10 Biggest Jump Scares In Star Trek

3. Those Who Wander Are Often Afraid

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has made a great success of its multi-genre, largely episodic, (re-)approach. Its go at horror has provided some of the scariest moments of the franchise. Its revamp of that original Arena foe, though not unanimously adored, has had us bounding every which way out of our seats.

Trek has certainly done gore before. But, with all due respect to Commander Remmick and internal company, Strange New Worlds' take on the Gorn was next-level, chest-buster, terrifying. Following on from Memento Mori, season one's All Those Who Wander was a heart-pounding nod to Alien with an alien that preceded it. Hatchlings hatched aboard the crashed USS Peregrine — sorry, Buckley. All hell broke loose (again). Not even Spock could keep it together.

You can't duke it out with a Gorn. Not with one that does a surprise attack to the neck down yet another Jefferies tube, anyway. Oh, Lieutenant Duke! Promoted one minute, fed-upon the next. Dragged down the corridor screaming, blood spurting, was the last we saw of him before a photo next to Hemmer's.

Skip ahead about a season, and the Gorn were back for Hegemony. Pick almost any moment in that episode, and you're likely to be as afraid as the characters. There was one that made us jump more than most. In the downed shuttle, cut to close-up of the snarling, bloodied face of a youngling Gorn!