I’ve been a fan of Star Trek for so long as I can keep in mind. I watched reruns of the unique collection on TV rising up, I noticed all the flicks and have seen many of the collection which were launched through the years. I like the optimism of Star Trek; the concept humanity is able to nice issues. I need to imagine that no matter struggles humanity goes by means of at present, we’ll ultimately go away all of it behind for a brighter future.
However typically, it is about monstrous killer aliens stalking you in the dead of night and murdering you, and it seems, when that’s the case, Trek continues to be fairly good. I’ve been working my approach by means of Star Trek: Deep Area 9 for the primary time, the one collection I had by no means seen, with my Paramount+ subscription, and a latest episode has made me notice that what the world wants is a Star Trek slasher film.
Empok Nor Is A Star Trek Horror Film
“Empok Nor” is the twenty fourth episode of Season 5 of Deep Area 9. The plot follows a crew from the station, led by Colm Meany’s Chief O’Brien, who journey to a different former Cardassian house station to salvage elements that the Chief wants to repair their house station. As a result of Cardassians ceaselessly booby lure former outposts, Garak (the skilled tailor who isn’t a former covert operative, we swear, wink, wink), among the best Star Trek characters ever, goes alongside for the experience. They convey with them a bunch of targets…I imply, a crew of engineers.
Upon getting into the station, it’s found the crew will not be alone. A pair of Cardassians had been left in cryogenic stasis, and so they’re being affected by some type of drug that has made them centered solely on killing anyone who dares enter the station. For sure, all these further engineers may as properly be carrying purple shirts as a result of they’re nothing however fodder for the killers.
It was when the episode included a full-on bounce scare that I spotted the episode of DS9 I used to be watching was really a horror film. One of many Cardassian killers jumps by means of a pane of glass to seize one of many engineers who has been quietly making an attempt to determine what’s occurring.
The episode has all of the basic horror hallmarks. There’s a dwindling variety of survivors, darkish, slender passages the place something may very well be hiding, and even a shock killer when Garak, the Cardassian introduced alongside for the experience, is affected by the toxin and turns into a killer himself.
If Star Trek Can Do Comedy, Why Not Horror?
I’m not an anti-horror individual, however I’m not a significant horror fan both, and but, watching “Empok Nor,” I couldn’t assist however want I may see extra of this. It labored remarkably properly. After all, this was removed from the primary horror story instructed in outer house, however the parts that make Star Trek distinctive have been on full show and labored fairly properly.
The franchise actually has performed with horror earlier than, and certain will once more, however normally, the phobia is extra cerebral and fewer visceral. It is extra about tales which might be scary as a result of they’re unusual and issues are unexplained. Right here, the horror is bodily.
Following the success of the comedic and controversial Star Trek: Decrease Decks, it’s clear that these tales can work in genres outdoors of conventional drama or science fiction motion. If Trek can do comedy, absolutely it could possibly additionally do horror.
I’d like to see extra horror with a Trek twist. Whereas it appears that evidently the beforehand teased Star Trek film from Quentin Tarantino won’t ever occur, he could be the proper option to helm one thing like this. Since that’s unlikely, a streaming film on Paramount+ would suffice. There’s potential right here, and I need to see extra.