When did Star Trek scare you?

[Frontis]

Simple question...

I was really scared of Species 8472 when I saw them for the first time.
Later we learned that they are actually quite cool.
I wish we would have seen more of them, they had potential.
And I didn't like it when they "dressed" as Starfleet officers and acted human.

 

[1001001]

Never

 

[HotRod]

Never

This. I can't think of a single time Trek has ever scared me.

 

[Greg Cox]

I wrote an entire essay on this subject, "Scare Trek," for a recent non-fiction book on TOS, and I'm not up to retyping all seven pages, but the gist of it was that TOS was no stranger to horror, and owed more to its immediate predecessors, Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, than modern fans may realize.

Among the stuff that creeped me out as as a kid, back in the sixties:

The faceless woman in "Charlie X," the revelation that Dr. Korby was actually an android that only thought he was Korby in "What Little Girls Are Made Of?" and, yes, the Horta in "The Devil in the Dark."

Sure, we found out eventually that the Horta was just a mother protecting her eggs and everything ended up on an upbeat, but not before we saw various men burned to a crisp by an acid-excreting creature that burn its way through solid rock!

Pretty scary stuff back in the day!

 

[Smellincoffee]

"Empok Nor" in DS9 was great horror to me as a teenager. Similarly. "Inter Arma Silens Legas" was a political awakening, especially when I re-watched it during the early Terror War.

 

[NCC-73515]

The Royale had the first tv corpse I ever saw, Booby Trap had more corpses, then a bunch of corpses sitting up in Night Terrors, a corpse rising out of the grave in Sub Rosa, Spiderman Barclay in Genesis, the surgery table with more and more clicking in Subspace Schisms...

 

[publiusr]

The flying parasites at Deneva were unnerving…

 

[Mage]

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.

 

[Tallguy]

The faceless woman in "Charlie X,"

@Greg Cox thanks for the reminder. This was a biggie.

Otherwise? Wrath of Khan. Not JUST the Ceti eels. Specifically at the end of it when Chekov screams and Horner just lets the music trail off with no resolution. Yikes. You needed something there and they gave you... Nothing.

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

 

[Nyotarules]

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

 

[Dar70]

It takes a lot to scare me. So nothing has really scared me in Trek.....

 

[Tallguy]

Someone just reminded me of the death planet from The Way to Eden. When they told us that the grass would kill you that freaked me the heck out.

 

[tomalak301]

Night Terrors and Pierce from Eye of The Beholder really scared me. I wasn’t even 10 years old at the time though.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

The flying parasites at Deneva were unnerving…

Definitely.....as was the Act Four distorted close-up of Miranda Jones' nose.

 

[DonIago]

I think the earliest one I remember as distinctly scaring me was the salt vampire, but also yes, "Devil in the Dark", "Catspaw", the aforementioned faceless woman, the Denevan flying pancakes... Of course, I was five years old at the time.

Even the prematurely aged yeoman who dies in "The Deadly Years" was upsetting, and Chekov coming across the dramatically lit dead old people.

 

[Commander Troi]

Definitely the faceless gal in Charlie X. Spock going mad in Is There in Truth. I was a little kid watching TOS so I'm sure there were others.

Wrath of Khan. Not JUST the Ceti eels. Specifically at the end of it when Chekov screams and Horner just lets the music trail off with no resolution. Yikes. You needed something there and they gave you... Nothing.

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

Oh hell yes! I still have trouble with the eels scene. You're totally on point about the use of music there. Walking through Regula is creepy AF (although I didn't see Alien until about 10 years ago).

The creepy little Conspiracy aliens in TNG freaked me out too.

 

[vandevere]

The TOS episode, "The Lights of Zetar", especially the sounds the dying victims made, frightened me. Interestingly, one of the writers for that episode was Shari Lewis...

 

[JesterFace]

First Contact movie came out when I was around 13 or 14 years old.
After seeing the movie in theater it wasn't easy to go to sleep that night.

 

[mb22]

The aged Uhura in "And the Children Shall Lead".

 

[Alexander Corrino]

I was probably too old already to be scared when I watched Trek for the first time but I will say that the clicking aliens in TNG's "Schisms" creep me out until this day.