Star Trek: Examining the Worst Diseases In The Franchise

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Ever since Star Trek first appeared on the small screen during the late 1960s, it has consistently brought to audiences a wide range of amazing things. Elements of this franchise range from a highly diverse and interesting array of alien races, to some spectacular science fiction technology, some of which have influenced modern day devices.

Not everything was great, however, and while the show's creator Gene Roddenberry created the program to show a highly advanced and utopian future for humanity, the franchise does not shy away from the gritty reality of life, from genocidal wars,to truly horrific tales of loss and grief. One such nasty introduction the franchise made was the introduction of diseases that plagued various cultures, including all sorts of body horrors and psychologically traumatizing side effects.

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This was a disease introduced during the poorly received Voyager series, first appearing in the aptly named episode “Phage” during the first season. It was a nasty disease that affected a race of people called the Vidiians, killing them daily at an alarming rate. According to them, they had been battling the disease for nearly 2,000 years, and it was successfully killing thousands each and every day.

The Phage was a rotting disease that showed a high resistance to each and every form of medical treatment, adapting quickly to each potential cure. It disrupted the Vidiian genetic code, and begin the rot their tissue while they lived, horrifically deforming them to the point they were unrecognizable. The rotting itself was not the worst part either. One of the early symptoms was extreme joint pain so bad that many were known to die just from that, euthanasia being