Star Trek: Strange New Worlds introduced the scariest episode of Star Trek

With Halloween coming up tomorrow, it’s only fitting that we look toward scary episodes of Star Trek, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds hit the ball out of the park with one episode.

Star Trek has its fair share of creepy episodes (exploding aliens on Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “Conspiracy” comes to mind), but Star Trek: Strange New Worlds tops the cake with the scariest episode ever from season one. And if horror is right up your alley for Halloween night viewing, then this is one episode that you’ll want to rewatch (or even watch for the first time).

I know there are plenty of fans who haven’t yet watched an episode of Strange New Worlds, and this isn’t a request for a committment to the series from this point forward. It’s simply a suggestion if you like horror movies. Just think of this one as Predator in space.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds reinvented the Gorn, and that’s what makes this episode so scary

When Captain Kirk encountered the Gorn in Star Trek: The Original Series, it was a man in a rubber suit. Of course, we didn’t have all the CGI and special wizardy we have today so we can’t hold that against the series. And in that episode, Kirk was able to best the Gorn and gave him mercy by not killing him.

In “All Who Wander,” the ninth episode of the first season of Strange New Worlds, that Gorn race became something totally different…something deadly and evil. And definitely not a villian that could be killed with a big rock.

With nightmare-inducing little baby aliens that are similar to the adult ones you’d see in the film, “Aliens”, alien eggs inside a human or an alien that will kill the host, the fight to survive against a horde of these creatures, and the first regular character death of the series, “All Who Wander” is a nail-biting, on the edge of your seat thriller. If you like getting scared out of your wits, this is the episode for you. Even worse than Counselor Deanna Troi as a cake or the crew of the Enterprise being chased by Vulcan zombines on Star Trek: Enterprise. Just don’t say I didn’t warn you.