The all-time moment for me is in "Timeless" where Garrett Wang acts his socks off, rather unexpectedly but brilliantly, in two admittedly key scenes. The first being when he's despondent and the EMH has to snap him out of it, and the other - which is one single word, that of "YES!!!!!!!", is so incredibly well done. It's "little" in terms of 24th century human beings often being so stoic, and here's an episode - from season 5, no less - that dares show a little humanity. It would have been easy to stick to the usual 24th century shtick, but they didn't. It's technically little and yet it's very big. Especially in a show where they don't show such emotion in so many episodes where it'd be perfectly human to do so. As with Ronald D Moore's idea of VOY being more and more dystopia, and episodes like "Worst Case Scenario", it's these one off scenes that show the potential of what VOY could have been.
And yet VOY still tries to take the TOS approach in terms of no arcs, just recurring villains, music that sometimes mimics TOS' style (e.g. "Scorpion"), and just tries to be a "90s revamp of TOS's style" whereas TNG became its own style (after a year of mimicking TOS at times) as much as DS9 had.
“YES!!!!!”
Should have been the title of the episode.
I had two waves of goosebumps there. That only happens when something is very, very good.
Despite the time travel anti science of a signal from the future traveling into the past.
Voyager, led by Chakotay and Harry in the Flyer, and trying to use slipstream technology to get to the AQ, receives an errant command from Harry. Voyager falls out of slipstream and crashes into an ice planet, and they all die.
15 years later, Harry and Chakotay find the planet and corpses. They take Borg tech from Seven’s body, and the EMH mobile emitter, and get back to the Flyer, and using a stolen Borg temporal device hooked up to Seven’s tech, attempt to send the correct command at the right time, but that fails. The EMH convinces Harry to try a different approach.
Time Cop Geordi LaForge on Challenger has to stop them. He fires. The Flyers’ warp core nears breach.
Harry’s task is to send command changes to Seven in the past via her cranial implant which would collapse the slipstream and keep Voyager from entering. At the last second before the core breach, he does, and screams “YES!!!!!!!” as the Flyer explodes, and it’s freakin GLORIOUS. He’s climaxing. Goosebump City.
It’s my favorite Harry scene.
In the past, Seven gets the new command, and it works just like it’s supposed to, and the ship is saved.
Fantasy Science. Sometimes, it works.