Few literary classics have gone as viral as Charles Dickens’ immortal novella A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.

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The latest iteration, opening Friday, is Disney’s 3-D movie starring Jim Carrey as a freaky-faced Scrooge. Directed by performance-capture wiz Robert Zemeckis, this Christmas Carol’s stocking is simply overstuffed with digital gifts.

But among the hundreds of previous versions of Dickens’ classic, there exist several remakes — some quite strange, including one that features the captain of a certain starship — that reward repeat viewing.

Here’s a short list of the creepiest, coolest versions of A Christmas Carol (with a couple of cheats for those drunk early on eggnog).

In 1988, Star Trek and Shakespeare vet Patrick Stewart executed a one-man stage performance of A Christmas Carol that was so popularly received that it made its way onto CD. In 1999, Stewart’s performance was expanded into a full-bor