10 Times Scotty Saved The Day In Star Trek

10. Detonating The Warp Core To Escape A Black Hole

At the climax of JJ Abrams' take on Star Trek, the Enterprise, as it so often does, finds itself in the kind of peril that only genius thinking will let it escape. They are caught in the gravity well of a black hole, with the engines burning at full warp. The strength of the hole is pulling them backward so hard that the bridge itself begins to crack under the strain.

Kirk calls out to Scotty, pleading with him to please save all of their lives. The beleagured engineer (having only joined the crew several hours before!) rushes to the warp core and, in a moment of brilliance, ejects the componants out into space.

While the result of this sees the Enterprise drop immediately out of warp, it does give him the time to detonate those components in the Black Hole. The resulting explosion is easily the biggest anti-matter detonation ever witnessed in Star Trek, with the shockwave throwing the ship clear of the danger.

Now, the only thing to worry about is that black hole floating out in space, not too far from the Sol System...