Moments that Made You Emotional

I’m a little bit of a cry baby when it comes to some Star Trek, so I thought I’d start this thread.

What are some moments that made you emotional?

For me, number one is in TNG - The Offspring when Lal dies. That was hard for me to get through. I felt for Data, he’s longed for companionship so badly, especially for someone who could understand him as an Android.

Number two is similar. DS9 - The Begotten. Odo really wanted a child as well, and it died. He had so much he wanted to teach it. So freaking sad.

Both episodes, tears...every time!

 

^The Offspring is a very moving episode, especially when Lal thanks Data for her life, and then dies.

I find the scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan when David tells Kirk that he is proud to be his son very touching. Kirk is emotionally exhausted but he is clearly moved by his estranged son's tenderness toward him and Shatner plays the scene so beautifully.

I find the climax of Who Watches The Watchers(TNG)oddly moving. By the end of the episode Picard is willing to take an arrow in the chest to uphold the Prime Directive. Liko shoots him and realizes he has (apparently) killed not The Picard but a flesh and blood man like himself, and he starts weeping.

In the TOS episode, The Menagerie, Spock's behavior to help his former Captain, Christopher Pike, by risking a court martial to return Pike to Talos 4, makes me emotional, in particular the scene where Spock pleads with Kirk and says, "Don't stop me. Don't let him stop me. It's your career and Captain Pike's life."

 

I’ve several.

• Spock’s death
• “Jim. Your name... is Jim.”
• “James T. Kirk, it is the judgement of this council that you be reduced in rank to captain and that as a consequence of your new rank, you be given the duty for which you have repeatedly demonstrated unswerving ability: the command of a starship.”
• The ovation for Kirk (and the rest of the Enterprise crew) at Khitomer in TUC
• The conversation between Picard and the Romulan Commander in “The Chase”
• “The Visitor”
• The “memories” montage in “What You Leave Behind...”
• Voyager making contact with Starfleet in “Pathfinder”

 

I remember one afternoon I had decided to watch STIII:TSFS again, and as I was sitting there watching the opening credits, the music got to me and I started to weep. It just caught me in the right mood that day.

 

“Sarek”, when Picard is melded with the ambassador.

 

The Quickening, the moment Bashir shows her that her baby is healthy and that’s the last thing she sees before she dies.

 

Yes this too. Definitely gets me every time.

 

That whole episode gets me emotional. All of those people who died and the fact that the only hope they end up having is their next generation. They accept their own fate so joyfully, just knowing that their people will live on.

 

Lal's death is pretty heart-wrenching. Spock's even more so. Kirk's Eulogy is up there too

As weak as a lot of Generations is, including the choice to kill off Picard's faimly, Stewart playing Picard's grief over Robert & Rene gets you right in the feels. Jesus, that man can drama

I gotta tell you, hats off to Star Trek Beyond, for the post-mortem Spock homage, with the whole crew photo. That's a good moment right there

 

The opening of the 2009 movie, with George Kirk sacrificing his life even as his infant son draws breath, has been known to get me misty-eyed.

And, yeah, the episode with Lal is a heart-breaker.

See also Spock leaving Zarabeth at the end of "All Our Yesterdays."

 

I don’t know how I forgot about this one. Literally the first Star Trek scene I ever saw, I definitely cried through that.

 

The death of Lal
DS9 the Quickening, the visitor and the memories montage at the end of DS9
the sacrifice of George Kirk in Star Trek 11
And ofcourse the end of the beautiful Enterprise D

 

“René, come here”

 

The moment Voyager returns to the AQ and Janeway is welcomed back by Admiral Paris and Reg Barclay. I have seen Endgame very, very often. Each time I'm close to tears.

 

The combination of James Horner's sublime score and Shatner's broken voice.... Gets me every time...


I always loved how they kept that tone for the opening of ST3 also.

The death of Lal is also the most heart-breaking moment in all of TNG (and I'm not even that big a fan). Arguably TV Trek.

Two of my favourite romantic/emotional Trek episodes are: DS9's Children Of Time and TOS Return To Tomorrow

 

Admiral Forrest's death in ENT.

Not only is Vaughn Armstrong my favorite actor of all time, but Forrest himself reminds me of my own father. So watching Forrest die, was almost like...well, you know.



And the interesting part is, Forrest's mirror counterpart dies pretty much the same way that the regular version does - sacrificing himself so that others can survive. In the Mirror Universe, that's almost unheard of!

(about a minute and a half in)



A runner-up would be when Admiral Owen Paris contacts Voyager in "Pathfinder":



"Tell him...tell him I miss him. And I'm proud of him."

 

TWOK: The moment when Kirk says: "... human"

I don't know why but it gets me every time!

 

The last scene of the TNG episode "Family";

"Let him dream."

Later events make the poignancy that much more heartbreaking.

 

The Visitor is quite emotional, too. And I love this episode with all of my heart. The reason I don't feal emotional with Lal is that I know what the writers had in store for her in the novels, even if it is non-canon. The novels are a kind of consolation for me.