Scary Star Trek tales

[STEPhon IT]

Severed and then put back with impossible precision... 0.02 Microns!! That's one-tenth of the smaller cell in our body! Why do they have to say things this ridiculous?

The episode I was talking about was called "Schisms" where the crew had difficulty sleeping but the story unravels the crew discovered they were sent to a pocket universe where aliens were doing experiments on them. I think Voyager did a ridiculous interpretation of that episode where GOAT Janeway took Voyager near a Sun to get rid of silly versions of those aliens; I also think 7 was only character who could see them. It was laugh out loud horrible.

 

[Brobdingnag]

The episode I was talking about was called "Schisms" where the crew had difficulty sleeping but the story unravels the crew discovered they were sent to a pocket universe where aliens were doing experiments on them. I think Voyager did a ridiculous interpretation of that episode where GOAT Janeway took Voyager near a Sun to get rid of silly versions of those aliens; I also think 7 was only character who could see them. It was laugh out loud horrible.

Yeah, Janeway had needles planted in her cranium but somehow she could still scratch her head without stabbing her hand on those needles... Rather absurd when you think about it. Those needles are either substantial or they're not, they can't be both at the same time, can they?

 

[STEPhon IT]

Yeah, Janeway had needles planted in her cranium but somehow she could still scratch her head without stabbing her hand on those needles... Rather absurd when you think about it. Those needles are either substantial or they're not, they can't be both at the same time, can they?

With a stupid series like Star Trek: Voyager, and it's incomparable, super Captain, it can.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Those Neural Parasites in the ST:TNG ep "Conspiracy" always were creepy and icky to me.

I wanted a Phaser with me when I saw one of those things.

 

[Brobdingnag]

Those Neural Parasites in the ST:TNG ep "Conspiracy" always were creepy and icky to me.

I wanted a Phaser with me when I saw one of those things.

Yeah, those creatures were the typical idiot-savant kind. Savant enough to take control of Starfleet and its major players but idiot enough to be defeated by one guy with a phaser and a fake alien-tail in his neck... Typical Star Trek villains.

 

[STEPhon IT]

Those Neural Parasites in the ST:TNG ep "Conspiracy" always were creepy and icky to me.

I wanted a Phaser with me when I saw one of those things.

Yeah, those creatures were the typical idiot-savant kind. Savant enough to take control of Starfleet and its major players but idiot enough to be defeated by one guy with a phaser and a fake alien-tail in his neck... Typical Star Trek villains.

Oh gosh, the one with the worms. Ugh. Icky and scary, holy wow, TNG had a lot of scary episodes. Does anyone remember Picard taking the gore to a full factor where he took his phaser blast to the alien's head and it exploded!!! Yuck factor 9.99999999 of gross.

 

[Brobdingnag]

Oh gosh, the one with the worms. Ugh. Icky and scary, holy wow, TNG had a lot of scary episodes. Does anyone remember Picard taking the gore to a full factor where he took his phaser blast to the alien's head and it exploded!!! Yuck factor 9.99999999 of gross.

This episode contains one of the worst claymation scenes I've ever seen. Except maybe in amateurish works.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Yeah, those creatures were the typical idiot-savant kind. Savant enough to take control of Starfleet and its major players but idiot enough to be defeated by one guy with a phaser and a fake alien-tail in his neck... Typical Star Trek villains.

It had a brain the size of a large worm and was part of a hive mind.

You can't expect too much complex planning or thought from that kind of creature.

 

[Farscape One]

Oddly enough, despite TNG probably being the most welcoming environment and drama free ship in the franchise, it did horror probably better, and definitely more often, than any of the others.

Maybe it's because of how nice the atmosphere of TNG was that it was able to accomplish horror so well.

 

[Brobdingnag]

It had a brain the size of a large worm and was part of a hive mind.

You can't expect too much complex planning or thought from that kind of creature.

I don't know. They were smart enough to take control of Starfleet headquarters and reassign people on a large scale, not to mention eliminate the ships of the people who suspected them... and "converting" the smartest captains in the fleet but all of a sudden they're defeated by one guy and his phaser... rather clumsy I would say.

 

[Damian]

I get confused with that episode and the one where Riker's hand was severed by those fish aliens. Another chilling episode.

Yeah that's the thing with psychological thrillers. It has you question everything. I mean God, I was getting to the point I didn't know what was real and what wasn't. Credit to Frakes for his acting there. Paranoid, almost schizophrenic at points, then calm, then anxious. Even just how he used his eyes, all well done

 

[Farscape One]

I feel "Frame of Mind" was Frakes' best in terms of acting in TNG. I also think it's Brannon Braga at his best with the writing. Throw in the always superb James L. Conway as director, and it's among the very best of TNG.

 

[Brobdingnag]

I feel "Frame of Mind" was Frakes' best in terms of acting in TNG. I also think it's Brannon Braga at his best with the writing. Throw in the always superb James L. Conway as director, and it's among the very best of TNG.

The episode is fine but they botched the ending. Seriously they put Riker on a bed to experiment on him and they don't even restrain him? Plus they leave his badge nearby so that he can get beamed out right away! These clowns don't deserve to be villains.

 

[STEPhon IT]

The episode is fine but they botched the ending. Seriously they put Riker on a bed to experiment on him and they don't even restrain him? Plus they leave his badge nearby so that he can get beamed out right away! These clowns don't deserve to be villains.

I'm not sure if the aliens thought they required to restrain when the episode established putting the victim under their state they could do anything to them without resistance. As for the combadge, I'm not sure if the aliens knew what a combadge was? Was there another way in your opinion where the episode could've satisfied you?

 

[Farscape One]

If I remember correctly, his combadge was hidden inside a piece of jewelry native to that world... specifically, in something merchants use, which he was posing as one. So that one I can easily pass off of them missing it.

The lack of restraints could be them thinking he was fully under while they did the neurodrain. They probably didn't expect a human to be able to wake up in the middle of the procedure, likely because they have only their own people to use as a barometer for it. They might be even more susceptible to it and so never thought about restraints.

That one is a harder pill to swallow, but everything else in the episode works so perfectly, I can forgive that one detail.

 

[Brobdingnag]

I'm not sure if the aliens thought they required to restrain when the episode established putting the victim under their state they could do anything to them without resistance. As for the combadge, I'm not sure if the aliens knew what a combadge was? Was there another way in your opinion where the episode could've satisfied you?

I think so. Data and Worf and a couple of others mount a rescue party and raid the place where Riker is detained at which point he wakes up a realizes the truth. The scene would last approximately the same amount of time (maybe a little longer) and IMO would be more believable.

 

[STEPhon IT]

I think so. Data and Worf and a couple of others mount a rescue party and raid the place where Riker is detained at which point he wakes up a realizes the truth. The scene would last approximately the same amount of time (maybe a little longer) and IMO would be more believable.

You idea would've been a lot of fun but could take away Riker's personal obstacle from the story but then again it was the entire crew's personal story centered on Commander Riker. I agree your addition would've been better.

 

[publiusr]

Oddly enough, despite TNG probably being the most welcoming environment and drama free ship in the franchise, it did horror probably better, and definitely more often, than any of the others.

Maybe it's because of how nice the atmosphere of TNG was that it was able to accomplish horror so well.

Blood is never so red as it is on lovely white carpeting.

It shouts at you.

Crime scene clean up is actually easier if everything were darker.

 

[at Quark's]

Coda - The idea there are some kind of aliens preying on our 'souls' at the point of death to bring us to 'hell' to feed them is pretty scary.

 

[Deks]

Yeah, Janeway had needles planted in her cranium but somehow she could still scratch her head without stabbing her hand on those needles... Rather absurd when you think about it. Those needles are either substantial or they're not, they can't be both at the same time, can they?

The species in question used technology which was out of phase. Close enough for the technology to interact with the subject, but sufficiently removed so as to the subject couldn't physically interact with it.
Its one of those things where the episode stretches phasing to a certain degree... it happened before when we speculated that Ro Laren and LaForge never fell through the ENT-D floor because of the gravity plating in place when they were out of phase.
Gravity in Trek has been shown to be able to affect technological manipulations before... so its possible the tech on Janeway's head and the one used on other crewmembers had a mini gravity device in place inside the head (inside the skull) to keep the tech in place and interact with the subject, but make it permeable and unseenable by SF sensors or crew (unless the sensors were modified).

At any rate, I didn't mind Scientific method. It was actually good to watch.