Of course, a woman without a mouth may not be that bad of an idea...
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You could have gone the other way with that. Still requires *DUCKING* though. haha
The scariest episode of Star Trek?
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You could have gone the other way with that. Still requires *DUCKING* though. haha
Good thing the blind community will never read your post.
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I am 49 and "Genesis" still scares the heck out of me.
Do we ever see any blind characters other than Geordi in the post-TOS Trek? Even a token extra wearing a visor?
The only ones I can think of are Miranda Jones and the president in TUC, and it's never stated that he's blind.
What about deaf? Just the ambassador in Loud as a Whisper, as far as I can remember.
I never found it spine chilling scary, but there is a spooky feeling about it... the black void all around them, stretching on into nothingness. The total submission to those weird looking aliens who, despite talking in a very calm manner, were capable of significant horrors.
It was creepy... those dark catacombs. Ruk. The "substitution" implications by constructed android doubles... a bit like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I can see why kids would be uneasy about it.
In TOS it was "The Lights of Zetar" that really freaked me out. The mysteriously dark background music (some of it originally from WNMHGB). The weird mystifying appearance of the Zetarians who would possess people. That poor technician in the dark room, with her horrifying face and garbled speech. Myra Romaine possessed and then later floating like a zombie in that decompression chamber. For me, this was hands down the scariest TOS episode.
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The scariest episode for me is Catspaw it’s really awesome and interesting as well.
Good thread! One of the things I've liked in Star Trek TOS from the beginning was quantity of horror obertones, weirdly but well combined with optimism and brightness of the whole show. The first episode I saw - The Man Trap - is the closest to horror, in my opinion. Good creepy atmosphere and really scary, despite of being made of something like fishnet, monster. That Which Servives seems more the combination of horror and beauty, but it's a good example too. It worth noting too great amount of exellent black humour here, nice addition to the tension of the whole episode. Other frightening eps are two "Children-of-the-Corn-episodes" - Miri and And the Children Shall Lead. The first has a lot of interesting features besides the horror, but only good creepiness saves the other (and only for a horror fan, I suppose).
I think The Return of the Archons is the greatest example. It's more dystopia in fact, but it seems the best horror TOS ep for me and one of the best at all. Brainwashed society with mad leader, misterious "Red Hour", taste of the turn of XIX-XX centuries - times, good for horror (after this ep Night Shyamalan's film Village seems less original for me), sinister music, ominous, a bit Lovecraftian atmosphere, - of the most optimistic books by Lovecraft, of course.
I can remember too three episodes with scripts by Robert Bloch - What Are Little Girls Made Of, Catspaw and Wolf in the Fold. They aren't so scary but worthy mention too. I hadn't respected Bloch so much before I saw them... but references of the Great Old Ones! The whole Halloween-themed episode with two little Cthulhus at the end! Jack the Ripper! Jack the Ripper in Star Trek!
I know how much Bloch adored him.
Besides, there are a lot of another good examples that frighten in their own way. Two with the theme of madness - Dagger of the Mind and Whom Gods Destroy, some parts of The Devil in the Dark, Spectre of the Gun and Charlie X, Operation - Annihilate! (the Puppet's Musters), The Deadly Years, Obsession, The Lights of Zetar (more exorcism!), The Tholian Web and two scary in more non-horror way - The Empath and Plato's Stepchildren.
I think The Return of the Archons is the greatest example. It's more dystopia in fact, but it seems the best horror TOS ep for me and one of the best at all. Brainwashed society with mad leader, misterious "Red Hour", taste of the turn of XIX-XX centuries - times, good for horror (after this ep Night Shyamalan's film Village seems less original for me), sinister music, ominous, a bit Lovecraftian atmosphere, - of the most optimistic books by Lovecraft, of course.
I can remember too three episodes with scripts by Robert Bloch - What Are Little Girls Made Of, Catspaw and Wolf in the Fold. They aren't so scary but worthy mention too. I hadn't respected Bloch so much before I saw them... but references of the Great Old Ones! The whole Halloween-themed episode with two little Cthulhus at the end! Jack the Ripper! Jack the Ripper in Star Trek!
I know how much Bloch adored him. Besides, there are a lot of another good examples that frighten in their own way. Two with the theme of madness - Dagger of the Mind and Whom Gods Destroy, some parts of The Devil in the Dark, Spectre of the Gun and Charlie X, Operation - Annihilate! (the Puppet's Musters), The Deadly Years, Obsession, The Lights of Zetar (more exorcism!), The Tholian Web and two scary in more non-horror way - The Empath and Plato's Stepchildren.
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Frame of Mind is, well, mind-blowing.
And that episode where Barcley turns into a spider and Worf into a monster. The plot may be silly, but the scary parts were pretty well done, at least as far as I remember.
And that episode where Barcley turns into a spider and Worf into a monster. The plot may be silly, but the scary parts were pretty well done, at least as far as I remember.
Freaks me out, too. So does TNG's "Violations". Telepathic rape, basically. "Frame of Mind", I may watch again someday. "Violations", never!
^I don't remember either very well, so apparently they didn't scare me. "Violations" terrified me, and that was before I was raped.
I ABSOLUTLY understand what you're talking about That episode freaks me out too
If I were you, I wouldn't watch that Nemesis scene unless you were very sure about it. What Shinzon did to Troi was beyond awful.
I also agree about the incident in TUC being mind rape.
Thanks for the warning, NG.
Might not hurt to spoil yourself and read a Memory Alpha summary if you think you're going to watch the movie. I figure that would be more "indirect" and less jarring than getting blindsided with it during the movie.
Brilliant minds think alike. 
I read the summary as soon as I saw your previous post. I won't be watching Nemesis in the foreseeable future.
I read the summary as soon as I saw your previous post. I won't be watching Nemesis in the foreseeable future.Catspaw (TOS) or Night Terrors (TNG)-both frightened me as a teenager.
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