Favorite acting moment in Trek

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

1) Picard telling Dathon about the Gilgamesh tale

2.) Kirk and Spock, as Spock is dying

3) Kirks fall at the news of David's death

4) Trip breaks down and says he envies Vulcan's abilities to repress emotion

5) It's not linear...

 

[Dale]

"Don't you think I know that?! There was! But not anymore!"

 

[Nardpuncher]

Picard telling Troi about his brother and nephew in Generations.

 

[Kadratis]

Very good moments mentioned already, but I've gotta give these two a mention: 1) The interaction between Tony Todd and Brooks in The Visitor, and 2) the end of Tuvix as played by Tom Wright and Mulgrew after Janeway makes her final decision.

 

[JiNX-01]

There are a lot for me. Here are a few.

Dramatic:

Sim asking T'Pol if there was ever anything between her and Trip. The direct question cloaked in shyness was a lovely example of the differences between the copy and the original.

Trip breaking down in "The Forgotten."

Archer tearing up as Trip turns away from the decon window in "Observer Effect" and later when he places his hand gently on Trip's chest as he dies.

The final scene in "Terra Prime."

The death of Spock.

Data's non-reaction to the end of his "relationshop" with the woman in "In Theory." Just so damn sad.

"Inner Light," Picard picks up the flute and just holds it, as if he's trying to embrace his family and friends one last time, then goes to the window and plays what always sounds to me like a dirge. Heartbreaking.

On the lighter side:

Trip and Malcom's drunken discussion of T'Pol's bum in "Shuttlepod One."

Scotty explaining to Kirk who and what started the fight in "Tribbles."

Trip ignoring Archer as he scans the captain while Archer reads the prelude ... and the scene right after that when Trip insults Archer's writing.

 

[Kirkman1987]

"Inner Light," Picard picks up the flute and just holds it, as if he's trying to embrace his family and friends one last time, then goes to the window and plays what always sounds to me like a dirge. Heartbreaking.

This one! gets my eyes a little watery every time.

 

[Evil_Kirkneivel]

1) Picard's moving scene (as he deals with Sarek's pain) with Beverly Crusher in the episode 'Sarek'

2) Although not a 'moment', Shatner in movies 2, 3, and 4. With a lot of help from his 'friends', he proved that Trek could string successful movies together.

 

[Sector 7]

Spock's death scene. Has to be the best performance in all of Trek. IMO, Oscar calibur performance. Even people who don't like Star Trek have recognized the level of acting.

Spock's funeral scene. Somehow we got Shat's best performance encapsulated in this scene. (Stewie's version comes in right behind it, from Family Guy.)

"Inner Light," Picard picks up the flute and just holds it, as if he's trying to embrace his family and friends one last time, then goes to the window and plays what always sounds to me like a dirge. Heartbreaking.

This is for me the best scene of TNG. Period. It gets me misty-eyed no matter how many times I see it.

Thanks Jinxed13, for the funny ones, too. My favorite of these is still, Scotty explaining the start of the fight in "Trouble with Tribbles".

 

[Borg451]

The line must be drawn here!

 

[ria 75]

Good choices, Jinxed13. Malcolm Reed about T'Pol's "bum"... Good one. It sticks out of his usually stiff-upper-lip demeanor. Plus the look on his face the second before he's blowing up anything.

My choices... hm... perhaps:
-B'Elanna pleading with Janeway to let her go back to the Barge of the Dead.
-Jake Sisko being possessed by an evil deity.
-Picard realizing he is rejuvenating in Insurrection. (I wish I remembered it better.)
-Any scene of Garak being a total spook.
-The 3 old Klingon hams in DS9. That was fun.
-Odo enduring Kira's confidences about her love life.
(Plus Odo with the changeling baby and with his own father figure.)
-Picard, Data and Worf driving a 4x4 in Nemesis - opposite attitudes.
-Worf testing a Ferengi tooth sharpener.
-Weyoun tasting poison.
-T'Pol finishing to tell her Carbon Creek story and making them doubt it ever happened.
-Dukat being Dukat. Don't you love hating him?
Oops. That's more than 10 already.

Hey, I just realized my post looks like a Christmas tree. Wrong holiday!

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Harris Yulin as Amon Marritza in Duet.

...and even tho this may not be "good" acting precisely, I do love William Windom gnawing on the scenery as Matt Decker in The Doomsday Machine.

 

[Rÿcher]

Me and my Asperger's, I don't get really torn up watching things on TV or in film but if it involves a baby or a child so the one scene at the end of the s.5 episode of Enterprise where Trip and T'Pol are mourning the loss of their "daughter".

That and Picard's rendition of Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk.

 

[Amaris]

Lots and lots of scenes, but there's one that stands out foremost:

In Star Trek V, the scene with McCoy and his father, including Sybok and McCoy's reaction afterward. Beautiful, and I tear up every time.

J.

 

[T'Cal]

Lots and lots of scenes, but there's one that stands out foremost:

In Star Trek V, the scene with McCoy and his father, including Sybok and McCoy's reaction afterward. Beautiful, and I tear up every time.

J.

Perhaps the best moment in that film. Good choice!

I'm with the others who mentioned the final scene of "The Inner Light." Still, Stewart's performances were outstanding in the final scene of "Chain of Command" in which Picard tells Deanna that he thought he saw 5 lights, and in "Sarek" as the elder Vulcan's long-repressed emotions come spewing out of Picard unbidden. I also thoroughly enjoyed his performace in "Lower Decks" at the end when he informs the crew over the comm of Sito Jaxa's death. Very moving.

 

[sbk1234]

Lots of mine have already been mentioned. ONe of my favorites is The Ultimate Computer, where Kirk quotes from the poem, Sea Fever. He talks about the stars still being there, and the ship. This was the moment as a child where I first realized that Trek was about more than ray guns.

Another from TOS, Spock's breakdown in Naked Time, and Kirk's confrontation of him. I loved how even affected by the virus, they both pulled each other out.

 

[kissthestar]

"Inner Light," Picard picks up the flute and just holds it, as if he's trying to embrace his family and friends one last time, then goes to the window and plays what always sounds to me like a dirge. Heartbreaking.

This is the one.

 

[Invader675]

As alot of people have said, the "Inner Light" episode has probably the best acting ever. The speech by Picard to Meribore is one of the best moments in Trek history, you know the one I mean.
Next up on the list for me is any time Sisco is about to kick some ass, he's good for badass lines and believable when he says them! (Way of the warrior is epic!)

 

[Ethros]

The interaction between Tony Todd and Brooks in The Visitor

What I was gonna say, notably the final scene

"Jake, you didn't have to do this. Not for me"
"For you, and for the boy that I was. He needs you. More than you know"

 

[JuanBolio]

There are many - Picard in Darmok, The Inner Light, Generations and Nemesis. All of The Visitor. Multiple scenes in All Good Things. Many, many Spock moments in TOS. I think the winner for me, though has to be:

"You Klingon bastards, you've killed my son!"

 

[Loneknight]

Darmok. I just recently watched this episode, and it never seems to lose the appeal it had when I first saw it years ago.

The Inner Light. 'Nuff said. I cry everytime I watch this episode (my wife and I just got Season 5 of Next Gen. on DVD, and we're coming up to it. I'm going to need tissues for both of us, but for her especially...she's never seen it).