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{{quote|"Is it also true that you have a limited existence?... you exist, then you cease to exist. You call it... death."}}

** ...Which immediately leads to a redshirt being killed by a forced heart attack.

** They go to a ship that is the ''exact'' double of the ''Enterprise'', only there's nobody aboard at all, and there are strange inhuman screams echoing throughout the ship. Then Riker finds Worf, who is freaking out a little, and they ask each other if they were making the screams. They weren't. Then they find the bridge, and every door leads to one of the other doors on the bridge, so they're stuck and are visibly shaken when they return to Enterprise.

*** Worf pretty much lost his shit on the bridge of the doppelganger ship. "THERE IS ONE BRIDGE. ONE RIKER, ONE BRIDGE GRAAHHH." It might be narmful if it wasn't so scary.

* Don't forget the time everyone on the ship but Data is slowly transformed into prehistoric animals.

* And the episode where the ship gets cleaned by an energy field slowly sweeping through it that will kill ''any living being it touches''. Of course, Picard and some thieves get caught on the ship when the field is activated. (One [[Gory Discretion Shot|isn't seen dying]], but is certainly ''heard'' dying, screaming horribly.)

* The episode where Dr. Crusher gets trapped on a deserted Enterprise in the collapsing universe may be far scarier than was intended. There's a particular kind of hopeless terror when the ''borders of reality itself are closing in on all sides''. The recent ''New Scientist'' article predicting that this might be what it would ''actually'' look like when the universe ends ''does not help''.

** People start vanishing and no one [[Through the Eyes of Madness|except Dr. Crusher]] believes they were ever there, not even the ship's computer. At least when the pocket universe started collapsing you knew what was going on.

 

== The Movies ==

* ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture/Nightmare Fuel|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]'' The whole damn, [[Leave the Camera Running|interminable]] thing! THAT is terrifying!

** Actually, specific events in this movie are a great example. In this movie more than any other Trek production, every aspect of space travel in the 23rd Century IS TRYING TO KILL YOU! The transporter disintegrates the ship's science officer. Crewmembers make extensive use of space suits for EVA. Going to warp accidentally throws you inside an uncontrollable wormhole. And remember those 300-year old space probes? One of them is coming back, and it's dragging a giant machine thousands of miles long that is more than capable of rendering the planet Earth completely lifeless. What's more, it's been sent by a race of machines that don't even perceive carbon-based organisms as living beings. V'ger is looking for God, and if it doesn't find it, it will nuke your planet.

** The thought that whatever happened on Omicron Ceti V since Kirk marooned the ''Botany Bay'' survivors there was sufficient enough to drive ''Khan'' of all people to the point of utter madness is pretty nightmare-inducing. In ''Space Seed'', Khan was himself a case of [[Nightmare Fuel]]; in the movie, he's gone completely psychotic.

* ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock/Nightmare Fuel|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]''

* ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection]]''. The flesh stretching process of the Son'a. Only somewhat Nightmare Fuel until head baddie Ru'afo {{spoiler|betrays Admiral Dougherty, killing him by subjecting him to a flesh stretching machine. Ow.}}

* ''[[Star Trek Generations]]''. When Data's newly-installed emotion chip overloads and he goes [[Laughing Mad]], it's ''creepy as hell.''