I just watched the Voyager episode where Neelix stays behind, and I have to admit, I was blubbing.

Any episodes that you can think of that made you cry?


(I also lost it when Jadzia died on DS9.)

The Visitor always gets me. At the end, when Sisko realizes his son gave up his whole life and dreams to rescue him, and in the end is committing suicide, well, TV doesn't get much more heartbreaking.

When Tuvok did his dance with Neelix...yeah, I can't believe it's a VOY episode that gets to me. But The Visitor ranks up there, of course.

Tuvok tapping his toes in farewell got to me too. And we've recently been watching season 2 of VOY, and the one where the crazy old man thinks that Janeway is his daughter? Well, when he died, yeah, I cried.

TNG's "Inner Light" is one that makes me a little sniffly as well.

The Offspring, from third season TNG, I think. Besides making me sniffle, it's one that I don't mind seeing over and over again, for some reason. . .

Oh, so many...

Yeah, The Offspring is a killer. I always cry over that. "Thank you for my life."

And The Measure of a Man, especially at the very end when Riker tries to apologize to Data for being the lawyer for the prosecution, and Data says that Riker's actions hurt Riker but helped him, and he would not forget it. *sniff*

I cry at the end of VOY's Drone, where the drone offs himself to save everybody. Seven says, "You are hurting me," and he tells her she will adapt.

Then there is the episode where Echeb risks his life to give his cortical implant to Seven. Sweet boy.

You will not believe this, but I cry when Q gets his powers back after he does the selfless act!

Trip and T'Pol at the end of Terra Prime always make me sniffly, not just because I remember Keckler's love for Trip finally blooming there.

(A Night in Sickbay always makes me cry, but not for sentimental reasons.)

Amok Time (I think). I always cry when Spock "kills" Kirk. I also cry when he's so happy after he discovers that he didn't.

Yeah, I cry too, especially when Sisko is standing by the sunglass case and asking her why she had to leave and how the friendship meant to him and how he was going to solve the prophets problem, tears, baby, tears.

I loved in the final arc of DS9 when Odo is sick but doesnt want to tell Kira, but Kira already knows. More tears, baby. I just love DS9.

I cant remember the name of the Ent episode, but where Trip is hurt and Phlox makes a clone to save Trip. At the end, when Trip was like "you were a damn good father," and Phlox was "you were a damn good son." Again, tears.

geekchic9, that ENT episode was S3 Similitude. Excellent choice!

Oh, golly, yes. I can't make it through the last five minutes of that ep without getting misty eyed.

Ditto to the last few minutes of DS9's "Duet."

For TOS, it's all about City On The Edgo of Forever. Even with a mutilated script, the absolute agony that Kirk goes through is heart-wrenching.

For TNG, it's Offspring ("His hands...were so fast") and Inner Light

For DS9, the finale. The sight of them all moving on with their lives to the strains of my favorite standard tune, "The Way You Look Tonight"

Shadowplay made me lose it in the first season.

I'll agree with everyone who mentioned The Offspring, the Visitor and the DS9 finale.

I'll add DS9's Time's Orphan to my list. Colm and Rosalind really sold me on the pain they were going through regarding Molly's situation.

Yep. Everything you all just said. But mostly,

I was a blubbering mess the last time I saw this one. I thought it was just the post-partum lack of emotional control. Glad to know that was only part of the reason!

I generally try to forget that the episode ever existed, but These are the Voyages made me cry buckets as soon as Trip offed himself. It's a pity the rest of the characters didn't seem to be joining me. But it's OK; that stuff didn't really happen anyway. It was just a holodeck program. La la la la la.

The end of Terra Prime also made me cry when the baby died, especially when Trip was tearily telling T'Pol what Phlox told him about why she died.

None of the other series are fresh in my mind. It's been awhile. Sadly, I missed Jadzia's death. She was my favorite character on DS9, so I'm sure I would have been bawling. And then when I tried to watch after that and Ezri was there, I was so confused.

Was The Offspring the one with Data's daughter? If so, that was a tear jerker. And I think the fact that Data couldn't experience the emotion of losing his daughter made it even more heartwrenching.

I think I also had a bit of a sympathy-sniffle when I watched Garak's final scene in What You Leave Behind, in response his voice wavering (which maybe I imagined) when he was talking about Cardassia's fate. (Also I was sad that DS9 was ending, and affording the DVD sets is a rather long-term goal.)

I didn't cry at These Are the Voyages as much as I would have wanted to. I sobbed at keckler's recap though. After watchung it, I brought up Similitude on the Tivo and substituted the good-byes for Sim for Trip. It was cathartic.

I bawled at the end of Terra Prime, but in that case it was because of Connor Trinneer. He really was awesome.


I think this is what always makes me cry. Not so much that a character has died, but how those that are left behind deal with the loss. And for Data unable to, but those around him so obviously affected, it was very touching.

For some reason, I remember tearing up at Darmok as well. How he was willing to lay down his life just to communicate.

The Inner Light kills me. And for some reason, so does Dark Page. Sure, it's completely unrealistic that Deanna would never have known that she had a sister and the whole let's-visit-mom's-psyche was a bit dumb, but the anguish over losing a child just gets to me. Another Lwaxana episode that gets me for some reasonis Half a Life, where the scientist decides to commit ritual suicide . I think it's because David Ogden Stiers is so awesome.

Of course, this is coming for someone who cries over commercials even when not pregnant.

Yeah, The Offspring had me crying too, basically for all the reasons everyone else has listed.

Year of Hell, part II also gets me teary, mainly during the bit when Janeway is saying goodbye to Tuvok and she hugs him, then he hugs her back. I love Tuvok.

Oh, me too. In "Resolutions", when Tuvok says "Live long and prosper" to Janeway and Chakotay as Voyager moves out of range and they're left alone on the planet, I always get teary. Tuvok is so good at saying "Live long and prosper".

Another VOY one, at the end of "Message in a Bottle", when the Doctor tells Janeway that Starfleet Command wanted him to pass on the message that they're no longer alone. The look on Janeway's face gets me.

And, of course, DS9's "The Visitor", especially Sisko realising that Jake has basically given up his life for his dad.

I have two episode new to the discussion.

First, TNG's "Lower Decks". Picard's speech about Ensign Sito got to me the first time I saw it. It may have been the late hour, or it may have just been that I was starting to really like the character, but it affected me.

The other is DS9's "Chrysalis". Bashir's loneliless and the flawed decisions he makes because of it just hit me at a time in my life when I was feeling that. I totally identified with him and the episode knocked me over easily.

I was enraged at These Are the Voyages. keckler's last line in the recap did get me all misty, though...

Most of the episodes I've cried at have already been mentioned. Terra Prime is the only one where I cried when it first aired (Damn you, Connor Trinneer!) With The Visitor and Ethics (when everyone thinks Alexander is now an orphan) it was only on later viewings, and not every time.

Oh, and I wept openly in the theater when the Enterprise blew up in STIII. Loss of home is a big deal for me. In Generations - not even a thought in my head.

Lal: I... love you... Father.
Data: I wish I could feel it, too.
Lal: I will feel it... for both of us...

Seriously, if that episode doesn't get you, nothing will.

Oh, Cleo, I love "Lower Decks." I cry through the whole episode, practically. What really moves me is that Worf is a mentor to this young woman and teaches her to stick up for herself. I love their relationship.

One scene that really got to me was the end of "The 37's," when Janeway and Chakotay walk into the cargo bay where all crew members who want to be left behind are supposed to be...and find it completely empty.

And someone's already mentioned the episode, but "He knows, Doctor. He knows." is simply amazing. Look at Nimoy's eyes.

Then there are moments that make me jump up and yell in delight. Like in "Shadows and Symbols," when there's a flash and suddenly Ben Sisko is Benny Russell again, covering the walls of his padded cell with the script of the episode we're watching as a doctor who looks a lot like Damar is telling him to stop.

Oh, and let me throw in another vote for keckler's last line in the last ENT recap.

Far Beyond The Stars gets me every time. From Sisko/Benny's meltdown--which some say is over the top, but I think it's a very moving interpretation of "a dream deffered"-- to Sisko's statement to his father, I'm usually quite choked up.

From The Offspring when Data explains that Lal's memories are now inside him, so she is still with him.
It is the only Data moment that I truly love and I weep every time I see it.

The Inner Light when Kamin realizes that he is actually Jean-Luc, that his beloved family is just a false memory, and that they have been dead for millennia. I have to watch that scene because it is so powerful, but I openly cry every time I see it.

The Trek moments that make me cry the most are the painfully wrenching 44 minutes of These Are the Voyages.
In those moments I watched all of the greatest hopes and joys from my childhood, my adolescence, and my adulthood die a horrible, pointless, vulgar death. Everything that was the greatness of Star Trek was shat upon, flung into a paper bag, lit a flame, stamped out, and scraped upon the cold, dead ground. These are the tears of memorial, lost potential, and total failure. I die a little death upon each remembrance.

I do the same thing, but I use "Observer Effect," from the time Phlox leaves sickbay until Archer pleads with the Organians. That's what grieving for Trip should have looked like.

I was so angry, I had to write my own death and funeral scenes for Trip. I mean, if they had to kill him, they could at least have done it in a way that didn't make the poor man look like a deep-fried moron...

(The illustrious keckler has already done me the favor of linking the blog where I wrote the scene - I'd do it again, but I fear appearing to be self-aggrandizing...)

I just thought of another Enterprise episode that made me cry, "The Forgotten". Again, it was mostly because of Trinneer. Of course, it would have been better if they had dealt with the loss of his sister other than Neural Nookie, but I thought he had a few really good scenes that showed the struggle better than looking up T'Pol's shirt while engaging in Neural Nookie.

And I should clarify that I did not cry at "These Are the Voyages". At all. It wasn't until keckler's recap and then it was a sob fest for a few minutes. I realize after reading my post that my word choice was poor. Plus, I do know how to spell watching. Really, I do.

ETA Here's the link to Irish Wolf's death scene. If it doesn't work, it's in Trip's thread.

OK. Now that brought tears to my eyes. Nice work Irish Wolf!

"The Offspring" was on Spike today.

Honestly, I've never cried while watching it before, but today? Oh, wow. Absolutely devastating.

When Benny yells "It's real" over and over again.....every damn time.

A sniffly Amen to all of the Trip episodes mentioned, especially The Forgotten. Trip annoyed me no end at the beginning of the series, but they, out of all the characters, learned how to write him, and damn if Connor Trinneer doesn't suck you in.
I may be a minority in this, but the end of ENT Season 2's "Cogenitor" always gets me. The devastated look on Trip's face when Archer tells him that "Charles" committed suicide, and through the entire scene.

And I have to mention DS9's Hard Time, another of the many Whack O'Brien About The Head Emotionally episodes that makes me sniffly: The end of the episode, when it's been revealed that in the alien implanted prison memories, Miles killed his best friend and cell mate over rations. He goes to the cargo bay and is about to shoot himself from the guilt, but Bashir stops him and talks him down. That whole scene (props to both Colm Meaney and Alexander Siddig) is just so deep, and so sad.

I found "Hard Time" so emotionally trying that I have a hard time rewatching it. However, it definitely cements O'Brien as the most tortured man in the universe. That, and the fact that Keiko O'Bitch can't even really accept the cat O'Brien adopts in "Honor Among Thieves." I haven't seen any others concerning the Chester, so please don't spoil me. We're now in S7.

Yeah...'Hard Time' is totally not a fun hour of TV... They really tightened the screws on the poor chief on that one.

"The Visitor" was a great episode in this regard, and its also my fave DS9 episode of all time. So ridiculously good, once I started crying before it even started. Other times I cant bear to watch it cause I know I'll be depressed the whole day. Like Conspiracy TNG, The Visitor is an episode that comes out of nowhere and just competely blows you away. It doesnt even feel like Trek.

"The Inner Light" was another good one, but I havent seen it in a while.

"All Good Things...." as soon as Q said that maybe "its time to end your little trek through the stars" I was crying my eyes out. Ditto for the last scene of the crew playing poker.

"The 37s" - I'm glad the little moment at the end got a mention, it was a nice episode, I remember watchin it when it first aired in 1996.

The DS9 finale, with its Joe Millionaire-like clipshow, was not that emotional IMO, but I was a lot more cynical when I first saw it a couple years ago.

Soooo...correct me if I'm wrong, but am I getting the vibe that you don't like, Keiko, keckler?

Oddly, the DS9 finale didn't make me cry. I was sad when it was over, but it didn't move me the way I wanted it to.

Can't stand the woman.

TNG Trivia: Rosalind Chao was originally slated to play Data, but at the last minute was given the role of Keiko O'Brien. However, the producers failed to inform her of the change.

But seriously, I have to agree with keckler, Keiko's character made the Jem'Hadar appear warm and easygoing. TPTB had the opportunity to kill her off so many times, but for one reason or another decided to not go down that path. I feel bad for Colm Meaney (whose portrait I saw a few weeks ago in a pub in County Wexford in Ireland)

How much do I want to go there now? And not just becuase it's a pub in Ireland!

'The Begotten' got me teary with all the father/son moments with Odo and Dr. Mora. Most especially during their good-bye.

'Hard Time' - the almost suicide scene. Colm Meany is just awesome.

A lot of people say this but I just never bought the entire suicide scene. To me, it just seemed forced. I was moved much more by the scene where O'Brien began rationing his food at the dinner table out of habit. He looked completely heartbroken when he realized what he was doing.

Well, "Spock's Brain" brought tears of laughter to my eyes. Seriously, when watched at 4 a.m., with mass quantities of sugar circulating through your sleep-deprived veins, it is vastly entertaining.

Does that count?

Family always made me cry. Picard's breakdown in front of his brother and Worf's adoptive parents trying to reach out to him after his dishonor.

Haven't checked in at the ST forums in a while (still fuming over These Are the Voyages, and agreeing with whoever said it made me cry for all the lost STs we'll never see now ) ...

But, the one episode that made me cry most in all the series was the Voyager epi where the doctor created a family and then had to watch his little girl die. Man, that was harsh.

I've lost count of how many times I've watched it, but the last five minutes of The Inner Light just slay me every single time. I don't know if Patrick Stewart was ever better than he was in that scene.

Real Life it's called, and it was on Spike today. Harsh indeed. Amazing how you can weep for the death of a hologram. Poor Doctor.

I watched Offspring. It was just as sad as the first time I saw it. Lal was cute and kind of funny. I felt for her when she experienced fear for the first time. And when she died? *sniff*

"Thank you for my life."

I just saw that one recently. And I bawled at the beginning just thinking about that line!

In Generations when Picard is talking with Troy about what happened to his family.