Scary moments for kids in the original series!
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Exactly what I was thinking...
I suspect you're correct, sis!
Or is she? If we always had breasts, wouldn't they then be male organs? If so, they wouldn't hold the same interest for we blokes attracted to females - would they...?
Exactly what I was thinking...
I suspect you're correct, sis!
Or is she? If we always had breasts, wouldn't they then be male organs? If so, they wouldn't hold the same interest for we blokes attracted to females - would they...?
We reach.
When the show would end with Balok's face right at the end of the closing credits, I'd leave the room. Especially if I was watching alone, I didn't want to dare turn the TV off. Balok might know. I'm serious.
Wow, I'm glad I'm not alone in this. That ghostly guy used to scare the daylights out of me. My dad would hold me and I would look away until the credits were over.
That thing still kinda gives me the creeps. And you know what, I always wondered why they chose that guy as their closing shot???
It was probably demanded by NBC. The Boy, the Babe, and the BEM mentality.
The Mugato from the "A Private Little War" Episode gave my sister nightmares thats why we were not allowed to watch Star Trek much as kids.
but I can't think of any that scared me or my brother.
but I can't think of any that scared me or my brother.
I say this not to diminish your fright at all, but to point out what I considered humorous.
As a young boy, my grandfather used to take me to the House of Humor to get novelty humor items such as fake snakes in cans, two-headed nickels, and so on. These stores also sold novelty vomit.
As a teen, I saw that episode, and immediately thought those creatures looked like novelty vomit (in fact, on the blu-ray commentary, it is mentioned that they was novelty vomit in plastic or something similar).
But here's the funny part—as soon as one of the novelty vomits was shot and falls to the ground, the landing party gathers round and the Yeoman says:
"Captain...it doesn't even look real!"
Heh.
Yep, I know what you mean.
When reading your post, I had to laugh too. But still, I like my fried eggs on my plate, not on my back , and if novelty vomit attacked me and started suckling at me... aww that would freak me out too, believe me...
Wait, wouldn't that make every episode awesome? You think everyone's screwed (Corbomite Manoeuvre, Galileo 7 etc) then suddenly, they're saved!
It was an in joke according to my copy of "Inside Star Trek". The image appears beside the name of one of the producers, making him look like the bug eyed monster.
One possible scary ending, when you think about it, from The Menagerie. The Talosians are basically screwed, realising that the only apparently suitable slave race is very much not. Are they feeling bitter when they call back Pike, who is physically at their mercy and goodness knows what his psyche is like after his accident...
Now I'm going to wonder what happened to captain Pike forever...
I never saw the seies as a child (I wasn't even born until the late 80s) but watched it as a teenager after my Dad suggested I branch out from my lifelong TNG obsession-I don't think he meant a new ST series but meh. I still found some shots scary though-I thought Gary Mitchell's echo voice i Where No Man has Gon Before is creepy and Martha's death in Who God's Destroy.
And Kirk's flirting with Miri who is 13 maybe is a bit...it's probably for the best that there is no adult law enforcement on that planet. And did anyone els noice that he usd her attraction to him to make her tidy p after him while he hung ot with the grownups. I always thought that was mean.
I never saw the seies as a child (I wasn't even born until the late 80s) but watched it as a teenager after my Dad suggested I branch out from my lifelong TNG obsession-I don't think he meant a new ST series but meh. I still found some shots scary though-I thought Gary Mitchell's echo voice i Where No Man has Gon Before is creepy and Martha's death in Who God's Destroy.
And Kirk's flirting with Miri who is 13 maybe is a bit...it's probably for the best that there is no adult law enforcement on that planet. And did anyone els noice that he usd her attraction to him to make her tidy p after him while he hung ot with the grownups. I always thought that was mean.
I noticed that...it might be mean, but at least it stopped her mooning over him for 5 minutes!
Regarding Pike, why did the Talosians call him back - what great favour did he do them during "The Cage"?
Martha Stewart, or Marta?
My scariest memory of Trek when a child, and incidentally, my first memory of Trek, was probably "The Doomsday Machine". Originally airing in October '67, I wouldn't have been quite 5 years old. I was too young to really understand much of the activity, but thanks to the score Sol Kaplan composed, I just knew this "thing" was one bad mutha' f...
"Shut yo' mouth!"
I'm just talking about the doomsday machine.
"We can dig it!"
Ahem, seriously, Kaplan's music turned a tin foil covered wind-sock into a monster with a fear factor rivaling "Bruce" the great white in "Jaws". (And while I'm certainly not claiming John Williams "stole" from Kaplan, structurally, there are similarities with the use of ever building "beats" suggesting their deadly approaches.)
Anyway, I remember this "ring" with "fire" blazing within its center, growing ever bigger on the television screen as the "da dums" grew ever louder. Maybe it was just the approach, or maybe I witnessed Decker "eaten" by this thing, the brass section finally reaching a shrieking crescendo , his tortured face replaced by a blinding inferno filling the screen! Either way, I ducked behind my father's dutch modern chair, cowering, crying, "Daddy! Daddy! Make it go away! Don't let it hurt me!!!"
D@mnit! It took 10 years of therapy to get over that!
Nah, just kiddin'! But it's interesting that's the one memory I had of the series some 6 years before watching it in syndication and becoming a "fan".
Sincerely,
Bill
"Shut yo' mouth!"
I'm just talking about the doomsday machine.
"We can dig it!"
Ahem, seriously, Kaplan's music turned a tin foil covered wind-sock into a monster with a fear factor rivaling "Bruce" the great white in "Jaws". (And while I'm certainly not claiming John Williams "stole" from Kaplan, structurally, there are similarities with the use of ever building "beats" suggesting their deadly approaches.)
Anyway, I remember this "ring" with "fire" blazing within its center, growing ever bigger on the television screen as the "da dums" grew ever louder. Maybe it was just the approach, or maybe I witnessed Decker "eaten" by this thing, the brass section finally reaching a shrieking crescendo , his tortured face replaced by a blinding inferno filling the screen! Either way, I ducked behind my father's dutch modern chair, cowering, crying, "Daddy! Daddy! Make it go away! Don't let it hurt me!!!"
D@mnit! It took 10 years of therapy to get over that!
Nah, just kiddin'! But it's interesting that's the one memory I had of the series some 6 years before watching it in syndication and becoming a "fan".
Sincerely,
Bill
The only time an adult ever turned off Star Trek ,while I was watching, was when Chekov was in the agony booth during "Mirror, Mirror". We were at a friend's house, his mom heard the screams and came stomping in..."What are you watching?!!" and snapped off the TV.
I was really pissed and told her to get back in the kitchen where she belonged and make us some cookies.
Okay, I made up that last part.
semi-related: When I was 11 or 12 and watching reruns of Star Trek: The Animated Series there was an episode that gave me nightmares which I told my friends about at school and they teased me. I believe it was:
"The Infinite Vulcan" written by Walter Koenig
TAS, Episode 1x07 who had aliens being The Phylosians
see the image of the green aliens here:
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Category:Memory_Alpha_images_(Phylosians)
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Phylosian
It is this type of Trek TV episode that would really have Trek benefit from being a new animated series as the aliens wouldn't have to be makeup & costumes and expensive photo-realistic CGI.
"The Infinite Vulcan" written by Walter Koenig
TAS, Episode 1x07 who had aliens being The Phylosians
see the image of the green aliens here:
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Category:Memory_Alpha_images_(Phylosians)
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Phylosian
It is this type of Trek TV episode that would really have Trek benefit from being a new animated series as the aliens wouldn't have to be makeup & costumes and expensive photo-realistic CGI.
TOS was never scary for me and I was 12 when it first came out. But Next Gen,now they had some spooky eps. Think Crusher in her morgue when all the bodies situp at once. Freaked me out and I was older then.
Like Joe mentioned, i also was a sucker for every cliffhanging break for commercial. I'd frantically ask my father at every commercial, "Are they gonna die????!?!?!??!" I fell for it every time!
The salt vampire is about the only thing I can think of.
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