10 Biggest Jump Scares In Star Trek

10. Turbolift's Tension

The Haunting of Deck Twelve was Star Trek: Voyager's take on the camp-fire ghost story. With a title like that, you can't really be shocked about being shocked. Ship's systems were infected by a strange entity from a now no-longer nebula. The crew got more than a few shocks of their own…. or did they?

If in doubt, do leave Neelix alone in the mess hall. That's not episode-specific, just general advice. Following protocol, were you Harry? Yeah. Sure, sure! After more than four hours in the dark with nothing but his kitchen utensils for company, Neelix ventures out in search of a mysterious noise. Curiosity has never harmed anything with whiskers, after all!

Neelix proceeds towards the turbolift at the end of the corridor, its doors on classic malfunction mode — open and close, open and close. The menacing score accompanies the hiss. If you want to break the tension for yourself before the scare, just imagine the members of the production crew pulling and pushing on either side!

Ready? Right at the threshold of the turbolift, the camera flips round, the music blares. It's Tuvok in an oxygen mask! "Calm yourself, Mr Neelix." Good advice for us all! Later, there was nebula for Neelix in the Jefferies tubes and beneath the cloche. That is, unless the whole thing was made up just to make the Borg kids jump.