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Weirdest Star Trek moments?

Lord Garth

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I had a weird day today. A damn weird day. One day, I think I'll probably think of it as the weirdest day of mine for 2019. Short of running into space aliens, it couldn't have gotten any stranger. But anyway... that serves as the inspiration for this thread.

What do you think are the weirdest moments in Star Trek?

I think one of the weirdest feeling moments is when Marvik, who's gone insane from seeing Kollos, is in Engineering in "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" and sends the Enterprise warping across the galaxy in the weirdest, spaciest way. The music, the direction, the fight, the whole thing feels like a weird acid trip. I'm not doing it justice by describing it like this. The scene itself probably sounds like it would be ordinary, but if you've seen it, you know how weird it feels. Let me put it this way: this is something that could've only been done in the very-late-'60s.

For anyone not familiar with the episode: If anyone sees Kollos, they go mad. Only Dr. Miranda Jones, who's blind and has a sensor web, is immune because she can't see that which drives everyone else insane. And that's when they start to do trippy stuff.
 
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Space lizard Tom Paris flying Captain Janeway at warp 10 to turn her into a space lizard so they can mate and have space lizard babies.
 
Any time someone explained sexuality. Like, any time. It was always weird and cringey.

Also, that time Guinan was trying to explain jokes to Data while insisting her terrible and unfunny pun was actually funny.
 
Beverly Crusher's ghost induced sexing
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A first officer goes against her mentor and captain cause she insists they have to fire at a much stronger enemy.

An outsider who nobody takes seriously threatens to destroy her own homeworld, so they let her be chancellor. The empire's warriors have reached their enemy's core world after a fierce war, but they withdraw.

The Federation lets the one responsible for the Terran Empire's countless crimes go free, just like that.
 
What do you think are the weirdest moments in Star Trek?

I have several from real life.

Traveling from Sydney to Brisbane for a Trek convention in 1983. I decided to wear my maroon movie Starfleet uniform on the plane, just for fun. The plane’s captain was announced as Captain Pike. It made me hope a Talosian was up front in the cabin.

Same convention about a decade later: I was Master of Ceremonies at the convention banquet, at which John De Lancie’s wife, Marnie Mosiman (Harmony / Balance in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode, "Loud as a Whisper") was going to sing. John himself was up a ladder adjusting the set-up while we rehearsed our opening lines.

The voice of Q then came down upon me and demanded, “How many lights do you see?”

Very intimidating! I think I fell into a “Twilight Zone” of my own making. I replied, “How many lights do you want me to see?”
 
As I put into the Photoshop thread, season 3 introduced new camera angles:

https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the-photoshop-thread-part-v.281088/page-17#post-13122239

An early episode camera-framed Worf babbling in the background with Picard's head popping up out of his chair then heading to the turbolift.

It could be worse, it could have been Picard coming in from the ceiling downward...

Another crowd-pleasing moment as been, um, augmented by a song:

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Never mind that, when out of focus, that logo in the background doubles as the logo for the BBC Childrens' show Blue Peter.

Also add in 60% of Star Trek Voyager's episodes, 70% of The Animated Series', 80% of Star Trek Enterprise's, 95% of star Trek Discovery's, and 100% of "Spock's Brain", but your mileage may vary...

Here's something 1000% weird:

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