Shattered and Tattered

[RobertScorpio]

I remember when I watched BOBW the first time the actual anger I felt with Riker uttered "FIRE" and....TO BE CONTINUED came on the screen. you know, i actually lost it, and cussed at the TV. I had no idea they were going to do that, totally took me by surprised...

Like wise, when Kirk is watching spock mind-meld with the whale in TREK 4, and he's trying to get Spock's attention before Gilian turns around to see him...I remember, to this day, laughing it up at the theatre. No doubt, one of TREK's funniest, and one of Kirk's best moments...he didn't even have to say a word (a change for him) and he just carried that scene..

Can you think of times you were watching trek and it induced a real world reaction from you? Whether being mad or happy, or even sad??? I have to admit, I teared up for LAL and when the doc's daugther died on DS9...

Rob

 

[Thor Damar]

The end of DS9 with the genocide on Cardassia prime and Martok's disgusting reaction. I mean drinking over the deaths of 800 million sentient beings? I have seen and heard people do that kind of shite in the real world and it is truly one of the most awful sides of humanity.

That and whenever a Federation or Klingon spouts some self righteous drivel (Picard and Worf, I'm looking in your direction..)

 

[greenmystik]

I gotta say the end of Nemesis got me. I had read the plot before the release of the movie, then it came out and I went to see and totally forgot about Data dying. Totally got me misty eyed.

 

[Too Much Fun]

I was shocked by the end of Nemesis, but not moved. I just thought it was bad and stupid decision to kill him off the way they did and it made me more disappointed than geniuinely emotionally shaken. Spock's death was much more powerful. Many episodes of Next Generation dealt with death much more beautifully than Nemesis. There were a few moments in certain episodes that did make me a bit teary recently. I was really moved by the endings of "Darmok" and "The Offspring", for example. The daughter thanking the father for her life as she dies right in front of him face to face was a really poignant scene. It was also really uplifting in the following scene when he announces her death and even though he said he couldn't feel anything with her, he said he felt that she "enriched his life". Really sweet stuff.

 

[sbk1234]

The Inner Light got me, and stayed with me for some time after. I was overwhelmed with the thought of what would it be like to find out that my whole life had been an illusion. If everyone that I knew and loved had not really existed. That every experience I had and believed was only an illusion. That really got to me.

 

[deliciouscake]

Star Trek II: TWOK made me cry.

 

[Joemac]

i was also hit hard by the useless death of data in nemesis, all the way home in the car all i could say was "they killed Data" but the most memorable for me is worf and alexander at the death of K'Ehleyr by Duras. Worfs scream of pain and anger while his son cowers in the room really got to me.passionate acting, wonderful storyline

 

[greenmystik]

I remember being extremely pissed off the way the took out the E-D in Generations. How could Riker be so inept as to not re-modulate the shields. Once was said that they found a way to penetrate the shields that should have been one of the first things to happen.

 

[Too Much Fun]

Hahaha, that's kinda sweet how the destruction of the ship, rather than a person upset you so much, but it's understandable. We all have a lot of good memories of things that happened on that ship.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Two scenes that really get to me...

I didn't cry during this scene, but during "The Wounded," when O'Brien and Daro are sitting in the bar...that whole thing is powerful stuff: O'Brien's story, and the story I have a feeling Daro was going to tell but was not allowed...

But the ultimate bawler for me...is "Ties of Blood and Water." My God, the ending of that one pulls the heartstrings!!!

 

[JiNX-01]

The sight of the ruined fleet in BoBW... To this day, I wish that episode had been a theatrical film just to see that scene on the big screen.

Heart breakers:
The end of Inner Light, Offspring and Terra Prime.
The death of Spock.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The end of DS9 with the genocide on Cardassia prime and Martok's disgusting reaction. I mean drinking over the deaths of 800 million sentient beings? I have seen and heard people do that kind of shite in the real world and it is truly one of the most awful sides of humanity.

Yes, but Martok is a Klingon. That kind of reaction is entirely *normal* for a Klingon.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

That doesn't make it any less repugnant, in my book.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

That doesn't make it any less repugnant, in my book.

They might say the same thing about humanity. So who's right?

And what would a...Cardassian do in their place?

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Oh, thought you could trap me, did you?

Pre- or post-Dominion War I think you'd get two different answers to that question. Pre-Dominion War I suspect there wouldn't be a lot of time wasted on such displays...I think they'd get right on with solidifying their occupation.

Which of course also falls into the repugnant category, but the difference is that I'm willing to call them on it. Just because the Cardassian government has said those things are acceptable does not make them truly so.

Post-Dominion War...I suspect there would be much more solemnity, much more like how you saw Sisko handle things (the images of the destruction on Cardassia Prime would doubtless be with them, even if they'd had to attack to prevent such a thing from happening again).

 

[jgdst]

I remember I let out a particularly fed up, almost disgusted sigh back in 2004 when I saw who was being asked if they recognised Archer's uniform. Step forward EVIL ALIEN SPACE NAZI! Cut to black, DN DN... DN DN... DNDN.

Given we'd all been concerned the series had narrowly avoided cancellation, and to have finished on such a clichéd cliffhanger, I wasn't at all happy.

There have been a few moments that have got a real out loud laugh out of me. Any number of Quark/Odo scenes and Seven of Nine.

The one that sticks in my mind is the lipsmacking scene The Ascent.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Any time a Federation Captain imposed his or her own values on another culture as though humanity is the highest moralistic ground in the entire friggin galaxy. Archer and Janeway, I'm lookin' at you, but the other captains have dabbled a bit in this too. That always really burns my goat.

Wrath of Khan puts a tear in me eye every time.

 

[Thor Damar]

another great moment from the "Wounded" is when Captain Maxwell and Miles O'Brien sing the Minstrel Boy together. It's a heartbreaking simple moment when Maxwell realizes the utter futilely of his actions and agrees to stand down. It's also a tribute to the friendship and mutual respect between the two men. ( And Irish rebel songs are just great anyway!)

Here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJudJ9S579A.

It was spoiled in the next scene with Picard Lecturing Macet on how human loyalty is superior

 

[Too Much Fun]

The mention of O'Brien reminds me of how the writers on DS9 did a great job of generating a lot of emotion over O'Brien with those "O'Brien must suffer" episodes. I don't know if I've ever felt more sad for a character than I did in that episode where he has sort of a 'reverse Inner Light' experience as terrible memories of being in a prison for 20 years are implanted in his brain, and by the end he's so traumatized and misanthropic that he's about to shoot himself in the head with a phaser. The intensity in that scene as Bashir tries to talk him out of it is incredible.