Star Trek - Picard and Riker blow up an alien

[KaptainOrky]

Do not all creature have a right to exist is it not wrong of us to punish them for doing what is natural for them i think we should ... JESUS CHRIST KILL IT KILL IT

[DrewPicklesTheDark]

This episode scared the hell out of me as a kid.

[AnotherSchmoe]

I was surprised when I saw this episode, lol.  Pretty gruesome for Star Trek.

[yaosio]

The Ghoul'd are always doing this.

[AlexusDivine]

I love how picard is looking at this shit. He's like oh god what the fuck is with this shit. Vile reprehensible, destroy it. Omg that was too disgusting.

[Waterflux]

One of the creepier TNG episodes. Kind of felt like a cross between Trek and X-Files or Aliens. I think what made them creepy was that they were not doing anything outrageously evil. Other than the suggestion that they were taking over the Starfleet by invading each and every officers, they seemed rather benign compared to dudes like the Romulans, the Cardassians, the Dominion, and the Borg.

[girlgarde]

@Waterflux They wanted to enslave everyone in our part of the galaxy by implanting parasite creatures in people and kill anyone who gets in their way, I'd call that evil. They're as bad as the Gou'ld from Stargate SG1! Besides, the way the queen creature said "We seek peaceful coexistence!" indicates to me at least that they're NOT in the least bit benign.

[Anynom]

For the pre-CGI era of 1987 TV, this wasn't bad FX.

[Shoteen95]

@Anynom Not only was it not bad FX, it was pretty controversial and gruesome for Star Trek. Gotta love it though.

[SunTrapped]

You notice Riker is the only one to keep composed after the head is blown up, and after the creature rips the body apart to get out.

[kev3d]

...To seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly blast the shit out of them like no man has ever done before!

[TheTVTastic]

By far the most graphic scene in Star Trek history, Pure Awesomeness. Can't wait to see it on Blu-ray.

[LtSurge659]

ZERG

[ZeroPermission]

It's so cheesy now. I remember when this was super badass creepy on television. Kudos next gen!

[Aquril]

lol Goof ->

When the momma alien is shoot and vaporized ,

all of a sudden there's like a ton of small parasite insects lying all over the place , looks hilarious

[83hickey]

banned on tv!

[TheBloodyVengeance]

1:50

"What the fuck is that? Oh, Picard fires his phaser! Let's just do the same..."

[acer3573]

Do they ever consider who will have to clean up the smoking corpse before they blast the alien? Nooooooooo..... ;P

[bgdrewsif]

@acer3573 That's what the cadets are for... Wesley!  Cleanup on level 3!

[LoneRookRS1]

These things were nothing compared to the dominion shape shifters.

[GreenLanternSalem]

Haha. Amazing. Boom Headshot!

[thadea]

fucking house centipedes...

[YourProblem1]

When the guy ate the bug thing I was like "Dude you dunno where that's been DX"

[girlgarde]

It seems to me like the alien possessed Remmick was mocking Picard and Riker's values about seeking peaceful co-existence with his statement. My response to that statement would have been "Yeah well we don't! At least not with a twisted creature like you! NOW DIE!!!" before firing on him.

[SpaceDan3000]

First time i saw this i was shocked! They melted his face then a squelchy slimy thing burst out of his rib cage, then they melted that too! And who's going to clean up the have melted headless body in the chair?!

[SniperStorm7]

when I first saw this, I could not sleep for a week

[renemarcel123]

OH my god, I never saw the whole scene. In tv it was always cutted.

[SgtPiggie]

@renemarcel123

I saw this scene on tv.

[billschoe43]

What episode is this?!?!?

[PrinceOfDahaka]

@billschoe43 It's called Conspiracy. It's from the first season. It was meant to foreshadow the Borg. Back then the idea was they'd be an insect race, but due to budget (lack of) it was changed to what you see new.

[GamerTL]

Geez, that is really usettling and what episode is this?

[Nyarlathoteplol]

These have got to be the stupidest alien invaders in the history of scifi. Maintaining perfect secrecy until someone suspects them, at which point they go all Bond villain.

Also, wtf was the boss alien trying to accomplish by standing up and making fun of them while they had phasers trained on it rather than...for instance...running the fuck away?

[girlgarde]

@Nyarlathoteplol The boss alien probably knew he/she was screwed so he/she decided to psych them out and let them know that they face off against an insidious enemy that will defeat them in the long run.

[tenkenroo]

I remember that episode giving me nightmares when I was a kid...

[leeham991]

Wait... When was the first Alien film made?

I wanna know who was borrowing who's xenomorph.

[DarkWizard83]

@leeham991

1979

And ALiens, with the queen, came in 1986. This show was in 1988 (i think)

[K9mc100]

Just wHAT THE fUCK was that?

[RMNCOfficial]

I always though this was kind of weird. I mean they just kill him because he has a parasite in him. I guess trapping him and finding a way to take it out of him wasn't an option?

[Borin81]

if you look at his remains he is completely cleaned out of internal organs to give room for the alien., he is a walking corpse, controlled by the parasite.

[girlgarde]

@Borin81 Yep. All vital organs to keep Remmick's corpse functioning were undoubtedly in the alien's real form. I do wonder though if Remmick's conscious mind was still in there though tortured with not being in control of his body and seeing the parasite aliens plot against his people. I can imagine the alien inside him mocking and torturing Remmick's conscious mind. If that's the case, then Remmick must have felt relief at being freed from his torment through death....

[VampireGuardian14]

they fucked that thing all kinds of up

[LambChowder1]

claymation. wow

[BrokenCurtain]

Damn you, German television. Why did you have to cut this scene? Picard's and Riker's behavior in that episode makes so much more sense now.

[BMWM3GTRLOVER]

pause at 1:28

[DarkAngel182]

This scene is frequently edited for day time showings. I remember when Sky1 used to show Next Gen, the 5pm showing was cut, but the 10pm repeat was uncut.

[davepukem]

@DarkAngel182 It may please you to know that it was shown unedited on The Channel Formerly Known As Virgin 1 recently, on a Sunday afternoon! I remember it also got *slightly* less editing on Sky One during the evening a few years ago, and about a week later the entire sequence was shown unedited on, of all things, This Morning! (They had Patrick Stewart on as a guest and were plugging the Season 1 DVD set)

[rohanranasinghe100]

A brilliant, classic episode-nice one for posting this. (Shame this storyline wasnt pursued further).

[vengefulnoob]

To quote a great actor: "you're one ugly motherfucker!"

[skaternaz]

one person was possesed by a parasite.=D

[TheCrazyKakoos]

Man phasers are so unpredictable. Sometimes they just kill, sometimes they completely vaporize, sometimes slowly, and sometimes they blow your head up.

[truebnb]

we seek peaceful co-existence /head explodes

[pjpless2]

HOLY CRAP! SOMEONE CROSS THE STREAMS ON THIS MUTHA!

[Lingxor]

No Will! I get to shoot firsties!

[MrHicks091]

This could have been the start of a long-ranging story arc. What a shame they didn't pursue it further :(!

[randomwords7007]

I love this episode. The tension is great throughout and it just builds up to this... one of the coolest sequences in the series.

[MrVosslerAzelas]

Good bye Mr. Remmick!

[DarkKnightBob1o1]

I'm sure they can put him back together.

[lieutenantValera]

The most classic cheezy worst episode scene in the next generation xD

[KaneinEncanto]

That had to stink all kinds of ways. >.<

[nic0ftime]

This is a terrible episode, long before TNG found its footing. None of it makes any sense! The Parasites go to great lengths to infiltrate the Federation, but then they leave their mother creature (which they can't survive without) completely defenseless to be destroyed by two officers with phasers! I won't mention the special effects. I'm glad there wasn't a follow-up.

[ATCGproductions]

wo it's amazing how far cg has come or did they purposefully make it look bad?

[mmmmmmmmmm9999]

I definitely agree with Picard's facial reaction to that ugly ass alien.

"Kill it with fire", precisely! XP

[mi3pwns]

the bbc banned this? wow thats intense

[rkm1agni]

this is the most desturbing episode i've ever seen

[racookster]

This episode definitely had balls for a first season TNG episode, but what bugged me about it was Starfleet headquarters. I had the feeling that less than ten people worked there.

[gregxiu]

Got Scorpion?

[mrjimmyos]

The BBC weren't kidding when they banned this scene :P

[Ragitsu]

They BANNED it? Wow, how minorly totalitarian.

[Remco1901]

it's the Goa'uld

[Ragitsu]

And a fat one at that.

[digitalhoser]

Look out people! its the chest burster, only uglier!

[jvry8c]

what episode is this from... i know somewhere in first season.

[Tubewings]

"Conspiracy," episode 25.

[chaplan76]

Hmmmm wet burst.

[spwkz13]

also do you kno of MELTYFACEPIKE!!!!!!!!!!

[spwkz13]

phase 171 you are a douchemuffin

[Phase171]

No biggie, Remmick was a douche anyway...

[ytbigjim]

1:27 cool

[WOOHP1993]

remind anyone of Alien?

[DarthValium]

Scary Alien: I am coming in peace!

Picard: He is coming in peace! KILL HIM!

*Double Phaser blast*

It certainly is not the typical federation approach. but it sure kicks ass! I like it. Reminded me of Braindead a little.

[hornetpalooza]

That's ok, the federation needs to beef up, they are a bit whimpy.

[axocopan42]

*sings*

"We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill"

[digitalhoser]

SCOTTY BEAM ME UP!

[MasterMacLeod]

@DarthValium He might come in peace, but he goes in pieces!

[1701patrick]

hey that would have been good, wouldhave loved to see both the Crushers get there heads blown off....

Wesley just because he was Wesley and

dr Crusher,,,she was pretty and pretty useless too,,,,

[takerdust]

Would of been better if the carrier was Wesley.

"Mom? Don't be afraid, we seek only co-existence".

Then Crusher takes a laser scalpel to his face.

lol

[1701patrick]

the first episode where they were not acting like peace loving pussies and cowards,,,,the show actually had balls for one episode,,,,,,

Normally Picard would have bent over and asked the alien to peacefully co-existe up his ass,,,,,,,,,

[Ragitsu]

Is loving peace so bad?

[FissionMailed21]

This is the stuff of nightmares.

[boxa1500]

Sounds like a higher pitch version of Ru'afos scream in Insurrection lmao.

[usonly101]

I remember reading about this. These aliens were supposed to be the new threat to the Federation but they decided to use the Borg instead

[Venaloid]

You know, I never understood this scene. What was that thing inside him and how did he survive like that? Peaceful coexistence? ???

[Ragitsu]

An intelligent parasite that took over his body.

And obviously, by his tone of voice, it's lying about wanting "peaceful coexistence".

[Ragitsu]

Quaaaaaaaaaaid.

[Exverlobter]

THis was cut in Germany!!

[minski76]

stimmt - aber obwohl ich eigentlich kein freund von zensur bin... die szene war schon ziemlich heftig fürs ZDF nachmittagsprgramm...

it was cut in Germany, but one has to admit, it IS a very gory scene for prime time SiFi

[SartoriusSeven]

This made me laugh so hard when I was 6... I didn't really understand why at the time. Now it makes me laugh even harder.

[jerryaltman]

They didn't even tried to save the guy life. He was a human possessed by a alien.

[ShadowSonic2]

Seeing how huge that mother parasite was, I think he was already dead and it was just using his body.

[Zblj1987]

Looking it back now the special effects really suck :(

[psychoid79]

I remember seeing this as a kid back in the 80s. It seemed really gruesome for a primetime TV show.

[poolsuporter]

..What the hell?? This looks like the alien from "The Thing" ffs!

[toddsmitts]

Kind of like the alien in that bad sci-fi/action movie:

"I come in peace!"

[nccvoyager2]

Fire photon torpedoes full spread!

[Youngstown529]

So much for Picard and Riker's interest in communicating peacefully with alien species.

[issu999]

yuck! i cringed when that guy ate the bug. if i knew, i would have watched this before breakfast. now i feel ill. lol.

[DesJonze69]

BOOM! Headshot!

[DesJonze69]

Very Evil Dead

[Quaternion86]

IMHO it was the greatest WTF moment in TNG. I was a bit fed up with the family-friendly psyhologist-wonderkid-families­-on-board-loveboat Enterprise, but didn't expect this :) BTW, I could have been a lot better, had they shoot Wesley xD

[terithar]

Amen

[FissionMailed21]

Sadly, this is not the greatest WTF moment in TNG. The greatest moment is when that old woman turns into a snarling hairy raging werebeast.

[LivesForJihad]

at 0:47 Riker is like holy shit....

[buhgoil]

I wonder if he tasted copper when the beam first hit. They say you taste copper...

[boundaryzero]

that smell of acrid alien and human flesh would have been .... something else

[djargus]

I wish they followed up on this episode, regarding the parasitic life forms, but it never came to fruition. Only in book form did it come to pass.

[Falcon5768]

Actually they did, BUT it isnt what you think. The follow up was what eventually became the Borg. Originally they where to be a insect race but it was deemed to hard to film. So they turned them into the cyborgs we got.

[JudgeAdvocateGeneral]

DID THIS REALLY AIR!

WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING!

Well, that was interesting. Not QUITE as bad as Silent Hill, but I suppose it still kinda is . . .

[Falcon5768]

yes itt really aired in the US, but it didnt in the UK and some other countries, and was edited out as well as it was in some early US reruns.

[SeanPMLeviathen]

lol @ 1:51

That just made me hungry for some Chinese. Lo Mein anyone?

[maba7x]

This scarred the living crap out of me when frst saw this episode. I remember that there was a "warning" before the start of the program, and were like WTF?

[DEP717]

I first saw this when I was like 13 years old or 14, I was like "Say WHAT?" All the guys in our class in school became Trekkies!

[MinaMcKay]

I saw this on TV last night and I laughed so hard....oh the cheese. HAHAHAHAHAH *wipes tear*

[brunatehwalrus]

Picard looks SO disgusted! I made the exact same face! Then Riker's like "Eh, wasn't this gross. We win."

[BigBlueLion]

'we seek peaceful co-existence' - suuure ya do xD

[ArcaneAzmadi]

Ugh, that's unquestionably the goriest moment in the history of Star Trek. It's somewhat damaged by how bad the special effects are though- that parasite wriggling across the floor would have been embarrasing in the ORIGINAL series.

[GOV160]

Really dark episode that is, they always cut out most of that scene when its aired on TV

[leongreenmcclaine346]

oh well, commander dexter was annoying

[EnterpriseKnight]

A "BOOM HEADSHOOT!!" would have been priceless

[camtorchwood]

i just love the expression on rikers face when he shoots remmecs head of he was a bastard anyway from the last few episodes

[KMerrow]

So, Starfleet will kill anyone seeking peaceful coexistence? No wonder the Federation has so many enemies!

[girlgarde]

lol!

Seriously though, the menacing way that the alien possessed Remmick said it indicated that it wasn't a sincere comment.

[SirBroadsword]

KMerrow:

Forcibly taking over bodies is NOT what humans would call "peaceful co-existance"... :)

[H3manator]

that alien looked like the alien from the alien series... and it came out of his chest... lol

[Antaresfy]

I love this episode, like an horror movie from this periode. =)

[BigDickCheney]

What a dark and grim episode.

[cacadodo666]

WHAT EPISODE IS THIS>>>it was soo kewl...havent seen it since it first aired

[masonal]

Conspiracy from the first season. It scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.

[cacadodo666]

sweet,thx....im gonna look for it...brings back memories for me too. when that guys torso blew up i was like "on tv?and star trek for that matter?"....i watched every star trek ng after that and never saw anything that creepy or gory again

[masonal]

Agreed. That was one sweet episode. The first season was mediocre at best but that episode was awesome.

[Monkeynuts502]

acctually, this was the pilot episode

[Macsly56]

No, but it's in the first season. Near the end. It's called Conspiracy I believe.

[thewewguy8t88]

this was the most grosume part in star trek ever lol.