Most Emotional Episode

[crohnie]

Latent Image! that's a good episode.


For me personally, Extreme Risk is pretty emotional/powerful. I think Roxanne Dawson acted very well in the episode. I only wish that her personal troubles/recovery extended beyond the episode. You don't go from being a self-harm addict to perfectly normal "overnight"
But at least TPTB were consistent in only having story lines stay in the episode they were introduced. :S

 

[JanewayRulz!]

I only wish that her personal troubles/recovery extended beyond the episode.

But they did last longer. Go back and rewatch "Juggernaut" for a perfect example of that prolonged episode of recovery, and season 6's "Barge of the Dead" and season seven's "Lineage".

 

[david g]

This is a tough one...but for me it's a toss-up between "The Gift" and "Endgame"...

 

[david g]

Wow, of course, Coda and Homestead are both emotionally devastating...as is the final act of YOH.

 

[kes7]

Imperfection - The exchanges between Icheb and Seven are also well concieved and executed.

In a way, I love this episode, because I'm a huge Icheb fan and this was totally his episode. However, I was yelling at my TV by the time he lobotomized himself and they LET HIM. I don't care how great his little speech was. He was a child, they didn't know for sure that it would work, and they should have sedated his ass and reconnected the damn cortical node. "If she can refuse treatment, so can I!" Um, no. Sorry, kiddo. You're a child, and Seven's not. Unless kids are treated like legal adults in 24th century society, there's no way he should have gotten away with that -- and even if he WAS an adult, the ethics were questionable. Frankly, the fact that he didn't die was a huge cop-out on the writers' part.

But yes, he gave a very emotional little speech and I really felt awful for him.

 

[exodus]

Imperfection - The exchanges between Icheb and Seven are also well concieved and executed.

In a way, I love this episode, because I'm a huge Icheb fan and this was totally his episode. However, I was yelling at my TV by the time he lobotomized himself and they LET HIM. I don't care how great his little speech was. He was a child, they didn't know for sure that it would work, and they should have sedated his ass and reconnected the damn cortical node. "If she can refuse treatment, so can I!" Um, no. Sorry, kiddo. You're a child, and Seven's not. Unless kids are treated like legal adults in 24th century society, there's no way he should have gotten away with that -- and even if he WAS an adult, the ethics were questionable. Frankly, the fact that he didn't die was a huge cop-out on the writers' part.

But yes, he gave a very emotional little speech and I really felt awful for him.

Come on, if Icheb was ready to join the Academy.
He's got to be at least 18 or 19.
He's not a child.

 

[kes7]

Imperfection - The exchanges between Icheb and Seven are also well concieved and executed.

In a way, I love this episode, because I'm a huge Icheb fan and this was totally his episode. However, I was yelling at my TV by the time he lobotomized himself and they LET HIM. I don't care how great his little speech was. He was a child, they didn't know for sure that it would work, and they should have sedated his ass and reconnected the damn cortical node. "If she can refuse treatment, so can I!" Um, no. Sorry, kiddo. You're a child, and Seven's not. Unless kids are treated like legal adults in 24th century society, there's no way he should have gotten away with that -- and even if he WAS an adult, the ethics were questionable. Frankly, the fact that he didn't die was a huge cop-out on the writers' part.

But yes, he gave a very emotional little speech and I really felt awful for him.

Come on, if Icheb was ready to join the Academy.
He's got to be at least 18 or 19.
He's not a child.

The maturation chambers keep the drones inside until they are the equivalent of 13. He was released early from his and had only been on the ship for like a year and a half. I think he was closer to 15, maybe 16. He just looked older than he was (remember how surprised his parents were at how much he had grown since his assimilation?).

There's no way he was 18-19.

 

[exodus]

In a way, I love this episode, because I'm a huge Icheb fan and this was totally his episode. However, I was yelling at my TV by the time he lobotomized himself and they LET HIM. I don't care how great his little speech was. He was a child, they didn't know for sure that it would work, and they should have sedated his ass and reconnected the damn cortical node. "If she can refuse treatment, so can I!" Um, no. Sorry, kiddo. You're a child, and Seven's not. Unless kids are treated like legal adults in 24th century society, there's no way he should have gotten away with that -- and even if he WAS an adult, the ethics were questionable. Frankly, the fact that he didn't die was a huge cop-out on the writers' part.

But yes, he gave a very emotional little speech and I really felt awful for him.

Come on, if Icheb was ready to join the Academy.
He's got to be at least 18 or 19.
He's not a child.

The maturation chambers keep the drones inside until they are the equivalent of 13. He was released early from his and had only been on the ship for like a year and a half. I think he was closer to 15, maybe 16. He just looked older than he was (remember how surprised his parents were at how much he had grown since his assimilation?).

There's no way he was 18-19.

I stand corrected.

My bad.

 

[AuntKate]

^^ Maybe his species is mature at 15?

 

[JanewayRulz!]

Infinite Regress - The scene where Seven is in sickbay screaming in pain was highly moving.

For me it was when she came out of the consciousness of the Mother asking Janeway to find her son lost on a ship at wolf 359, and into her own... wondering what she'd been doing. Realizing how little control she now had over her own psyche.

 

[kes7]

I stand corrected.

My bad.

Dude, why are you making embarrassed face? I'm the one who just put my geekery on display.

And AuntKate, sure, it's possible that members of the Brunali species mature at 15, but the entire episode "Child's Play" (another emotional episode) leads me to believe otherwise. At no time is Icheb treated like an adult with rights during that episode, either by the crew of Voyager or by the Brunali.

Anyway, we're off-topic.

 

[crohnie]

This thread keeps bringing up episodes that I didn't even consider to be emotional until I see them here and I go "Oh yeah!" lol.

Infinite Regress is that kind of episode. It's one of my favorite Seven episode probably because she's not the one saving the day but she's so vulnerable in this one!

 

[Space Turtle]

I thought Latent Image was moving -the one where the doctor has to choose between saving one of two crew members. I think someone mentioned it briefly in a list above. The episode was well constructed and the scene at the end, where Janeway and co. were keeping a vigil on the doctor, was effective.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

I thought of another wonderfully moving ep... season 1's "Faces". The B'Elanna:B'Elanna scenes were awesome, and the final death scene tortuous.

But its that final scene between the human B'Elanna and Chakotay that gets me every time... on many levels.

TORRES: I’m incomplete. It doesn’t feel like me. I guess I’ve had someone else living inside of me for too long to feel right without her.
CHAKOTAY: I’d have to say that you two made quite a team down there.
TORRES: I know. I came to admire a lot of things about her. Her strength, her bravery. I guess I just have to accept the fact that I’ll spend the rest of my life fighting with her.

 

[The Grim Ghost]

I'll go with Mortal Coil. I never really liked Neelix much, but this episode really had me feeling bad for him. One of the few good Neelix-centric episodes.

 

[NBG011]

"Resistance". Also, Harry Kim screaming "YEEES" in "Timeless" always gets me.