This is such a brilliant episode. So sad, so moving. Such great performances. This episode makes me cry every time I see it, its crazy.
I am a grown man and "The Visitor"makes me cry everytime.
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Same, I wept terribly. It's right up there with TNG Inner Light for tear inducing Trek.
Yes, despite the contrived science fiction premise, it really, really works on a human level.
The episode's only flaw is too much technobabble. But pretty much every post-TOS episode has that problem so I don't know if one can complain about that.
Agreed.
I'm pretty good right up to the part where Ben says to Jake "My sweet boy." and then a little moisture occurs at the corner of my eye.
Same for me. Love that episode.
I believe that if grown men were not meant to cry they would not have tear ducts, so cry on.
I was bored to tears, I'm sorry but I didn't like it at all.
Edit: I didn't actually cry but I was incredibly bored watching it.
Edit: I didn't actually cry but I was incredibly bored watching it.
Actually, it's better than "The Inner Light". And no I didn't cry at it. I'm just not a cryer.
The Visitor has never made me cry. It's a great episode, yes, but I've never cried over it.
I can't quite agree there, although I do see how anyone could prefer The Vistior. Both definitely made me cry (when it comes to TV/movies, I am a crier, even if not so much in 'real life'). Probably The Inner Light made me cry more. They are similar episodes in a lot of ways but both show Star Trek at its most powerful on a very human level, using high-concept sci fi to explore deep, shattering emotional ideas with the characters.
Well that's DS9 for you: greatly written, well acted, superbly presented.
Trek at it's very best.
Trek at it's very best.
Agree. Nothing to be ashamed of in being moved to tears by art. Several Trek episodes and two of the films have made me cry.
Whoever says "real men don't cry" hasn't met a real man, they've met sociopaths.
To me it was s pretty boring episode.
And if I recall correctly the old man makeup was pretty bad.
Why not just have an actual old person do old person parts?
Meh.......
And if I recall correctly the old man makeup was pretty bad.
Why not just have an actual old person do old person parts?
Meh.......
This episode makes me cry every single time. It aired a few nights ago on Heroes & Icons channel. I watched it, and I cried now just as I did when it first aired in 1995. I'll be 38 next month.
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