(268) The Crystalline Entity (One of the SCARIEST Space Dwelling Lifeforms)

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  • Опубліковано 24 гру 2024

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  • @Nine-Signs
    @Nine-Signs Місяць тому +18

    It is indeed a creepy snow flake though I still maintain the scariest entity on Star Trek was also one of the scariest entities ever put into SciFi in human history. His name was Nagilum and basically he was a HP Lovecraftian void God, transferred over into star trek with a different name. I always wanted to see him again but we sadly never did.

    • @Nine-Signs
      @Nine-Signs Місяць тому +1

      p.s. As to the entity itself, I remember being quite sad when it was killed first time I saw it, the entire episode is terribly tragic.
      Good vid.

    • @intrepidgamer7942
      @intrepidgamer7942 Місяць тому +4

      I loved the Nagilum episode, one of the best of early TNG.

  • @jpxenovore
    @jpxenovore Місяць тому +2

    When I saw that thing as a kid it terrified me. I would have nightmares I was running away from its feeding sweeps.

  • @nathanfarra6371
    @nathanfarra6371 Місяць тому +10

    Why was no one interested in learning how Lore communicated with the entity?

    • @twitchew
      @twitchew Місяць тому

      but good point!
      a special version of "villain speak" with some treknobabble about why we can't replicate it. (positronic something or other resonance quantum frequencies)
      (and it also this particular entity really did seem to be a thinking being, it knew what it was eating and was down for it. the other entities went, "oh yeah Phil was the absolute worst!".)

  • @ericmadsen7470
    @ericmadsen7470 Місяць тому +8

    The Crystalline Entity is a scariest thing to appear in ST: TNG.

    • @TriAngulumAudioStudios
      @TriAngulumAudioStudios  Місяць тому +3

      Absolutely! Nothing scarier than an entity that you can't communicate with (at least at first) with a license to consume life through out the galaxy with no specific pattern...

  • @twitchew
    @twitchew Місяць тому +3

    thank you for "giant green space hand".

  • @markvaughan5047
    @markvaughan5047 Місяць тому +3

    Here's an idea for a future video I'd like to see. Talk about scary creatures, how about mysterious scary aliens such as the Husnock? We already have seen a recreation of one of their warships in "The Survivors," but very little about the Husnock species. One of the USS Titan novels goes into some more detail about them, but I'd like to know more about this race and their warships.

    • @TriAngulumAudioStudios
      @TriAngulumAudioStudios  Місяць тому

      Im already on it! Though unfortunately, finding the 3d Model has been virtually impossible! :(

  • @Aleiza_49
    @Aleiza_49 Місяць тому

    Yup, this thing scared the hell out of me when I was a kid growing up watching TNG during its original run.😅

  • @daviddyster4145
    @daviddyster4145 Місяць тому +2

    I love the opening you did for this year truth or myth beta canon Halloween episode.

  • @christiankolbesberger2980
    @christiankolbesberger2980 Місяць тому +1

    Now I know where it came from, but the way it feeds really surprised me.
    Gives a new meaning to "Beam me up" XD

  • @BoisegangGaming
    @BoisegangGaming Місяць тому +3

    Jokes on you, I turn them into Crystalline Hull Plating (obligatory stellaris joke)

    • @TriAngulumAudioStudios
      @TriAngulumAudioStudios  Місяць тому +1

      I saw what you did there! LOL

    • @tehno_thefallen386
      @tehno_thefallen386 Місяць тому

      ah yes maximum resurse use

    • @ZeroDarkness-
      @ZeroDarkness- Місяць тому +1

      That crystalline entity will avoided Star Wars universe for sure
      They definitely not want get mining for Kyber Crystal 😂

  • @TrentonBennett
    @TrentonBennett Місяць тому

    Happy Belated Halloween. Awesome video.
    I won't lie when I watched DataLore back in its original airing as a kid the Crystalline Entity freaked me out. I found it crazy that Lore was able to talk to it. I also found it sad it gave the location to Omicron Theta simply because he was rejected by his father and the colonists.
    So the stuff it left in its wake after consuming a planets resources was essentially ....poop? lol
    That's interesting regarding the Tholian connection. I thought the Crystalline Entity looked an awful like a Tholian but much more complex.

  • @hadrianmcquaig6066
    @hadrianmcquaig6066 Місяць тому +3

    Love this!! The Titan really deserved its own show. Didn’t these Entities appear in Lower Decks too?

    • @TriAngulumAudioStudios
      @TriAngulumAudioStudios  Місяць тому +2

      Thank you! And yes they did! That's where some of the info came from! :)

  • @twitchew
    @twitchew Місяць тому +2

    the crystalline entity; AKA "spicy snowflake"

  • @defiantance
    @defiantance Місяць тому +1

    Nice video, but I was hoping for a video on salt vampires. :P

  • @davidmaestas5680
    @davidmaestas5680 15 днів тому

    This is Star Trek's answer to Marvel Comics' Galactus.

  • @james8449100
    @james8449100 Місяць тому +1

    Always wondered what would happen if it bumped into the Borg

  • @jclay6680
    @jclay6680 Місяць тому

    Where was the entity when the Genniss project was searching for a lifeless planet .😂😂 Could have done them a favor .

  • @HMSVanguard46
    @HMSVanguard46 Місяць тому +1

    Love the Halloween theme

    • @TriAngulumAudioStudios
      @TriAngulumAudioStudios  Місяць тому

      I wondered where you were LOL Thank you! It was a"quick" addition! LOL

    • @HMSVanguard46
      @HMSVanguard46 Місяць тому

      @@TriAngulumAudioStudios recovering from a Halloween party and I don't seem to be getting notifications

  • @pdbouie
    @pdbouie Місяць тому

    That Halloween intro had me trippn for a few moments. Nice. So a friend of mine joked that Picard and gang should've slingshotted to the past, grab a few tweakers and take them forward in time to handle that crystal entity in a few binges!! 😅😂

    • @TriAngulumAudioStudios
      @TriAngulumAudioStudios  Місяць тому

      Lol well that's one way of dealing with it lol

    • @pdbouie
      @pdbouie Місяць тому

      Yeah but then they would probably destroy your starship or steal a shuttle craft to chase shadow people

  • @timothybrandriff6499
    @timothybrandriff6499 18 годин тому

    When done right, there is room for Lovecraftian cosmic horror is Star Trek, but a needle has to be thread; it needs to be hopeless and inexplainable (Lovecraftian) but also hopeful and explainable/scientific (Star Trek). The Crystalline Entity thread that needle.

  • @Area51byDaveReale
    @Area51byDaveReale Місяць тому +1

    Maybe the first entity encountered was a rogue serial killer.

  • @ericmadsen7470
    @ericmadsen7470 Місяць тому +3

    If you think about it, the Crystalline Entity is the Doomsday Machine of the 24th century.

  • @williammay5300
    @williammay5300 Місяць тому

    HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃 this is a good way to celebrate it.... The scariest to come from Star Trek is the Doomsday mechane.....

  • @turkeytrac1
    @turkeytrac1 Місяць тому

    Great vid!! Happy Halloween to you!

  • @spectre2466
    @spectre2466 Місяць тому +1

    So here me out.. they could have a symbiotic relationship with these entities! Remember the Genesis device? So they could find planets suitable for the entities to "eat" and then afterwards use the Genesis device to "renew" the planet to a habitable state. Boom! They get to eat, we get new colony worlds. 😎

    • @TriAngulumAudioStudios
      @TriAngulumAudioStudios  Місяць тому +2

      I always hate when someone starts out with "Hear me out..." Usually it's the wackiest most unrealistic idea possible on a given subject! So imagine my surprise to discover an insightful comment instead! I love the idea, but there IS one flaw, the Protomatter used in the Device made the planet unstable... So you'd be destroying a planet everytime you used it... Endangering the Entities on top of that!

    • @spectre2466
      @spectre2466 Місяць тому

      @@TriAngulumAudioStudios obviously they would have to continue with the development of the Genesis project until its perfected but my reasoning was because star fleet was soooo adamant about the planet/moon selected for the test being completely devoid of life. I just thought that since the crystalline entity pretty much does that in the process of feeding on a planet then that would meet the criteria for star fleet to test/use the genesis probe especially if they could get it perfected.

    • @TriAngulumAudioStudios
      @TriAngulumAudioStudios  Місяць тому

      Sadly, it really just wouldn't work! If they hadnt solved the "Genesis" issue in the past almost 100 years, then who knows if they ever would or could... Making this idea just unfeasible! :(

  • @dominik8005
    @dominik8005 Місяць тому

    happy Halloween. like this video

  • @Arms872
    @Arms872 Місяць тому

    Great! Now I will have nightmares tonight

  • @Dseagles14
    @Dseagles14 Місяць тому

    I've always wondered if something like The Crystalline Entity exists in real life

  • @The1ReviewBoard
    @The1ReviewBoard Місяць тому

    Happy Halloween! I wonder if there’s gonna be a video on the Tripoli’s class “Hokule’a”.

  • @brighbytes
    @brighbytes Місяць тому +1

    What class is the Tripoli used in this video?

  • @georgesulea
    @georgesulea Місяць тому +1

    Scariest...piece...of pollen...ever...

  • @Eons381
    @Eons381 20 днів тому

    Well that was fun totally not scary at all. But do a video about Ferengi culture... ... ... Now that would have been uber scary.
    And it's finally nice to hear that it wasn't a one of a kind lifeform either but it's actually a whole species in it's own right.

  • @kroneo3132
    @kroneo3132 Місяць тому

    2:20 Are those galaxy x parts I see there.

  • @bryanabbott6169
    @bryanabbott6169 Місяць тому +2

    Don't forget that it was Lore who discovered the Crystalline Entity's ability to communicate and used that to lure it to Omicron Theta in the first place. For all we know, it may have normally avoided planets with higher lifeforms, but after getting a 'taste' for it, thanks to Lore (who ended up luring it to attack the Enterprise-D in the Datalore episode), it continued to do so from there.
    Sort of like how people feed wildlife when they go camping, and the wildlife (racoons, bears, etc.) become less afraid of humans and it gets worse from there.

  • @dramonmaster222
    @dramonmaster222 Місяць тому

    Happy Halloween!

  • @dragdragon23
    @dragdragon23 Місяць тому

    it came down to Lore was at fault for the destruction of the colony by lowering its defenses and tried with the Enterprise as well. my first instinct would be to kill the creature too, since they talked to it to find it didn't mean to take other life, my view changed.

  • @Mkav-c8n
    @Mkav-c8n Місяць тому

    Star trek's version of a tyranid😊, like that ship at 3:35 will there be a video of that ship class

  • @warrenreid6109
    @warrenreid6109 Місяць тому

    I always wondered was there a tie between the tholians and the crystalline entity.

  • @Cauin450
    @Cauin450 Місяць тому

    TriAngulum, has anyone done an episode on the Gormagander or junior, generally spaceborne lifeforms?

  • @georgesulea
    @georgesulea Місяць тому +1

    Btw, what class is the Tripoli?

  • @Willpower-74205
    @Willpower-74205 Місяць тому

    It'd be nice if replicas of the Crystalline Entity were available commercially. Might give me a good reason to buy a Christmas tree. Then again, it might zap the thing if it got hungry.... 🖖😁👍

  • @vasp99
    @vasp99 Місяць тому

    Galactus junior ? I have to wonder if the Borg could assimilate one of these entities .

    • @TriAngulumAudioStudios
      @TriAngulumAudioStudios  Місяць тому +1

      LOL I doubt they'd care too, or even pay attention to it unless it attacked them!

  • @Arduex2020
    @Arduex2020 Місяць тому

    Fascinating 🤨

  • @joe9739
    @joe9739 Місяць тому

    Star Trek:TNG's Raid Boss.

  • @chasing_dragons
    @chasing_dragons Місяць тому +1

    It is a creation of Species 8472.

    • @TriAngulumAudioStudios
      @TriAngulumAudioStudios  Місяць тому +1

      No, sorry, you are incorrect... Also, why did you like your own comment?

  • @MIKEKD8OSKH
    @MIKEKD8OSKH Місяць тому

    This was truly a misunderstood species still would love to know more about it unfortunately, after the last encounter, it was never heard from again and any Star Trek series that I’ve watched and I’ve watched them all

    • @TriAngulumAudioStudios
      @TriAngulumAudioStudios  Місяць тому

      Then you need to go back and watch the series again because you are incorrect! The second Season episode of Lower Decks entitled "I, Excretus" features the Crystalline Entity!

  • @RealThatDesignerGuy
    @RealThatDesignerGuy Місяць тому

    Imagine is Discovery used the Crystalline Entity instead of Species 10-C. 10-C was cool in their own right, but man. Hopes for the future anyway. Never thought we'd see the changelings again.

    • @TriAngulumAudioStudios
      @TriAngulumAudioStudios  Місяць тому

      I dont think the storyline would have worked using the Crystalline Entity... Though we may definitely see the Entity again!

  • @jlewis1492
    @jlewis1492 Місяць тому

    Surprised there was no reference to the Cerritos' encounters.

    • @TriAngulumAudioStudios
      @TriAngulumAudioStudios  Місяць тому

      Actually there was! That's where the information on it dietary requirements came from!

  • @christiankolbesberger2980
    @christiankolbesberger2980 Місяць тому

    Heres a scary Thought: The Borg assimilating the Planet destryoing Doomsday Device from TOS

    • @TriAngulumAudioStudios
      @TriAngulumAudioStudios  Місяць тому +1

      From my memory the "Giant" Novel Titled Vendetta, deals with that sort of thing!

  • @sjTHEfirst
    @sjTHEfirst Місяць тому

    I’m #1 😊

  • @josephryman3799
    @josephryman3799 Місяць тому

    a great video and wane are you do the Poseidon and Yorktown classes for they are of the United Earth Starfleet

  • @Schwillis902
    @Schwillis902 Місяць тому

    The baby space whale was scarier. Because babies are scary.

  • @classicforreal
    @classicforreal Місяць тому

    I mean nice spirit but it could be a bit more Star Trek-y and less quick what default skin does UA-cam already come with-y :(

  • @iainmiller3113
    @iainmiller3113 Місяць тому

    This is a waste of time!

    • @TriAngulumAudioStudios
      @TriAngulumAudioStudios  Місяць тому

      LOL No it isn't, the fans of my channel would disagree... How many fans does your channel have? Ohhhhh... wait.... LOL Cya, Troll elsewhere! You have no power here!

  • @jerrytroy2677
    @jerrytroy2677 Місяць тому

    How that scary

  • @yodaslovetoy
    @yodaslovetoy Місяць тому

    Something more scarey than the riker leg manoeuvre....