.
Also, just for one moment "Charlie X"-No mouth girl.
The Outrageous Okona and The Way to Eden still give me nightmares.
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I remember when I was a kid being very disturbed by the Borg's red optic beams in the darkness in First Contact. Kept me up at night. The Borg tech bursting out of Picard's face at the beginning of FC also freaked me out.
STAR TREK as a whole didn't do horror very often, and didn't always succeed with it. They did moments really well, but entire episodes... not quite as well.
For me, I think the Vidiians, as a concept and execution of the concept, were creepy as hell. I can't think of many things more creepy or frightening than an entire species doing nothing but chasing you and harvesting your body parts. And at the same time, you can still be sympathetic toward them because of the reason why they have gone to such lengths. One of the more successful villains of the franchise, I think.
For me, I think the Vidiians, as a concept and execution of the concept, were creepy as hell. I can't think of many things more creepy or frightening than an entire species doing nothing but chasing you and harvesting your body parts. And at the same time, you can still be sympathetic toward them because of the reason why they have gone to such lengths. One of the more successful villains of the franchise, I think.
I think the existential horror of Voyager's Course: Oblivion is pretty horrific.
That moment in Return to Tomorrow when you see the smoking black spheroid that was supposed to house Spock, and McCoy's reaction. And also Henoch terrorizing Uhura and the whole bridge.
That moment in Return to Tomorrow when you see the smoking black spheroid that was supposed to house Spock, and McCoy's reaction. And also Henoch terrorizing Uhura and the whole bridge.
TOS season 1 generally has a Twilight Zone feel.
That Next Gen alien abduction episode isn't scary at all, for me, because you'd think, watching it, that any sort of generic Next Gen situation was going on, with everyone reacting in their standard mild, unaroused ways. It's "scary" only because it's supposed to be. Everyone's so dignified as always. They say limbs are severed and reattached, but the aliens sure do a great job, looking after out heroes as carefully as the best hospital, because Riker's just fine. No harm done. The surgery is sort of theoretical for Will. The story is no surprise, since the 90s were full of alien abduction stories with invasive surgeries.
That Next Gen alien abduction episode isn't scary at all, for me, because you'd think, watching it, that any sort of generic Next Gen situation was going on, with everyone reacting in their standard mild, unaroused ways. It's "scary" only because it's supposed to be. Everyone's so dignified as always. They say limbs are severed and reattached, but the aliens sure do a great job, looking after out heroes as carefully as the best hospital, because Riker's just fine. No harm done. The surgery is sort of theoretical for Will. The story is no surprise, since the 90s were full of alien abduction stories with invasive surgeries.
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