Star Trek/Nightmare Fuel: Difference between revisions

* The agony booth from the episode that introduced the Mirror Universe, not to mention just imagining what life must be like on a day-to-day basis in the mirror universe...

** Pssh, the agony booth is kids' stuff compared to the Neural Neutralizer from "Dagger of the Mind", which, in all honesty, the Mirror Universe probably has as well. The device was originally intended to cure the mentally psychotic, but one scientist decided to make a few..."minor adjustments". Not only does it inflict as much pain as the agony booth, but the operator can make changes to a patient's personality and memories. In the off-chance someone taps into his or her true self, they are inflicted with intense pain, as shown by poor Dr. Van Gelder. Probably the worst part is when a person is in the chamber with the device at full blast and no operator present...

* "The Alternative Factor," where the two Lazaruses are doomed to [[Fate Worse Than Death|forever fight each other in between the two universes]].

* McCoy's injuries during "The Empath". What's worse is that we don't see exactly ''what'' happened to him during that time.

** If that face in the void image wasn't creepy enough, keep in mind it's Nagilum's idea of [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]].

** Nagilum's creepiest line is worth mentioning:

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

** And let us not forget Picard and Riker calmly and matter of factly deciding to self-destruct the ship with all hands aboard rather then have them be killed one by one by Nagilum. The conversation Picard and his Number 1 have over how long to set the count down to the ship's destruction is chilling. [[It Got Worse|It gets worse]] when [[Fridge Horror]] sets in and we remember that besides the crew, the Enterprise is populated by a couple hundred civilians, many of them children. One can't fault Picard and Riker for wanting to spare their crew from the horrible screaming death we saw the red shirt subjected to, but the way they just give up without really exploring any other options is unnerving.

** In Parallels you see a [http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Riker_gone_mad.jpg desperate and half-mad Riker] begging for help from the alt-uni Enterprise. In his universe, the entire Federation has been overrun by Borg, and he is the only man shown on the bridge. He is so desperate to prevent himself from returning to his own dimension that he tries to ''kill Worf and by doing so endanger all of the multiverses in the process''. Thinking about what the ''rest'' of that universe must be like gives me the heebly-jeeblies.

* Let's not forget Q's behavior when the Borg where first introduced. At first he seemingly sent them into Borg space out of child-like spite. But to just coldly brush off the ''real deaths'' of eighteen innocent people as a BLOODY NOSE!

** It's an unsettling reminder that Q, for all his puckish pranks and amusements, is genuinely a threat on his own, and he is so far above the Federation on the food chain that the lives of a handful of Starfleet officers means absolutely nothing to him.

** Q in general could be seen as [[Nightmare Fuel]]. Though he does have humanity's best interest in mind, for the most part, he is still a [[Jerkass God|jerkish reality-warping alien]] who will gladly toy with you (mentally and physically) for his own amusement. Not only will he wipe out entire civilizations out of pure boredom, but he can also alter the laws of physics with little-to-no effort. And that's not even getting into how '''dangerous''' he can be when he's angry.