Film Roar

this image looks truly sick, ahahah.

You know, the thing about this episode is that it had an exploding head. I had never prior to this seen a Star Trek episode with as spectacularly an exploding head as this one. I avoided TNG for the longest time because I thought the first episode was pretty dorky, but when I caught the last few minutes of this one, with people shooting people's heads off and chasing critters around and shooting some more and some explosions, hey, I thought now THIS is the kind of Star Trek action I can get behind!

Unfortunately, not all episodes were this splattery, and in fact, there really weren't any as juicy as this afterwards, either.

Please, if there is a Higher Power out there that guides the Hands of Hollywood, I beg of you to get John Woo in there to write and direct an episode of Enterprise. Tarantino will do, but he's not union. Not that I care, of course.

This was a truly bad episode. Not only had I seen every aspect of it before from Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Alien to even crappy modern B horror flicks from the '80s that my friend's uncle would record from Showtime, HBO, and Skinemax. And the head thing was just gross. Not what you'd expect from Star Trek.

This is one of those episode where I can't decide whether it's good or bad. It's so different from what we think of as Star Trek, but not that bad in it's own way (as in creepfest horror genre type stuff) but every time i get into that aspect of it they pull out the cheese. Although, after all the hype, I expected much more from the ending sequence (the exploding head): it was not at all gross. the whole sequence was patently unhorrifying, except for the noises when Remmick's neck is swelling. That's the only thing.

It's like this episode couldn't quite get anything exactly right, and thus missed believability (and quality) by a hair. I mean, take a look: the creatures are creepily disgusting, but the stop-motion photography undermines their reality. Admiral Quinn is spinechilling right up until the part were he knocks down Worf in the torbolift, at which point I break out into derisive laughter - clearly, incredible. Worf does not just go *down* like that. And the sets were simply terrible, very Original of them. The one thing I liked unequivocally was that Bolian captain guy, wotsisname.

Oh, and the eating worms? that was grosser than the epxloding head.

His name was Captain Rixx (I think). I've never seen this one, (and hope never to) but I do want to see the parts with Tryla Scott. I saw her in an episode of another tv show once, and really liked her.

Oh yeah? which tv show?

To tell the truth, it was the 70's incarnation of the Hardy Boys...I saw a couple of episodes on TVland In fact, the first one I actually saw was the one with Ursaline Bryant in it. She only had a few lines, but I still liked the character a lot.
For a kids show in the 70's, that a was pretty good show.

This one may be bad, but it sure is memorable. I'd read all kinds of stuff about the legendary exploding head, et cetera, and was expecting a lot more than what I got, which (as exploding heads go) was completely innocuous. I found the neck-swelling far more stomach-turning. The entire thing, though, was steeped in a very creepy feeling. Yes, memorable, though memorable doesn't necessarily equal good.

I wished more episodes were like this. It was abnormal, and very weird.

Nice pics, had never seen that site before.. although I don't agree with the comments regarding the episode. TNG was kind of 'Dorky', as he said, in the beginning but they grew rather quickly by the end of the second season. I think the thing to overcome for that whole TNG Crew was that Kirk/Spock were so entrenched in our minds in 1988, (that was about the time Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was in or minds) that new 'Trek' was looked upon with skepticism.

I didn't start watching TNG until the 3rd season, in the episode where they brought back Tasha Yar from the dead. After that it was, "Kirk who?"

I went on play and modify several Trek Games on the PC - The entire Starfleet Command Series, and now Bridge Commander.

http://www.frost-works.com/cjmods in case you're a gamer.

the only thing i didnt like about this was the eating the worm things and when the parasite came out of his stomach