Now we have been celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of Star Trek: Voyager this 12 months, so for Halloween, we thought it might be enjoyable to enterprise into the Delta Quadrant to search for a number of the creepiest, spookiest, scariest, or simply downright unsettling moments from the collection. Let’s see how a lot creepiness there’s in that nebula.
It begins with alien needle probes
“Caretaker” [S1 E1]: The present hits the creepy street operating within the collection premiere. After being thrown into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker, Voyager crewmembers are snatched up by a strong alien who goes to city on them, suspending them within the air and stabbing them with big needles. However hey, all people likes needles within the abdomen, proper?
Dr. Sulan will get a makeover
“Faces” [S1 E14]: The Vidiians and their organ-harvesting methods made them scary villains, dipping into some severe physique horror. Early on, a Vidiian scientist captured a number of the crew, break up B’Elanna into two beings (one Klingon, one human), killed poor Lt. Durst for his organs, after which, in a misguided try and win (one of many) B’Elannas over, grafted Durst’s face onto his personal to make himself… good-looking?
The “E” in EMH stands for Evil
“Darkling” [S3 E18]: It’s not all scary house aliens—generally the decision is coming from contained in the ship. In a misguided try to raised himself, the Physician jacks up his program with different personalities, however the overload turns right into a Jekyll-and-Hyde state of affairs with the creep issue ramped as much as 11. The doc turns evil on B’Elanna, paralyzing her from the waist down and taunting her with “Central nervous system, musculature, endocrine features, your mind… all below my management” as she lies there, helpless.
The crew melts
“Course: Oblivion” [S5 E18]: The crew of the USS Voyager is mysteriously experiencing acute mobile degradation, and B’Elanna is likely one of the first fatalities. When the Physician investigates, they be taught they’re ALL copies of the folks they thought they had been, created from goo on a “demon class” planet they’d as soon as visited. As they race to return there, they slowly start to return to their pure kind—in different phrases, they’re melting! (And it certain ain’t fairly.)
Holo goes psycho
“Revulsion” [S4 E15]: Nothing says “candy goals” like a homicidal isomorphic projection dragging a bloody corpse throughout the ground, then obsessively scrubbing the partitions clear after murdering his total crew. However Dejaren saves his finest trick for B’Elanna—plunging his hand straight by means of her chest to grip her coronary heart whereas she’s paralyzed and helpless. (Once more with the paralyzed B’Elanna!)
They’re lifeless, Kate
“Waking Moments” [S4 E13]: On this nightmare, the entire crew slips right into a dream they will’t shake, all starring the identical scary alien. Chances are you’ll be pondering that Tuvok rising from the turbolift in his birthday swimsuit is the creepiest second within the episode, however Janeway’s fears of not getting her crew house in time ups the ante when she finds a lifeless crew within the mess corridor, the place Neelix’s newest leola-root creation sits congealing—lengthy sufficient that you just briefly marvel if his cooking lastly did them in.
Tom falls aside
“Threshold” [S2 E15]: You thought this was going to be about salamander infants? Nope. The true horror here’s what occurs to Tom Paris when he breaks the transwarp barrier and begins turning into a brand new creature completely. Items of him begin falling off as his physique transforms, and in a single significantly gory second, his tongue falls out.
One thing’s consuming Harry
“Scorpion, Half 1” [S2 E26]: Voyager’s first encounter with Species 8472 turns right into a horror present when Harry Kim is attacked and the alien cells begin consuming his physique from the within out… and retains him aware whereas it’s taking place.
The ship has bugs
“Macrocosm” [S3 E12]: Large flying viruses with tentacles searching the crew by means of darkened corridors— “Macrocosm” turns Voyager into Aliens. Janeway hundreds up and does pest management on person-sized viruses with extra tentacles than sense.
Kes eats bugs
“Elogium” [S2, E4]: Bugs don’t need to be big and even bitey to be terrifying. Kes’ “elogium”—a kind of Ocampan puberty that preps her for being pregnant—is prematurely triggered, and its first symptom is her ravenous consumption of enormous, dwelling bugs from the hydroponics bay. This stage of fertility brings every kind of yuck, from the bumps on Kes’ palms to her must have her ft massaged till her tongue swells. Horny!
Janeway will get drilled
“Scientific Methodology” [S4 E7]: Bizarre issues are taking place to the Voyager crew, and (because of some assist from The Physician) solely Seven can see them. When Seven bursts into Janeway’s prepared room to warn her, she comes face-to-face together with her irritable captain and has to fake she doesn’t see two ghostly aliens flanking her, slowly drilling into her head and making what appears like pain-inducing changes, smugly certain that nobody can see them doing it.
Killer clown from outer (internal?) house
“The Thaw” [S2 E23]: Any clown will be scary, however one who creates the atmosphere you’re in and populates it with Cirque de Soleil acrobats who repeat what he says in sing-song unison takes it to an entire new degree. Michael McKean performs the unforgettable clown who thrives on concern, gloating whereas he turns Harry Kim right into a helpless child, after which staging an execution of considered one of his prisoners, actually scaring them to dying. Nightmare!
Neelix will get a foot rub
“Warlord” [S3 E10]: Any scene the place Neelix moans in pleasure is sure to make viewers uncomfortable, however watching (and listening to) him get that holodeck foot therapeutic massage takes the cake. The best way he moans with every toe rub, the digicam lingering on his ecstatic face… It’s a visible that makes you wish to crawl out of your personal pores and skin. Some horrors are about blood and violence; this one’s about having to witness Neelix’s O-face over a foot rub. There are some issues you may’t unsee, which is why we pixellated it for you.
Bonus creepy: evil Tuvok
Star Trek: Picard “Dominion” [S3 E7] : We really did meet Mirror Tuvok in DS9, however he wasn’t actually the evil kind. Nonetheless, this shapeshifter completely mimicking Seven’s trusted good friend? Pure evil. The refined shift from useful to homicidal reveals precisely why Changelings are so terrifying—they are often anybody.
What creeped you out?
So there you have got it: 13 moments when Star Trek: Voyager determined to boldly go the place no nightmare had gone earlier than. Did we miss your favourite scary second? What Voyager scene nonetheless makes you wish to sleep with the lights on?
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