This incarnation of the famous starship is much larger than the one captained by James T. Looking for some space-based thrills and chills to enjoy this Halloween? Have no fear – or have a lot of fear, actually – Star Trek has you covered! We’ve listed 28 of the scariest episodes from across the franchise in order of just how much they freaked us out, so whether your preference is for deep space exploration, war-torn space stations, or the far reaches of the known universe, there’s something here for you.In this video I review Season 4 of Star Trek: Voyager as a whole going through each episode of the seasonSupport Enchantment of Eternity on Patreon: Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) focuses on the 24th century adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard aboard the U.S.S. Voyager season 3 is still fairly uneven in quality, but some good old ST staples still get some good use in. The slo-o-o-o-ow evolutionary progress of Star Trek: Voyager continues in season 3, as the show finally starts to more closely resemble, you know, Star Trek. Star Trek: Voyager - Episode Guide - Season 3.
Catapulted into the distant sector of the galaxy, the Star Trek franchise's first female captain and her crew encounter strange new worlds and dangerous new enemies in their quest to return home. Lower Decks features lots of blood, guts, gore, zombies and a giant spider to rival Shelob – and that’s just in the first episode! – but it’s basically satire, so none of it really comes across as scary.Star Trek: Voyager. The Animated Series is seriously under-rated, but it’s bright, colourful style and slightly lighter tone don’t really bring the scares. It also excludes The Animated Series and Lower Decks. Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7.This list excludes all of the feature films, which tend to be scarier on the whole as they’re aiming to make an impact on a cinema audience ( Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan and Star Trek: First Contacthave some especially terrifying sequences).
But all is well in the end, though the scene where the villain uses sympathetic magic to over-heat the Enterprise as she dangles a model of it over a candle flame is pretty freaky.26. Captain Kirk tries to use his sexual allure to solve the problem, of course, and completely disrupts an alien relationship through sheer force of his masculinity. This episode isn’t really all that different from the many The Original Series episodes where some implausibly powerful alien being plays dangerous games with the crew that include a hefty dose of fantasy, but the Halloween-style setting gives it a spooky vibe. Directed by Allan Kroeker.
Deep Space Nine: season 2, episode 14 ‘Whispers’This isn’t the only episode on this list about the horror of discovering you aren’t who you thought you were, or about a family member who isn’t their usual self. Throw in a classic fake order from a convincing-sounding voice, the apparent death of a regular character (not an uncommon occurrence on Star Trek, it has to be said), and Archer’s desperate plea, familiar to all of us who’ve ever called a helpline, of “I need to talk to a person!”, and you’ve got a pleasantly unsettling hour of television.One to avoid if you’re scared of: Automated telephone helplines. With creepy direction from Voyager’s Roxann Dawson, who also voices the mysterious computer, and the always unnerving theme of a computer killing organic lifeforms, this creates an unsettling vibe without the schlocky Halloween staples. Threats don’t have to be immediately obvious – they can come cloaked in what looks like kindness and generosity. It can also come from bright, white light and empty spaces.
It plays into fears deeper than the fear of things that go bump in the night – the fear that your friends and family might drift away from you, or turn on you, or pull apart from you. The ending is tragically moving, but the bulk of the episode is increasingly disconcerting, with O’Brien unable to trust anyone or to work out what could possibly have happened while he was away. For most of this episode, we follow Chief O’Brien as he returns to Deep Space Nine, only to find the behaviour of everyone around him is just a little… off.
The Next Generation: season 7, episode 19 ‘Genesis’This one is too terrible an episode to get any higher on the list – we really can’t recommend it as an actually good episode of Star Trek. The campfire ghost story set-up adds a nice sense of Halloween fun to the tale, there’s some nice character work (Neelix’s frequent fear of darkness and nothingness comes up, and his love/hate relationship with Tuvok) and there are some scary moments – after all, how do you outrun a gas cloud?One to avoid if you’re scared of: Gas, nebulas. It’s a space alien, of course, but it has its moments providing some good scares and another opportunity for the Voyager crew to nearly abandon ship (something they make more of a habit of than they should considering they’re lost in the Delta Quadrant). Voyager: season 6, episode 25 ‘The Haunting Of Deck Twelve’Voyager’s Borg children get a campfire story from Neelix addressing the apparently ‘haunted’ Deck 12.
Dr Crusher’s hallucination of a roomful of corpses sitting up is a standout, but Picard thinking the turbolift is shrinking in on him is alarming too, and the scraps of audio revealing what happened to the late crew of the USS Brattain, who murdered each other in the grip of paranoid hallucinations, are chilling. The Next Generation: season 4, episode 17 ‘Night Terrors’One of several ‘waking nightmare’ episodes, this one is let down a bit by the somewhat unconvincing scenes of Troi flying through a weird green skyscape, but there are plenty of properly creepy moments to enjoy. It helps that the crew are de-evolving, rather than evolving into an apparently higher form.One to avoid if you’re scared of: Spiders, lizards, lemurs, and terrifying human-animal hybrids. Voyager’s ‘Threshold’ (frequently referred to as the worst episode of Star Trek of all time) similarly includes some effective body horror before it descends into ludicrousness and people start turning into lizards and abandoning their lizard babies, but is too silly to include – this one, however, hangs on just long enough to produce some real scares.
It also features an unusually ‘evil’ and mysterious villain who has no motive other than being a nasty character and vanishes into thin air, and allows Kes to really shine at the climax, showing off her own considerable powers.One to avoid if you’re scared of: Creepy children, massive boils leaking pus. It featured Janeway’s Victorian Gothic holo-novel and so her hallucinations include a ghostly little girl in Victorian clothes having a tantrum about cucumber sandwiches, which is particularly unsettling. This one is a good choice for Halloween, though, thanks to some nicely spooky imagery. Voyager: season 2, episode 8 ‘Persistence of Vision’Over the course of seven years, Voyager did so many episodes in which almost the whole crew were knocked out, suffered from hallucinations, put to sleep in a collective dream or otherwise mentally trapped by aliens, that they made a reference to it in season seven’s ‘Shattered’.
It’s certainly memorable!One to avoid if you’re scared of: Gore, alien chest-bursters. Perhaps this is why, to make up for the less psychologically disturbing conspiracy-by-alien-outsider, the production team went all out on the gore at the episode’s climax. What was originally intended to be a conspiracy within Starfleet was nixed by then-still-alive Gene Roddenberry as not conforming to his utopian vision. It also experienced some mutations of its own in development. Although the ending seems to hint at a wider threat, it was never officially followed up on within the series, possibly partly because this episode was so much gorier than anything seen on Star Trek up to that date. And the alien chest-burster incident that comes right after it.
Her husband’s willing acceptance of the creature that killed her as a replacement is probably the creepiest thing of all.One to avoid if you’re scared of: Shapeshifters, the Yeti. But there’s an emotional core to this episode as well, as Dr McCoy’s ex turns out to have been killed by the creature long ago. The combination of gaping, toothy mouth, drooping eyes and Yeti-like body is impressively inventive.
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