Character: GorganShow: Star Trek
Episode: "And the Children Shall Lead"
Out of all the original Star Trek episodes there were two alien beings that scared the poop out of me when I was young. One was those freaky flying parasites from the season one episode 'Operation: Annihilate' and the other was Gorgan from the season three episode 'And the Children Shall Lead'.
Really, to get technical, both Gorgan and his followers freaked me out. To paraphrase Hank Hill: "Those kids ain't right." Well, why should they be "right" when they were being controlled by their "friendly angel" Gorgan so he could find a planet to control? Plus, the fashion sense of those kids was just out of control. Lord, the late '60s was just a nightmare for clothing!
What really scared me was what happened at the end of the episode. As Kirk is showing the kids' a tricorder video of their dead parents, Gorgan begins to deform. I remember thinking back when I originally saw the episode on WPIX that the effect reminded me of what happens when film gets caught in a projector and begins to burn. Before he disappeared he was so deformed that I couldn't help but to stare in fascination at his horrible face.
To this day, whenever this episode of Star Trek airs I change the channel during the last two minutes or so to avoid the final scene. Some feelings just stay with you past childhood, I guess.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-24-2007 @ 5:30PM
Jay said...
Isn't that famed divorce lawyer Melvin Belli?
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10-24-2007 @ 1:06PM
Peanut said...
I would have read this, but why should we have to go through ten pages>
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10-24-2007 @ 1:26PM
Tele-Toby said...
Even scarier - it's the ghost of Jerry Falwell!
As I got older, and we were watching this episode in the dorm while... "enhancing our consciousness", someone decided to fill in when the Gorgan stopped talking:
"I would have succeeded if it weren't for you meddling kids!"
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10-24-2007 @ 2:12PM
Diane said...
Ten separate pages for ten separate entries? come on folks, I know AOL is bugging you to increase advertising, but that borders on abuse to your readers.
bad call TV Squad.. bad call
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10-24-2007 @ 3:17PM
willy the impeached said...
Be serious people! The beast that makes more people poop their pants than any other:
Hillary Clinton
(unless you're a terrorist of course)
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10-24-2007 @ 4:01PM
ChgoSaint said...
I agree with the other posters... I am not going to wait for 10 separate pages to load for this, just notworth my time.
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10-24-2007 @ 4:33PM
Morjana Coffman said...
Sorry...I'm not going to click on ten separate links to read this article.
Morjana
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10-24-2007 @ 4:56PM
Davy said...
Wow you must be joking if you expect me to click through ten pages to read this.
That's ridiculous. I agree with the posters above that I might need to find a better TV blog to lurk.
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10-25-2007 @ 9:44AM
I miss my stars! said...
Jay - you are correct! http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0068956/
And for the record, I do possess a long enough attention span to check out all the pages.
For those of you that bitch about the advertising - just remember it is that advertising that keeps sites like this free.
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10-25-2007 @ 1:29PM
MorbidCuriosity said...
Hmm. I was dumb enough to click through all 10 annoying pages and have to disagree with your analysis. Although some of these characters were very creepy, one of the most truly terrifying characters in Prime Time history has to be Bob from Twin Peaks. He gave me nightmares for weeks. His scenes STILL scare the bejesus out of me every time I watch the show.
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