10 Most Trippy Star Trek Scenes

10. Down The Wormhole Dude!

Back in 1979 the sight of the Enterprise in spacedock was a moment of pure joy.

Skip forward six hours into the film and finally she had something to do - go to warp to save Earth. However rather than flash off into the depths of the galaxy, an issue with the drive sends the iconic starship into a wormhole.

Now this was a good few years before TNG and DS9 really took wormholes to a whole new level with this one created by the ship itself. As the Enterprise increases acceleration everything starts to go a bit stretchy. Externally it's a cool visual effect that seems to suggest the starship is heading into the opening credits of a Bond film while on the bridge the crew are all slowing down in speech and motion.

That and the suspension seems to have gone with the crew bumping up and down. But lo! There's a meteor in their way which will destroy the Enterprise and all aboard!

Time for Kirk to order firing the phasers, only for Commander Decker to belay the order at a snail's pace while characters blur and constants of time become all sorts of crazy. Cue Chekov firing torpeeeeeeedoooooooes and saving the day. At least Decker knows this new ship inside and out!