Damn you, "Visitor"!
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I can almost watch any DS9 ep willy nilly, except for The Visitor. Gotta be in the right mood.
Since my dad is gone I always hug my not so little boy and we just sit down and talk-which is the way it should be all the time
Watched the Visitor again recently on DVD, having not seen it in years. A really great episode, one of the finest of DS9, and of any Star Trek series. A real tearjerker up there with 'City On the Edge...' and 'The Inner Light'.
I think a Voyager episode nearly made me cry once... I need to start the cement diet.
Yeah, the Visitor gets me every time I watch it...
Yeah, the Visitor gets me every time I watch it...
Hell, just about EVERY Voyager episode makes me want to cry.
You're not the only one who tears up with "The Visitor." Along with the death of Spock in Wrath of Khan, I love to watch them, but I have yet to avoid some serious mistiness with those two Trek episodes.
It just shows what a great series DS9 was ... and is!
The thing that gets me most is Jake's response time and again as he gets his father back for a few minutes only to lose him again. The actor playing the older Jake really sold it, but the younger Jake is the one I really felt for.
I find it hard to believe that guy was the same one who was such an idiot in "Shattered Mirror."
I find it hard to believe that guy was the same one who was such an idiot in "Shattered Mirror."
Tony Todd? I don't think he was in 'Shattered Mirror'. (I know I probably shouldn't use my first post on the Trek BBS to question a regular, but there it is. Hello!)
And to the OP, absolutely. The only other episode of DS9 move me as emotionally as 'Visitor' is 'AR-558', except no tears there.
I'm a huge DS9 fan and I'm actually in the middle of one of my complete series marathons. Season 4 should be coming up sometime next week.
I remember crying the first time I saw all three episodes... I still get teary eyed, even though I've seen them all many times now.
I'm not sure about Shattered Mirror, but he DID play Worf's brother Kurn.
The Visitor is one of those episodes I put on my Parthenon as "best ever." It's a small list (All Good Things is on there too) but it's shows or TV instances that are so special, so timeless, and so emotional that I am impacted every time I see them. The Visitor is an episode that makes me cry every time. It's not only DS9's best hour, but it might be Star Trek's best hour.
"The Visitor" would be my second favorite episode with Tony Todd in it. My favorite is the episode of TNG where Kurn killed Wesley.
Ah, no. I mean the character Jake, as a kid.
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