Set phasers to scream! Star Trek icons in horror movies.
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00:00Star Trek legends have been known to dip their toes in the fetid swamp that is the horror movie world.
00:05The novelty of seeing these actors away from the clean and family-friendly Star Trek universe
00:10and getting covered in gore or fighting terrifying supernatural forces
00:14is enough to make any of these flicks worth your time to watch.
00:17So, with that in mind then, I'm Ellie with Trek Culture, and here are 10 Star Trek Legends Who Starred in Horror Movies.
00:2410. Andrew Robinson in Hellraiser 1987
00:29The Cardassian tailor Garak, played by Andrew Robinson in Star Trek Deep Space Nine,
00:34is beloved by fans for his cutting remarks and witty sarcasm.
00:37In 1987, before becoming Garak, Robinson played Larry in Clive Barker's iconic, genre-changing masterpiece Hellraiser.
00:45Julia, Larry's adulterous wife, seduces and kills men to feed Frank, her dead brother-in-law,
00:51who was also her lover before he died.
00:53Frank has escaped from Hell and grows stronger each time she brings him another victim.
00:57He is eventually strong enough to take over the body of his poor brother, Larry.
01:01Cenobites, demons to some, angels to others, including Hell Priest Pinhead,
01:05come up from their realm of pain to drag Frank back down.
01:09Seeing Larry turn from the mild-mannered family man into leering sadist-chasing daughter Kirstie
01:14displays the extent of the actor's talent.
01:17Robinson was offered the opportunity to appear in the first sequel, Hellbound Hellraiser 2,
01:21but, despite the success of Hellraiser, the pay was less.
01:25He ultimately turned it down and never returned to the franchise.
01:28Number 9, DeForest Kelly in Night of the Lepus, 1972
01:34The grumpy, no-nonsense Dr. Bones McCoy was a major part of the original Star Trek series.
01:39His arguments with Spock produced some funny moments, as well as thought-provoking philosophy
01:44across the series and the movies.
01:46His character's catchphrase, I'm a doctor, not a...
01:48"...bricklayer, mechanic, coal miner."
01:51...made him a favorite amongst fans.
01:54In his final, non-Star Trek movie, DeForest Kelly plays college president Elgin Clark.
01:59Clark, wanting an ecological alternative to poison for his friend's rabbit infestation,
02:04contacts zoologist Roy for help.
02:06While experimenting with hormones and chemicals on lab rabbits, a test subject escapes,
02:11leading to the already pesky rabbits becoming giant, bloodthirsty killers
02:15that terrorize the town and surrounding farms and ranches.
02:18It may not be a big-screen classic, but Night of the Lepus is a fun watch nonetheless.
02:23Even if it is just for the goofy special effects and Kelly's moustache.
02:27Number 8, Patrick Stewart in Life Force 1985
02:32This movie comes from horror icon Tobey Hooper, the director of Poltergeist and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
02:39Three shapeshifting vampires, one female and two males, are found by astronauts in a comet and brought to Earth.
02:46Instead of feeding on blood, they drain their victims of their life force.
02:50Stewart plays Dr. Armstrong, a hospital manager whose body is used as a hiding place by the perpetually nude female space vampire.
02:57The aliens transform a large part of London's population into zombie-like creatures, causing chaos in the capital.
03:04This movie also features Stewart's first on-screen kiss, shared with co-star Steve Railsback.
03:10Life Force came two years before Patrick Stewart would take the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek The Next Generation.
03:16Jean-Luc is a role he would play across 176 episodes and four movies, and later his own series Picard.
03:24Number 7, Jerry Ryan in Dracula 2001 2000
03:30Seven of nine, the Borg drone rescued from the Collective became a valued crew member in Star Trek Voyager.
03:36Jerry Ryan reprised this role in the recent Picard series.
03:39In 2000's Dracula 2001, though, she played Valerie Sharp, a TV news reporter who was turned into a vampire by the seductive titular vampire.
03:48Resistance was indeed futile.
03:50When thieves steal the silver casket containing the imprisoned Dracula, they unwittingly release the monster.
03:56Drac learns he has a telekinetic link with a young girl called Mary, all because Van Helsing, her restrained father and Dracula's old enemy,
04:04has spent years injecting himself with the legendary vampire's blood in order to prolong his own life.
04:09During this time, he conceived Mary, who is now a young woman pursued through New Orleans by her father's nemesis.
04:16Ryan isn't given much to do here beyond being one of Dracula's sultry and scantily clad minions.
04:21In 2019, she also starred alongside fellow Star Trek legend William Shatner in another horror movie, the frankly awful Devil's Revenge.
04:30Number 6, Robert Beltran in Knight of the Comet 1984
04:36Before he was the wise and charming Commander Chakotay on the Starship Voyager,
04:40Robert Beltran played Hector in post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror cult classic Knight of the Comet.
04:46Regina and Samantha navigate the streets of Los Angeles the morning after a catastrophic event.
04:51The Earth has passed through the tail of a comet, which has turned humans into piles of red dust.
04:56The only survivors are those who, like Regina and Samantha, have spent the night surrounded by steel.
05:01Those who were only partially surrounded by steel have become cannibalistic mutants.
05:05Regina and Samantha meet Hector at a radio station where their broadcast is heard by scientists surviving underground.
05:11The trio not only have to fight off comet zombies and learn to survive together,
05:15but they must also contend with the pursuing scientists who wish to harvest their uninfected blood.
05:20Beltran turned down this role three times before eventually being enticed by money, billing, and the opportunity to adjust the character of Hector.
05:28The character became more of a reluctant hero than what he described as just a rehash of his role in eating Raul,
05:34a Mexican immigrant and a professional thief.
05:375. Nichelle Nichols in The Supernaturals 1986
05:42After playing Yohura in Star Trek on TV and film for around 20 years,
05:46Nichelle Nichols starred in the mostly forgotten supernatural zombie action horror The Supernaturals.
05:52This film came out just a few months before the release of Star Trek IV The Voyage Home,
05:57where she would once again return to the role of Yohura.
06:00Nichols played Leona Hawkins, a tough US Army sergeant.
06:03Hawkins and her platoon, consisting mostly of cowards and morons, head down south to the woods for a training exercise.
06:10It just so happens that the woods they have chosen was the site of a historic atrocity,
06:14where the inhabitants of a Confederate town were killed by Northern soldiers during the American Civil War.
06:20When the platoon loses radio contact and becomes isolated,
06:23the bodies of those cruelly murdered a century ago begin to rise as ghouls looking for revenge.
06:28It's pretty basic stuff, and it's easy to tell Nichols is not putting in her best effort,
06:33delivering lines with little passion.
06:35Future Star Trek hero LeVar Burton also has a role in this film as Private Osgood,
06:40a year before he would star as Geordi La Forge in Star Trek The Next Generation.
06:444. Leonard Nimoy in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1978
06:50The remake of 1956 sci-fi masterpiece Invasion of the Body Snatchers comes over two decades after the original.
06:58This version of the movie is considered one of the greatest remakes of all time, along with The Fly and The Thing.
07:04Leonard Spock Nimoy stars alongside Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams and Jeff Goldblum in this terrifying chiller
07:10that had much to say about modern society that is still relevant today.
07:14It is more than just mere paranoia, as lifeforms from a dying planet have begun replacing humans with replicas.
07:20Nimoy plays Dr. Kibner and gives a genuinely creepy performance,
07:25delivering the chillingly deadpan line,
07:27We adapt and we survive. The function of life is survival.
07:31Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a masterclass in eerie suspense and tense paranoid drama,
07:37aided by great performances from the cast.
07:39This 1978 film presented an opportunity for Leonard Nimoy to escape the Spock typecast,
07:45though it was only the following year that he would return to his most famous role for Star Trek The Motion Picture.
07:513. LeVar Burton in Rise of the Zombies 2012
07:56LeVar Burton earned his title as a Star Trek legend due to his part as Geordi La Forge in Star Trek The Next Generation,
08:03and because of his work behind the camera across multiple series of the franchise.
08:07Ten years after playing La Forge for the last time in Nemesis,
08:11Burton landed a role in the 2012 undead tale Rise of the Zombies.
08:16This film comes from the infamous movie studio The Asylum.
08:19The Asylum has a reputation for releasing mockbusters,
08:22movies that share similar names and plots with upcoming films from the larger studios.
08:27A group of survivors fleeing the zombie-infested city of San Francisco take refuge in the Alcatraz Prison.
08:33Among the survivors is Dr. Halpern, who is frustrated with the lack of a live specimen.
08:38The undead eventually make it to the famous prison island, meaning the group must vacate and go on the run.
08:43It is unlikely you have ever seen LeVar Burton in anything as gory as this.
08:482. Scott Bakula in Lord of Illusions 1995
08:53Clive Barker directs this chilling adaptation of his own short story, The Last Illusion.
08:59For Scott Bakula, Lord of Illusions comes between his role in the classic science fiction TV series Quantum Leap
09:05and his time as Captain Archer on Star Trek Enterprise, the prequel to the original series.
09:10Throughout his long career as an actor, this marks Bakula's only horror movie in which he plays the lead.
09:16Before he can perform a sacrifice, Nix, a cult leader with supernatural powers, is killed by followers Swan and Quaid.
09:23Thirteen years after his apparent death, Nix's cult remains fanatical.
09:28When Quaid is found dead, all those years later, Dorothea, the wife of Swan,
09:32hires private detective Harry D'Amour to investigate the murder.
09:36Dorothea fears her husband, now a famous magician, will be next as the dangerous cult await the return of their leader.
09:42Although Lord of Illusions only made a small profit at the box office,
09:45the picture was generally praised, with the visual effects in particular impressing critics.
09:501. William Shatner in Kingdom of the Spiders 1977
09:56Kingdom of the Spiders came almost a decade after the original series of Star Trek ended.
10:01The 1977 sci-fi horror was unleashed two years before Shatner took the Captain Kirk role to the big screen
10:07for the first time in Star Trek The Motion Picture.
10:10This skin-crawling caper was released during the bug horror boom of the late 1970s,
10:15along with the likes of The Savage Bees, It Happened at Lakewood Manor, and Squirm.
10:20William Captain Kirk Shatner plays a small-town veterinarian, Rak Hansen,
10:24fighting wave after wave of killer tarantulas.
10:27The killing starts with farm animals, but it quickly becomes clear that any living thing
10:31in the path of these arachnids is in deathly danger.
10:34The vet must use all his cunning and bravery to ensure that as many of the locals as possible
10:39survive the onslaught from the army of creepy, cruelling killers.
10:43This is not for the faint-hearted, nor is it for anyone remotely concerned about animal welfare.
10:48Unlike the careful, spider-friendly approach to filmmaking adopted by the crew of Arachnophobia in 1990,
10:55many, many spiders were killed during the production of Kingdom of the Spiders.
10:59Shatner later expressed regret about this fact in his 2008 autobiography Up Till Now.
11:06And that concludes our list.
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