“So we were being chased by bad guys through a really explosive gas cloud nebula thing. Weapons were on the fritz and we couldn’t use shields because if the aforementioned nebula. So I ejected the warp core and blew it up, detonating the nebula and the bad guys while we just scraped out in the nick of time”

My god man, that’s actually impressive. How were you planning on getting back to literally anywhere else without a warp core?

“Ah well, I was only the acting captain at the time, so I figured that would be Picard’s problem when he got back…”