When did Star Trek scare you?

[Citiprime]

Ceti eels.

Everything about it in Wrath of Khan Is horrifying.

The terror of being held down and watching it crawl across Chekov’s face. The close up of the tongue and pincers. And even Khan’s description of what they do, which if you’re familiar with human anatomy means those things chew through your ear and part of your head to get to the cerebral cortex.

And if that’s not bad enough, you experience the body horror while also becoming someone’s slave.

 

[Velocity]

Never. I wasn't young enough to be scared by anything Star Trek.

 

[PoorSailorsAirline]

My first experience with Star Trek was when I was 5 or 6, and TWOK was on tv. My dad was watching it I think. And the Ceti eel scene happened. First time watching Star Trek, and it scared the shit out of me.

Ceti eels.

Everything about it in Wrath of Khan Is horrifying.

The terror of being held down and watching it crawl across Chekov’s face. The close up of the tongue and pincers. And even Khan’s description of what they do, which if you’re familiar with human anatomy means those things chew through your ear and part of your head to get to the cerebral cortex.

And if that’s not bad enough, you experience the body horror while also becoming someone’s slave.

This. All of this! TWOK was the first Trek I ever saw and those eels freaked - me - out. Even now as an adult, and with the hair-raising improvements in on-screen gore over the years, I still can't watch those eels. Nooooope.

Honourable mention - a few years later, I was watching TNG's In Theory on first-run TV. So I still wasn't very old, and I hadn't seen the transporter go awry on ST:TMP yet. When the officer gets dropped through the floor but winds up half-in-half-out, that blew my six year old mind. Glass-floored anything on a skyscraper doesn't interest me, thanks!

 

[Cyfa]

The flying parasites at Deneva were unnerving…

~ "Operation: Annihilate!" was the first Trek episode I can remember watching, and those parasites scared pre-teen me silly!

As a child this scared me seeing it at the end of the credits, I would cover my face

~ Me too!

My first experience with Star Trek was when I was 5 or 6, and TWOK was on tv. My dad was watching it I think. And the Ceti eel scene happened. First time watching Star Trek, and it scared the shit out of me.

Ceti eels.

Everything about it in Wrath of Khan Is horrifying.

The terror of being held down and watching it crawl across Chekov’s face. The close up of the tongue and pincers. And even Khan’s description of what they do, which if you’re familiar with human anatomy means those things chew through your ear and part of your head to get to the cerebral cortex.

Walking through Regula was pretty spooky as well. Almost like some kind of sequel to Alien. Hey....

~ TWOK on TV was the first Trek film I saw (again pre-teen) and, yes, the Ceti eels were terrifying. Bones walking into the bloodied hand of that hanging Regula One scientist was more than startling.

I recall Nagilum being pretty scary in "Where Silence Has Lease", and although the Borg haven't scared me while watching the show, I have had terrifying nightmares (as an adult) about them invading Earth!

Honorable mention must go to the transporter accident in TMP - while I wasn't scared, I most certainly was horrified.

 

[JRob94]

The transporter malfunction in TMP

 

[Arpy]

Beverly in the morgue. Great jump scare. And that music in the episode—so unnerving.

Ceti eel going into Chekov’s ear. Oh and the blood dripping down on McCoy from the bodies Khan hanged upside down.

We have engaged the Borg.

 

[publiusr]

Slashers were big in the early 80’s…ALIEN made space dangerous…ST II could just as easily been in FANGORIA as STARLOG.

 

[Commander Troi]

I just remembered... there was a TNG ep where Riker thought he was in a mental institution. It was creepy AF.

 

[DonIago]

^I wouldn't say that one 'scared' me, particularly, but I did find it unsettling.

 

[drt]

I don't recall ever being frightened watching Star Trek.

What did scare the bejesus out of me was Planet of the Apes TV series, which is a little funny because that would have aired around the time I first started watching Star Trek, guess I wasn't a fan of monkeys.

 

[MAGolding]

I don't think that I have ever been scared by anything in Star Trek - which is fictional after all. And the first shows I saw were on old time analog black and white television, so it was quite a change the first time I saw it on color tv.

The only time I remember being scared watching television was an episode of a show where the protagonist was waiting for a "monster" to attack at night and the screen showed the glowing eyes of the watching monster.

 

[Fuddles]

Pike choking the alien in the pilot of TOS.

 

[mb22]

Vina's transformation to her 'real' deformed state is also unsettling.

 

[NCC-73515]

The gray blob holo reconstruction of the unknown shadow that watched them all those years ago in ID crisis

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

The flying parasites at Deneva were unnerving…

Oh, without question. Just the fact that they were all linked and could draw strength from the collective made them freakishly terrifying. That, and their appearance, which looked like some sort of thick, pus and blood covered circular scab. Disgusting and frightening.

 

[JesterFace]

It wasn't scary but a WHOA moment in STNG episode 'Genesis' when BarclaySpider jumped towards Picard in engineering.
The first time, next time I knew to prepare.

 

[kkt]

The face-removed crewman in Charlie X, definitely. Her starting to choke with no way to breathe.

 

[Lucky]

Star Trek: Enterprise - Impulse.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Faceless woman in "Charlie X" FTW.

 

[publiusr]

Faceless woman in "Charlie X" FTW.

TNG match that “In Theory”

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