Cthulhu in Star Trek

[Norrin Radd]

Were there any Star Trek episodes that explored Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos in some way?

I realize Trek isn't horror...but HPL wrote about cosmic-level beings, so...

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I'm not aware of the Cthulhu mythos ever being directly explored in Star Trek.

There is, however, at least one Cthulhu mythos-related in-joke that I am aware of: Cardassian enigma tale author Shoggoth.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Shoggoth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoggoth

 

[SGCSG1]

What are little girls made of?

Has some lovecraftian references to the 'ancient old ones'.

 

[Gepard]

Re: What are little girls made of?

Star Trek never has, but I thought the first couple of episodes of Stargate Atlantis would have made fertile territory for Mythos tie-ins. The pilot and second episode alone had a sunken city risen from the depths, a crawling darkness that ate energy within that city and our heroes stumbling upon a race of ancient extraterrestrials awoken from a long sleep who fed on humans through mouths in their hands.

 

[FredH]

I seem to remember an article in one of the old Best of Trek books that linked the Old Ones referred to in "Catspaw" with the Mythos. I don't really think it works, myself--though I guess Korob and Sylvia's true forms are goofily alien in the Lovecraft-as-interpreted-by-Chaosium manner...

 

[Biggshow]

I always thought it would be funny to write a VOY story that had the crew encounter some Great Old Ones. At the very least, I thought it would be funny to have one of Janeway's last blunders be to awaken the sentinels of the Old Ones stationed on Pluto.

 

[Stevil2001]

The novel Crossroad by Barbara Hambly features creatures called yagghorth, which seem to have come straight out of the Cthulhu mythos.