The end of "In the Cards", where Jake presents his father with the baseball card.
Trek Tearjerkers
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GemHaters
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You just reminded me of that episode where Tony Todd plays Jake as an old man and tells that woman the story about losing his father! OMG! That had me in TEARS!!!
Actually it is quite logical to cry while watching a show. It is just as logical as laughing at a show.
A form of art or entertainment that evokes a visceral response such crying, laughing, screaming in fright (at a horror movie), etc. should be lauded and appreciated.
I'd like to amend my list to include the Kirk's birth sequence in Trek XI. I well up every time.
Vulcan literature must be very dry...
That's "The Visitor."
I'm going to forgo the obvious choices (The Visitor etc) and offer a few more idiosyncratic choices, choosing one from each series.
TOS: The Alternative Factor
I know, I know, it's horrible. The "science" is nonsense, the acting is lacking in subtlety etc. But there's something about the ending. Robert Brown manages to be nobly pathetic and something about the idea of a man who is willing to consign himself to an eternity of battle for the sake of saving all of reality just really gets to me.
TNG: The Most Toys
Watching Brent Spiner as Data make the decision to kill Kevas Fajo, and then when saved at the last minute with the weapon in mid discharge lie about it to Riker, makes me tear up and has always done more to me to answer the "does Data have emotions" question than a trillion proclamations.
DS9: Treachery, Faith, and the Great River
Not only is it one of the most beautiful Ferengi episodes ever, but it also presents a sob worthy ending as the defective (by Dominion standards) Weyoun clone gives his life to save Odo's and Odo reluctantly gives him his blessing.
VOY: Drone
Three words, said twice in different contexts in the course of the episode... "You're hurting me." By the time of the second utterance if you aren't bawling then you may want to check your ears for points.
ENT: ...
Okay, I hate to say it, but I've just got nothing for this one. Part of the problem admittedly is that I've never really been able to sit and watch it from start to finish the way I have the other ones.
Movies: Star Trek Five
As I said I am avoiding the obvious choices. For me the tear inducing moment comes when "God" has blasted the shit out of both Kirk and Spock and He turns his gaze upon McCoy and asks "Do you deny Me as well?" At the time I saw this movie I was going through a real serious re-examination of my spiritual beliefs. I found that I personally could no long remain in the religion of my upbringing, but I was not ready to reject the idea of "God" completely. McCoy's response was not only pitch perfect for the character but it sounded so right and so true that I have clung to it as a fundamental truth my whole life. "I deny any god who inflicts pain for his own amusement."
TOS: The Alternative Factor
I know, I know, it's horrible. The "science" is nonsense, the acting is lacking in subtlety etc. But there's something about the ending. Robert Brown manages to be nobly pathetic and something about the idea of a man who is willing to consign himself to an eternity of battle for the sake of saving all of reality just really gets to me.
TNG: The Most Toys
Watching Brent Spiner as Data make the decision to kill Kevas Fajo, and then when saved at the last minute with the weapon in mid discharge lie about it to Riker, makes me tear up and has always done more to me to answer the "does Data have emotions" question than a trillion proclamations.
DS9: Treachery, Faith, and the Great River
Not only is it one of the most beautiful Ferengi episodes ever, but it also presents a sob worthy ending as the defective (by Dominion standards) Weyoun clone gives his life to save Odo's and Odo reluctantly gives him his blessing.
VOY: Drone
Three words, said twice in different contexts in the course of the episode... "You're hurting me." By the time of the second utterance if you aren't bawling then you may want to check your ears for points.
ENT: ...
Okay, I hate to say it, but I've just got nothing for this one. Part of the problem admittedly is that I've never really been able to sit and watch it from start to finish the way I have the other ones.
Movies: Star Trek Five
As I said I am avoiding the obvious choices. For me the tear inducing moment comes when "God" has blasted the shit out of both Kirk and Spock and He turns his gaze upon McCoy and asks "Do you deny Me as well?" At the time I saw this movie I was going through a real serious re-examination of my spiritual beliefs. I found that I personally could no long remain in the religion of my upbringing, but I was not ready to reject the idea of "God" completely. McCoy's response was not only pitch perfect for the character but it sounded so right and so true that I have clung to it as a fundamental truth my whole life. "I deny any god who inflicts pain for his own amusement."
^Good call on Drone!
GemHaters
Captain
Yes! Thank you! That's one of the saddest things I've ever seen...
Ditto. One of my favorite episodes ever.
And extremely beautiful at the same time.
I also get a little teary-eyed at "Twilight". It doesn't actually make me cry, but it fills me with this bitter-sweet melancholy. I love "Twilight" for its heavily emotional content. The scene where Archer return to the Enterprise and meets his former senior officers is very powerful. To him, not even a day has gone by since he'd last seen them, but the passage of time is made painfully obvious on their tired faces.
There are some who try to put the "over rated" tag on this one, but I have never been able to agree. Stewart hit this one out of the park.
GemHaters
Captain
Agreed.
Yeah, I was also giddy inside when I heard they were on Ceti Alpha V. Little in-universe nods like that make me happy.
Didn't make me giddy...made me feel bad for them!
I just remembered one, too. This Ain't The Valentine. It wasn't a touching episode, but it left me in tears.
Didn't make me giddy...made me feel bad for them!
I felt giddy for myself, because I'd recognized the reference and that meant I had achieved a decent level of Trek savvy.
Well, yes, that too.
The ending of the INner Light stayed with me for a long time. A few tears there.
Like so many else has mentioned, Kirk's birth sequence in Trek 2009.
McCoy's flashback to his father's euthenasia in Trek V.
Sarek's mind meld with Picard, and Picard's "breakdown" in Sarek.
And not an episode, but there is a 40th anniversary video on You Tube I've seen, done to the music of The Inner Light. Simply beautiful and gets me every time.
Like so many else has mentioned, Kirk's birth sequence in Trek 2009.
McCoy's flashback to his father's euthenasia in Trek V.
Sarek's mind meld with Picard, and Picard's "breakdown" in Sarek.
And not an episode, but there is a 40th anniversary video on You Tube I've seen, done to the music of The Inner Light. Simply beautiful and gets me every time.
Yes, that was an excellent scene, and I always find it difficult to not get teary early in the episode when they play the music from Brahms.
On a second note though, when I see the Picard's breakdown scene from "Sarek", and then Picard's "breakdown" from Generations, I cry because of how much better the first one is, compared to the second. It just did not work in Generations, even though it was pivitol to the plot later on.
in fact, I find the scene where Picard is truly weighing in on his choice regarding the Nexus to be a high note for that movie.
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