Line #68 Narm/StarTrek


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3	As a franchise that's been around [[LongRunners since the 1960s]], ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is bound to have some excessively campy moments from time to time.
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9	[[folder: Star Trek: The Original Series]]
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11	%% * A lowly ''Ensign'' in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E10TheCorbomiteManeuver}} The Corbomite Maneuver]]":
12	%% --->"What, are you all out of your minds?! End of watch? It's the end of everything! ''WHAT ARE YOU, ROBOTS?!'' Wound up, toy soldiers?! Don't you know when you're dying?! Watch and regulations and orders? What do they mean?"
13	%% * A special mention to the lovely ladies from the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E1SpocksBrain Spock's Brain]]":
14	%% --> "Brain and brain! WHAT IS BRAIN?!!!"
15	%% ** Let's be real, the whole episode is a big Narm party. Hell, try making a DrinkingGame out of the {{Title Drop}}s, if you're masochistic.
16	%% * Spock's rather out-of-character moment near the end of "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage}} The Cage]]" (partly down to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness).
17	%%  “THE WOMEN!!”
18	* “[[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E2CharlieX}} Charlie X]]”. The ending of this episode is particularly narmtacular. The episode had a good concept, but the delivery of Charlie’s final lines is… hilariously awesome. “I want to stay… stay… stay…” is not bad in concept; but when the actor sounds utterly bored and is trying to drop his voice much lower than what it’s normally been, the laughs start coming.
19	* “[[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E14BalanceOfTerror}} Balance of Terror]]”: When the Romulan vessel fires its weapon at the outpost, which is talking to the ‘’Enterprise’’ at the time, the outpost commander throws his head back and screams as if he’s being burned alive. That, plus the lights flashing for an extended period of time, pretty much ruins the somber atmosphere that the show tries for as they realize the outpost is gone.
20	%% * "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS2E23TheOmegaGlory}} The Omega Glory]]", especially the very, very {{Eagleland}} climax. Shatner's in all his, well, glory, reading the American constitution. Extra narm - Shatner is '''Canadian.'''
21	* "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS3E4AndTheChildrenShallLead}} And the Children Shall Lead]]". Special mention to where Kirk looks like he's suddenly come down with a bad case of the runs right before the children's power takes effect on him. And then there's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvRBDQqSmY "I'm losing command" scene in the turbo lift.]] And just the fact that children cause chaos on the Enterprise with magic and use it by making a jerk-off motion.
22	%% * Kirk's "No Blah Blah Blah" line from "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E8Miri}} Miri]]". Did he have to sink to their level?
23	* This exchange from what should be a dramatic scene in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime}} Amok Time]]":
24	-->'''Spock:''' It's about biology. ''Vulcan'' biology.
25	-->'''Kirk:''' You mean, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment the biology of Vulcans?]]
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28	[[folder:Star Trek: The Next Generation]]
29	* An earlier example of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' Narm changed the course of an entire species. When ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' began, Creator/GeneRoddenberry was involved in the series and trying as hard as he could to make it match the feel of the original series. Thus came the new "big menace for the Federation" in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E4TheLastOutpost The Last Outpost]]", the Ferengi, who hooted and howled like monkeys, cracked energy whips, and dressed in furs. It would have fit in perfectly with the original series's cheesy SciFi of the day; to modern audiences, it just looked ridiculous. The Ferengi were quickly {{retool}}ed into being a mostly comedy relief species and, ironically, probably became a favorite race of the series because of it. And Roddenberry & Co. quickly performed a make-good by bringing back the Romulans.
30	* The parasitoid aliens in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E24Conspiracy}} Conspiracy]]" were a bust, and the planned arc was retooled with a new, far more menacing enemy, the Borg, which paid huge dividends. Imagine how different the show would have been without the god-awful scene in which Picard and Riker shoot at Remmick and the alien in his chest until they both blow up. The special effects technology of the time, at least what could be had with a TV show's budget, really wasn't up to making this not hilarious.
31	%% * Deanna sensing "great joy and gratitude" in the pilot episode.
32	* In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E17NightTerrors}} Night Terrors]]", we are subjected multiple times to Deanna floating through a cloudy, green-screen dreamscape with arms outstretched, desperately shouting, "WHERE ARE YOOOOOUUU??? I'M TRYING TO FIND YOOOOOOUUU!!!"
33	%% * "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E13AngelOne}} Angel One]]", in which Riker is temporary ambassador to a matriarchal society which wears sexy clothing; he sleeps with the female ruler and ''then'' campaigns for equal rights for men.
34	* Another moment of Riker Narm appears in the otherwise [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct excellently]] [[CuckooNest creepy]] "Frame of Mind"; he lets out a BigNo so unconvincing that you'll be ready to forgive [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith James Earl Jones]] for everything.
35	* "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E17HomeSoil}} Home Soil]]", which is one long narmfest of an episode - from the three terraformers (the young female one who spends almost the entire episode crying (and the few times she isn't crying she sounds totally bored), the young male one with [[TheEighties the oh-so-'80s]] mullet, and the older one who gets most of their dialogue and borders on ham with his delivery of lines such as "I CREATE LIFE... I DO NOT TAKE IT!"), to the cast asking each other rhetorical questions over and over for most of the story, to the entire bridge crew feeling free to chip in and comment during the initial first contact dialogue between humans and the "microbrain" inorganic lifeform that continually calls the ''Enterprise'' crew "UGLY BAGS OF MOSTLY WATER" serving as the episode's antagonist. Special bonus points go to Dr. Crusher, whose delivery of the line "Life - force! Do - you - under-stand - us!?" is excruciating.
36	%% * "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E22SkinOfEvil}} Skin of Evil]]":
37	%% ** Tasha Yar's farewell speech. It's intended to be a TearJerker and likely affects many that way, but not all of them.
38	%% ---> "Will Riker. You are the best!"\
39	%% "[[DisabilitySuperpower Geordi]]. In those moments I felt the most despair, you took my hand and helped me to see things differently."\
40	%% "My friend Data. You see things with the wonder of a child."
41	%% ** The [[SpecialEffectFailure ink stain]] on Yar's cheek in sickbay when Dr. Crusher tries to bring her back kills the drama of those scenes.
42	%% * The hilariously {{Anvilicious}} DrugsAreBad [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8RXozi72wE scene]] from the TNG episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E21Symbiosis}} Symbiosis]]".
43	%% * "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E03ManOfThePeople}} Man of the People]]":
44	%% ** An alien-affected Deanna Troi brandishing a knife and blocked by Picard and wrestling on the transporter pad with tense music is supposed to envoke a sense of high drama, but the opposite is felt as the performance is more akin to that of a comedy.
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46	[[folder:Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]
47	* Season 1's infamous "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E10MoveAlongHome}} Move Along Home]]" sees the crew trapped in a strange tabletop game that Quark is playing. If that sounds silly, wait'll you see the crew forced to play a hopscotch game and sing a little girl's chant ("Allamarine, count to four, Allamarine, then three more...") to get from one room to the next.
48	* During the otherwise soul-destroying "[[TheChewToy O'Brien must suffer]]" episode, "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E19HardTime Hard Time]]", O'Brien violently snaps and goes on a rampage in the cargo hold. Unfortunately, this is depicted not by him actually getting to smash any actual props, but by him angrily shoving around some plastic cargo containers a totally anachronistic ''modern'' socket wrench like something out of a cartoon. It wouldn't have stood out quite so much if there wasn't an ''entire scene'' earlier in the episode devoted entirely to O'Brien going over all his [[CowTools fancy sophisticated space-tools.]]
49	%% * The revelation that the Romulan senator realizes Sisko's carefully-made forgery was fake in the excellent episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E19InThePaleMoonlight}} In the Pale Moonlight]]" would have had more impact if the senator had not used that exact moment to channel the spirit of [[Film/TheShining Jack Torrance]]. It also doesn't help that it was seized upon by the denizens of the internets and completely {{meme\|ticMutation}}d to death, as depicted here: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXWQIiFxjbc]]
50	%% ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwbPRCRkMy0 It's a Steeeeeeak!]]
51	%% *** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHgbbM9pu4 Don’t you understand?! It is REEEAAL!]]
52	** The best and worst example occurs during the climax of “[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E20InTheHandsOfTheProphets}} In The Hands Of The Prophets]]”. The episode itself was good but Sisko’s slo-motion “[[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!]]”, complete with dropped pitch, at the most tense moment was jarringly funny.
53	%% * "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E13FieldOfFire}} Field of Fire]]", a seventh season episode, has this in the form of [[spoiler: Lieutenant Illario appearing in a nightmare of Ezri's where he is allegedly the killer of the real Illario, and Odo says "I'm sorry, Lieutenant (Dax), there's nothing more annoying than a corpse with a mind of its own."]]
54	* "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E26BrokenLink}} Broken Link]]", Odo returns to the Great Link for judgment. He's later thrown to the surface of Great Link "ocean," gasping, shouting, and thrashing around, before washing up on shore unconscious. The scene is meant to show that something is wrong and the Great Link has rejected him, but he just looks like a ridiculously bad swimmer with a leg cramp instead.
55	%% * "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E11Waltz}} Waltz]]" was loaded with it. It was supposed to be a horrific view into Dukat's psychosis, but it just makes him look like a petty manchild who argues and fights with himself, [[MoodWhiplash until the final act anyway]].
56	%% * Odo's [[spoiler:departure]] in "What We Leave Behind", wading backwards into the muck that is his own people while wearing a tuxedo.
57	%% * The part in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E25E26WhatYouLeaveBehind}} What You Leave Behind]]" where Dukat uses his powers to make Sisko bow down to him. It's obviously a show of power by a completely egotistical villain, but it's presented in a way that makes it hard not to laugh, especially with the way Sisko calls him pathetic.
58	%% ** Also the part where after Garak kills Weyoun, and the Female Changeling says she wishes he hadn't done that. Garak retorting that he was hoping she'd say he was the last one is just priceless.
59	* In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E09Defiant Defiant]]", Riker comes to visit the station. At one point he pulls off his fake sideburns to reveal... a goatee! It's supposed to be a [[TheReveal dramatic moment]], as his lack of full beard means this is not William Riker but Thomas Riker, his doppelgänger. However, the scene comes off as incredibly goofy, especially if you haven't seen the ''Next Generation'' episode where Thomas previously appeared, and therefore have no idea what this beard-pulling business is all about.
60	* In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E02TheShip The Ship]]", we meet Chief O'Brien's report Enrique Muniz, a character we've only seen before briefly (in season 4, episodes 7 and 19). The main crew, plus Muniz and some others, are on an away mission when they are attacked by a group of Jem'Hadar soldiers. Muniz is injured during the firefight, and spends much of the episode slowly bleeding out in the hold of a grounded Vorta ship the Jem'Hadar are attempting to take back. As his condition worsens, O'Brian and Dax, who we have never seen previously interact with Muniz, become increasingly informal and tender with him, referring to him by the nickname Kiké (short for Enrique), to a degree and frequency that becomes comical - it almost seems they're lampshading the fact we've rarely seen Muniz before. This is only topped by Muniz becoming delusional as he nears death, speaking in [[GratuitousSpanish Gratuitous Spanish]], believing that he's a child again, watching fireworks with his father. The overall effect is narmy in the extreme and has the unfortunate effect of positioning Muniz as a [[TokenMinority token Latino]].
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63	[[folder:Star Trek: Voyager]]
64	* ''Voyager'' was loaded with them, but the topper has to be this:
65	--> "Get the cheese to Sickbay!"
66	* In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E6Twisted}} Twisted]]", the ship is being crushed by a mysterious space wave and Janeway falls unconscious after accidentally touching the phenomenon. While the other officers stand around discussing how to save the ship, she suddenly sits bolt upright, gasps, "it's tALkiNg tO MEEEE," and then falls back down on the couch.
67	* In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E13Prototype}} Prototype]]", Torres describes how she created a prototype robot. She dramatically told Janeway that when she "installed that module, the prototype looked up at me, and '''asked me for programming.'''"
68	* "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E16Meld}} Meld]]" is mostly NightmareFuel, which you'd think would include the epic TakeThatScrappy moment where Tuvok strangles Holodeck!Neelix. Except the way his body collapses, with the weird head-tilt, isn't so much "corpse" as it is "say whaaaaat?"
69	* Klingon B'Elanna Torres in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS1E13Faces}} Faces]]". Her speech patterns and accent made her sound more mildly annoyed than angry.
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72	[[folder:Star Trek: Enterprise]]
73	* The opening theme to ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' - which was a sticky sweet power ballad.
74	** "[[{{Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS03E19Damage}} Damage]]": [[ShootTheDog Pirates]] versus [[OffscreenTeleportation ninjas]]!
75	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQCfLMXsG4g Archer's hamhanded metaphor in his now infamous "gazelle speech."]]
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78	[[folder:Star Trek: Strange New Worlds]]
79	* "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS1E01StrangeNewWorlds Strange New Worlds]]": Spock warning that the pain is becoming unbearable, screaming out in pain, then being perfectly fine.
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84	[[folder:Original Continuity]]
85	* In ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'', there's the wormhole scene in all its overacted, slowed-down Narminess.
86	--->[[BigNo NO!]] Beeeelaaaayyyyy thaaaat phaaaaser oooorrdeerr!
87	** Remember the [[LeaveTheCameraRunning (loooooong)]] Enterprise-approaching-V'ger scene? All the bridge crew gaping at the lovely SFX? Now re-watch it, and consider how much they look like they've each been hit on the head with a large mallet.
88	* In ''Film/{{Star Trek II\|TheWrathOfKhan}}'', a red-faced Kirk yelling "Khaaaaaaaaan!" into his communicator. Classic Narm.
89	** Made even more ridiculous when we find out that Kirk knew that the ship would probably rescue them soon. FridgeBrilliance when you realize that he was faking Khan out, in all likelihood.
90	** Khan's Number One's pathetically whiny "I ''can't''!"
91	** Narrowly averted in [[spoiler:Spock's death scene]] - originally [=McCoy=] was meant to say "He's dead, Jim." It then occurred to the production that since [[MemeticMutation that line had become something of a meme]] after the Original Series, it might ruin the drama of the scene. Instead Scotty says "He's dead already."
92	* ''Film/{{Star Trek III\|TheSearchForSpock}}'': Robin Curtis' performance as Lt. Saavik is total Narm. Curtis' attempts at playing an emotionless Vulcan often come off as wooden and forced, and thus unintentionally funny. The most notorious example of this:
93	-->Admiral... David is dead.
94	** What was even worse than her Narmtastic performance was her 1980s bouffant perm. Creator/KirstieAlley's updo was more Vulcan than Curtis's borderline Afro. And Alley was much better at pulling off a Vulcan; that said, however, Alley was actually playing Saavik as ''half-Romulan'' and, thus, emotional. A scene establishing her as half-Romulan was filmed but deleted, and Curtis wasn't given the memo, so she played the role as a straight Vulcan, without the emotion Alley did.
95	** Kirk's overlong reaction when told David was dead.
96	--->You Klingon bastards! You killed my son!
97	* In ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'', Ru'afo, the [[LargeHam fiendish villain]] of the movie, [[ChewingTheScenery plots and schemes]] from the depths of his command chair of his imposing starship. Unfortunately, the chair from which he practices his SlouchOfVillainy is a plush, cozy-looking red couch with gold embroidery.
98	** Both of Ru'afo's [[BigNo NOOoooOOOOooooooOOoOOOOoooooooOOOos!!!!!!]]
99	** While the ''Enterprise'' is getting pounded by Ru'afo's ship, things look so desperate that Riker decides he should pilot the ship himself... [[OffTheShelfFX with an obviously off-the-shelf joystick]] that pops out of the floor. And it doesn't do anything that the helm console doesn't already do.
100	** Crusher and Troi comparing how their boobs have firmed up was meant to be a private conversation and isn't actually all that different to Worf having a pimple or Picard losing some wrinkles. These are just physical manifestations of the crew growing younger. It's the immediate aftermath where Data walks up to Worf and talks about ''his'' boobs firming up that pushes the whole thing into narm. Especially as this really is something that season 1 Data would do as opposed to post season 7 Data who has a much greater understanding of human interaction - although [[FridgeBrilliance that may have been the point.]]
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102	[[folder:Reboot Films]]
103	* ''Film/StarTrek2009'':
104	-->'''Nero''': I WANT SPOCK DEAD NOW!
105	** [[SayMyName "SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!"]]
106	** Or the unforgettable:
107	-->'''Pike''': I'm Captain Christopher Pike. To whom am I speaking?
108	-->'''Nero''': Hi, Christopher. I'm Nero.
109	** ... with all the formality and menace of a passive aggressive boss at a company picnic.
110	*** Then again, [[FridgeBrilliance that's probably the point]].
111	** '''''"FIRE EVERYTHING!!!"''''' made even more hilarious when the line [[IronicEcho is reused by both the good guys and]] [[VillainousBreakdown the bad guys.]]
112	** The renegade Romulans look like an alien biker gang with a leather fetish; it's the TrenchCoatBrigade JustForFun/RecycledInSPACE! The BadassLongcoat [[NoNewFashionsInTheFuture apparently has staying power across the centuries and across the galaxy.]]
113	** And then there's Nero screaming at Pike. "'''''I SAAAWWW IT HAPPEN! I WWWWAAATCHED IT HAPPEN! DON'T TELL ME IT DIDN'T HAAAPPEN!''''' "
114	* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'':
115	** Many found Kirk's dramatic [[NoSell failed attempt]] to beat an increasingly confused Harrison on Qo'noS hilarious.
116	** The somber engine room scene that ends up sounding silly after re-using multiple lines from a previous movie. [[spoiler:Much of that sequence can be this for some. It can be hard to feel an emotional connection to the moment where Kirk saves the ship when it is not only the exact scenario from ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', but re-uses the same dialogue in some parts, except unlike [=WoK=], no one believed Kirk was going to die. Also, the reason that scene is so powerful in Wrath of Khan is that Kirk and Spock have a friendship that's grown so strong over many years and many shared adventures. This version of Kirk and Spock really haven't known each other that long.]]
117	** Spock's exclamation [[spoiler:of "KHAAAAAN!" during the engine room scene also spoiled the solemnity of Kirk's (temporary) death as well.]] Possibly [[NarmCharm deliberate]] as a {{Homage}} to a similar scene in one of the old movies.
118	** The Klingons' redesign look more like [[Film/BattlefieldEarth Psychlos]] wearing a trenchcoat.
119	** The absurdly gratuitous LingerieScene.
120	** ''Into Darkness'' was the first Trek film shot in 3D. Cue a scene straight out of an ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' parody in which Khan is asked to put his arm through a hole and of course he does so right at the camera. Even 3D aficionados groaned at this.
121	* The legitimately [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic awesome]] [[https://youtu.be/DwlFeVttLMg Klingon music]] is almost totally deflated by the goofy-sounding lyrics the choir is [[OminousLatinChanting chanting]] in the background.
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