So,
what’s the deal with big floating heads? I’m not certain of the answer, but in cult-television history there have
been many beings possessed of giant…floating…heads.
In
Star
Trek (1966 – 1969) the Thasians of “Charlie X” in the first season were
depicted as floating green, humanoid heads, for example.
In
Space:
1999 (1975 – 1977), the anti-matter alien from Sunim, Vindrus, was also
depicted as a floating head the first time he was detected by Shermeen (Lynne Frederick).
In
Star
Trek: The Next Generation (1987 – 1994), the Enterprise traveled to the
center of the universe in the fourth season story “The Nth Degree” and
encountered a race of aliens represented by a three-dimensional floating head.
A
floating Sleestak head was seen in the Land of the Lost (1974 – 1977)
episode “The Possession,” and floating heads (in jars) are a mainstay of Matt
Groening’s Futurama.
Finally,
floating heads of a different type -- severed zombie heads -- appeared in
aquariums in the Governor’s living quarters in The Walking Dead (2010 -
).
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