Best TREK tear jerker moment

[exodus]

I don't remember "Remember".

 

[Mistral]

The Visitor and the Inner Light respectively almost always get to me, depending on the mood I'm in at the time. That's probably why they're two of my absolute favorites of any series. I would give honorable mention to Wrath Of Kahn. I remember when my grandmother took me to see it when I was a kid, she was definitely misty eyed when Spock died; And I don't think she ever watched the original show. I guess it was just a very well done scene about a man losing his life long friend. I'm going to stop typing now, I think I have something in my eye.

I have to agree here. I have The Visitor and the Inner Light and I struggle to get through each dry-eyed. Everytime I hear 'Amazing Grace' I hear bagpipes in the background thanks to TWOK. And 'Lower Decks' just pulls me apart when they invite Worf to sit with them. Its hard to emote when you are a stoic Klingon warrior in 14 lbs of makeup but Dorn pulls it off there.
The death scene in 'Reel Life' is hard-hitting as it the scene of T'Pol packing Trip's things up for his parents.

 

[Warp Coil]

I don't know why, but a lot of Trek's "emotional" scenes always come up short for me. They could be touching or sad, but they typically don't get me too worked up.

I will say that Spock's death/funeral in TWOK and the goodbyes in DS9's "What You Leave Behind" can get me going...

 

[HRHTheKING]

"The Visitor"


If that episode doesn't inspire tears of sadness for old Jake, you have no heart and are probably evil.

 

[Warp Coil]

"The Visitor"


If that episode doesn't inspire tears of sadness for old Jake, you have no heart and are probably evil.

Call me heartless and evil. I find "The Visitor" to be one of the most over-hyped Trek episodes.

 

[Chris3123]

Inner Light: Picard playing the flute at the end.

Same here. The only Trek moment to truly bring me close to tears.

 

[KiraDax]

For me:

TOS: Spock's death scene in The Wrath of Khan
TNG: Troi losing her 'son' in The Child
DS9: Old Jake sacrificing himself and dying in his father's arms in The Visitor
VOY: Seven's 'Papa?' when the Borg Queen shows her an assimilated Magnus Hansen in Dark Frontier
Ent: Trip and T'Pol grieving for Elizabeth in their final scene of Terra Prime

I'm just a sucker for the family moments.

 

[EnsignRicky]

I'll never get why some people go into cynic mode whenever they feel something is "overhyped". Like it or hate it, there's usually a very good reason for why it's often referenced.

 

[STIntergalactic]

The only time Star Trek has literally brought me to tears was at the end of VOY's "Course:Oblivion". When Voyager gets to the site of the mimetic-Voyager's destruction, and you realize that the entire mimetic-crew died...tears, so very very sad.

 

[Salinga]

For me it is the final scene of TNG, when Picard looks around the poker table at his friends and calls for a game where the sky is the limit.

 

[HRHTheKING]

"The Visitor"


If that episode doesn't inspire tears of sadness for old Jake, you have no heart and are probably evil.

Call me heartless and evil. I find "The Visitor" to be one of the most over-hyped Trek episodes.

Yep.

Definitely evil.

 

[gblews]

Old Jake's death.

Trip and T'Pol's child's death.

The TNG episode where Worf breaks his back and has his spine replaced. That scene at the end when Worf tells them that his son will help him actaully brought me to tears the first few times I saw it.

 

[Red Ranger]

People,

All the best have been mentioned, esp. "The Visitor." I cry like a baby at that one, almost as much as I wept during "The Color Purple."

Here's one that hasn't been mentioned: K'Ehylar's death scene in "Reunion." Not a standard tear-jerker, but sad nonetheless.

Red Ranger

 

[AxelFoley]

Spock's death scene for sure, no other scene has gotten to me in that way. Ever.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I'm heartless, so nothing gets to me. Not Spock's death, not The Visitor, not little Elizabeth Tucker.

The ONE AND ONLY time Star Trek has ever made me cry, even just a little: the final pullback from DS9 at the end of WLYB. Because I knew there woudn't be another TV show like that one soon, if ever.