The Greatest Love!!!!

[RobertScorpio]

What was the greatest act of love you have ever scene on Star Trek??? It could be Odo sweeping up Kira and kissing her, or Spock giving up his life to save the Enterprise. (I don't think he did it because it was logical. I think he did it because he wanted the crew, and more importantly Kirk, to go on with life...I know, it is a stretch..but oh well)

Perhaps it was when older Jake gave up his life so that he and Ben could have a second chance. Who knows...but it doesn't have to be romantic...it just has to be an act of love

Rob

 

[Red Ranger]

All those are good examples, RobertScorpio. I think of two examples of types of love.

The first is an example of brotherly love: When Spock uses his abilities to make Kirk forget Reyna, the android he fell in love with in Requiem for Methusaleh. He places his hand on Kirk's temple, and says, "Forget." I always liked that -- the highlight of an ep that wasn't among the best of TOS.

The second that comes to my mind is when Worf avenges K'Ehylar's death when he claims the right of vengeance against Duras, and kills him with the bat'leth. Maybe to you or I it's not love, but to a Klingon like Worf, avenging his mate would be considered the ultimate act of love by Klingons.

Red Ranger

 

[Jan]

The first is an example of brotherly love: When Spock uses his abilities to make Kirk forget Reyna, the android he fell in love with in Requiem for Methusaleh. He places his hand on Kirk's temple, and says, "Forget." I always liked that -- the highlight of an ep that wasn't among the best of TOS.

That's exactly the first one I thought of.

The second was when Kirk stopped Bones from saving Edith Keeler. Whether it was his love for the 'proper' timeline or his love for her, I'm not sure but I do think that if she'd known the consequences of her being saved, she'd have agreed with his correcting history.

Jan

 

[Chuckling]

Chakotay's selflessness. Putting aside his own needs for the sake of those depending on him and his love for Janeway.


Chuckling

 

[JiNX-01]

Greater love has no man than he who would lay down his life for a friend.

Spock!

 

[RobertScorpio]

Greater love has no man than he who would lay down his life for a friend.

Spock!

That may be the one...but a son laying down his life for his father comes pretty close...Jake..

Rob

 

[Bonzo the Fifth]

Or Data laying his functional immortality on the line for Picard in Nemesis...

 

[Mistral]

Picard's wife picking up his shoes for him and gently scolding him about leaving them lying around in The Inner Light. Anyone who has been married knows that one is from the heart.

 

[T'Aerwynd]

One scene I've always loved was in Doomsday Machine, I believe, when Spock was out in the shuttlecraft and arguing with Kirk over whether or not he should bother to try and rescue Spock. McCoy gets all flustered and, in typical McCoy fashion, yells "Shut up, Spock! We're coming to rescue you!" The grin on Kirk's face was priceless.

Another scene I've always loved was in ... I can never remember the name of the episode, but it was the one where Kirk gets taken off to this guy's quarters with a pretty girl, and McCoy and Spock are left behind in a jail cell. Spock is systematically testing the cell to see if there's a way out and getting more and more agitated. McCoy takes a couple shots at him and then comes closer to him and says, "I know. I'm worried about Jim, too."

I always loved those scenes because to me, they demonstrate the love the three friends share.

 

[Sector 7]

^"Bread and Circuses" I like the episode for that reason and also because, as a Christian, it was wonderful to see a whole new world discover God's Son. Uhura had a great delivery of the Gospel message in her lines.

 

[Mach5]

I guess I always had a soft spot for Data, and I remember being seriously moved by TNG's The Offspring. Lal saying "I love you father," and his "I wish I can feel the same" (something like that) response, for me was one of the most beautiful TNG moments in general. I would consider the scene at the end, when Data tries desperately to save her life, to be one of the greatest acts of love ever seen in TNG.

My other choice would be (without stepping into the shippers realm here) ENT's Home, when Tucker stays on Vulcan (most men would simply bail) to attend T'pol's wedding and suffers through it just to help her endure it. That was genuinely selfless.

 

[CaptainStoner]

DS9, Season 4, "Rejoined".
Oh my but yes.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

You guys have mentioned a lot of great ones!

I definitely second "The Visitor."

Here are a few I haven't seen mentioned. From TNG, "Dark Page" is one that stuck out for me. As much as Lwaxana typically serves as comic relief, seeing just how torn up she was over Kestra's death really hit hard.

But for me, perhaps the ultimate example of love--perhaps because of how much had to be overcome for it to even exist in the first place--was the love (and I really do think that's what it was by the end) between Kira Nerys and Tekeny Ghemor. Two moments really stick out--among MANY wonderful ones packed into those two episodes: Legate Ghemor deciding to help his "daughter" escape to be where she is safe and can feel a sense of belonging, even though it means giving her up forever...and the scene where Kira buries him next to her father. And that's just picking a few.

 

[Marie1]

But for me, perhaps the ultimate example of love--perhaps because of how much had to be overcome for it to even exist in the first place--was the love (and I really do think that's what it was by the end) between Kira Nerys and Tekeny Ghemor. Two moments really stick out--among MANY wonderful ones packed into those two episodes: Legate Ghemor deciding to help his "daughter" escape to be where she is safe and can feel a sense of belonging, even though it means giving her up forever...and the scene where Kira buries him next to her father. And that's just picking a few.

I'm stuck between Kira/Tekeny and Kira/Odo
The first due in part to ND's comments- how Kira welcomed the fatherly affection of a Cardassian, how that love overcame struggles that would have broken the bond apart had the people or circumstances been just a little different...
But then I feel for Odo too- for loving her so long in silence, for almost losing her so many times, for the necessary separation which isn't the same as losing Tekeny per se... but she's lost so many people she loved that she could have been selfish and begged him to stay... and he may have.

 

[Red Ranger]

One scene I've always loved was in Doomsday Machine, I believe, when Spock was out in the shuttlecraft and arguing with Kirk over whether or not he should bother to try and rescue Spock. McCoy gets all flustered and, in typical McCoy fashion, yells "Shut up, Spock! We're coming to rescue you!" The grin on Kirk's face was priceless.

Another scene I've always loved was in ... I can never remember the name of the episode, but it was the one where Kirk gets taken off to this guy's quarters with a pretty girl, and McCoy and Spock are left behind in a jail cell. Spock is systematically testing the cell to see if there's a way out and getting more and more agitated. McCoy takes a couple shots at him and then comes closer to him and says, "I know. I'm worried about Jim, too."

I always loved those scenes because to me, they demonstrate the love the three friends share.

T'Aerwynd: Good choices. First, a clarification: The ep you're referring to is The Immunity Syndrome, the one with the giant amoeba. And to me, the classic capper to that exchange is when Spock sarcastically replies, "Why, thank you, Captain McCoy!"

And the second ep you're referring to is Bread & Circuses, where they land on a 20th century Rome where they inexplicably speak English! Still a good one.

Red Ranger

 

[Captain X]

Trip keeping his true feelings to himself and being there for T'Pol during her essentially forced wedding.

 

[Damask]

I thought Worf igniting the heavens for his wife was a pretty nice moment.

 

[DimitarBG]

Well...i just remembered "The Siege of AR-558" and the Federations soldiers, who were gaving their lifes for the Federation.It was one of the best ep I've ever seen.
And Data in Nemesis...

 

[T'Aerwynd]

T'Aerwynd: Good choices. First, a clarification: The ep you're referring to is The Immunity Syndrome, the one with the giant amoeba.

Thank you, I always get them mixed up!

 

[nx1701g]

I think Odo wins. He was willing to destroy an entire civilization for Kira (Children of Time).