10 Biggest Jump Scares In Star Trek

7. There's A Borg Behind You

39.1 degrees Celsius. That is definitely on the warm side! And don't get us started on the humidity! No time for Geordi and alpha team to tinker with the thermostat. They've got a rendezvous with history, and a chinwag with Cochrane to attend. That does mean poor Lieutenant Paul Porter will have to be the first (of several) jump scares in Star Trek: First Contact.

Crawling alone along a Jefferies tube? What could possibly be frightening about that? All we saw was the rising shadow of an unmistakable Borg arm. All we heard was the swelling of a musical note before Porter's screams. The story of the flowing of nanoprobes told off screen by director Jonathan Frakes made our blood curdle.

The Borg, Frakes, and the script, then doubled down immediately with a second assimilation. Lieutenant Eiger headed in after her colleague, only to pop her head up and round, direct to camera. We got whirs and clicks. Eiger got a cortical node. Faced with the horror of the cybernetic, her chilling scream reverberated all the way down to Captain Picard on Earth, and probably back to the 24th century. If that didn't make you jump, perhaps Doctor Crusher's personal jump scare in sickbay did.