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Oct 12, 2020 · The Scariest Star Trek Episodes. Featuring body horror, Borg, evil clowns, amputated limbs and Deanna Troi as a cake, here are Star Trek’s scariest TV episodes to watch this spooky season.
- Jake Dee
- Catspaw - S2E7. Scripted by Pscyho screenwriter Robert Bloch, "Catspaw" from the Original Star Trek series is one of the most overt attempts at scaring the audience in series history.
- Genesis - TNG S7E19. In The Next Generation's episode "Genesis," the show courts the conventions of a monstrous creature-feature in ways even Guillermo del Toro's biggest fans would appreciate.
- The Thaw - Voyager S2E23. "The Thaw" is one of Star Trek Voyager's most chilling and petrifying episodes to date. Michael McKean plays a creepy clown from outer space who tortures Kim to no end.
- Empok Nor - DSN S5E24. In an episode that calls to mind the best of the Alien franchise, Empok Nor is one of the most unsettling Star Trek episodes of all time.
- Rich Keller
- Discovery: Battle At The Binary Stars. The concept of Discovery is to return to the early days of the original series. This is when the galaxy was still the equivalent of the Wild West.
- Voyager: Year Of Hell. A lot of horror takes place during this two-part episode. An explosion blinds Tuvok. Another causes serious scarring on Captain Janeway.
- TOS: The Enemy Within. The first season of the original series wasn't a happy place. Episodes like "Man Trap," "Charlie X," and "Where No Man Has Gone Before" show a galaxy filled with dark unknowns.
- Enterprise: Azati Prime. This is one of the darkest episodes of Enterprise. Like "Battle at the Binary Stars," viewers get to see how weak the earliest Starfleet ships were.
- Laurie Ulster
- Schisms (TNG) This comes in at #1, because it's one of the scariest concepts ever: aliens are abducting Enterprise crew members at night and doing experiments on them with painful pointy things.
- Empok Nor (DS9) This one has all the right ingredients for a late-night scare. You’ve got an abandoned space station (Empok Nor), recently-occupied-but-now-empty stasis pods, vengeful no-longer-in-stasis Cardassians, crew members being picked off one by one, and an increasingly homicidal Garak.
- Genesis (TNG) This one will actually make you jump. Data and Picard leave on a quick away mission, and while they're gone, strange things start happening to the crew.
- The Cage (TOS) This was the original Star Trek, the first pilot done, before Captain Kirk came along. It's a great story with a pretty terrifying group of aliens; not only do they have oversized bald heads with pulsing veins, they ALSO have the ability to read minds, and then plant any image they want in there, and even complete experiences, making you think that you are living through exactly what they want you to go through.
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- "Genesis" (The Next Generation) In Star Trek: The Next Generation’s season-seven episode, "Genesis," several crew members aboard the USS Enterprise start exhibiting strange behaviors and abilities, including memory loss, beast-like viciousness, prey paranoia, and venom spraying.
- "Monsters" (Picard) Centering on one of the franchise’s most beloved crew leaders, Jean-Luc Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart), Paramount+’s Star Trek: Picard took an overall gloomy and introspective turn as a whole, and one of its darkest and most intimate episodes was "Monsters," in season two.
- "Context Is for Kings" (Discovery) A prequel to TOS, Star Trek: Discovery ushered in the era of new Trek on television when it premiered in 2017. It follows Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), a Starfleet mutineer who triggers a war between the Federation and the Klingons.
- "The Man Trap" (The Original Series) Because Star Trek: The Original Series aired from 1966 to 1969, its special effects usually seem lacking by today’s standards; however, it succeeded in building tension and sometimes spooking its viewers in a manner previously unseen on television.
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