When did Star Trek make you really emotional?

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Thank you all for bringing back memories of so many great scenes, some I had almost forgotten.
Another very emotional one is when they had to destroy the Enterprise in The Search For Spock and watch it.

Scotty takes it admirably well. He looked more anguished the moment David died. His poor bairns....

 

[Oddish]

I don't know if I cried at all of these, but they definitely affected me...
- Wrath of Khan ending.
- Mind meld scene in Sarek.
- Lal's death in "The Offspring"
- Picard playing his flute in "The Inner Light"
- Jake's death in "The Visitor"
- Janeway and Tuvok's goodbye in "Year of Hell"

 

[Oddish]

Something worth adding, is that "emotional" does not just mean "sad". We have other emotions to consider. One thing I remember from "Titanic" is from the "Nearer My God to Thee" sequence... the band starts playing, then we see the Strauss's, lying together in their bed as water gushes in around them, and I feel my eyes starring to moisten... then I see that third-class mom with her two kids, who wasn't able to escape. And at that moment, at my "Inside Out" console, Sadness mutters "oh, crap" and hurriedly leaps aside as Anger, flames roaring from his head, takes over.

Some Trek scenes that left me positively fuming include...

"The Outcast" - The smug, supercilous, "we just want to help you" attitude of those -ing government officials as they force Riker's love-interest (don't remember her name) to take the brainwashing treatment. And her "it's Ok, I was wrong, I love Big Brother now," attitude afterward.

"Repentance" - Iko is subjected to "justice" that is effectively no different from the savage ministrations of a lynch mob. And sadly, the Voyager crew just wrings their hands in a "we can't do anything, prime directive and all" sort of way.

And finally...

"Half a Life" - Timcin is guilt-tripped into participating in his planet-wide genocide because his bizarrely hairstyled daughter wants his corpse to rot in a certain spot. In a world containing "Threshold", "Spock's Brain", and "Profit and Lace"... I still regard this as the worst episode of Trek.

Going to stop before I start throwing things...

 

[Daedalus]

 Generations.

When Picard sees his recently deceased nephew alive. The music does a thing and I get where they were going with that..

 

[Farscape One]

Something worth adding, is that "emotional" does not just mean "sad". We have other emotions to consider. One thing I remember from "Titanic" is from the "Nearer My God to Thee" sequence... the band starts playing, then we see the Strauss's, lying together in their bed as water gushes in around them, and I feel my eyes starring to moisten... then I see that third-class mom with her two kids, who wasn't able to escape. And at that moment, at my "Inside Out" console, Sadness mutters "oh, crap" and hurriedly leaps aside as Anger, flames roaring from his head, takes over.

Some Trek scenes that left me positively fuming include...

"The Outcast" - The smug, supercilous, "we just want to help you" attitude of those -ing government officials as they force Riker's love-interest (don't remember her name) to take the brainwashing treatment. And her "it's Ok, I was wrong, I love Big Brother now," attitude afterward.

"Repentance" - Iko is subjected to "justice" that is effectively no different from the savage ministrations of a lynch mob. And sadly, the Voyager crew just wrings their hands in a "we can't do anything, prime directive and all" sort of way.

And finally...

"Half a Life" - Timcin is guilt-tripped into participating in his planet-wide genocide because his bizarrely hairstyled daughter wants his corpse to rot in a certain spot. In a world containing "Threshold", "Spock's Brain", and "Profit and Lace"... I still regard this as the worst episode of Trek.

Going to stop before I start throwing things...

Quite right, there are a lot of emotions to consider.

Anger, for one.

STAR TREK: NEMESIS - I was absolutely livid that Data was killed off. Quite probably THE angriest I had ever been while watching anything in the franchise.

 

[Citiprime]

A recent one that really hit me was the season 3 episode of Star Trek: Picard where Spot appears.

In the moment, it just seemed so gut-wrenching to bring Data back and then watch him being destroyed again. And then once I heard Spot meow, I was sobbing. I think it was both reconnecting to being a kid watching those TNG episodes, and thinking of the pet I had at the time who has long departed. But I also felt it was such a cruel punctuation that Lore was ripping away his memory of Spot while destroying Data.

Rewatching it, I realized that scene says so much about the evolution of Data. He seems to have realized that defining his quest for humanity goes beyond just the physical attributes and emotional abilities. Data has realized he's defined by his experiences not his physiology.

 

[Frontis]

Something worth adding, is that "emotional" does not just mean "sad". We have other emotions to consider. One thing I remember from "Titanic" is from the "Nearer My God to Thee" sequence... the band starts playing, then we see the Strauss's, lying together in their bed as water gushes in around them, and I feel my eyes starring to moisten... then I see that third-class mom with her two kids, who wasn't able to escape. And at that moment, at my "Inside Out" console, Sadness mutters "oh, crap" and hurriedly leaps aside as Anger, flames roaring from his head, takes over.

Some Trek scenes that left me positively fuming include...

"The Outcast" - The smug, supercilous, "we just want to help you" attitude of those -ing government officials as they force Riker's love-interest (don't remember her name) to take the brainwashing treatment. And her "it's Ok, I was wrong, I love Big Brother now," attitude afterward.

"Repentance" - Iko is subjected to "justice" that is effectively no different from the savage ministrations of a lynch mob. And sadly, the Voyager crew just wrings their hands in a "we can't do anything, prime directive and all" sort of way.

And finally...

"Half a Life" - Timcin is guilt-tripped into participating in his planet-wide genocide because his bizarrely hairstyled daughter wants his corpse to rot in a certain spot. In a world containing "Threshold", "Spock's Brain", and "Profit and Lace"... I still regard this as the worst episode of Trek.

Going to stop before I start throwing things...

Of course the positive emotions count, too.
Oh, how many times did Star Trek make me feel good or better.
I am very thankful for that.