Trek Movie Moments that...

[Dancing Doctor]

...evoked an emotional response?

I just got finished watching Generations again on DVD, and I found myself skipping past most of the Kirk moments. Watching the Enterprise-D get destroyed-again-and seeing all the damage actually made me get a little teary. TNG was the first Trek series I watched, and to this day it remains my favorite. Watching the starship that I grew up...watching, with all the crew looking hopeless, made me get emotional. I was wondering what other Trek movie moments are out there that caused a similar reaction, or merely an emotional reaction.

 

[trevanian]

appearance of e in TMP

Spock's death.

Kirk's "I hear you" in SFS

Seeing the e-a in TVH (opening day only)

most of the serious KSM stuff in TFF

 

[Deleted 2]

"... I don't like to lose."

 

[seigezunt]

I still cry when Spock dies.

 

[Alyssa]

Spocks funeral, although i always found humour in thinking about what Spock would say when Jim says he is the most human person he knows!

 

[nil_jones]

/\/\ Along those lines, I always get a chill when I'm watching TUC and I hear Spock's "I've been dead before."

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I cry when Spock dies, too, even though I know what'll happen.
I laugh when Spock is wandering through San Francisco with Jim and at the incident at the Cetacean Institute ("Attempting the hell to communicate.").

 

[BriGuy]

Vixen said:
...evoked an emotional response?

I just got finished watching Generations again on DVD, and I found myself skipping past most of the Kirk moments. Watching the Enterprise-D get destroyed-again-and seeing all the damage actually made me get a little teary. TNG was the first Trek series I watched, and to this day it remains my favorite. Watching the starship that I grew up...watching, with all the crew looking hopeless, made me get emotional. I was wondering what other Trek movie moments are out there that caused a similar reaction, or merely an emotional reaction.

When the Enterprise blew up in TSFS, it was 100x worse. There was no "plenty of letters left in the alphabet" thinking back then, as I recall. That was the ship. And it was gone. I remember wondering how the heck they were going to do a fourth movie with no ship.

 

[Jack Bauer]

The death of Spock and the destruction of the Enterprise in TSFS.

 

[sbk1234]

The "brainwashing" scene in TFF, with Spock and McCoy, especially Sarek's remark of "So human" when Spock was born, and his lack of interest in even holding his newborn son. Totally gut-wrenching to me.

TWOK, when David finally comes to terms with Kirk: "I'm proud, very proud to be your son."

Geordi seeing the sunset in ST:INS.

 

[Red Ranger]

When David Marcus is killed and Kirk's reaction -- he nearly falls onto his chair -- and the angry reaction. I know it's often been mocked, but I remember that really taking me by surprise in the theater.

Already mentioned, but Spock's death and the destruction of the first Enterprise, are the top most gut-wrenching moments in all of the movies.

Red Ranger

 

[archeryguy1701]

I won't lie. In spite of being some of my favorite movies, Trek was the absolute worst at invoking emotional responses from me. Not sure why, but they have never hit me as hard as some other movies or shows.

 

[Borjis]

I was just a 9 year old at the time but i remember telling my dad on the way home from seeing twok: "I feel sorry for spock."


Seeing the enterprise disintegrate in the atmosphere of genesis was a sight to behold for sure.

That spock saved the enterprise, then the enterprise traded places with him so that he may live on...... its pure poetry imo.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I know the scene in FC when Captain Picard has his nightmare made me jump out of my seat!

 

[Matt]

Three words.

Data. Nemesis. "Goodbye."

Say what you'll say about that movie, but his sacrifice is just as emotionally shattering as Spock's.

B4: "Never saw the sun... Never saw the sun..."
Picard: "Shining so bright."
B4: "Shining so bright. Never saw things."
Picard: "Going so right."

Then the "Blue Skies" Star Trek overture at the end. OH MY, that's one of the best science fiction scores in the last 20 years!

 

[Dancing Doctor]

^I have to admit, that did also make me feel emotional.

Those last few scenes in The Undiscovered Country made me get just as teary. The original crew's last voyage...

 

[AJBryant]

sbk1234 said:
The "brainwashing" scene in TFF, with Spock and McCoy, especially Sarek's remark of "So human" when Spock was born, and his lack of interest in even holding his newborn son. Totally gut-wrenching to me.

I've always felt that scene to have been poorly done, and very unrealistic. If Spock was rejected for "looking" so human -- why did Sarek marry Amanda, for crying out loud? Reasons for his rejection would HAVE to have come later, as Spock was growing up -- some sort of personality or life choice issue, not something at his birth (which he wouldn't even know about enough to have experienced).

That was a major eye-rolling scene for me.

Tony

 

[sbk1234]

^^^To each his own, I suppose. To me, the idea of a father so casually discounting his son like that was painful. Leonard Nimoy's expression at that part completely sold it for me.

 

[Anubis]

Spock's Death

"You Klingon Bastards... you killed my son"

 

[Opus]

I think all of the TOS movies have that "one moment" that make it touching...

TMP: The introduction of the Enterprise with Kirk and Scotty. Beautiful. Also, Spock crying for V'ger.

TWOK: The death and funeral of Spock, the moment Kirk and David share and the final Captain's log are just wonderfully done.

TSFS: I think this movie has the most moments. The crew deciding to go with Kirk and McCoy and "May the wind be at our backs." The death of David and Kirk's reaction. Setting the autodestruct and Chekov and Scotty's reactions. Seeing Ent explode and streak across the sky. Kirk's farewell to David on the planet and after they leave the planet. Kirk's response to Sarek as something he had to do. Kirk and Spock's exchange at the end of the movie.

TVH: I didn't get too teary-eyed about the whales, but the final courtmartial, Spock and Sarek scene, and the introduction of the Ent-A were great.

TFF: Sybok's illusions of McCoy (De Kelley's finest moment!) and Spock's lives. Kirk's refusal, especially when he proclaims, "I don't want my pain taken away from me I NEED my pain!"

TUC: Love the final scene with Sulu's goodbye and Kirk's hesitence to go back to Spacedock.

GEN: I was disappointed overall because they missed IMO with Kirk's death. But I love the scene where Scotty. Chekov and Harriman realize Kirk's gone. Kirk and Picard's first meeting and "I gave this clock to Bones". And when Kirk finally talks with Picard on horseback and asks him if he's close to retirement.

The last three TNG movies don't have any "big Moments" for me personally. I felt they were just forcing it in between canned jokes and kewl SFX.