Life is hard enough as it is. I’m tired. I’m exhausted. Give me hope for a better tomorrow that I honestly can’t see. Gimme Star Trek.
That being said, what do you think is the funniest episode of TNG and the scariest episode? I can’t make up my damn mind on what to watch. I’m starting with Schisms because fuck that holodeck clicking scene.
Also after posting this and taking a look at the home screen, I feel like I’m dangerously close to spamming. If I haven’t already. If it becomes a problem please let me know. Gonna back off a bit today.
The scariest for me is still Best of Both Worlds, Part 1. I was literally an infant when it first aired, but I remember seeing it in reruns when I was maybe five or six years old.
When I was a child, Captain Picard was almost a god to me — not in a hero worship kind of way, but almost a literal sense. He was firm but kind, intelligent but humble, and always did the right thing no matter what it meant for himself. And Patrick Stewart even sounds like what I thought God’s voice might be like.
The Borg had been looming in the background all episode, and then when they finally show up they stole Picard, corrupted him, made him into a monster that wanted to hurt everyone Picard cared for, and forced Riker (who I vaguely remember believing as a kid was Picard’s son) to kill him… it felt like the whole world was crashing down. And worst of all Captain Picard wasn’t going to be there to put it back together, because the Borg just took him.
ETA: and when the away team is trying to explain to Riker what they saw, Worf sounds so lost and angry when he just shouts “He is a Borg”. It was a terrifying, almost traumatic experience for me.
And then the episode just… stopped. I was so young I’d never experienced a cliffhanger before. And to this day I bet I could count on one hand the number of cliffhangers that hit me as hard.
It ended with Picard/Locutus saying:
“Resistance is futile … Number 1!”
I don’t know how long i stayed there, sitting with my jaw on the floor, glaring into the screen, completely taken hostage by that goddamn cliffhanger
I swear you’re right. I remember that very line. But on my last watch through and checking on YouTube now, it’s not there.
I don’t buy into the “Mandela effect” bullshit, but it’s a tough memory error to swallow.
Seriously? That line had such an impact on me. Did you watch it on Netflix, I’ll try to find it.
Apart from my YouTube searches in the last day, Netflix was where I watched it more recently yes.
I’ve done some Googling for quotes, and it looks like Locutus does refer to Riker as “Number One” a few times in Part 2:
But I too remember Locutus giving his whole speech about how their lives as they had been were over, then closing with “Resistance is futile… Number One”. Gives me chills to this day, but apparently it didn’t happen.