Best horror episodes on Star Trek: Voyager, ranked

Summary

• Star Trek: Voyager uses horror to create worrying sections that cover psychological, body, dark imagination and paranormal themes.

• Sections such as “The Thaw” and “The Haunting of Deck 12” showcase psychological and supernatural horror elements that scare the crew.

• The show contains horror stories such as “Revulsion” and “One” that explore the darker side of AI, isolation and psychological struggle.

Thirty years ago, USS Voyager and the ship were transported as the persecuted, election Jean, into the Delta -square. When the two -part pilot episode “caretaker” had been completed, both vessels were caught light years from the Federation Space, so the entire prerequisite for the show is already based on a certain horror level.

There would be several sections of Star Trek: Voyager It would follow the tone that the pilot had set for the rest of the show. The different sections that used horror on The trip Also covered the spectrum, including psychological, body, dark imagination and the paranormal.

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Tin

A clown of fear

• Number: Season 2, section 23
• Air date: April 29, 1996
• Main role: Kate Mulgree, Robert Picardo, Michael McKean

“Tina” is often quoted as one of the best examples of psychological horror in The trip series and is also considered one of the most worrying sections in the franchise. The title refers to the ecological disaster that inspired the foreigners to create a virtual reality based on their dreams and desires, and when Voyager finds them, they are caught in a VR nightmare that feeds their fear and has the power to kill them.

However, there is a character that is not affected: the holographic doctor. This is just part of the key to stopping the machine, with the face of a killer clown, from catching the crew on Voyager forever.

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Ghosts of deck 12

Even space has blackouts

• Number: Season 6, section 25
• Air date: May 17, 2000
• Main role: Ethan Phillips, Kate Mulgrew, Manu IntiYMI

The image of a scary story told around a campfire is revived during a future time in “The Haunting of Deck 12.” This time it is a planned power outage due to Voyager traveling through a Nebula, and it awakens the Borg children in the middle of the regeneration cycle, and Neelix entertains them with a story until the power comes back.

It is unclear if the upcoming story Neelix tells, about an malicious unit that uses its dismantled form to try to take over the ship, happens as he says it or if it is exaggerated to maintain the rescued youth. It seems that it was the real thing; But when he tells the eased captain that he hopes “that”, no matter what it was, “lives happily ever after.”

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Aversion

The purity of the machine

• Number: Season 4, section 5
• Air date: October 1, 1997
• Main role: Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Robert Picardo

Not every hologram is benevolent or friendly, and this horror story is about one who goes terribly wrong. It all starts with an emergency call from a ship with a surviving crew member, a hologram named Dejaren, but when the doctor and Torres arrive to help, they find that things are not always as they seem.

The title refers to the feelings that the Dejaren, a hologram, develops for his organic herds, something he eventually confesses to the doctor at about the same time as Torres discovers that his crews do not die from a virus, but were murdered. They hardly manage to escape, partly because Torre's half Klingon heart has an extra ventricle, and she knows that electrical surge can destabilize holograms.

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Wake up moments

A story of nightmares

• Number: Season 4, section 13
• Air date: January 14, 1998
• Main role: Mark Colson, Garrett Wang, Kate Mulgrew

The one who remembers A nightmare on Elm StreetWill find this plot familiar, as the real horror always waited in your dreams, and sooner or later everyone has to sleep. When the section starts, the officers on the bridge and discuss some of the upcoming details about their latest nightmares, and the action is thickened when Harry Kim is caught in a strap -sleeping bike and cannot wake up at all.

What is a state of sleep for a human being is a watchful life for the foreign breed trying to contact Voyager's crew, and only Chakotay can stop them with a clear dream technique. It is an adventure with high efforts with only the holographic doctor to help him.

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Barge of the dead

Klingon afterlife

• Number: Season 6, section 3
• Air date: October 6, 1999
• Main role: Roxann Dawson, Eric Pierpoint, Karen Austin, Sherman Augustus

Occult is always an interesting topic for horror, with pictures of human heaven and hell as the main example. This section deepens Klingon's version of the afterlife. Torres has a close death experience that includes a vision of his mother on the legendary barge of the dead, who claims that she is condemned to the Klingon version of hell because her daughter will not accept her Klingon heritage.

After Torres is revived, she insists on returning to the barge with an induced coma, and what follows is a grotesque but fascinating journey through various stages in Klingon afterlife. This section is more about Torres coming up with his Klingon page and less about horror, but the twisted vision about the crew is still quite worrying.

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A

The loneliness of seven

• Number: Season 4, section 25
• Air date: May 13, 1998
• Main role: Jeri Ryan, Ron Ostrow, Wade Williams

Seven out of nine is usually a stoic and emotional character with a vision that would impress even a vulcan, making her vulnerability in “one” so much more scary. The crew can only pass safely through a cloud of radiation by entering a long -term hypersleep, and only the doctor and seven out of nine can continue to work and maintain the ship.

Everything is well for a while, but seven are starting to feel the effects of her isolation, despite the doctor's efforts to distract her. Then his emitter begins to fail because of the radiation, leaves seven alone with his personal demons, which include hallucinations of castle, foreign races and devastating computer errors.

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Remedy

Tuvak sees a Distubed Mind

• Number: Season 2, section 16
• Air date: February 5, 1996
• Main role: Tim Russ, Brad Dourif, Angela Dohrmann

The potential dangers of a Vulcan mind have already been determined in Star Trek The universe, so imagine what happens when “melt” is with the idea of ​​a psychotic killer. Tuvak tries to use his talents to calm the angry psyche of the former Maquis crew Lon Suder, and even though he succeeds, he acts part of the psychotic anger of Suder's peace of mind.

Tuvok's struggle is too real for anyone who has experienced a mental illness, and the lack of control that takes over one of the show's most emotionally stable characters is all the more scary. Ironically, it is Suder himself who saves Tuvok, which is the beginning of a character arch that replaces the troubled Betzoid.