Did you ever cry watching Star Trek?

[Infern0]

I will admit it, as a grown man, this caught me off guard, i never expected to CRY over a TV show, but Similitude, it got me....

The scene when Sim is stroking Porthos, waiting to go off to die, i blubbered like a baby.

How about you, ever cried watching Star Trek?

 

[Christopher]

Tasha Yar's death scene in "Skin of Evil." Gets me every time. Too often, TV death scenes are just a doctor looking at a patient for two seconds and saying "He's dead, Jim" or the equivalent. This time, they treated it more realistically, showed the heroic efforts that medical personnel would really go to in the attempt to save a life, and that made it so much more potent. Ron Jones's impassioned music for the scene made it even more powerful and devastating. My eyes are getting moist just thinking about that music.

 

[BillJ]

I will admit it, as a grown man, this caught me off guard, i never expected to CRY over a TV show, but Similitude, it got me....

The scene when Sim is stroking Porthos, waiting to go off to die, i blubbered like a baby.

How about you, ever cried watching Star Trek?

No. But my wife tells me I have no soul.

 

[RandyS]

No, but I'm not as cryer by nature anyway.

 

[SchwEnt]

I don't cry about it.
But the Enterprise drydock scene in TMP still gets me to this day.

I know kids today bitch about that scene... it's too long, nothing is happening, does it ever end!!??

Maybe you have to be an old fart like me to understand what that scene means, and it's not even the context of the film.

That scene was as much for the fans as it was for Kirk.
It was the first time in a decade we'd seen the ship. Yeah we had reruns, but without computers and interweb and VCRs, it was different.

We hadn't seen the Enterprise (note: THE Enterprise. There was only the one in our Star Trek). And we'd surely never seen it like this, on the big screen, and with that amazing model work and photography.

On top of all that, you add Goldsmith's score and OMG what a moment.

You see, at the time, there was nothing in Star Trek we could compare it to. That scene was a huge first time for fans, and everything about it was just perfect.

Maybe you had to be there, maybe you need the context, maybe you had to understand what is was like at the time, what it meant to the fans.

I don't cry about it, but that scene and that music gives me emotional pause time.

 

[Christopher]

^Right. I will never understand how anyone can think that having five minutes to listen to Jerry Goldsmith's music unencumbered by plot and dialogue can possibly be boring. Not to mention that the visuals in both sequences were stunningly beautiful. If people are willing to watch music videos, why would they be bothered by this?

(In fact, when I saw Robert Wise's film of West Side Story, I was struck by its similarity to TMP, in that both films relied heavily on lengthy, dialogue-free passages focused on imagery and music. And West Side Story is considered classic cinema.)

 

[C.E. Evans]

I've never cried while watching Trek. I've cheered, booed, laughed, cringed, and even been saddened, but never to the point of tears.

 

[BillJ]

...cringed...

Oh, I've cringed quite a bit over the years.

 

[ALF]

I tear up like clockwork at TNG's The Offspring... at the end. Every time. I haven't cried in years (I think I forget how) but this episode always kills me. It's the scene at the end where Data is saying good bye to Lal and she thanks him.

It's a testament to the reality that the cast of TNG brought to those characters, you know?

 

[NebulaClassGuy]

The one time I've cried... and I mean REALLY cried during a Trek episode was when watching the DS9 episode "The Visitor". That episode is just so emotional, and tells such a genuine story about something as simple yet as powerful as a son's love for his father, that it just gets me every time. I always say that IMO, this single episode is the finest example of what Trek is capable of.

 

[1001001]

Sure I have.

The Visitor
The Offspring
Real Life
Drone
Similitude

I'm just a big ol' baby!

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I almost cried when DS9 ended.

...cringed...

Oh, I've cringed quite a bit over the years.

After DS9 ended, cringing was my dominant emotional state when watching Trek. If I'd known how bad I would get, I'd have definitely cried.

 

[NebulaClassGuy]

After DS9 ended, cringing was my dominant emotional state when watching Trek. If I'd known how bad I would get, I'd have definitely cried.

Word.

 

[J.T.B.]

I have to admit, yes, when I was 12. Like George Costanza said: That was a hell of a thing, when Spock died.

 

[Peter Q Taggart]

"The Survivors" when Kevin tells the story of what happened to Rishon and his response.

 

[Orac]

The Offspring made me cry too.

 

[NebulaClassGuy]

"The Survivors" when Kevin tells the story of what happened to Rishon and his response.

That was so powerful because it was also real. The actor, John Anderson, had just lost his own wife shortly before appearing in that episode, so he was channeling genuine emotions during that scene.

 

[JiNX-01]

Bearing in mind that I'm a total softy...

Similitude: I tear up when Sim tells Phlox he was a good father.

The Offspring: Data's farewell to Lal.

TWOK: Spock's death.

What You Leave Behind: The montage of scenes from the series, especially those depicting friendship.

The Inner Light: Final scene as Picard clutches the flute and then begins to play a dirge for the people he loved.

This Ain't The Valentine: Bitter tears of anger and disappointment.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I did.

 

[SecretlyMrsKirk]

I've cried quite a few of them actually haha. Yep. I'm a crier :P




TOS - "The City on the Edge of Forever": OK, I didn't physically cry at this one, but felt incredibly moved. I was close to tears. "He knows, Doctor. He knows." *shuddering sigh*

TOS - "The Paradise Syndrome": I sobbed and blubbered like a baby at the end. I think I cried on/off for the next few hours after.

TNG - "Half a Life": Shed one tear at this one. Just one. *loves David Odgen Stiers 4eva*

TNG - "The Offspring": Sobbed like crazy throughout the entire episode.

The Motion Picture: Kirk and Spock holding hands..."This simple feeling is beyond V'ger's comprehension." IT'S SO ROMANTIC!!!

The Wrath of Khan: No need to mention WHY this one made me cry.

The Undiscovered Country: Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Make fun of me. I don't like this film too much (to me it's kinda meh) but Kirk's speech at the end made me tear up. It's the last TOS movie ever!!! The scene in which McCoy tells Kirk to leave him in the snow was also very moving.

Generations: Kirk died. Who WOULDN'T cry at that?

First Contact: OK, OK, let me explain this one. I cried out of pure and utter fear. I was terrified the whole time and it affected me quite a bit for several days.


Star Trek (2009): Kirk's dad dying on the day he was friggin' born, Spock's mum dying, the scene between nu!Spock & Spock Prime, little Spock getting bullied, Vulcan blowing up...Why I didn't commit suicide, I have no idea.