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Most Emotional Episode

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The Original Series had "The City on the Edge of Forever", The Next Generation had "The Inner Light", Deep Space Nine had "The Visitor", and Enterprise had "Similitude" - so what did Voyager have like that? What do you think was Voyager's most emotional, touching, heartbreaking, or powerful episode?
 
Off the top of my head, I guess "Real Life" would be pretty emotional--the one with the EMH's virtual family.
 
Coda was pretty sad when Chakotay was trying to save Janeway and Janeway cried at the funeral. :weep:
Homestead was touching it was a heads up that the end was near. Tuvok and Neelix... I can't take this reminiscing any more! :wah:
 
"Lineage"

This may be because I sympathize with B'Elanna and the difficulty of coming from two cultures as well as looking different from the others. I get not wanting my child to go through what I did.
 
I thought "Resistance" with the alien culture's similarity to Pinochet's Chile was pretty emotional.
 
While there wasn't many in Voyager that I remember like that (though I still have to watch the series through entirely) I'd have to say "Jetrel" for the time being.
 
Off the top of my head, I guess "Real Life" would be pretty emotional--the one with the EMH's virtual family.

^^ I totally agree. I am not the biggest fan of Voyager, but on occaision they really got it right; this was one of those times.

Blink of an Eye was another, IMO....but "real life" has the kind of emotional payoff as THE OFFSPRING and THE VISITOR have...

Rob
 
"Resistance" made me cry. So did TNG's "The Offspring".

I skipped the end of "Real Life", 'cause, wow. I just didn't want to see it. Come to think of it, I also skipped a couple of entire episodes from DS9. I'm such a softie.
 
I think Coda was probably one of the most emotional episodes for me. I always tear up when they have Janeway's funeral.

Another episode that I think was really emotional was "Tuvix". Regardless of whether or not you like the character of Tuvix, when Security escorts him to Sick Bay and they "kill" him, it's pretty sad. I always get choked up.
 
Umm..is Drone the one about the robot Belanna was able to fix and then it, and its kind, tried to force her to fix their entire race? If so? That was a great episode and i totally forgot about it...if not, then what ever that episode was called is one I would like to mention, and have, as well.

Rob
 
Umm..is Drone the one about the robot Belanna was able to fix and then it, and its kind, tried to force her to fix their entire race? If so? That was a great episode and i totally forgot about it...if not, then what ever that episode was called is one I would like to mention, and have, as well.

Rob

No, that was "Prototype." And that was a pretty moving episode; I really felt for B'Elanna.

"Drone" was the one where Seven's nanoprobes fused with the EMH's mobile emitter in a transporter malfunction and created the functional equivalent of a 29th century Borg drone.
 
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Edit: Never mind me, kes7 already answered the question, much better than I could.

Is there no "delete post" button around here? Hmmmm.
 
CAYLEM: Ralkana. He said you'd been shot.
JANEWAY: He was lying to you, father. I'm all right.
CAYLEM: And your mother
JANEWAY: Fine. She was so happy to get your letters. She wants me to tell you something. She forgives you. We both do.
CAYLEM: My sweet girl.

This is from 2nd Season episode "Résistance". It always makes me cry a bit.
 
While there wasn't many in Voyager that I remember like that (though I still have to watch the series through entirely) I'd have to say "Jetrel" for the time being.

Definitely an underrated episode, imo. I know folks like to make fun of Neelix but this episode shows there's more going on there than meets the eye. As for me while he's not my FAVORITE character I do have to admire how he makes the best of life's circumstances instead of sitting around moping because he had an unfair life. Pretty inspirational stuff, imo.
 
The end of "Drone" gets to me:

SEVEN: "You must comply. Please. You are hurting me."

ONE: "You will adapt."

I had forgotten about this, but, yes, this is a very powerful scene.

This scene did make me tear up.

While I agree that this scene is emotional, some of its impact is lost in the fact that Seven really doesn't grow as a result of it. Drone is the second episode in Season 5, and yet she doesn't seem any more empathetic with others in subsequent seasons. One would think that her maternal instincts would be activated by her relationship with the drone, but no. In Imperfection, the second episode in Season 7, Seven is able to bid her young former drones goodbye without so much as a sniff. When Icheb tells her that she does have tears in her eye, she immediately says it is just a malfunction (and, indeed, it is). Perhaps this is unfair to Seven, because she wasn't the only character who was written inconsistently, but I thought it was "fair play" for Seven to get what she usually handed out, for once--a cold, unemotional order to "Adapt."

Ooooo--I forgot about the end of Resistance (one of my top faves). I loved the way Janeway comforted her "father" as he died and the way she held the necklace tenderly once she was back on the ship. Very touching.
 
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