What is this episode??

[timelordx]

I saw it years ago, probably in a rerun, and it was one of the creepiest episodes they made. All I can remember is that the Enterprise was trapped in space somehow, I think in a grid of some sort, and towards the end they are met by this giant, talking face that I'm guessing was keeping them there. I've been wanting to watch it again, so if someone can tell me which one that is that would be awesome.

Cheers,
L

 

[AdmiralGarak]

Season 2's "Where Silence Has Lease", perhaps?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Silence_Has_Lease

Does this look right?

 

[WillsBabe]

Sounds like it could be a couple of episodes. The giant grid sounds like Encournter at Fairpoint. The giant head sounds like Where Silence Has Lease or Nth Degree.

 

[Augustus]

oh yeah, it is Where Silence has lease.

I was barely out of diapers when that show first aired. That gigantic face scared the living daylights out of me... To this day I have never actually sat down and watched the episode...

 

[timelordx]

Fantastic. Thanks!!

 

[Gepard]

Well, as someone who was scared by several TNG episodes as a kid, "Where Silence Has Lease" is not nearly the creepiest episode TNG has ever done; that honor(s) would have to go to "Schisms," "Frame of Mind" and "Night Terrors." So if you're in the mood for scary...

 

[SmoothieX]

Sub Rosa creeps me out as well with all that candle humping.

 

[Starbreaker]

This was the first episode of Star Trek I ever saw. It's still very vivid in my mind after only having seen it once many many years ago.

 

[Red Ranger]

Where Silence Has Lease is indeed a creepy episode. The most horrifying part is when Nagilum, who doesn't know what death is, kills the unsuspecting helmsman, and like a sadistic child pulling the wings off an insect, says, "How interesting!" BTW, Nagilum was played by Earl Boen, who played the psychiatrist Dr. Silverman in the Terminator movies. -- RR

 

[Ro_Laren]

The giant face was definitely creepy!

 

[The Sneeze Police]

It is one of my all time favorite episodes of Trek. It is one of the reasons why I do not dismiss Season 2 as being a waste of time to watch.

 

[Cali]

Frame of Mind is both creepy and brilliant.

 

[BolianAuthor]

Well, as someone who was scared by several TNG episodes as a kid, "Where Silence Has Lease" is not nearly the creepiest episode TNG has ever done; that honor(s) would have to go to "Schisms," "Frame of Mind" and "Night Terrors." So if you're in the mood for scary...

TNG had some surprisingly creepy episodes... "Schisms" can still fighten me to this day... I think it captured the whole alien abduction fear element in a VERY real way, and also put a good Trek spin on it.

"Night Terrors" scared me at first, with the voice whispering "eyes in the dark" during Troi's dream.

 

[M'Sharak]

Well, as someone who was scared by several TNG episodes as a kid, "Where Silence Has Lease" is not nearly the creepiest episode TNG has ever done; that honor(s) would have to go to "Schisms," "Frame of Mind" and "Night Terrors." So if you're in the mood for scary...

One thing which still stands out for me about "Where Silence Has Lease" is the really eerie music which accompanies the sequence with Riker and Worf aboard the "Yamato".