Had a little Idea earlier, What if the virus in the naked time didn't get everyone it touched drunk but instead turned them into zombies. How do you think the episode would've played out. Can you think of any key moments in the episode that might stay the same?
The Naked time. With Zombies
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^ he he yeah I have. That's kinda where I got the idea from. The opening of the episode would probably stay the same. Except be a little more gory.
^ I guess people like to be scared sometimes. I don't really know why people like zombies either. It's just that they do
Isn’t dying pretty much a prerequisite for becoming a zombie? If Star Trek had done an episode where the Enterprise crew turn into zombies, it would have been the LAST episode!
(Unless, of course, Dr. McCoy remained un-zombified, and found a way to de-zombify the zombies.)
(Unless, of course, Dr. McCoy remained un-zombified, and found a way to de-zombify the zombies.)
Yeah. They, technically wouldn't be zombies, but they'd act like them. (I can't believe it's not zombies!)
McCoy would probably do the same thing he does in the episode, try to stop the disease. Testing Zombie Sulu for a remedy. Maybe Spock is immune or something because of his Vulcan physiology.
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Or maybe their flesh would start decomposing like zombies.
SULU (to Uhura): “I’ll protect you, fair maiden!” Then his sword arm falls off.
What's with this stupid zombie fad? We need to create some original horror monsters here, people! Bring out the insectoid body parts and some copper wiring, I'm going to start a trend!
Well, if the Trek zombies are like Romero's/O'Bannon's, then Spock would have been number one on the zombies' menu!
"Brains...big Vulcan brains....nom...nom..."
Doug
But what about his green blood, the salt vampire didn't like it very much. Maybe space zombies don't either
Or, they may find it all the more tasty, like an exotic dish.
Here's the irony. "modern" film zombies (anything from "Night of the Living Dead" onwards) parallel the older eastern European legends of vampires. Until Stoker published "Dracula" and placed a "gothic romance" spin on the tales, vampires were not the glamourous beings as movies would later depict them. They were instead fetid, half rotting corpses with the stench of the tomb upon their breath. Swap the "brains" for blood and they are almost indistinguishable.
Maybe the recent interest in zombies is a kind of "rebellion" against the most recent incantation of film vampires, "monsters" effectively stripped of their horror? I don't really know; I'm just "blowin' smoke".
Sincerely,
Bill
Here's the irony. "modern" film zombies (anything from "Night of the Living Dead" onwards) parallel the older eastern European legends of vampires. Until Stoker published "Dracula" and placed a "gothic romance" spin on the tales, vampires were not the glamourous beings as movies would later depict them. They were instead fetid, half rotting corpses with the stench of the tomb upon their breath. Swap the "brains" for blood and they are almost indistinguishable.
Maybe the recent interest in zombies is a kind of "rebellion" against the most recent incantation of film vampires, "monsters" effectively stripped of their horror? I don't really know; I'm just "blowin' smoke".
Sincerely,
Bill
I think because they ARE us. Dying and coming back from the dead. Not like Dr. Frankenstein's monster, or the mummy, buried thousands of years ago. Zombies are your parents, your neighbors, your spouse. Plus, you cannot reason with them, they are single-minded.
One of the reasons early Borg incarnations were so scary to viewers was because they were akin to zombies. Assimilation was like the death and reawakining of a zombie.
Just my $.02, feel freee to mock or disagree.
I think because they ARE us. Dying and coming back from the dead. Not like Dr. Frankenstein's monster, or the mummy, buried thousands of years ago. Zombies are your parents, your neighbors, your spouse. Plus, you cannot reason with them, they are single-minded.
One of the reasons early Borg incarnations were so scary to viewers was because they were akin to zombies. Assimilation was like the death and reawakining of a zombie.
Just my $.02, feel freee to mock or disagree.
Until the queen ruined it.
I think because they ARE us. Dying and coming back from the dead. Not like Dr. Frankenstein's monster, or the mummy, buried thousands of years ago. Zombies are your parents, your neighbors, your spouse. Plus, you cannot reason with them, they are single-minded.
One of the reasons early Borg incarnations were so scary to viewers was because they were akin to zombies. Assimilation was like the death and reawakining of a zombie.
Just my $.02, feel freee to mock or disagree.
Until the queen ruined it.
So true. But I stand by everything else i said!
Indeed. Your post reminded me of the first episode of the excellent new series "The Walking Dead." Lennie James' character is holed up in a house with his son, while they watch their undead wife/mother slouching around outside. James later tries to shoot her from a window, but can't bring himself to do it. It was a powerful scene, amongst many in this outstanding show.
Doug
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