Have any episodes made you cry?

[Methuselah Flint]

Have any episodes made you cry or shed a tear?

The obvious COEOF when Edith dies is one for me with Kirk’s awful reaction to the tragedy.

Flint pleading Rayna to stay.

Kirk pleading the Vians' for mercy at the very end.

The moment Miramanee dies with the sweetener.

What about you guys?

 

[Spock's Barber]

Well, maybe not in the context that you are thinking, but every time ATCSL is on I want to cry just from the agony of watching one of TOS worst episodes.

 

[1001001]

Several.

And not in a good way.

 

[sekundant]

As a child, each time when I thought Spock would die (says mother). Then I have to promise not do it again to watch the next episode.
I actually remember at "Yesteryear" as Spock decided to end the suffering of I-Chaya..

 

[Qonundrum]

The only two I tend to remember are:

"Paradise Syndrome" does all the time. Unborn child and mother are stoned to death viciously. That's brutal for 1968 television, or television in general. Or most movies. But "Planet of the Apes" and its first two sequels were G-rated despite a lot of brutal dark concepts in motion too.

Spock doing the "forget grip" on Kirk at the end of "Requiem for Methuselah" as well as Flint and Kirk fighting over a hawt... robot. Which is actually an impressive feat, to get the audience to shed emotion over that - the acting was stellar...

 

[ZapBrannigan]

I'm sure I welled up a little as a kid, when Miramanee died. Forty-five years later, the one I find most moving is "Metamorphosis." I suppose they're like bookends: finding love and losing it, versus never having loved and then finding it.

 

[Henoch]

I find the ending of What Are Little Girls Made Of? was sad. Roger-bot and Andrea-bot disintegrate together in front of Chapel was hard.

 

[Spock's Barber]

I find the ending of What Are Little Girls Made Of? was sad. Roger-bot and Andrea-bot disintegrate together in front of Chapel was hard.

To this day, I still can’t tell who pressed the phaser trigger...Dr. Korby or Andrea.

 

[Henoch]

To this day, I still can’t tell who pressed the phaser trigger...Dr. Korby or Andrea.

I think it was Korby's thumb on top of Andrea's thumb, so, he did it, but technically you could say they did it together.

 

[uniderth]

When I was about eight and watched "The Doomsday Machine" for the first time I cried when I thought Kirk would die on the Constellation.

 

[Spectre Of The Fun]

Have any episodes made you cry or shed a tear?

The obvious COEOF when Edith dies is one for me with Kirk’s awful reaction to the tragedy.

Flint pleading Rayna to stay.

Kirk pleading the Vians' for mercy at the very end.

The moment Miramanee dies with the sweetener.

What about you guys?

Those are great examples and powerful moments. However...

I'm sure I welled up a little as a kid, when Miramanee died. Forty-five years later, the one I find most moving is "Metamorphosis." I suppose they're like bookends: finding love and losing it, versus never having loved and then finding it.

...I'll admit the one that has gotten me is "Metamorphosis" for exactly the way ZapBrannigan has put it.

 

[Maurice]

Nope.

 

[Kerock]

When Spock has to leave Zarabeth behind in "All our Yesterdays"

 

[Winterwind]

None. Not once.

Spock's death in TWOK and the service afterwards, yes. And even though I've seen it many times and know he's back in the next movie it was still so well done it gets to me. But none of the episodes ever did.

 

[T'Bonz]

^ Same here. It's why I don't watch WOK any more.

 

[Vger23]

The end of Paradise Syndrome gets me now that I'm older and a bit more empathetic than I was when I was younger.

In Wrath of Khan, I tear up now at David telling Kirk "I'm very proud to be your son," probably because I'm a dad of two boys I love very much, and because I know the tragedy that will occur in the next film.

I'll have to think if there are others. I bet there are.

 

[Phaser Two]

I actually find the saddest moment in Star Trek to be Spock's last line in TSOP, about being happy. The transformed monster crying over his bike in Miri is also very sad.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Where No Man Has Gone Before - Gary Mitchell's best friend shoots him in the chest with a phaser rifle, tries to beat the snot out of him with a rock and then entombs him under a boulder. Very sad.

 

[johnnybear]

This Side of Paradise because I liked what the colonists had there with the effects of the Spores and Spock too was happy in love and Kirk destroyed it!!! Because he thought it was wrong!!! The Spores were not parasites as such or using the people as slaves but giving them peace and contentment!
The Paradise Syndrome for the peaceful life Kirk himself has with the beautiful Miramanee, who is sadly killed by the villagers belief that Kirok is not the one!! All Our Yesterdays as well for Spock's loss of Zarabeth on ancient Sarpeidon even though he probably would have died because of not being prepared! Other sad episodes include City On The Edge of Forever for Kirk losing Edith to save the world!

 

[johnnybear]

And even though it was just a cartoon, Yesteryear was very sad for the death of L'Chaya at the claws of the Godzilla sounding monster on Vulcan!
JB