"A fair shot", indeed.
- The effects of the Klingon rip-you-apart-from-the-inside-out-while-you-scream-in-agony beam (pictured) are... pretty horrific. In fact, the most graphic depiction of disruptor disintegration Star Trek had ever (up to this point) shown. The victim grabs his head in agony as he falls back against his control console and is consumed by energy from the inside, out. Slowly.
- The Genesis planet tearing itself apart.Kruge: Yes, exhilarating, isn't it?
- The sheer suddenness of David's death—along with a death rattle that seems to indicate he was stabbed in the throat.
- The scene where child!Spock turns into teen!Spock. Bones cracking, skin stretching, and screaming. Lots of screaming. And then, Fridge Horror sets in when you realize that you heard that screaming before they came upon child!Spock.
- McCoy under the influence of Spock's katra, when you think about the implications. Especially the scene where Kirk finds him in Spock's quarters.
- There's a definite spookiness to the scene where McCoy, off-screen, at the science station, abruptly starts speaking in Spock's voice. After startling the piss out of everybody, he goes back to his usual self, apparently oblivious to why everyone looks like they've seen a ghost.
- The microbes that were on Spock's coffin as they evolve under the Genesis effect. They turn into large, slimy bugs that the Grissom crew think nothing of, and later into large ravenous worms when the Klingons find them.
