10 Biggest Jump Scares In Star Trek

9. Shhhhh! (In Klingon)

Down the pitch black corridors of sister ship the USS Glenn, Stamets and away team came face-to-contorted-face with former crew. The Glenn had had a jump scare all of its own, hitting a "Hawking radiation firewall" as it exited the mycelial plane. "Helical torsion" will come as a shock to anyone! In the episode Context Is for Kings, there was enough body horror to fill at least half a Cronenberg film.

Now, when a Klingon tells you to shush, you should probably shush. If only his own advice had worked for him! Suddenly, he was ripped backwards by an animal then unknown. The end of his warrior days was nearly the end of our respiration. No time to be tardy, however. There's a giant tardigrade on the loose. Context can wait. Universal law is for the light-footed.

Little wonder the creature was on edge. It had been hooked up to the spore drive on the Glenn and would be again on the Discovery. Bound by the mirror madman, the scariest thing was how many jumps it took for (some of) the crew to acknowledge the tardigrade's pain. To do something about it. Monsters exist. This one wasn't called 'Ripper'.