you SHOCKED me!!

[RobertScorpio]

Sometimes a STAR TREK episode/movie can take a plot twist that surprises you. Not a lot, but it does happen. What are some of your best plot twists/shockers?

Mine? When Worf killed Duras. I thought for sure they'd show him swing his Batleth, and have it land inches from Duras's head. But no!!!..They actually let Worf kill him. I think that scene, more than any other Worf scene, built Worf's character..and I thought it was surprising they'd do it.

And the twist at the end of Ship In A Bottle got me. Didn't see it coming. The whole program in a program was pretty cool.

Those are a couple of mine, what are some of yours?

 

[OmahaStar]

Riker ordering Worf to fire on the Borg - and Picard - in Best of Both Worlds part 1. Shocked the hell out of me at the time.

 

[XKin]

Data sacrificing himself for the Captain on Nemesis.

 

[22 Stars]

Rick Berman picking Faith of the Heart for the theme to Enterprise, and approving the design of Akiraprise.

Honestly, they are such poor creative choices, I was truly suprised.

 

[Michael]

22 Stars said:
Rick Berman picking Faith of the Heart for the theme to Enterprise, and approving the design of Akiraprise.

Honestly, they are such poor creative choices, I was truly suprised.

Not really shocking plot twists, are they?

 

[Lonestar]

The death of Gowron, i didn't see that one coming. I can't remember whether it was Worf or Martok that killed him though.

 

[Valandil]

When the Cogenitor died.

 

[misskim86]

When Worf killed Gowron

 

[All Seeing Eye]

when Odo was made into a human. I was like 'what the hell! they can actually do that!?'

 

[JiNX-01]

Death of Spock
Destruction of Enterprise in Search for Spock
Destruction of the bridge in Twilight
The death of Sim
Best of Both Worlds: "Fire!"
Robe-dropping scene in Harbinger
Near destruction of Enterprise in Azati Prime
T'Pol mainlining trellium

 

[startrekwatcher]

sight of Picard's profile then turning to reveal he was asimilated.

Riker ordering Worf to fire

Sela stepping out of the shadows in Redemption

the destruction of the Defiant in The Changing Face of Evil

Cardassians joining the Dominion

Section 31 behind the Founder virus

Sisko abandoning the station and the Federation going to war.

Beverly in Remember Me being inside a warp bubble

Bashir being held in a Dominion internment center.

 

[Pegaritaville]

Vedek Yassim committing suicide by hanging herself in front of dozens of witnesses on the Promanade in "Rocks and Shoals". I just didn't see that coming.

 

[splodenode]

voyager going faster than warp 10

 

[T'Cal]

When the USS Odyssey was destroyed by the Jem'Hadar in the season-ender for DS9's second season. Blew me away seeing the Galaxy-class ship go blooey!

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Kira and Rom don't prevent the minefield from being taken down in Sacrifice of Angels.

 

[UnknownSample]

splodenode said:
voyager going faster than warp 10

But wasn't that platypus episode the first time anyone had ever mentioned Warp Ten as a barrier? The term "warp barrier" had been used without Ten being specified, and there was an early oblique reference in Next Gen to something funny happening with warp ten, but that Voyager was the first out-and-out statement I ever heard.

My shocking moments:

Biggest? It might in "Waltz", where in the going-to-commercial cliffhanger Dukat appears to obliterate Weyoun for mocking him. Yikes!

A season five Next Gen which is unremarkable except for another going-to-commercial cliffhanger, where the Enterprise-D blows up. Hmm, short episode this week, I guess....

BOBW 2, where during Borgification Picard's face suddenly goes grey. Also of course BOBW 1 where we see he's assimilated, which is helped along greatly by the slightly dissonant snippet of the classic ST theme. That music was inspired. It gives an impression of something being horribly wrong in the world of ST, very jarring... I think I get involuntary tearing-up at that moment. The impression is given that it's the beginning of the end, and the whole ST universe is coming apart. Odd, I got a bit of that tearing-up just thinking about it. It also might be that jarring and affecting because Picard is so private, so dignified, and he's just been violated in the worst way imaginable.

Biggest of all time: Corbomite Manoever, when the sphere fills the screen.

Kira, Damar, and Garak finding themselves marooned on Cardassia Prime. Didn't see that coming.

"Conspiracy"-- well, you know. The janitor's job must have been scary in itself.

 

[Rarewolf]

Yar dying. Regulars in s Star Trek series don't die. What with her name still being in the credits for the rest of that season I still thought she'd come back a week later.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Joe Carey's death ("Friendship One").

Janeway laying the smackdown on Lessing ("Equinox").

Archer and the airlock scene ("Anomaly").

 

[JiNX-01]

Babaganoosh said:
Archer and the airlock scene ("Anomaly").

This one reminds me another Archer incident: When he orders Malcolm to destroy the outpost in Azati Prime, murdering the 3 defenseless Xindi. You really don't expect that kind of thing from a Trek captain.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

JiNX-01 said:

Babaganoosh said:
Archer and the airlock scene ("Anomaly").

This one reminds me another Archer incident: When he orders Malcolm to destroy the outpost in Azati Prime, murdering the 3 defenseless Xindi. You really don't expect that kind of thing from a Trek captain.

The Xindi crew at Azati Prime were all soldiers, weren't they? For all intents and purposes, the Xindi were at war with Earth, so that could be construed as a military attack. The outpost was dedicated to producing a weapon that would eventually *destroy Earth*, so Archer's attack on it was understandable.