Are these dramatic intros going somewhere? I keep looking for a plot and it keeps hinting at one and it never gets there. As far as I can tell, there’s some kind of memory loss, violence, and built up hostility, but that’s all I know. Did I miss something? Is there a full version?
To me I think the people that don't like this episode aren't really horror fans. Because the Tori scenes get very cheesy after the second time and if the choices made for the crew clearly losing it don't do it then nothing else will.
@@julioverne579 I didn’t watch Voyager back when it was airing, work & family took over, when the great binge of 2020 occurred, that was one I chose. It’s become up there with TNG for me, Janeway was a rockin captain. It seems to get a lot of flak, some of it deserved, but amongst the Trek shows I think it’s underrated.
@@julioverne579 I enjoyed it, and I've defended it, and it always will have a special place in my heart for various reasons I won't get into... but are you nuts? VOY is not even in the top 3.
Riker: "Guinan, why do you have a big gun behind the Ten Forward bar?" Guinan: " Do you realize how often Starfleet crews randomly go violently insane? Of course, I'm packing heat!"
I always felt like Gates McFadden really conveyed terror in a truly convincing way in that morgue scene. Her performance and reaction gives me goosebumps more than just the bodies sitting up.
I always appreciated Gates' acting in TNG as a cut above the rest. Like, she's not "better" (Patrick and Brent have that covered), but I always notice when she does something quite believable and grounded more than the others, if that makes sense.
Night Terrors is probably TNG's scariest episode, if I'd seen the morgue scene with Crusher as a kid I'd have been terrified. It'll definitely be in my upcoming Halloween marathon along with Catspaw from TOS.
Crossing franchises - Gandalf pretty much the same with the recovering Frodo at Rivendell, “I was delayed”. Kind way of *not* making the scene about himself, even tho he went thru hella trauma.
That's not exactly true. There are stock shots that were from the original pilot with the 6ft model, but the shots these guys are talking about are the more detailed 4 ft model they started using in season 3. It was a lot easier to get a camera around and the higher detail just made closeups better.
I was a young child when I saw this episode, it's one of my all time favorites. That scene with the bodies has stuck with me into my 30's lol it was terrifying as a kid.
What's this a crossover episode? My favourite detail about the morgue scene is that we don't see the stereotypical "Body sits up" moment but rather we zoom in on Crusher and zoom out and boom the bodies are all sitting up but still not moving. That makes it creepier imo.
It absolutely does make it creepier. And speaking of Beverly, I like that it was offscreen when she deduced that they were suffering from dream withdrawal. I loves me some Beverly but a scene of her investigating that could easily have derailed the ep into technobabble (even though this particularly ailment was on solid real life ground). The extensive and extremely ensemble horror scenes were much more interesting than Bevs hunched over a computer.
It plays much more into why this is happening too. Hallucinations from sleep deprivation rarely feel like something literal happening and more feel like your brain is just fucking up when interpreting sensory data. You may not necessarily see something move to the position that you're hallucinating it in, or the hallucination may be the object moving and then being back in it's original position. It would be unlikely that the hallucination makes complete sequential and physical sense.
About ten or fifteen years ago I was big into Star Trek forums and on one of the forums I frequented, there was a post asking what people thought was the worst episode of TNG and this episode consistently popped up which always bothered me because I have always really liked this one. I remember watching it regularly as a kid and teenager. I really enjoy seeing the episode getting love.
There was also the very nice touch of the paranoid ensign being back in the D’s engineering just in the background warily watching Data and Geordi talk. Don’t know if that actually cost more money but it definitely gave the ep a rich feel.
I like it because it makes the crew feel as large as it should, rather than just our regulars and "extras" in the background. It's very helpful for Gordie as it reminds us that, yes, he's the head of an entire department of engineers.
I really enjoy scenes where Data is in command, so this is one of my favorite eps. LOVE how he steps in for the Doctor. Also love how he's basically like, "I'll do my best" to Picard's "Our lives may be in your hands". And the use of the digital shipwide bosun's whistle...? Doesn't get better!
The only downside was Deanna floating. Sirtis has said they knew it was goofy at the time but couldn’t think of a better way to do it. Probably just having her walking would have been better than having her floating though.
This is the only episode of TNG have a hard time watching due to Troi floating around barking out "where are you". Edit that out and I would have no issue with this ep.
I think that what lets it down is that Deanna is unlike her surroundings and the alien figure she eventually sees. If they had made her into an ethereal figure floating through a dreamscape then it would have worked better. I guess they didn't have the effects, budget or time to do it really well.
@@remingtonryder That reminds me of a Kurosawa scene where the character’s dream is represented by him being trapped in a painting-like environment. I think that could have worked much better. Oh well.
@@thewinner7382 Eh, knowing what's happening, knowing Klingon culture, etc. and how focused on it that Worf is, you can kinda reasonably conclude that's what his fear was about.
This episode marks the first appearence of John Vickery in an episode of "Star Trek"; he's mostly known for his DS9 work. Vickery is one of a handful of actors who appeared both in ST (and, in particular, DS9) and "Babylon 5"; more than that: he starred as more than one character in each franchise.
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important Not 'sort of,' this is IT: two psychics sending chains of metaphors across space because whole sentences are too complex to survive the distance.
55:00 From what I recall studying about REM sleep you do it over and over in short amounts. The dreams you remember are the ones you wake up still having. Interrupted.
I appreciate how with all the times TNG uses technology to fix everything, they never seemed able to develop "psychic shielding." It's good to have a weakness.
This is the episode that taught me, as a kid, what REM sleep is and why it's important. I certainly had dreams, but I didn't know there was so much involved with sleep and how the brain operates under sleep. Personally, I find that after about 40 hours of no REM, I start to hallucinate. It starts gradually, just at the edges of my vision, and sounds I can't quite make out. The scenes with Riker in particular seem to be pretty close to my experience, more than any other hallucination plotline I've seen in television.
That was the final straw that sent the captain into madness. "First officer Briggs is behind it! He had his men lie and tell me there was nothing wrong with the name!!"
One of the scariest fucking episodes in Star Trek period. This episode gave me nightmares for years and still creeps the hell out of me. This is actually one of the scariest episodes in TV in general.
Warf is Chief of security so consider the scenario playing out on the ship and it should not be hard to imagine why he might have been detained by some crew situation.
As a music teacher, I have several lessons on how music affects the emotional experience in movies and film. A great composer knows exactly how to invoke the desired emotion of the moment. In this case, the score was intended to increase the anxiety and uneasiness of the viewer, making them never feel like they can never just relax and be comfortable.
Can you explain why I have an anathma to sad tinkle-y piano score in a ton of stuff and largely feel it's unearned in 95% of the cases it's used? (And yes, this does contribute to annoyances I feel toward newer productions of this IP)
@@bustedsim well I can’t speak to your personal preferences but i definitely agree that bad composing can be just as noticeable. For me, I feel like there are less composers creating really unique soundtracks and more just computer generated generic music out there
TNG started incorporating a lot of continuity compared to TOS, but the fact that it's still ultimately episodic means they can take these hard turns into completely different genres on a dime.
The spooky score starts as soon as the episode does and never lets up. Sets the atmosphere for the episode. And the morgue scene? Creeped me out at 15.
6:32 -- Keiko is a civilian, not a member of SF, acting as a civilian botanist on the E-D like a number of civilians do in other roles/capacities. Though no exact numbers are ever given on the show or later movies about the ratio of SF vs civilians on the ship, it is guestimated that approx. 500-700 on board are SF while 300-500 (the remaining number to equal roughly 1000) are civilians, such as the family members of SF crew (like Keiko as Miles' wife, or the various children, etc) or civilian researchers, servers and others (such as Guinan, or various as-the-plot-needs archeologists, scientists and similar in certain episodes).
The score is such a big part of this episode that it might as well be a character itself. And yes, it was Ron Jones. (Science was utterly scuffed, though - no _chemical_ reaction can match matter-antimatter, gram-for-gram, so the absolute best they could have done was colliding each other's warp cores, or something.)
In case this hasn't been mentioned. Some of those elements Troi and Data were scrolling through are named after people working on Trek at the time. Mooride (Ronald D. Moore) Takemurium (David Takemura) Neussite (Wendy Neuss).
This episode has a TOS connection with one of the guest starring extras. The Asian Ensign Lind was one of the children who with the help of the evil alien Gorgan had their parents kill themselves or each other from the episode "And the Children Shall Lead."
There is an episode in the first season of Star Trek: Enterprise, S1E4, called Strange New World, that takes a number of cues from this episode. I think Night Terrors is creepier, but Strange New World is very very, intense, and the special effects are well used. I can't wait to hear what you gents think of that episode when you get to the show.
The spaceship exteriors on the remaster are pretty much as they were originally. When they re-did everything for blu-ray the aim was to either just recomposite the original effects in high-definition, or if necessary recreate them digitally as close to possible as they were on original transmission. Very different from when they did TOS and took many more creative liberties with the HD effects.
Jeri Taylor died😢😢 She gave us so much without ever being on screen I work as a job where I facilitate the people that are the face of the company so I can relate to people like her
My sci-fi brain-area disliked this one as a kid when it aired. But Crusher in the morgue, Guinan keeping a rifle behind the bar, those never left my brain. And I grew able to appreciate how good they did their haunted house. S tier. In my head canon, the vaugeness of the telepathic message was because it was limited to only the normal vocabulary of the receiver. If Geordi had telepathy, he would have heard it as clearly about the rift, and the substance needed. But for Troi and the Betazoid it was all "double", "eyes in the dark", "one moon" gibberish. Helps explain a bit Troi's inspiration upon seeing hydrogen in the list, as a subconscious understanding of the telepathy coming together for her.
Marina Sirtis has a pretty intense fear of heights. She hated being in the harness suspended above the studio floor filming the green cloud scenes. According to Wiki the episode was supposed to be a Troi episode but her dislike of the harness was too much. Could be why we had other great scenes with O’Brien, Gillespie, and other characters.
I feel like the fast paced production failed here. It gives little time to trash a concept and start again. I think they were married to the crappy harness shots because of how much planning and work they had sunk into the tech and effect it meant they didn’t want to make the more logical call to put her on the ground and rethink the visuals.
Maybe 15 years sgo I cold turkey stopped taking pain meds and couldn't sleep at all for 11 days. My hanss were shaking, eyes vibrating, couldn't focus. I ended up leaving work and going to the hospital. They gave me a shot that knocked me out for 2 days.
I think the knock on the door was because Picard wasn't answering the chime right before. Those last two were real, in other words, but he had already had auditory hallucinations (maybe) about the door chime.
I laugh every time I see the morgue scene. I know it's supposed to be scary but I can't help but think one of those actors in the morgue scene is thinking, "I went to Julliard to study acting and yet here I am sitting on a table with a bag over my head..." It just makes me laugh.
For me Night Terrors is an S Tier for sure the acting great, everyone gets to do something. I also love the make that as we get further they look worse and worse. The scoring is great as it adds to adds to the spooky mysterious nature of what's going on. I also like the story it's not the usual scary alien or disease, it's more a man against nature type of story but not one that's easily solved. This episode for a bottle story really comes together as is a solid choice if you picked one episode to show a person Star Trek for the first time.
None of the shots of the ships are redone effects. They are the original filmed effects just in high definition. You've seen the Britain first in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as the Reliant.
Keiko is a civilian, not from Starfleet. Once again Data and Troï being a great team together, complementary to eachother. The shots of the ship have not been touched in the remastered except for picture clarity. They were shot in higher definition on the get go at the time ans scaled down for TV so they still look nice now.
Pretty good timing with this episode. Especially since it just happened to be the next one in line. One of the more horror themed episode for TNG being perfect for Halloween and one written by Jeri Taylor who recently passed.
Apparently, the cast themselves don't like this ep. "Bit of a stinker," I believe Frakes described it once. Myself, I've always enjoyed it. McFadden's acting in the morgue was awesome.
For the most part, the effects weren't redone, just recomposited. These are the same effects just scanned and compiled at a high resolution. Edit...I forgot to say, it's great that you had a "horror" episode to react to right before Halloween. You couldn't have timed it better!
I alway confuse this episode with a future TNG horror episode (the one with the clicking aliens). Pretty cool that this episode aligned with the week of Halloween.
Gotta love a crossover episode! Check out The Horror Gallery - ua-cam.com/play/PL5Pso33oqJDhwc52uVEqDjD9tGwO8ZBaJ.html&si=bwxDa2rviozKKIc0
Are these dramatic intros going somewhere? I keep looking for a plot and it keeps hinting at one and it never gets there.
As far as I can tell, there’s some kind of memory loss, violence, and built up hostility, but that’s all I know. Did I miss something? Is there a full version?
To me I think the people that don't like this episode aren't really horror fans. Because the Tori scenes get very cheesy after the second time and if the choices made for the crew clearly losing it don't do it then nothing else will.
The Jeri Taylor tribute at the start was really thoughtful. Cheers, lads.
Jeri Taylor LOL. Legend of Life. She MADE Voyager. The best Star Trek Series of all times
@@julioverne579 I didn’t watch Voyager back when it was airing, work & family took over, when the great binge of 2020 occurred, that was one I chose. It’s become up there with TNG for me, Janeway was a rockin captain. It seems to get a lot of flak, some of it deserved, but amongst the Trek shows I think it’s underrated.
I was surprised by how little coverage there was of her death. She was a major force in 90s trek
@@julioverne579 I enjoyed it, and I've defended it, and it always will have a special place in my heart for various reasons I won't get into... but are you nuts? VOY is not even in the top 3.
Riker: "Guinan, why do you have a big gun behind the Ten Forward bar?"
Guinan: " Do you realize how often Starfleet crews randomly go violently insane? Of course, I'm packing heat!"
The scariest part of this is how you somehow timed it to be the last TNG before Hallowe'en
Very weird timing!
And the next episode is kinda spooky too.
We're in a simulation, so of course it fits!
@@realmetatron why would they make the simulation this boring? Did Ubisoft make it?
"Where are you? I have to find you. I've been trying to reach you concerning your vehicle's extended warranty."
🤣
I always felt like Gates McFadden really conveyed terror in a truly convincing way in that morgue scene. Her performance and reaction gives me goosebumps more than just the bodies sitting up.
I always appreciated Gates' acting in TNG as a cut above the rest. Like, she's not "better" (Patrick and Brent have that covered), but I always notice when she does something quite believable and grounded more than the others, if that makes sense.
That morgue scene scared the bejaysus out of me as a kid
This aired when I was 11, and the thing that scared me to death (har) was zombies. I didn’t sleep well that weekend…
me too lol. when crusher knocks on picards door too for some reason startled the crap outta me.
Fun Fact: Guinan's rifle was a repaint of a laser rifle prop used in Glen Larson's Buck Rogers.
It reminds me of Saddam Husain's gold plated AK-47
What an appropriate pre-Halloween episode. 💀
Timing is a funny thing
This episode serves as a great advertisement for anyone suspecting they suffer from sleep apnea to get medically checked.
RIP Jeri Taylor
Night Terrors is probably TNG's scariest episode, if I'd seen the morgue scene with Crusher as a kid I'd have been terrified. It'll definitely be in my upcoming Halloween marathon along with Catspaw from TOS.
I did see it as a kid, you are correct about being terrified.
There's another one that terrified me as a kid, but they haven't gotten to it yet. I'll just give this hint: "I've been in this room before."
There is one effect in a later episode that really got to me. But that's a later phase.
@@EricTheSaylorman agreed. That one still gives me chills
@@EricTheSaylorman We've all been here before.
R.I.P. Ms Jeri Taylor 🙏🏾Thankyou for your inspirational letter in 1993 to a 15 year old me🖖🏾❤️
9:29 Back in the day, the word detained was commonly used as a short way of saying "I had to take care of something important."
Politely "I had to go to the restroom" or even that there was something which happened between point A and point B.
Crossing franchises - Gandalf pretty much the same with the recovering Frodo at Rivendell, “I was delayed”. Kind way of *not* making the scene about himself, even tho he went thru hella trauma.
"I had to return some videotapes."
One of my favorite episodes
12:13 Blazin' Bev clearly has experience dealing with unwanted hallucinations
What kind of experience? 😅
JK, don't answer that just in case YT police are watching. 😆
To answer your question, all the shots of the enterprise are the ones used in the original, they used the same footage.
Those models REALLY hold up.
That's not exactly true. There are stock shots that were from the original pilot with the 6ft model, but the shots these guys are talking about are the more detailed 4 ft model they started using in season 3. It was a lot easier to get a camera around and the higher detail just made closeups better.
LOVE this episode. This one is high on my rewatch list, especially around Halloween time.
I was a young child when I saw this episode, it's one of my all time favorites. That scene with the bodies has stuck with me into my 30's lol it was terrifying as a kid.
What's this a crossover episode?
My favourite detail about the morgue scene is that we don't see the stereotypical "Body sits up" moment but rather we zoom in on Crusher and zoom out and boom the bodies are all sitting up but still not moving.
That makes it creepier imo.
It absolutely does make it creepier. And speaking of Beverly, I like that it was offscreen when she deduced that they were suffering from dream withdrawal.
I loves me some Beverly but a scene of her investigating that could easily have derailed the ep into technobabble (even though this particularly ailment was on solid real life ground). The extensive and extremely ensemble horror scenes were much more interesting than Bevs hunched over a computer.
It plays much more into why this is happening too. Hallucinations from sleep deprivation rarely feel like something literal happening and more feel like your brain is just fucking up when interpreting sensory data. You may not necessarily see something move to the position that you're hallucinating it in, or the hallucination may be the object moving and then being back in it's original position. It would be unlikely that the hallucination makes complete sequential and physical sense.
About ten or fifteen years ago I was big into Star Trek forums and on one of the forums I frequented, there was a post asking what people thought was the worst episode of TNG and this episode consistently popped up which always bothered me because I have always really liked this one. I remember watching it regularly as a kid and teenager. I really enjoy seeing the episode getting love.
The fact that multiple extras (the helmsman, the paranoid kid, the mutineer in 10 forward) have speaking lines in this episode is a step up in budget.
There was also the very nice touch of the paranoid ensign being back in the D’s engineering just in the background warily watching Data and Geordi talk. Don’t know if that actually cost more money but it definitely gave the ep a rich feel.
I like it because it makes the crew feel as large as it should, rather than just our regulars and "extras" in the background.
It's very helpful for Gordie as it reminds us that, yes, he's the head of an entire department of engineers.
@@Zikar AGREED.
The helmsman was one of the children in the TOS episode And The Children Shall Lead. Nice that they invited him back for a role in the new series.
Like Guinan, Keiko is not Starfleet - they're civilians.
I really enjoy scenes where Data is in command, so this is one of my favorite eps. LOVE how he steps in for the Doctor. Also love how he's basically like, "I'll do my best" to Picard's "Our lives may be in your hands". And the use of the digital shipwide bosun's whistle...? Doesn't get better!
The only downside was Deanna floating. Sirtis has said they knew it was goofy at the time but couldn’t think of a better way to do it.
Probably just having her walking would have been better than having her floating though.
I always thought it looked ridiculous to see her being filmed butt-first.
This is the only episode of TNG have a hard time watching due to Troi floating around barking out "where are you". Edit that out and I would have no issue with this ep.
I think that what lets it down is that Deanna is unlike her surroundings and the alien figure she eventually sees. If they had made her into an ethereal figure floating through a dreamscape then it would have worked better. I guess they didn't have the effects, budget or time to do it really well.
@@remingtonryder That reminds me of a Kurosawa scene where the character’s dream is represented by him being trapped in a painting-like environment. I think that could have worked much better. Oh well.
@@jamesdietz29 I forgive it though because as cringe as it looks, it is a dream so it could really be like that.
A point about worf attempting suicide…. His fear was that he would go mad and bring dishonor by killing those he had sworn to protect
You can't just make sh*t up 😂
That particular scene showed how useful trois power is...worf didn't say a word jus left....troi picked up on his despair without a word
Just say it's a theory
My theory is that a lack of REM sleep is an enemy Worf does not know how to defeat, and if things continue as they are, he will die without honor.
@@thewinner7382 Eh, knowing what's happening, knowing Klingon culture, etc. and how focused on it that Worf is, you can kinda reasonably conclude that's what his fear was about.
I always thought this was a very underrated episode.
This episode marks the first appearence of John Vickery in an episode of "Star Trek"; he's mostly known for his DS9 work. Vickery is one of a handful of actors who appeared both in ST (and, in particular, DS9) and "Babylon 5"; more than that: he starred as more than one character in each franchise.
He's one of my favorites on B5!
Oh wow. After seeing your comment, I remembered Mr. Welles, but I had no idea the Mr. Welles actor was also Neroon.
If I'm not mistaken, he appears in the B5 spin-off "Excalibur" as well
"No one can achieve REM sleep! I think I'm losing my religion!"
😄
"It's the end of the world as we know it! It's time I had some time alone!"
♫ Oh no, you've said too much...♫
Drink an Orange Crush and you'll be fine.
If you can’t sleep you can try night swimming.
5:16 - It just occurred to me for the first time: THIS is how interplanetary communication works in Warhammer 40K.
Yeah, sort of. TNG would take place during the early days of the Dark Age of Technology, and Q is basically Tzeentch.
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important Not 'sort of,' this is IT: two psychics sending chains of metaphors across space because whole sentences are too complex to survive the distance.
@@legionaireb They're not floating yelling to each other. So yeah, it's sort of correct but different too.
Damn those flower headboards!
Josh: That was a damn hook.
Alex: Yeah, yeah totally (looking at phone the entire time)
I AM the guy they make fun of in the closing song! 😂🤣❤
55:00 From what I recall studying about REM sleep you do it over and over in short amounts. The dreams you remember are the ones you wake up still having. Interrupted.
I appreciate how with all the times TNG uses technology to fix everything, they never seemed able to develop "psychic shielding." It's good to have a weakness.
I love the unexpected dive of TNG into horror for prime time television. They pulled it off so well..
This is the episode that taught me, as a kid, what REM sleep is and why it's important. I certainly had dreams, but I didn't know there was so much involved with sleep and how the brain operates under sleep.
Personally, I find that after about 40 hours of no REM, I start to hallucinate. It starts gradually, just at the edges of my vision, and sounds I can't quite make out. The scenes with Riker in particular seem to be pretty close to my experience, more than any other hallucination plotline I've seen in television.
The helmsman was one of the children in "and the children shall lead"
Cool!
Even I didn't know that!
Brian Toshi? He was on "Space Academy" too.
Brian Tochi, who was also in Revenge of the nerds
He was also in a couple Police Academy movies
14:42 'I have failed, -Dorf- Alexander'.
1:28 Poor Brattain… first Starfleet misspells it’s name on the hull, then it’s crew kills each other!
That was the final straw that sent the captain into madness. "First officer Briggs is behind it! He had his men lie and tell me there was nothing wrong with the name!!"
@@matthewcollins4773 Should have sent him out in a spacesuit with a paintbrush, Red Dwarf style!
The perfect Halloween double header with this and the next episode.
RIP Jeri Taylor ❤️
I remember not liking the next one, but as they're horror people they may.
@@ThomasReeves-s7uit’s ok, but this one is better in my opinion
This one is better, but I like the next one a lot, maybe because I’m a horror guy.
One of the scariest fucking episodes in Star Trek period. This episode gave me nightmares for years and still creeps the hell out of me. This is actually one of the scariest episodes in TV in general.
Warf is Chief of security so consider the scenario playing out on the ship and it should not be hard to imagine why he might have been detained by some crew situation.
As a music teacher, I have several lessons on how music affects the emotional experience in movies and film. A great composer knows exactly how to invoke the desired emotion of the moment. In this case, the score was intended to increase the anxiety and uneasiness of the viewer, making them never feel like they can never just relax and be comfortable.
Can you explain why I have an anathma to sad tinkle-y piano score in a ton of stuff and largely feel it's unearned in 95% of the cases it's used? (And yes, this does contribute to annoyances I feel toward newer productions of this IP)
@@bustedsim well I can’t speak to your personal preferences but i definitely agree that bad composing can be just as noticeable. For me, I feel like there are less composers creating really unique soundtracks and more just computer generated generic music out there
18:05 Nice "The Savage Curtain" reference 😂
This episode is fantastic and I can't wait for the next one too along w/Alex and Josh's analysis❣ I love so many TNG episodes from S 4-7.
Thank You for the J.T. card at front. 😢❤
TNG started incorporating a lot of continuity compared to TOS, but the fact that it's still ultimately episodic means they can take these hard turns into completely different genres on a dime.
Perfect upload schedule for this episode.
The spooky score starts as soon as the episode does and never lets up. Sets the atmosphere for the episode. And the morgue scene? Creeped me out at 15.
The corpse part def scared me as a youngster. Some people scoff at this episode but I like it.
6:32 -- Keiko is a civilian, not a member of SF, acting as a civilian botanist on the E-D like a number of civilians do in other roles/capacities. Though no exact numbers are ever given on the show or later movies about the ratio of SF vs civilians on the ship, it is guestimated that approx. 500-700 on board are SF while 300-500 (the remaining number to equal roughly 1000) are civilians, such as the family members of SF crew (like Keiko as Miles' wife, or the various children, etc) or civilian researchers, servers and others (such as Guinan, or various as-the-plot-needs archeologists, scientists and similar in certain episodes).
The score, lighting and camera work were perfectly creepy.
They did a good job incorporating a physiological reason for the crew going insane.
I remember when this aired and the morgue scene disturbed the hell out of me as a child.
You two are the new Siskel & Ebert I love it
The score is such a big part of this episode that it might as well be a character itself.
And yes, it was Ron Jones.
(Science was utterly scuffed, though - no _chemical_ reaction can match matter-antimatter, gram-for-gram, so the absolute best they could have done was colliding each other's warp cores, or something.)
Perhaps the aliens had anti-hydrogen
@@paul_andrews The Enterprise had anti-matter of its own.
I love this one! Well timed reaction also. This one was genuinely terrifying when I saw it as a wee lad.
One of my TNG fav's!
5:43 I didn't know John Mulaney was on Star Trek!
In case this hasn't been mentioned. Some of those elements Troi and Data were scrolling through are named after people working on Trek at the time. Mooride (Ronald D. Moore) Takemurium (David Takemura) Neussite (Wendy Neuss).
"Let's get going, you have work in the morning" continues to keep you in my headcanon as couple goals.
This episode has a TOS connection with one of the guest starring extras. The Asian Ensign Lind was one of the children who with the help of the evil alien Gorgan had their parents kill themselves or each other from the episode "And the Children Shall Lead."
There is an episode in the first season of Star Trek: Enterprise, S1E4, called Strange New World, that takes a number of cues from this episode. I think Night Terrors is creepier, but Strange New World is very very, intense, and the special effects are well used. I can't wait to hear what you gents think of that episode when you get to the show.
The spaceship exteriors on the remaster are pretty much as they were originally. When they re-did everything for blu-ray the aim was to either just recomposite the original effects in high-definition, or if necessary recreate them digitally as close to possible as they were on original transmission. Very different from when they did TOS and took many more creative liberties with the HD effects.
R.I.P. Jeri Taylor😢. Another great video, guys! Keep’em coming!👍👍
Jeri Taylor died😢😢
She gave us so much without ever being on screen
I work as a job where I facilitate the people that are the face of the company so I can relate to people like her
This is one of my favourite episodes, the morgue scene still gives me chills
These guys are gonna love DS9
they gonna need to invent a new tier above S..... the DS9 tier.
Just let them experience it without all the hype because DS9 is not without flaws.
Timed this episode well for Halloween. 😎
"WHERE AAAARREEE YOUUUUUU!?!?!!?!"
My sci-fi brain-area disliked this one as a kid when it aired. But Crusher in the morgue, Guinan keeping a rifle behind the bar, those never left my brain. And I grew able to appreciate how good they did their haunted house. S tier.
In my head canon, the vaugeness of the telepathic message was because it was limited to only the normal vocabulary of the receiver. If Geordi had telepathy, he would have heard it as clearly about the rift, and the substance needed. But for Troi and the Betazoid it was all "double", "eyes in the dark", "one moon" gibberish. Helps explain a bit Troi's inspiration upon seeing hydrogen in the list, as a subconscious understanding of the telepathy coming together for her.
OMG a target audience crossover episode
4:20 - The only thing wrong with the ship is all the lights half brightness. We can't seem to fix that.
Nice Halloween episode. Great timing fellas.
Marina Sirtis has a pretty intense fear of heights. She hated being in the harness suspended above the studio floor filming the green cloud scenes. According to Wiki the episode was supposed to be a Troi episode but her dislike of the harness was too much. Could be why we had other great scenes with O’Brien, Gillespie, and other characters.
I feel like the fast paced production failed here. It gives little time to trash a concept and start again. I think they were married to the crappy harness shots because of how much planning and work they had sunk into the tech and effect it meant they didn’t want to make the more logical call to put her on the ground and rethink the visuals.
The ensign setting next to Data is actor Brian Tochi. He was one of the kids in TOS And The Children Shall Lead.
Maybe 15 years sgo I cold turkey stopped taking pain meds and couldn't sleep at all for 11 days. My hanss were shaking, eyes vibrating, couldn't focus. I ended up leaving work and going to the hospital. They gave me a shot that knocked me out for 2 days.
Congrats on getting clean! One day at a time...🙏🙏🙏
Great timing on this one being at the end of October.
Perfect episode for this time of year.
I think the knock on the door was because Picard wasn't answering the chime right before. Those last two were real, in other words, but he had already had auditory hallucinations (maybe) about the door chime.
The gun was a recylced prop from the Buck Rogers TV show
I just thought you should know that what I heard you say at @14:49 the first time I played it was, "Is that Klingon sudoku?"
This is one of the best Halloween episodes of the season.
I laugh every time I see the morgue scene. I know it's supposed to be scary but I can't help but think one of those actors in the morgue scene is thinking, "I went to Julliard to study acting and yet here I am sitting on a table with a bag over my head..." It just makes me laugh.
RIP Jeri Taylor 🖖❤
For me Night Terrors is an S Tier for sure the acting great, everyone gets to do something. I also love the make that as we get further they look worse and worse. The scoring is great as it adds to adds to the spooky mysterious nature of what's going on. I also like the story it's not the usual scary alien or disease, it's more a man against nature type of story but not one that's easily solved. This episode for a bottle story really comes together as is a solid choice if you picked one episode to show a person Star Trek for the first time.
What's does the "S" mean as rating?
@@suburbcinderella Top, best, while it may not be that way for everyone it's one of the best in Season 4 for me.
LOL the guy freaking out with Geordi at 5:48 has a cute twink face. :)
None of the shots of the ships are redone effects. They are the original filmed effects just in high definition. You've seen the Britain first in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as the Reliant.
Keiko is a civilian, not from Starfleet.
Once again Data and Troï being a great team together, complementary to eachother.
The shots of the ship have not been touched in the remastered except for picture clarity. They were shot in higher definition on the get go at the time ans scaled down for TV so they still look nice now.
Pretty good timing with this episode. Especially since it just happened to be the next one in line. One of the more horror themed episode for TNG being perfect for Halloween and one written by Jeri Taylor who recently passed.
"Build a grill...... build... a grill....."
"Oh no... I'm in an obscure Star Trek reference...."
Apparently, the cast themselves don't like this ep. "Bit of a stinker," I believe Frakes described it once. Myself, I've always enjoyed it. McFadden's acting in the morgue was awesome.
The Enterprise had one thing that allowed them to survive. Data.
What about troi? The only one with powers on a ship of 1,000 people
For the most part, the effects weren't redone, just recomposited. These are the same effects just scanned and compiled at a high resolution.
Edit...I forgot to say, it's great that you had a "horror" episode to react to right before Halloween. You couldn't have timed it better!
The morgue scene freaked me the f out as a kid. So good.
Edit: first comment. baller.
Those old trailers are hilarious,lol.
"Where are youuuuuu?" is the new "Computer!"
126 first year patrons! Sounds VERY promising for a Star Trek Continues celebration!
Did you count them as they scrolled!?!?
@@targetaudience yes
I alway confuse this episode with a future TNG horror episode (the one with the clicking aliens). Pretty cool that this episode aligned with the week of Halloween.
"Space Madness" (ren & stimpy)
This is a good Halloween episode.
This is one of those episodes that I'm sad you guys didn't see as children. Ironically, it has a reputation for causing nightmares.