Ever had a "There's something in my eye" moment with Trek Lit?

[ronny]

i'm sure this isn't what you had in mind but i had tears in my eyes while reading Red Sector.

 

[elaithin]

Ever have any similar moments with Trek Lit?

The funeral of Thriss, Shar's Andorian bondmate (in "Andor: Paradigm", WoDS9, Book 1). I was playing "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" movie soundtrack while reading, and the final song by Annie Lennox, "Into the West", kicked in just as the funeral procession started. I was a blubbering mess.

After I reviewed the book, author Heather Jarman told me she played sad "The Two Towers" music while writing/editing it! I felt like I was somehow channeling her writing process.

I had an almost identical experience, actually, listening to the same music and everything.

 

[Wowbagger]

I haven't cried at a piece of literature--filmed, written, whatever--in a long, long time. But the closing chapters of Unity brought me to the brink.

There may have been others, particularly in SNW. I don't know; I'd have to check.

 

[Sci]

Most of David Mack's Wildfire has "something in my eye" moments. In particular, the scene where the fireman's axe that had been used in 9/11, with its inscription, has always stayed with me. Some may criticize that as a gratuitous link to 9/11 and current events, but I found the thematic link that it pointed out -- bravery in the face of nearly inevitable death -- to be thoroughly relevant and moving. The deaths of numerous characters, including Duffy, were also quite moving.

More recently, the destruction of the human colony by the Shedai in Reap the Whirlwind -- also by David Mack -- has stayed with me. That image of society just collapsing around the president, of literally everyone, adult, child, male, female, civilian, government, just dying, and of the colony's president, Reyes' ex-wife, staring into the camera just asking why Reyes didn't warn her.... It was incredibly poignant. As was a follow-up scene where Reyes, musing on his decision to commit a court-martial offense, asks, "How many more lives are we going to sacrifice on the alter of national security?"

I ask myself that question a lot when it comes to US policy in real life.

 

[Therin of Andor]

The first time Spock goes back in time in "The Entropy Effect", but actually fails by mere seconds to prevent Kirk getting killed again, made me shout "Oh no!" in a crowded peak-hour train.

The wistful scene at the end of "New Frontier: Stone and Anvil", with Ensign Janos frolicking with a herd of non-sentient Mugato an planet Neural, where the human population we met in "A Private Little War" has fallen into extinction, is wonderful! It had me sniffling, both when hearing the audio, and again reading the hardcover - (I usually read the books first).

 

[Rosalind]

On quite a few occasions, most recently reading DRG3's Crucible: McCoy, I was trying very hard to not cry since I was reading in a hotel lobby, but the tears just came down during the last few chapters.

 

[BrotherBenny]

You're probably right; Xeris misquoted the line. In Oriana's internal monologue, she thinks, You're not getting away, you faccia di stronzo!

That's what I get for quoting from memory.

I was close though.

 

[KRAD]

In particular, the scene where the fireman's axe that had been used in 9/11, with its inscription, has always stayed with me. Some may criticize that as a gratuitous link to 9/11 and current events, but I found the thematic link that it pointed out -- bravery in the face of nearly inevitable death -- to be thoroughly relevant and moving.

The axe was actually first introduced in Oaths by Glenn Hauman more than half-a-dozen eBooks prior to Wildfire, though yes, Dave made excellent use of it here, as did Terri Osborne in Malefictorum.

 

[Smiley]

The one that sticks in my mind the most is the final chapter of Interphase. After decades of being lost, the Defiant gets a triumphant homecoming to the Sol system.

 

[BrotherBenny]

The one that sticks in my mind the most is the final chapter of Interphase. After decades of being lost, the Defiant gets a triumphant homecoming to the Sol system.

Yeah, I'll second that, and coming home under its own power as well.

The SCE eBooks seem to have a good number of these moments, perhaps more than the other books. A testimony to the series.

 

[Baerbel Haddrell]

There is a flashback scene in New Frontier: Restoration that touched me so much that it made me cry – when Shelby was listening to her personal log entry, the one in which she described what happened during the last five minutes before the Excalibur blew up.

Wildfire didn`t quite achieve that but it is definitely the most shocking book among the more recent Star Trek books.

 

[JAG]

The death of Lady Amanda, and probably the death of Duffy.

 

[Amy Sisson]

The last line of Kim Sheard's story "Ninety-Three Hours" in SNW III. Anyone who's a Dax fan really needs to read this one.

 

[Mistral]

Several of the SNW stories got to me but the one that bugged me most was Strangers From The Sky-in the epilogue the character Yoshi goes to spend the rest of his days on Vulcan-but he can't remember why he felt compelled to do so. Always gets me, what can I say?

 

[Dayton Ward]

The one that sticks in my mind the most is the final chapter of Interphase. After decades of being lost, the Defiant gets a triumphant homecoming to the Sol system.

Yeah, I'll second that, and coming home under its own power as well.

The SCE eBooks seem to have a good number of these moments, perhaps more than the other books. A testimony to the series.

Thanks! For the record, I totally cribbed that notion from the novel Raise the Titanic!

 

[Sci]

The one that sticks in my mind the most is the final chapter of Interphase. After decades of being lost, the Defiant gets a triumphant homecoming to the Sol system.

Yeah, I'll second that, and coming home under its own power as well.

The SCE eBooks seem to have a good number of these moments, perhaps more than the other books. A testimony to the series.

Thanks! For the record, I totally cribbed that notion from the novel Raise the Titanic!

Really? How could the Titanic come in under its own power when it was broken in half during the sinking?

 

[Christopher]

Thanks! For the record, I totally cribbed that notion from the novel Raise the Titanic!

Really? How could the Titanic come in under its own power when it was broken in half during the sinking?

Because Raise the Titanic was written before Robert Ballard discovered the remains of the Titanic in 1986 and learned that it had broken in half. Before then, it was generally assumed that it had gone down in one piece.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Yeah, I'll second that, and coming home under its own power as well.

The SCE eBooks seem to have a good number of these moments, perhaps more than the other books. A testimony to the series.

Thanks! For the record, I totally cribbed that notion from the novel Raise the Titanic!

Really? How could the Titanic come in under its own power when it was broken in half during the sinking?

I believe Dayton is referring to Clive Cussler's novel (which also features and ageing James Bond as well). I don't remember much about that novel (tried to block it out) but in that version of events, I don't think it broke up. It sank in one piece, IIRC.

 

[Sci]

Thanks! For the record, I totally cribbed that notion from the novel Raise the Titanic!

Really? How could the Titanic come in under its own power when it was broken in half during the sinking?

Because Raise the Titanic was written before Robert Ballard discovered the remains of the Titanic in 1986 and learned that it had broken in half. Before then, it was generally assumed that it had gone down in one piece.

Huh. I'm kind of surprised about that -- I would have thought that the eyewitnesses who survived the sinking would have reported it breaking in half.

 

[JoeZhang]

Cry is too strong a word but I think Wildfire is one of the more moving trek tales. I know that everyone goes on about the Duffy bits but I thought that the bit where the Engineers all die in a perfunctory manner is very effective - no big speeches or symbolism, just an instant decision and a quiet moment of heroism.