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I know star trek Infinite is getting all the love right now since it just released. But Stellaris is just way better haha, like I was actually super disappointed when I realized how little difference there was in Star Trek Infinite. The opening moves are exactly the same too and UI, I felt they should have at least reskinned the HUD to look more "trekky".
Watched that one again recently after many many years; brilliant episode. I'd forgotten everything that happened after everyone except Picard disappears, so that moment when the planet no longer existed, then it was revealed the entire universe was 700m in diameter.. whew
I always felt that "Conspiracy" was the first really great TNG episode. Expand the show by an additional half hour and budget better special effects and it could have been released as a TNG movie!
That scene in Night Terrors where Beverly is in the morgue and all of the bodies sit up was nightmare fuel for decades. I still hear, "Eyes in the dark, one moon circles" in my nightmares.
Remember Me is an absolute cracker. A line from the episode that has always stuck with me is: "If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe something is wrong with the universe"
The Night Terrors morgue scene is number one for visual terror, but the line "whose shadow is that...?" is so scary by implication, it's worthy of a Lovecraft novel or Alien sequel.
"Night Terrors" reminds me of a MASH episode where the all the doctors of the hospital unit are dealing with exhaustion and have nightmares during the brief moments they can grab a few moments of sleep.
I’m so glad you included Schisms on here. That reveal of Riker’s arm has stuck with me as an irrational fear for over 2 decades now. Absolutely chilling for child me.
Man...I get chills just listening to you describe the scene with Geordi investigating that old footage. That episode gave me nightmares as a kid. The monster in Darmok also freaked me out when I was young. The combination of it being this big brutal thing that could **also** make itself invisible was probably just too much for pre-teen me.
One scary episode I think deserves an honorable mentions is "Realms of Fear" where Barclay starts seeing things in the transporter beam and thinks worm aliens are trying to eat him.
My favorite episode that freaked me out as a kid will always be "Q Who" (S2E16), otherwise known as the introduction of The Borg. It does such a fantastic job of showing just how terrifying the Borg are and just how unprepared The Federation is for them. The HR Geiger inspired designs still hold up to this day.
I also love Guinnas and Picards chat at the end where she says "Since [the Borg] are aware of your existence...." Picard: *hesiates and looks up* "They will be coming." Guinan: "You can bet on it." The delivery and sublty ambient creepy music was perfect. There was this sudden realization that the Enterprise may have escaped the nightmare for the day. But that at that exact moment a Borg cube set its course for Federation space. That the unrelenting, unfeeling, powerful monster they just escaped is still out there and worse, has set its eyes on their society and is heading for it RIGHT NOW.
Same. That episode, along with Best Of Both Worlds, scared the crap out of me. Q-Who was almost like a horror movie to me, and "They will be coming" filled me with dread. Then they over-used the Borg so much, it ruined what was set-up in Season 2.
Frame of Mind is seriously one of the most underrated episodes of TNG. It never makes a top 10 list, or even a top 20, but it is very good at making the audience question what they are seeing. Psychological horror at its best; I've seen plenty of films that were dedicated to reaching that level of disturbing which didn't get as far as this episode.
I was always freaked out by the multiverse episodes, where at the end there’s all the enterprises and there’s the one from where the Borg conquered everything and they’d rather die than go back to that reality.
"Where silence has lease" (S2E2), the mentioned Nagilum episode on 5:40 , was the one that got me as a kid. The wailing sound when they beam to the "Yamato" haunts me to this day.
I think I've blocked this episode from my memory. It sounds really scary, and I didn't handle scary well as a kid, but what you're say is sparking some vague memory. Maybe I need to update my list...
Dude, I really loved hearing you geek out. I know you have to do modern releases to feed the algorithm, but more like this would make me so happy. Gotta remember where you came from!
Oh sweet this was an unexpected treat! Fun vid! As it happens I'm working my way back through TNG right now for the first time in quite a few years, watching it with my mother who recently lost her 2nd husband (not my father), and is in need of regular company to stave off the loneliness. I'm using it as an opportunity to share all the things I loved but never managed to share with her before. She's never seen it but is absolutely loving it (she's nearly 80 and her regular refrain as we go through is "why have I never watched this before?!"). We started with Avatar: The Last Airbender and moved on to TNG after that.
I was creeped out by the episode that was Invasion of the Body Snatchers, where a game and its addictive nature takes over the entire crew, and Wesley is the one who discovers it first.
So happy u mentioned Genesis! I was getting ready tp blow up your comments section but u got it at the end. Genesis is basically Ridley Scotts Alien of TNG....being more afraid of whats lurking im the shadows. So creepy!
I agree with your picks and I always love your Trek videos, Jeremy. An honorable mention for "Skin of Evil". The death of Tasha Yar set the stage that no one was safe and that scene of Riker being dragged and enveloped by the oil "Armus" was frightening as a kid.
"Genesis " ep freaks me out STILL to this day. De-evolving is a scary thing. I actually think ST Lower Decks must have episodes like those on the regular, for laughs.
Sir, this was a wonderful surprise! Star Trek: TNG was my scifi show growing up. Thank you for putting Genesis on the list. That episode scared the crap outta me when I was a kid. But overall, great list, thank you Jeremy!
For me it was Skin of Evil S1, Episode 23. The tar being that killed Lt. Yar had a scary voice and appearance that frightened me as a kid. Looking at it now as an adult, it's actually understandable how a child would view it as terrifying and scary. Now a days I'm not easily scared but I get spooked by jump scares still, I'll admit.
The crazy thing is I do not think that that episode is scary and I have no tolerance I mean I don’t even watch horror movies everything scares me. But it does emotionally hit me it’s some thing about this idea that these beings left behind the parts of themselves that they didn’t like and it coalesce into a being itself and that his real tragedy is that he’s so lonely so desperate that he would be as evil as he could be because that’s all they thought of him that really messes me up emotionally. Every time I watch it the carelessness in which he kills Tasha or the delight he takes in essentially tormenting a blind man it’s devastating emotionally
Time Squared from season 2 was quite creepy, where we see a second picard from several hours from the future and the ship is going to be destroyed. The second Picard is not like the original (because of the time differential) but slowly gets more recognisable as time slowly catches up with him.
Please do more Star Trek content, I very much enjoy what you currently put out. In fact if my wife wants to see a movie and I'm not sure about it, I'll see if you've done a spoiler free review and base wether or not it's going to be theater worthy. Keep up the great work :)
4:03 this episode is a masterclass in writing. Data’s poetry recital was one of TNG’s funniest moments. To have such humor and horror blended seamlessly in a single episode is brilliant.
I never really watched the show, but some of my family were fans. And I remember that de-evolution episode. Creeped me out too. Creative and well done. I love this list 😂
The Episode itself wasn't scary, but that bit in the episode where he Enterprise was flying through like, phased holes in space, and the one lady fell through the floor and it rematerialized leaving her split in half was pretty f**ked up for Star Trek. But you covered some of the best. Frame of Mind is one of my just top 5 TNG episodes period, its so good.
!!! Thank you for making this! ❤ I started watching TNG when COVID started, and it really just helped improve my optimism in life. It's my favorite show of all time.
Great list! Going in I didn’t think there were actually five episodes to make a top five but you nailed it. Did you say “Owen Barkley?” *I* can’t wrap my brain around an invisible person casting a shadow. My problem with Schisms is the holodeck scene. I dislike how with each adjustment to the table they’re collectively building, the design changes, even with the simplest of instruction to the computer.
Schisms is hands down my favorite creepy Trek episode. That point where they're in the holodeck, reconstructing where they were and Riker says "we've all been here before" always sends a chill down my spine.
For real, when that guest actress covers her ears, the clicking sounds, and Riker's cold stare and the music, it's that facking music with the strings like a scary version of the THX theme... GODS... I have goosebumps just thinking of it.
"Identity Crisis" traumatized me as a kid so bad, I refuse to watch it to this day. I've spent so long trying to figure out what it was. Finally, one day, I remembered a night as a child (around 4, I think). I was put to bed before my parents left for the night. As I was trying to fall asleep, I noticed a weird shadow on the wall I couldn't explain. I called for my dad, but the sitter said he had left, so I just rolled over and fell asleep. Thar shadow looked EXACTLY like the shadow Geordie found in the holodeck. It also didn't help that we lived in a bona fide haunted house with both my parents and the current owners having experienced the paranormal.
not TNG, but the Voyager episode where Tom Paris goes Warp 10 and slowly morphs into a frog seriously messed me up as a kid. The scene where he peels off his ear and tongue have stuck with me. I imagine it would not be as scary to me as an adult though lmao
The thing that makes that Genesis episode a little more messed up in my mind now as an adult is when I remember there are families on the Enterprise. Which must mean all the children de-evolved too… and there really are not enough counsellors in all of Starfleet who can undo that kind of childhood trauma. I don’t know, nowadays, when I see the cheery “oh well, everything’s back to normal now” wrap up at the end, I kinda want to hear a distant voice in the background call out “but the chief of security ate three kids!!!”
I know it might not be considered "scary" but when Picard turned around and was Locutis, basically the walking zombie, that did creep me out big time. Borg creeped me out for a long time. This is my first look into Jeremy's soul and I like it.
We used to invite all our friends over to watch new episodes of this show. It was a great party every week to watch the show and then collectively discuss it. It was a really fun and special time for nerds!
I loved this video! Yay for Star Trek plus horror. Also this sponsor actually sounds interesting. I want to look into it and that hasnt happened in away.
I’m not even a huge Trek fan but I would LOVE to see more content like this! I absolutely love this style of content, especially if you break down the episode as well
I am so glad that you mentioned that outstanding sequence where LaForge uses the holodeck to reveal the creature! That scene absolutely scared the living s*** out of me and I loved every second of it. I'm really surprised you didn't mention Conspiracy on here though.
I would put Phantasms on my list. Data having effed up dreams like something that you'd get if you locked Davids Lynch and Cronenberg in a room together with a typewriter and some shrooms
S4E18. I was around 10 years old when I watched that episode. When they revealed the source of that shadow, man that's scary. Only matched with a luminescent Geordie. And Schisms remain my most favourite TnG episode. That scene inside the holodeck is *chef's kiss*.
2:06 One of my earliest memories, my dad was watching the show and I walked in right as that scene happened... I ran out of the room sobbing hahaha. It's so well done
I've followed your movie reviews without knowing you were a Trek Fan. I also noticed you don't get as much views for Trek related reviews compared to other reviews, and as a fellow Trek fan .... I love you. Keep reaching into the soul. 5. Where Silence Has Lease 4. Conspiracy 3. Genesis 2. Hide and Q ("Vicious animal things") 1. Night Terrors
Don't remember the episode's name but when Riker brought that game from this world that turned every crew member into video game addicts and put them under mind control. It was creepy because Westley and his gf were the only ones to wisen up and they tell the Captain, but Oh no, Picard is also under its control, then he meets his gf again and turns out she has also been turned and suddenly Westley is relentlessly chased by the entire ship. You also get the scene where Crusher and Geordi deactivate Data and sever his brain without flinching.
Yes, that scene when did Data wrong was almost like an episode of the Bodysnatchers or the Faculty. And of course when Wesley is being pursued by Riker and Worf in the Jefferies Tube.
Great list! All excellent choices I would’ve included myself. Frame of Mind really showcased Frakes’ range as an actor and it’s impressive to watch the gradual shift as each performance of the play becomes more grounded and believable until it becomes the new reality.
When clicked on this I wandered, "will he do that one where they change into the invisible night aliens?" And you did include Identity Crisis! I was so scared of the dark as a child because of that episode! Thank you for validating my experience and letting me know I wasn't alone lol
Loved all the real subtle references only super deep trek fans wpuld get. Had same thought about Spider-Reg (I guess they were devolving based on personality traits into their spirit animals?) Wierd but awesome. I always explained it away that he had a non human ancestor.
I love the Star Trek episodes Jeremy keep them coming. I used to watch them with my dad all the time love hearing you talk about anything man keep up the good work.
Maybe not scariest episode, but Timescape (S6 E25) has the most unsettling moment for me when Picard draws a face into the cloud of a frozen-in-time warp core breach, then goes into uncontrollable laughter as he momentarily loses his sanity.
I remember all of these episodes!! Fully agree with all your picks. Especially the one with the shadow in the holo deck! That freaked me out so much!!!
The phrase "whose shadow is that?" Was the scariest thing ive ever heard.. And second was "do you see what i see?" From that terrifying christmas song. 🎄
I know you were focused on TNG only, but I've always felt the nightmare trio of the entire franchise is the Night Terrors morgue scene, the "whose shadow is that...?" line, and the horrific transporter malfunction in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. That ungoldy scream and the misshapen human mass, combined with the impossibly horrific line "what we got back didn't live long...fortunately" is intensely shocking, especially considering it comes out of nowhere and has zero tonal connection to the rest of the movie.
Subscribed presuming “night terrors” will be on your list ! Wow - you just said it!! Your first one. That episode terrified me ! Thanks and well spoken!
Oh! great idea! This is why I love your channel, man! - Schisms ✓ - Identity Crisis ✓ - The Game - Time Squared - Conspiracy More structured episodes than your picks, I do lose my fright when stuff gets "goofy" like Frame of Mind or Night Terrors - but we matched on 2 ! Nice
I think one of the most disturbing episodes is the one with an telepath traveling on the ship, who for fun starts mind wrapping people into comas. He tried it on Troi but fails so he implants in her mind that Riker actually wrapped her. Messed up stuff
I caught this show mostly when I was a kid and my dad had it on TV. I remember one episode called Starship Mine, where the baryon sweep was working its way through the ship. It was deadly to organic life, but was safe for the ship itself. It was meant to decontaminate it, but the crew was onboard. It wasn't so much scary was it was tense. I remember breathing a sigh of relief when they stopped it just in time. It's probably not so scary now, I'm sure, but it stayed with me since I was a kid.
The scene where the bodies sit up in the morgue..........................still freaks me out. Just watched it a few months back and I still got goosebumps.
I think entire TNG always been have feeling of dread and scary. The fact there is some Godlike being such Q, Borg , events that borderline mythical instead science fiction and had no explanation. The last episode of TNG where they realize multiverse is real and the crew can become entirely different thing, they playing a card and have this solemn feeling when Picard told relationship between human more important that all technology they posses.
The first episode I think of when I think scary is usually Conspiracy. Seeing those bugs crawl in their mouths and the ending where his head explodes definitely scared me lol. Also you can’t forget the Borg episodes. When I watched those as a kid, I was terrified of the Borg and had nightmares from it
That one where crusher told riker that his arm was removed and then reattached got me back in the day..its still freaks me out sometimes....can you imagine being taken apart...put back together and you didnt know it...holy hell.
My top choices made your list. We feel exactly the same about Identity Crisis. That shadow in the holodeck still gives me an uneasy feeling all these years later.
I was deeply scared by Identity Crisis, with the odd mutations happening to certain members of the crew, becoming those black creatures with blue veins, and Jordie's final transformation was *really* freaky. Scared the shit out of me as a kid.
Glad I wasn’t the only one! It was less the body horror, and more the ambiance set up by the “Camp Crystal Lake” colony, and the realization at least 51 of these unseen things are running around and getting close enough to infect anyone that goes down to the surface.
to say nothing of that ghostly humanoid form appearing out of nowhere on the holodeck as Geordi was all alone and starting to transform. The Schisms holodeck scene makes my skin crawl too.
I remember the episode Devil’s Due, when Ardra was on trial and she was showing off her “powers”. She turned into the devil and said, “Can you explain it Picard?” That part creeped me out the first time I saw it because he was all red and the sound of his voice along with his whole vibe made it seemed like Satan had actually been captured on film!
Very nice timing talking about TNG episodes involving lack of sleep and going crazy with that airline pilot that did shrooms then didn't sleep for 40 hours and tried to crash a plane full of people because he thought he was dreaming.
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Still waiting for your bioshock infinite spoiler review ( days 512)
When are you going to review The Terror Jeremy, common man
I know star trek Infinite is getting all the love right now since it just released. But Stellaris is just way better haha, like I was actually super disappointed when I realized how little difference there was in Star Trek Infinite. The opening moves are exactly the same too and UI, I felt they should have at least reskinned the HUD to look more "trekky".
As great as Infinite is, it's basically just a great Stellaris mod.
@@geraintthatcher3076Yes! I just watched the first season (the only one worth watching, I’m told) last month and Damn!
I loved the one where the doctor is experiencing the crew disappearing one by one and nobody remembers the missing crew. Eventually she is by herself.
Season 4, chapter 5, "Remember Me" 👍
Yeah, that was a messed up one, Crusher thinking the crew was in danger, when *she* was the one in danger.
YES!!!!!!! that should def be in top 10 imo
The only episode I’ve seen, it was on in a friends house and now I’m interested
Watched that one again recently after many many years; brilliant episode. I'd forgotten everything that happened after everyone except Picard disappears, so that moment when the planet no longer existed, then it was revealed the entire universe was 700m in diameter.. whew
Season 1, Episode 25 "Conspiracy" scared the crap out of me as a little kid. I've never quite forgotten how disturbed I was from seeing that episode.
Genesis episode is goated
yeah one of the final scenes, where the creature crawls into that dudes mouth, gave me serious nightmares as a kid.
Quite a gory episode for this series as well
ABSOLUTELY !!!!
I always felt that "Conspiracy" was the first really great TNG episode. Expand the show by an additional half hour and budget better special effects and it could have been released as a TNG movie!
That scene in Night Terrors where Beverly is in the morgue and all of the bodies sit up was nightmare fuel for decades. I still hear, "Eyes in the dark, one moon circles" in my nightmares.
"Now!"
No kidding! "Night Terrors" was absolutely hair-raising.
Yeah!
That one was scary!
And so was that one with the lizards with scissors!😮
Love that episode so much I named my music studio "One Moon Circles Studio".
That voice and that line is burned into my memory forever
As a fellow TNG and Trek Fan in general, thank you for this!
Please don't shy away to do more like this.
Some other creepy ones I'd recommend are "Remember Me", "Imaginary Friend", and "Q-Who"
I remember "Imaginary Friend" really freaked me out when it first aired 😁.
Remember Me is an absolute cracker. A line from the episode that has always stuck with me is: "If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe something is wrong with the universe"
That little girl from Imaginary Friend was definitely creepy. Isabella!!!
Great call on Identity Crisis. That holodeck scene is nightmare fuel...'whose shadow is that?'
The Night Terrors morgue scene is number one for visual terror, but the line "whose shadow is that...?" is so scary by implication, it's worthy of a Lovecraft novel or Alien sequel.
Remind me of that scene in Signs.
"Night Terrors" reminds me of a MASH episode where the all the doctors of the hospital unit are dealing with exhaustion and have nightmares during the brief moments they can grab a few moments of sleep.
I’m so glad you included Schisms on here. That reveal of Riker’s arm has stuck with me as an irrational fear for over 2 decades now. Absolutely chilling for child me.
Man...I get chills just listening to you describe the scene with Geordi investigating that old footage. That episode gave me nightmares as a kid.
The monster in Darmok also freaked me out when I was young. The combination of it being this big brutal thing that could **also** make itself invisible was probably just too much for pre-teen me.
if you're still making TNG videos 20 years from now and Im still here, ill be watching em. Classics never die.
“There are four lights” I’ll count that as psychological horror
"At the end, I actually did see five lights"
Incredible episode.
One scary episode I think deserves an honorable mentions is "Realms of Fear" where Barclay starts seeing things in the transporter beam and thinks worm aliens are trying to eat him.
My favorite episode that freaked me out as a kid will always be "Q Who" (S2E16), otherwise known as the introduction of The Borg. It does such a fantastic job of showing just how terrifying the Borg are and just how unprepared The Federation is for them. The HR Geiger inspired designs still hold up to this day.
One of the only Q episodes I never skip.
I also love Guinnas and Picards chat at the end where she says "Since [the Borg] are aware of your existence...."
Picard: *hesiates and looks up* "They will be coming."
Guinan: "You can bet on it."
The delivery and sublty ambient creepy music was perfect. There was this sudden realization that the Enterprise may have escaped the nightmare for the day. But that at that exact moment a Borg cube set its course for Federation space. That the unrelenting, unfeeling, powerful monster they just escaped is still out there and worse, has set its eyes on their society and is heading for it RIGHT NOW.
@@wjzav1971 ...and every loss of life in and around The Federation from that moment forward is Q’s fault.
Same. That episode, along with Best Of Both Worlds, scared the crap out of me. Q-Who was almost like a horror movie to me, and "They will be coming" filled me with dread. Then they over-used the Borg so much, it ruined what was set-up in Season 2.
Same here. It borders on cosmic horror.
Frame of Mind is seriously one of the most underrated episodes of TNG. It never makes a top 10 list, or even a top 20, but it is very good at making the audience question what they are seeing. Psychological horror at its best; I've seen plenty of films that were dedicated to reaching that level of disturbing which didn't get as far as this episode.
Peak Jonathan Frakes!
Legitimately one of the best shows ever. We need more episodic sci-fi shows
I was always freaked out by the multiverse episodes, where at the end there’s all the enterprises and there’s the one from where the Borg conquered everything and they’d rather die than go back to that reality.
Parallels, right? Yeah, pretty freaky
Yes, that one still creeps me out
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Which made me wonder why the alternate crew never attempted to use time-travel to change things, like Kirk and his crew have done many times before.
@@tjjordan4207 Time travel ruined Star Trek. It just happened way too often.
"Where silence has lease" (S2E2), the mentioned Nagilum episode on 5:40 , was the one that got me as a kid. The wailing sound when they beam to the "Yamato" haunts me to this day.
I think I've blocked this episode from my memory. It sounds really scary, and I didn't handle scary well as a kid, but what you're say is sparking some vague memory. Maybe I need to update my list...
Dude, I really loved hearing you geek out. I know you have to do modern releases to feed the algorithm, but more like this would make me so happy. Gotta remember where you came from!
Really love every time jeremy talks about Star Trek
Oh sweet this was an unexpected treat! Fun vid!
As it happens I'm working my way back through TNG right now for the first time in quite a few years, watching it with my mother who recently lost her 2nd husband (not my father), and is in need of regular company to stave off the loneliness. I'm using it as an opportunity to share all the things I loved but never managed to share with her before. She's never seen it but is absolutely loving it (she's nearly 80 and her regular refrain as we go through is "why have I never watched this before?!"). We started with Avatar: The Last Airbender and moved on to TNG after that.
I was creeped out by the episode that was Invasion of the Body Snatchers, where a game and its addictive nature takes over the entire crew, and Wesley is the one who discovers it first.
Love that episode in a “so bad it’s good” way. Makes me die laughing every time I watch it.
So happy u mentioned Genesis! I was getting ready tp blow up your comments section but u got it at the end. Genesis is basically Ridley Scotts Alien of TNG....being more afraid of whats lurking im the shadows. So creepy!
I agree with your picks and I always love your Trek videos, Jeremy. An honorable mention for "Skin of Evil". The death of Tasha Yar set the stage that no one was safe and that scene of Riker being dragged and enveloped by the oil "Armus" was frightening as a kid.
"Genesis " ep freaks me out STILL to this day. De-evolving is a scary thing.
I actually think ST Lower Decks must have episodes like those on the regular, for laughs.
Thanks man. Appreciate this and will always be here for your Trek vids. Please keep them coming and ill keep re-watching to give you them views.
Sir, this was a wonderful surprise! Star Trek: TNG was my scifi show growing up. Thank you for putting Genesis on the list. That episode scared the crap outta me when I was a kid. But overall, great list, thank you Jeremy!
For me it was Skin of Evil
S1, Episode 23. The tar being that killed Lt. Yar had a scary voice and appearance that frightened me as a kid. Looking at it now as an adult, it's actually understandable how a child would view it as terrifying and scary. Now a days I'm not easily scared but I get spooked by jump scares still, I'll admit.
Skin of Evil is underrated IMO.
The great Joseph Stefano who wrote a number of Outer Limits episodes co-wrote Skin of Evil. Wish he had done more.
The crazy thing is I do not think that that episode is scary and I have no tolerance I mean I don’t even watch horror movies everything scares me. But it does emotionally hit me it’s some thing about this idea that these beings left behind the parts of themselves that they didn’t like and it coalesce into a being itself and that his real tragedy is that he’s so lonely so desperate that he would be as evil as he could be because that’s all they thought of him that really messes me up emotionally. Every time I watch it the carelessness in which he kills Tasha or the delight he takes in essentially tormenting a blind man it’s devastating emotionally
Time Squared from season 2 was quite creepy, where we see a second picard from several hours from the future and the ship is going to be destroyed. The second Picard is not like the original (because of the time differential) but slowly gets more recognisable as time slowly catches up with him.
Please do more Star Trek content, I very much enjoy what you currently put out. In fact if my wife wants to see a movie and I'm not sure about it, I'll see if you've done a spoiler free review and base wether or not it's going to be theater worthy. Keep up the great work :)
4:03 this episode is a masterclass in writing. Data’s poetry recital was one of TNG’s funniest moments. To have such humor and horror blended seamlessly in a single episode is brilliant.
You’re not afraid of being alone in the dark; you’re afraid of NOT being alone in the dark.
Thank you for mentioning Conspiracy at the end.
Spider!Barclay was genuinely horrifying. Both the sight, body horror and the terror that would be gripping Reg's mind if any of it was still there.
Us Trek fans appreciate these videos! Thanks Jeremy :)
I never really watched the show, but some of my family were fans. And I remember that de-evolution episode. Creeped me out too. Creative and well done. I love this list 😂
More of these sorts of lists please!! 🙌 Proper nostalgic… And wicked!
Thanks for this video. Did not even catch the moment Jonathan Frakes flipped off the camera. Gonna have to rewatch that scene several times now.
The Episode itself wasn't scary, but that bit in the episode where he Enterprise was flying through like, phased holes in space, and the one lady fell through the floor and it rematerialized leaving her split in half was pretty f**ked up for Star Trek.
But you covered some of the best. Frame of Mind is one of my just top 5 TNG episodes period, its so good.
OMG same! 😱 Completely freaked me out as a kid.
!!! Thank you for making this! ❤ I started watching TNG when COVID started, and it really just helped improve my optimism in life. It's my favorite show of all time.
Great list! Going in I didn’t think there were actually five episodes to make a top five but you nailed it.
Did you say “Owen Barkley?”
*I* can’t wrap my brain around an invisible person casting a shadow.
My problem with Schisms is the holodeck scene. I dislike how with each adjustment to the table they’re collectively building, the design changes, even with the simplest of instruction to the computer.
year, the end of "Chain of Command" is for me more creep and still relatable than any episode in your list.
Schisms is hands down my favorite creepy Trek episode. That point where they're in the holodeck, reconstructing where they were and Riker says "we've all been here before" always sends a chill down my spine.
For real, when that guest actress covers her ears, the clicking sounds, and Riker's cold stare and the music, it's that facking music with the strings like a scary version of the THX theme... GODS... I have goosebumps just thinking of it.
"Identity Crisis" traumatized me as a kid so bad, I refuse to watch it to this day. I've spent so long trying to figure out what it was. Finally, one day, I remembered a night as a child (around 4, I think). I was put to bed before my parents left for the night. As I was trying to fall asleep, I noticed a weird shadow on the wall I couldn't explain. I called for my dad, but the sitter said he had left, so I just rolled over and fell asleep. Thar shadow looked EXACTLY like the shadow Geordie found in the holodeck.
It also didn't help that we lived in a bona fide haunted house with both my parents and the current owners having experienced the paranormal.
Spider-Barclay, Spider-Barclay, does whatever a Spider-Barclay does.
Yeeeahh
Hey, Jeremy? Can you please do top 5 or 10 lists more often? For example, what're your top 10 favourite episodes of Game of Thrones or The Clone Wars?
the Crew's very first encounter with the Borg courtesy of Q...when they couldnt fight, or flee or reason - that was the dopest episode!
not TNG, but the Voyager episode where Tom Paris goes Warp 10 and slowly morphs into a frog seriously messed me up as a kid. The scene where he peels off his ear and tongue have stuck with me. I imagine it would not be as scary to me as an adult though lmao
The thing that makes that Genesis episode a little more messed up in my mind now as an adult is when I remember there are families on the Enterprise.
Which must mean all the children de-evolved too… and there really are not enough counsellors in all of Starfleet who can undo that kind of childhood trauma.
I don’t know, nowadays, when I see the cheery “oh well, everything’s back to normal now” wrap up at the end, I kinda want to hear a distant voice in the background call out “but the chief of security ate three kids!!!”
Seeing a de-evolved Deanna Troi as an amphibious/reptile hybrid on a replicated tree branch in her quarters messed me up hard-core!!
Three kids?
@@SumDumGy pretty sure they meant "had three kids" by the context of their comment
@@Jack_Stafford yeah, sorry, that should have been “ate” rather than “are.”
Ducking autocorrect
@@Kmadden2004 Thanks for the clarification! I was very confused.
I know it might not be considered "scary" but when Picard turned around and was Locutis, basically the walking zombie, that did creep me out big time. Borg creeped me out for a long time. This is my first look into Jeremy's soul and I like it.
We used to invite all our friends over to watch new episodes of this show. It was a great party every week to watch the show and then collectively discuss it. It was a really fun and special time for nerds!
I loved this video! Yay for Star Trek plus horror.
Also this sponsor actually sounds interesting. I want to look into it and that hasnt happened in away.
I’m not even a huge Trek fan but I would LOVE to see more content like this! I absolutely love this style of content, especially if you break down the episode as well
The episode where data has nightmares. The sight of troi being a cake and screaming in pain when getting cut into has always freaked me out.
"Phantasms", I love that episode.
The episode that scared me the most as a kid was s1 e25 "Conspiracy"
I haven't seen it recently, so I can't say if it held up.
I am so glad that you mentioned that outstanding sequence where LaForge uses the holodeck to reveal the creature! That scene absolutely scared the living s*** out of me and I loved every second of it.
I'm really surprised you didn't mention Conspiracy on here though.
I would put Phantasms on my list. Data having effed up dreams like something that you'd get if you locked Davids Lynch and Cronenberg in a room together with a typewriter and some shrooms
Love both your TNG and regular review videos Jeremy - many thanks.
S4E18. I was around 10 years old when I watched that episode. When they revealed the source of that shadow, man that's scary. Only matched with a luminescent Geordie. And Schisms remain my most favourite TnG episode. That scene inside the holodeck is *chef's kiss*.
The music there got me, like the spooky version of the THX theme at the end of that sequence with Riker's cold stare hehehehhe
Aw men. I would have had Nagelum up there. That feeling of helplessness and his appearance creeped me the eff out.
Yes Jeremy! Star Trek Next Gen is my jam
That damn abduction episode really got me. Especially in the holideck when they added the clicking sounds. Nope.
2:18 good choice. That scene with Crusher and the sitting corpses is terrifying.
Thank you for including Frame of Mind! It's one of my favorites that a lot of listicles seem to forget
2:06 One of my earliest memories, my dad was watching the show and I walked in right as that scene happened... I ran out of the room sobbing hahaha. It's so well done
I've followed your movie reviews without knowing you were a Trek Fan. I also noticed you don't get as much views for Trek related reviews compared to other reviews, and as a fellow Trek fan .... I love you. Keep reaching into the soul.
5. Where Silence Has Lease
4. Conspiracy
3. Genesis
2. Hide and Q ("Vicious animal things")
1. Night Terrors
Don't remember the episode's name but when Riker brought that game from this world that turned every crew member into video game addicts and put them under mind control.
It was creepy because Westley and his gf were the only ones to wisen up and they tell the Captain, but Oh no, Picard is also under its control, then he meets his gf again and turns out she has also been turned and suddenly Westley is relentlessly chased by the entire ship. You also get the scene where Crusher and Geordi deactivate Data and sever his brain without flinching.
It’s called “The Game”.
One of the best episodes. But so many great ones to choose from.
Yes, that scene when did Data wrong was almost like an episode of the Bodysnatchers or the Faculty.
And of course when Wesley is being pursued by Riker and Worf in the Jefferies Tube.
Not a relatively scary episode, but the Tar monster always freaked me out
Skin of Evil
At the end of the episode Picard orders a beacon that is warn other ships not to beam down leaving Armus forever alone.
Great list! All excellent choices I would’ve included myself. Frame of Mind really showcased Frakes’ range as an actor and it’s impressive to watch the gradual shift as each performance of the play becomes more grounded and believable until it becomes the new reality.
2:58 The spookiest scene of TV perhaps ever is Geordi on the holodeck piecing things together.
When clicked on this I wandered, "will he do that one where they change into the invisible night aliens?" And you did include Identity Crisis!
I was so scared of the dark as a child because of that episode! Thank you for validating my experience and letting me know I wasn't alone lol
I can only ever think of the VA SpeakerD from Alfabusa whenever Jeremy shouts, "Sponsorshiiiiip!"
Loved all the real subtle references only super deep trek fans wpuld get.
Had same thought about Spider-Reg
(I guess they were devolving based on personality traits into their spirit animals?)
Wierd but awesome.
I always explained it away that he had a non human ancestor.
Rikers Spirit Animal is a growling neanderthal 😂
Thank you Jeremy. Cause and Effect should have been on your list. But I understand. What about Disaster that was off the chain.
I love the Star Trek episodes Jeremy keep them coming. I used to watch them with my dad all the time love hearing you talk about anything man keep up the good work.
The moment 'Spider Barclay' slaps against the glass, I jumped as a kid. Lol! Great stuff.
Maybe not scariest episode, but Timescape (S6 E25) has the most unsettling moment for me when Picard draws a face into the cloud of a frozen-in-time warp core breach, then goes into uncontrollable laughter as he momentarily loses his sanity.
the part of the two aliens posing as romulans when they attacked LaForge on the Warbird and Data on the Enterprise were a jumpscare for me lol.
I remember all of these episodes!! Fully agree with all your picks. Especially the one with the shadow in the holo deck! That freaked me out so much!!!
4:57 yeah, no thank you. Deeply chilling scene. I get creeped out to this day being surrounded by noises in the dark.
The phrase "whose shadow is that?" Was the scariest thing ive ever heard..
And second was "do you see what i see?" From that terrifying christmas song. 🎄
Thank you for this. You should do more of these. Their awesome!!!!
I know you were focused on TNG only, but I've always felt the nightmare trio of the entire franchise is the Night Terrors morgue scene, the "whose shadow is that...?" line, and the horrific transporter malfunction in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. That ungoldy scream and the misshapen human mass, combined with the impossibly horrific line "what we got back didn't live long...fortunately" is intensely shocking, especially considering it comes out of nowhere and has zero tonal connection to the rest of the movie.
That was my line, “I’m in.” Never watch Star Trek except a few movies.
Loved this! I for real looked over my shoulder during the talk of the shadow creature
Subscribed presuming “night terrors” will be on your list ! Wow - you just said it!! Your first one. That episode terrified me ! Thanks and well spoken!
Oh! great idea! This is why I love your channel, man!
- Schisms ✓
- Identity Crisis ✓
- The Game
- Time Squared
- Conspiracy
More structured episodes than your picks, I do lose my fright when stuff gets "goofy" like Frame of Mind or Night Terrors - but we matched on 2 ! Nice
I think one of the most disturbing episodes is the one with an telepath traveling on the ship, who for fun starts mind wrapping people into comas. He tried it on Troi but fails so he implants in her mind that Riker actually wrapped her. Messed up stuff
Omg!
"Worf spits acid like Reptile from Mortal Kombat!"
It was scary and hilarious at the same time!😂
I caught this show mostly when I was a kid and my dad had it on TV. I remember one episode called Starship Mine, where the baryon sweep was working its way through the ship. It was deadly to organic life, but was safe for the ship itself. It was meant to decontaminate it, but the crew was onboard. It wasn't so much scary was it was tense. I remember breathing a sigh of relief when they stopped it just in time. It's probably not so scary now, I'm sure, but it stayed with me since I was a kid.
I will always be here for more TNG (or Enterprise) episode discussions.
The scene where the bodies sit up in the morgue..........................still freaks me out. Just watched it a few months back and I still got goosebumps.
I think entire TNG always been have feeling of dread and scary. The fact there is some Godlike being such Q, Borg , events that borderline mythical instead science fiction and had no explanation. The last episode of TNG where they realize multiverse is real and the crew can become entirely different thing, they playing a card and have this solemn feeling when Picard told relationship between human more important that all technology they posses.
The first episode I think of when I think scary is usually Conspiracy. Seeing those bugs crawl in their mouths and the ending where his head explodes definitely scared me lol. Also you can’t forget the Borg episodes. When I watched those as a kid, I was terrified of the Borg and had nightmares from it
That one where crusher told riker that his arm was removed and then reattached got me back in the day..its still freaks me out sometimes....can you imagine being taken apart...put back together and you didnt know it...holy hell.
My top choices made your list. We feel exactly the same about Identity Crisis. That shadow in the holodeck still gives me an uneasy feeling all these years later.
I was deeply scared by Identity Crisis, with the odd mutations happening to certain members of the crew, becoming those black creatures with blue veins, and Jordie's final transformation was *really* freaky. Scared the shit out of me as a kid.
Glad I wasn’t the only one!
It was less the body horror, and more the ambiance set up by the “Camp Crystal Lake” colony, and the realization at least 51 of these unseen things are running around and getting close enough to infect anyone that goes down to the surface.
to say nothing of that ghostly humanoid form appearing out of nowhere on the holodeck as Geordi was all alone and starting to transform.
The Schisms holodeck scene makes my skin crawl too.
I remember the episode Devil’s Due, when Ardra was on trial and she was showing off her “powers”. She turned into the devil and said, “Can you explain it Picard?” That part creeped me out the first time I saw it because he was all red and the sound of his voice along with his whole vibe made it seemed like Satan had actually been captured on film!
S4e18, man. That episode still freaks me out. Even the creatures’ design was in that perfect uncanny valley territory to keep me up at night as a kid.
Conspiracy was pretty scary when it first aired. One of my favorites to revisit, and it still saddens me that they never went anywhere with it.
Preach!
Very nice timing talking about TNG episodes involving lack of sleep and going crazy with that airline pilot that did shrooms then didn't sleep for 40 hours and tried to crash a plane full of people because he thought he was dreaming.