Does anyone remember a crappy early TNG episode wherein an away team find themselves in a casino hotel in deep space that was the result of some alien race trying to make a poor, lost, 20th century astronaut feel at home, but have succeeded only in copying a dull period crime novel the astronaut had on his person? The scene when they discovered the astronaut's body, in the bed, pulling the covers back to reveal the (very poorly rendered 80's TV effects) body, scared the shit out of me when I was little. In fact, it scared me so bad that I had a nightmare the night I watched it -- I would have been about 5 years old -- in which I dreamed that I'd gone into my bathroom and pulled aside the shower curtain, as Riker had pulled aside the bedcovers, to find the rotting astronaut in the bathtub.
As a result of this dream every time I went to the bathroom I had to open the shower curtain before I could pee, or wash my hands, or whatever, to be sure there was no astronaut corpse in the tub, until doing so became a sort of habit laced with a hint of lingering fear. This lasted for about 5 years...
As a result of this dream every time I went to the bathroom I had to open the shower curtain before I could pee, or wash my hands, or whatever, to be sure there was no astronaut corpse in the tub, until doing so became a sort of habit laced with a hint of lingering fear. This lasted for about 5 years...
