10 Most Heartbreaking Moments In Star Trek
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One I always remember is in “Family” when Picard breakdowns to his brother about the Borg... gets me everytime!!
One of Patrick's finest moments. He is just tormented by his inability to stop himself from aiding in the deaths of so many of his friends and colleagues.
That one really hit hard.
Yes!
Completely agree.
Hell, thinking about this one has my tearing up already; to see a Star Trek main character so vulnerable, pushed to the point that he didn't want to be in space anymore and feeling the full weight of Wolf 359 was just heart destroying!
"My saddest Star Trek moment was the death of Worf's true love."
"Which one?"
"The one who was murdered."
"Narrow it down some more."
"She was killed for being in the way of a long-time villain's ascent to power, and he had to look in her eyes and watch her die as a medical team was unable to save her, just as they were on the brink of forming a family."
"Again, I need you to be more specific."
"Worf's had it rough, hasn't he?"
Kehlar
Nicholas Chappell
Both Kelar and Jadzia.
Damn...
Dax.
K'ehleyr, who - like both Jadzia and Tasha Yar - was capable of taking Worf on in hand-to-hand combat. And who - like both Jadzia and Tasha Yar - died in a stupid, implausible, arbitrary way.
Hmm. Smells like a conspiracy, to me.
This underrated moment springs to my mind:
B-4: Brother, I... cannot move.
DATA: No, I have only activated your cognitive and communication subroutines.
B-4: Why?
DATA: Because you are dangerous.
B-4: Why?
DATA: You have been programmed to gather information that can be used against this ship.
B-4: I... do not... understand.
DATA: I know. Do you know anything about Shinzon's plans against the Federation?
B-4: No.
DATA: Do you have any knowledge of the tactical abilities of his ship?
B-4: No. ...Can I move now?
DATA: No.
B-4: What are you doing?
DATA: I must deactivate you.
B-4: For how long?
DATA: ...Indefinitely.
B-4: How long is that?
DATA: ...A long time, brother.
Another one is when Muñiz dies on the DS9 episode "The Ship"
The way O'Brien walks up to him, with the camera just behind Muñiz' head, and O'Brien says "we could really use your help now, Quique-" and Muñiz' head just lifelessly lilts to one side and O'Brien starts to break down.
Wow... You're right, I always forget this episode but when I saw it, a few days ago, I cried...
@@Bigflorent
The bit that really gets me on that episode is the end, when Worf walks in on O'Brien talking to Muñiz's coffin and he just sits down next to him.
The fact that Worf thought Muñiz basically died a slow almost honourless death, but still decided to respect him and his old friend always roundhouse-kicks me right in the feels.
Damn, Star Trek has a lot to choose from eh?
@@andromidius DS9 alone is packed full of heartbreaking moments. It's by far the darkest of all the series.
Voyager Real Life when The Doctor’s daughter dies in an accident that was one the finest performances of Robert Picardo’s career...
And promptly never brought up again. Two episodes later the doctor is merrily telling Kes that even a hologram with a mobile emitter can enjoy the action on the bridge but the action will always be in sickbay. By no means should he have been a depressed wreck for a long time as one would expect from losing a child but for her to never be brought up and the family to never be seen again, really undercuts his brilliant performance. This super serious heart breaking scene happened then was promptly filed away to never matter again. But Neelix growing jealous of Tom because of Kes needed a multi part subplot. Picardo was wasted on that show.
That was so sad at the end. Even Belle's Klingon acting brother was devestaed by her passing.
@@j_fitz6913 The absolute worst thing about Voyager, its insistence, in fact utter strictness in keeping everything so episodic that no episode ever has actual consequences. Even TNG didn't suffer that (certainly not nearly as strongly)
Really? I laughed my ass off at that episode. It was so contrived it wasn't believable at all. Plus it is completely forgotten soon after. Thanks for reminding me why Voyager sucks so bad though.
@@j_fitz6913 The complete disconnect between episodes really is the worst thing about Voyager. There are so many interesting and weird stories that are never referenced again. I'm currently showing my wife Voyager as it is the only series she never really watched and she is in utter disbelief at how disconnected everything is. We watched "Threshold" the other day and now anytime there is interaction between Paris and Janeway she yells at the screen about how they still haven't talked about how the boned as lizards.
Remember when Savvik reported, "David is dead"? Kirk backed toward the chair from which he'd always beaten death, where his risky choices had been redeemed and revealed as the right choices, affirming his self-worth over many years, but instead he hit the floor. The reactions from Uhura and Scotty seal it as the most emotional ST moment for me.
YOU KLINGON BASTARDS KILL MY SON!!!
Seven to One... "you are hurting me" gets me every time
Same.
And then, "you will adapt". Wow! What a heartbreaking scene.
When Lal tells Data "I love you, father," and all Data can say is " I wish I could feel it with you." I'm tearing up just writing it. But I would add Lwaxana Troi finally coming to terms with the death of her oldest child, Kestra. My gosh, Majal and Mirina did such a great job. Ripped my heart apart.
That was such a powerful episode. Majel Roddenberry should have got an Emmy for that episode. It reveals why Lwaxana Troi is overbearing towards Deanna.
I can’t believe y’all didn’t include the voyager episode 2 of season 5 “Drone”. Sevens borg nano probes merge with the docs holo emitter making a life form....a borg name One. He “sacrifices” himself to destroy a borg cube, voyager beams him aboard, and he refuses medical treatment knowing the borg will chase him forever if saved.....giving his life for voyager. Seven saying “you’re hurting me” and his response “you will adapt”. Tears me up inside every time lol.
God yes. That episode was heart wrenching
Wasnt a cube, but a long range tactical sphere, but yeah, agree with yeah
Given there were shots of it at the beginning, probably was a contender, but didn't make the list
How about the scene where Picard has to carry out the Vulcan mind meld with Spock to share his father's last thoughts about him?. A real tear jerker.
That episode is even more tragic when you remember that it started with Seven practicing to smile, and at the end we have a specular scene but she is no longer smiling.
I would like to make a case for two absolutely wonderful moments from the late Aaron Eisenberg as Nog
First when he bares his soul to Sisko, telling him why it was so important for him to get into Starfleet
Second when he actually needs a hologram (Vic Fontaine) to talk him back into reality after suffering PTSD from the loss of his leg.
Sisko: And a Ferengi without profit...
Nog: Is no Ferengi at all.
Sisko: The 18th Rule of Acquisition.
------
Leeta: Are you ok?
Nog: No... but I will be.
R.I.P. Aron Eisenberg
@@HTYM Yes indeed.
Nog: "I may not have an instinct for business. But what I DO have are my father's hands, and my uncle's tenacity. I know I have something to offer, I just need the chance to PROVE it"
Sisko: "Alright. I'll see to it that you get that chance"
Yes! You are absolutely right.
Those are great scenes, though they lead to happier times so they lose a bit of their heart wrenching power. They're still incredibly powerful scenes though that can be a beacon of hope for people.
@@DarkYuy That is the best thing about them, they DO lead somewhere. They carry weight and consequence for the future, rather than being completely forgotten in the next episode. It is why I cannot take any big moments from Voyager seriously, as nobody remembers them by the following week.
Three moments that had me crying like a baby...
1. Tasha Yar's funeral, "No goodbyes, just good memories."
2. When Kira and Odo say goodbye at the end of DS9.
3. When Data dies saving Picard and the Enterprise at the end of Nemesis. "Goodbye." All of them tore me apart.
SISKO: "You didn't have to do this. Not for me."
JAKE: "For you, and for the boy I was. He needs you more than you know. Don't you see? We're going to get a second... chance."
Heart wrenching. Pure and simple.
Every time I see The Visitor I cry my heart out
It's a great episode but it loses points for using the reset button. No one has to live with any consequences.
Old Jake is Worf’s younger brother Kurn
@@2bituser569 Tony Todd is amazing. The episode would not have been what it was without him.
@@Klijpo you'd think that whole thing would have an impact on Ben Sisko but it's never brought up again. Still one of the best episodes of star trek ever.
I cried throughout "The Visitor" and I am not ashamed by it. The interaction between Avery Brooks, Cirroc Lofton, and Tony Todd were just powerfully moving on screen. Incredible acting work. You could really feel the bonds between father and son in the moment. I'm glad this got #1.
Mark Lenard's final scene as Spock's father Sarek in "Unification, Part 1." Sarek is suffering from a Vulcan form of dementia, bedridden and lost in his own warring emotions. Picard comes to talk to him about Spock. Slowly, Sarek pulls it together and becomes his old self--intellectual, intimidating, and downright REGAL. Then, in a twinkling, he falls apart again. At the end of the scene, he's too incapacitated to make the Vulcan salute or to say "Live long and prosper"--so Picard does it for him. Sarek's final words are "Spock...my son." It was a master class in acting, and it chokes me up every time I see it.
This gets me good too. I lost my grandmother to Alzheimer’s. It’s heartbreaking to watch both in reality and in fiction
Mark Lenard and Patrick Stewart are superb.
Couple that with the episode "Sarek" revealing the depths of what the man felt for his family, it really makes for a one-two punch straight in the honey nut feelios
I think it was totally sad, both realistically, and fictional, when Spock died in the alternate reality, but died for real, so did Chekov in reality.
Children of Time should have been in here somewhere.
"You said there was an enemy for us to fight."
"They are attempting to plant their fields before the sun sets. Time is their enemy. We should help them defeat it."
Oh yeah, especially when Odo has to tell Kira who did change the course...........his future self.
What really kills me about that episode is "technically" that was the only timeline where Jadzia and Worf got to have children. That kills me man.
Damn good candidate for 'saddest moment'.
They should've written this into the Kira/Odo bickering, rather than their odd childish jr high fantasy relationship that happened.
"You tipped over my bucket!"
"YOU KILLED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE to save me!"
"That was me in an alternative timeline! Leave my GD bucket alone!"
The most saddest story is the Star Trek Voyager episode: Course Oblivion. In the last scene of the episode, the duplicate crew was trying to get to the Demon Class planet and/or contact the original Voyager crew. The time capsule was destroyed and they had to eject the warpcore in order for them to contact the real Voyager crew. Both methods failed and they all was destroyed. Could you imagine being forgotten and die at the same time? My heart stopped as if I was living that moment.
Excellent choice. My pick was Voyager, but Tuvix.
@@JoeSiegler I completely forgot about Tuvix. I try to avoid that episode because it is unbearable to watch. No one except the Doctor stood up for him and would not kill him.
@@roberthenryscott8176 : Good Choices both Course Oblivion & Tubvix broke my heart 😥😭😭
I would have to go with Drone when the advanced Borg Drone refuses to receive treatment to prevent more Borg from coming after him. The normally emotionally detached Seven-of-Nine tells the Drone tearfully that it is hurting her.
You made the point with the first sentence; the rest is just gravy.
TrekCulture, to me? The saddest moment in Trek is the elongated scene of Lal's deactivation. Especially Admiral Haftel dealing both with his change of mind on androids and the heartbreak of seeing Data as a father desperate to save his daughters life. Just that moment from when Haftel explains to Geordi and Troi what has happened, and the reactions on the bridge crew's faces when Data explains how he reintegrated Lal's memories back into himself? Hard not to cry in some part of the body on that one.
Yah, that one was brutal
First thing I thought of. Always cry overt this.
for me it's the "Thank you for my life" line that gets me EVERY time!!
@@danielgauvreau6349 that whole SCENE is just heartbreaking. That 10-12 minutes.
When the admiral explains how Data's hands were moving. I'm tearing just thinking about it.
"The survivors". A god-like entity loses the love of his life because he refused to protect her out of pacifism, lashes out and performs genocide out of sorrow and revenge, then regrets it bitterly and decides to spend eternity in exile alone. Stuff of Greek tragedies.
Ooh, yes! That's a great one as well!
Man, Season 3 of TNG was pretty goddamned epic. I'd say it was as good as, nay, even better than Season 2 of DS9.
Yes, I always found that chilling.
"You do not understand the scope of my crime. I didn't kill 1 Husnock, or 100, or 1000...I killed them ALL. All Husnock, EVERYWHERE."
An episode I always remember.
In "What You Leave Behind" when Kira drops Odo off on the Founder home world, never to return. There is a sense of understanding and respect in that scene, but also a sense of huge loss, especially in the scenes following that one where she stands in the window with Jake and they both seem to be waiting for something that might not ever be coming.
I love the zoom out and how such a busy space station is really just a tiny point in the unending vastness of space.
There was also the time in Voyager where Nelix died and was brought back, and not seeing an afterlife lost his faith. His break down was heartwrenching from a usually upbeat character.
Now you reminded me of 'Tuvix', his last plea to be allowed to live was absolutely heartbreaking.
@@cartermariano Or Sim in Enterprise, Conner Trineer was amazing in his performance as Sim.
I forgot about Tuvix. There was also One, his last scene was hard. Or Nog after AR115.
@@danieldavis7539 And I forgot about AR115, damn strong episode. Nog and Quark were amazing.
@@JaredLS10 It took me a while to like Trineer's character, since he spent most of his time being a bigot towards Vulcans.
Far beyond the stars ds9 Benny Russell/Benjamin sisko breakdown towards the racism towards the end had me in tears
No matter how many times I watch that episode, I can't help too.
Yeah I could hold back my tears but just barely
agreed - that should have been the number 1
David Cottone I commented the same episode. I saw that episode when I was 14 and it reverberated in my soul.
I cry every time
Pike seeing his future and still choosing to face it despite all of us knowing where his path will lead, is a powerful and heartbreaking moment
If I remember well, he knows it too, and that's what's truly heartbreaking, it makes him a true hero.
Maybe the single most powerful moment in all of Discovery. I know many fans don’t like Discovery or that episode in particular, but for me it really defines Pike’s character.
Barclay finally fitting in on the Enterprise in his first appearance (can't remember the episode). It's so incredibly rare you see actually shy characters depicted on television. Usually shy characters are not remotely shy at all, just by Hollywood standards. To see Barclay's struggles and then he finally finds his place. Geordi finally understanding Barclay. It's a positive moment, but heartbreaking at the same moment with all the pain that Barclay has throughout the episode.
The only real human in the show, IMO. Skilled, but afraid, confused, awkward, etc. rather than a hint glossy Mary Sue like most adventure/sci-fi characters are.
I agree, but Barclays is more then shy. He clearly suffers from crippling anxiety. You can get over being shy. When you have an anxiety disorder things can flow a bit better on occasion or with people who accept you as is but you will always have some social issues related to your anxiety.
Picard trying to contain Sarek's repressed emotions in "Sarek". Data saying he was close to Tasha Yar in "Measure of a Men". Picard losing it in front of his brother and telling his experience at the hands of the Borg in "Family". This three simply break me.
Yessss, when him and Robert fight in the mud in anger and then when it turns to sadness when Picard just starts crying to his brother. Gahhhh, so sadddddd..
"So... My brother is a human being after all."
@@BIackMoonCGI "Something truly awful happened to you in there Jean Luc. You'll have to deal with it the rest of your life. But you have to choose: down, under the water, with Marcel, or up there, with your crew?"
The thing that always bugged me about "Generations" is that when Data inserts the emotion chip, the first emotion he experiences is to crack up laughing at an off-screen joke. Later, he cries when he finds Spot.
He should have melted down in grief as the full force of Lal's death hit him like an express train. *That* would have had an incredible impact. Alas, the writers / producers were trying to appeal to "a broader range" of movie-goers, not realising that the overwhelming majority of people watching Star Trek movies are actual, you know, Star Trek fans.
Trouble is, as you hint, you'd have to explain to the audience who Lal was. Given that she was only in one episode, it's fairly reasonable to expect that even people who watched the show whenever they saw that it was on might have missed it.
Very well pointed, you both.
If we could see Data's emotions when he was scanning his memory while using the emotion chip it would be a-ma-zing. Those moments would have the great destination we always aspired to them and to the character. They and he deserved that, and as audience we finally would have many plots consummated.
And Data dying again and for ever (although the machine was just turned off!), leaving us without these moments of overcoming from his original character and programming, this incompleteness remains within me.
You assume Star Trek fans would even remember this episode. I've watched Next Gen all the way through more than once and I couldn't tell you a thing about this episode.
@@Sam-ey1nn - well, yeah. I have to admit, I assume that TNG fans would be familiar with what is often considered one of the most emotional episodes (it even makes it into the list for the video to which we're replying).
"The Offspring" regularly shows up in lists of TNG episodes that include the likes of "The Inner Light", "Darmok", "The Drumhead", and "Who Watches the Watchers".
"Order a man to hand over his child to the State? Not while I'm his captain!" is up there with Picard's "Drumhead" speech.
And Lal's dying words are heart-wrenching: Lal: "I love you, Father."
Data: "I wish I could feel it with you."
Lal: "I will feel it for both of us. Thank you for my life. Flirting. Laughter. Painting. Family. Female. Human."
The saddest moment for me is in DS9 Season 6 Episode 13 Far Beyond the Stars. When Benny Russel finds out that not only has his story was scrapped, the entire run was scrapped, AND he lost his job.
To watch a man be so correctly angry at the massive injustice that has been brought about him, and to still have the courage to stand up for what he believes in and what he believes is right. All the while, knowing in his the bottom of his soul that he is correct. But, still having to accept the fact that there is nothing that can be done about the injustice... To watch those people manipulate, distort, and smoke screen their bigotry with the phrase “That’s just the way things are”
It broke Benny down to the core of being a human being. The anguish and fury that you could see in Brooks was stellar and heart shattering at the same time.
Even Russell's editor (played by Rene Auberjonois without his usual Changeling makeup), who had been trying to get him to hold off on writing his "Captain Sisko" stories, thinking the world wasn't ready for it yet, was shocked and disgusted by the fact that the whole run had been pulped by the publisher and the magazine owner. That was...brutal.
The end of THE INNER LIGHT, gets me every time.
Also, I choked up when Seven said “Yankees, in six games” at the funeral of the NASA astronaut...
oh thats a good one. I forgot about that one
glad I"m not the only one that gets choked up at the end of that episode.
I don't know if it was acting or not but to me it sounded like Jeri Ryan was trying so hard to keep her composure but couldn't really keep it cause when she said who won there was that distinctive tremble in her voice that to me. Could only be produced by a real emotion
"The Sound of Her Voice" episode from DS9 is an underrated one for me
Looper did this exact thing earlier this week and that episode was on there list
i was just thinking about that episode. I thought it was great because she didn't die alone. I mean she did but she didnt
The saddest moment for me has to be Deana finding out that she isn't an only child. The two actors are amazing and gets me every time
Yes! I was bawling when I watched that episode.
Yeah, that caught me as a complete surprise when I first saw it. Having grown up with siblings, it really made me think about what it would have been like to never have known one of them.
Easily one of the most heart wrenching episodes in TNG.
Dark Page is such a great episode
This situation was reality for my paternal grandmother: she lost her firstborn daughter, before having three later children. She won't speak about it, and suppressed as much information as she possibly could. I don't even know my lost aunt's name.
My saddest moments when troi lost her son ian and when Laul told data she loved him and he couldn't feel it back before she was deactivated
When she said "thank you for my life", gets me every time.
those 2 episodes I thought should definitely be in the top 3. If we aren't counting any scenes from Picard then top 2
My favourite line there is 'then I will feel it for both of us"
Voyager: The Doctor's AI equivalent of a nervous breakdown, following being faced with an impossible decision of which patient to save.
Enterprise: Tripp bursting into tears over his lost sister, with the seemingly unaffected T'Pol.
the voyager episode when the entire crew turned out to be duplicates who were disintegrating apart put me into an existential depression
Yes! I was just thinking of that it’s not even that they all died, but that they died without a trace.
Maybe not trek's saddest, but definitly trek's most depressing episode. Never seen another episode of star trek with an ending as bleak and utterly devoid of hope
Everyone missed Dark Page (STNG) Where Troi learns she had a sister who died. (Kestra)
In Star Trek: Picard, we find out that Riker and Troi have named their own daughter after her.
That moment taught me the most important life lesson I've ever learned: you can't heal from what you hide. It will eventually destroy you. This is my favorite episode of TNG. Majel Barrett delivered in a fashion she had never before and deserved her accolades for it.
We call it deep sad nine in this house, because it gives you a deep sad every opportunity it gets. So many of these moments are from this show because the writers seemed to be trying desperately to find a new way to make us miserable every episode. I loved the characters and the story, but by god did the production team want you to cry.
Deep Sad Nine: O'Brien Must Suffer
I bawled my eyes out watching Tony Todd cry and die in Sisko’s arms. I also did when during Yar’s eulogy in Season 1 of TNG, I surprised Tasha’s death wasn’t on the list? Maybe honorable mention in the article.
naa,.. she was not a very likable character to some. pretty wooden in her personality. They never really developed her like the other characters.
Shaka, when the walls fell.
Arms wide open
Sisko and the prophets at the celestial temple.
Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel
Damrog and Jalaad at Tanagraw...
@Kampy187 Tamarian episode was not heartbreaking at all.
*Inner Light* and *Darmok* for me, have stuck with me the most. My husband uses the flute piece for my ringtone🥰
@Nature and Physics agreed!
I love "The Offspring". It is one of my favorite episodes of Star Trek but I can only watch it ever so often because it not only moves me to tiers, I literally sob. It is heartbreaking. It's a brilliant episode.
The saddest moment in the entire series of ds9 is when Odo's little baby changeling died
:'(
A sad moment indeed but not tragic as the baby merges with Odo restoring his morphogenic matrix making him a changling again so at least it has a happy ending.
Yeah, but still poor baby goop :(
Oww
wow, ya think? I thought it was so over-the-top. I gave RA a lot of credit for playing all those scenes to a glass of slime with a straight face.
The follow up to The Inner Light, Lessons. It's heartbreaking because Picard explains the significance of the flute and its song to Daren and at the end, when he realizes that he can't be with her because he'd be constantly putting her in danger as her Captain. Leaving him alone with his memories and music again.
Special mention for Attached. Picard and Dr. Crusher are psychically linked and realize they love each other. But, in the end she doesn't want to follow through. The end of that one ripped my heart out.
I can't believe Picard's breakdown to his brother in 'Family' while trying to come to terms with his Borg experience isn't featured here.
Yeah man. Lots of good moments were missing.... And that one indeed was a magnificent performance of Patrick Steward. It also makes Picard's reaction to the death of Robert and René even more tragic and understandable…
For me one of the saddest moments was in season 5's episode Ties of Blood and Water. After forming a friendship from the fallout of season 3's second skin Kira finds out Tekeny Ghemor is dying. Coming to grips in the episode with her feelings about how she left her father alone to die from his injuries she is conflicted when her seemingly second father is on his deathbed. Reconciling with her guilt she stays with Tekeny until he passes away. Confessing to Dr. Bashir she tells him how she abandoned her father because she couldn't bare to watch him slip away after all she went through during the Occupation of Bajor was very hard to hear but understandable.
The discovery of Trois dead younger sister when luxwanna became comatose.
Cant believe thats not in there
It is a little confusing that she named the sister after a small bird of prey -Kestrel. What had she envisioned for her future?
The saddest moment for me was when Data sacrifices his life to save the Enterprise-E crew at the end of Nemesis. 😭💔
It was kind of unnecessary too...
Boats_R_Cool well it was either that or kill Picard.
And then watching Data die again, for the final time, in Picard. Both heartbreaking scenes.
Johnathan Kelley
Totally didn’t understand the second death. Why couldn’t Data be installed in a new aging synthetic body?
@@2bituser569 Brent Spiner is tired of playing the role. He wanted data killed off so he couldn't do it anymore. Yes he could have been transferred to another Android body easily, but the actor said no.
No DS9's "Far Beyond the Stars"? That was, for me, the saddest episode in the entire franchise. Also 'Tuvix' from VOY.
Its really a potent episode, showed (at the time) how far we came... but also now how close we are back at it.
@@CathrineMacNiel Perhaps we've unfortunately moved very little since then.
I think Tuvix should have been a multi episode arc. We didn't really have time to get attached to him. 2 or 3 episodes later, after the main story is wrapped up, they could have had the Dr call Janeway (who's conviently standing with Tuvix) and been like "I think you and Mr Tuvix should come to sickbay. I've made some progress"...... Exchanged looks, fade to black, and the "killing him" arc could have been the next episode
Ha yes Tuvix is a good one as well. And also that ENT episode were they made a Trip clone, in order to save the real Trip.
Lower Decks has always been one of my favorite episodes. For so many reasons.
" Of my friend I can only say this...of all the souls I've encountered in my travels....His was the most.........Human."
Brings tears to my eyes right now when I'm typing this.
Kirk's voice crack.....Greatest acting moment for William Shatner.
You missed Robert and Rene' Picard's death in a fire. Star Trek Generations
One of Sir Patrick's finest moments in the entire series/films.
Unfortunately, we never saw the fire. Damn Roberto I can understand living old school but why no fire 🔥 suppression system or at least hand held extinguisher 🧯.
I cry when I see that scene. Every. Damned. Time. Patrick Stewart crying just breaks me, in that and in "Jeffrey."
Everyone missed that. Huge missed opportunity that it was not portrayed on screen somehow. It really felt like they had to make it so that character couldn't appear again (think a slightly better done Poochie from The Simpsons) but that wasn't even necessary. Felt very shoehorned in
Now that I think about it, that was an absolutely defining moment in Picard's life. He had to come to terms with the fact that he just lost the last of his blood, -and- that he was the end of his family line. That's truly heartbreaking. :(
Its amazing one episode of mostly nobodys (Lower Decks) packed more emotion than any given episode with a main character.
Lal wins this list. " I will feel for the both of us." 😭
One that comes to mind for me is the one good scene in Final Frontier--when Dr. McCoy's 'inner pain' is revealed. It's brief but painfully touching.
Good scene in a terrible movie.
@@thegrogmeister5011 True. But I found it more interesting to watch than Insurrection.
Also can't help but wonder how the film would have been received if Shatner had managed to shoot the ending as he had intended.
Always felt the studio did Shatner an injustice by giving him no budget on his first try at directing. Still some good moments in it despite all that.
I still stand by that Adult Jack in the closing moments of “The Visitor” was without a doubt the single greatest, some of the best acting of veteran character actor Tony Todd’s entire career.
This is a man who spent the majority of his entire career playing makeup characters and horror characters such as Candyman and it is a shame that he was not nominated let alone awarded an Emmy for his role in this episode.
For me it would be "It's Only a Paper Moon" from DS9. This is an unflinching and deeply touching look at combat induced PTSD in the eyes of one so young.
It's shocking how brutally powerful that episode is, when you realize...the entire episode is based on two recurring side characters.
The saddest moment in treck history is when Star Trek Online put monuments to Spock because Leonard Nimoy had passed away.
Yes....2016 was the saddest 50th. anniversary for the Trek world... both Anton, and Leonard, died.....and Spock died for real, in the ST: Bynd. movie.....Spock just like Cpt Kirk ( real one ) couldn't cheat death anylonger....end of an era 😥😥
I still remember Data's final death in Picard, and I couldn't help thinking about his life and journey: "of all the souls I've encountered on my journeys, his was the most... human" X,(
Lal, tho. "I will feel for both of us."
My hubby and I never miss this episode when it's on, and we both cry every time.
Data dying in Picard and Voyager's "Latent Image"
Seeing the Doctor battle with his choices and his programming gets me every time.
The saddest part for me was in Star Trek Enterprise in the last season when they learn that the child died and T'Pol and Trip are crying and the episode ends.
"You have never seen death? Then look and always remember."
When Data finds Spot in the wreckage of the Enterprise D, I cry every time
the saddest moment was when Data died in picard all through that scene iw as thinking 'no, not again'
Yes, Data dying in Nemesis was a big deal, I was upset! Same as Spock in ST2 movie. Good thing Spock came back.
Dark Raven Productions maybe if there was any talent involved in the story it would have had some weight.
What about the death of Kirk's wife, Miramanee? Not only does she die in Kirk's arms but dies while carrying Kirk's unborn child.
I do not remember that. When did that happen D:
Agreed. She also dies quite brutally. She is stoned to death by her own people because she erroneously believes that Kirk is a god. Very sad. “Paradise Syndrome” TOS season 3.
This was the scene I immediately thought of when considering Star Trek's saddest moments.
@@chess2bell when the hell did kirk get a wife? I must have missed that episode
@@bluejedi723 It's in 'The Paradise Syndrome' from season 3 of The Original Series :) Definitely one of my favourite episodes and it truly is a little heartbreaking!
I think the episode which had the duplicates of Voyager, both ship and crew, was quite heartbreaking.
I was searching for a comment on that episode (Course oblivion). Voyager wasnt a superb show, but it had some very heartbreaking episodes.
I would liked to have seen how Data coped with Lal's death once he had his emotion chip as it would have hit him sooner or later.
"No, I am Hugh." I, Borg.
Not sure why, but this line always makes me sad because the only solution is for him to rejoin the collective and lose his individuality.
"Resistance is NOT futile."
Except they left him with his individuality, hoping he could use it to free other Borg drones as he reconnected with the rest of the Collective. It ultimately DID have at least *some* effect, as Hugh shows up in the "Descent" two-parter, where his sense of individuality had infected the whole Collective.
That moment when he looks at Geordi just before the Borg are transported gets me every time.
"The Visitor" is my favorite episode of Deep Space 9. It gets me every time I watch it.
Speaking as a father, the scene were Lal dies along with trip and tpols baby passing really gets to me. I can't watch both episodes if my daughter is around.
The episode "Sarek" in TNG really gets me when Picard is suffering all of Sarek's emotions. A) it shows how deeply and strong Vulcan feelings are; b) it shows how much Sarek loves; and c) the idea of Sarek and Picard being so irreversibly psychically entwined is heartbreaking especially when he meets Spock. I just love the complexities of ST aliens but the Vulcans most of all. Every new detail is so cool.
The saddest moment in Trek, has to be in “The Cage”, when the female love of Captain Pike on the planet, is shown to him, not as the beauty he was shown, but the jigsaw she was truly was, and the shock on his face and the realization from her, that he now knows the secret.
But she gets Pike back in the end, after his accident with the plasma relay. It truly became a beautiful disaster, Thanks to the actions of Spock.
What about The Doctor losing his "daughter" in the holodeck program? Had me welling up
Oh my god, that #1... how dare you hit me with those feels again! That was probably the most heart-wrenching thing I ever watched and I had tears by the end of it.
While I don't disagree with any of these (except maybe Outcast), I really think you should have had Voyager's Tuvix in here.
The episode was an intersting blend of Tuvok and Neelix into a new character, but once it was put forth that Tuvix would have to die to restore Neelix & Tuvok, it became a march towards the character's inevitable death. The last scene where he's taken at gun point to sickbay, protesting till the end was pretty damn brutal.
Also from Voyager - Course Oblivion. The ending was sad as hell.
Went to sickbay at the end. Doctor refused to do it.
Tuvix deserved to die.
Yeah, Janeway is guilty of crimes against humanity (or whatever the 24th century sci-fi equivalent would be )
@@internetsideshow I have always argued that, for Janeway, the Tuvix decision is a double edged sword. On one hand, restoring Tuvox and Nelix would kill Tuvix, a living, sentient being standing in front of her. On the other hand, since the technology existed to restore Tuvox and Nelix to 100% their former selves, unharmed by the merging, then, if she did NOT split Tuvix, she effectively, and ultimately kills two living crew members. It's not a fair situation to be put in.
If you still hate on Janeway for her choice, I ask you to think of this... If it was YOU that was merged with some other person, and there was a way to restore YOU to life, totally unharmed... would you not want your friends to do so?
@@ObsidianBlk No. I would never want to end someone else's life to save my own.
The visitor, Inner Light, two epicly, heart moving, powerful episodes, the best, the hardest, the greatest scifi ever, alongside with other episodes such as Darmok, Prime Directive, In the pale moonlight, star trek at his epicly high best.
Seven mercy killing Icheb ranks up there....
Data finding Spot is the most heartwarming moment in movie history.
Heartbreaking moment for me was the ending of DS9's "Hard Time"
The moment when O'Brien almost hits his daughter, realises how far he's broken down, and is seconds away from committing suicide.
I understand stories effect people differently, but to me this episode should have been at the top of the list. It isn't very often that you see this level of despair accurately depicted on television. Many people don't understand the pain (and in this case the feeling that there is no other option) that goes with thoughts of suicide, and this portrayal is about the closest example I have ever seen. While no one is going to have 20 years worth of basically torture implanted into their brain, this story paints a picture for someone who has never dealt with mental illness, that they might know what it is like for someone that struggles with it every day.
After spending quite a while typing that previous paragraph, it does not give justice to what I am trying to say. I cannot put into words the feelings that this story evokes.
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I think your message came through loud-and-clear and I wholeheartedly agree. That episode hits me on a lot of different levels.
Forgive me for saying so, but it sounds like you've also had some experience down that road, too.
Andrew Michael it’s a life long struggle for sure. The main thing that bothers me when people try to say someone is at fault or selfish for something like this. I have tried to explain more than once that it is “impossible to understand when you’ve never experienced it”. Oddly enough that never helps people to understand, like saying “have you tried not being sad?”
In Picard when Seven finds Icheb and cries "my child"
I almost couldn’t continue watching Picard after the scene with Icheb. Too brutal and heart wrenching to watch.
Mom loved “The Inner Light” episode. She even wrote a follow-up movie script, which Paramount rejected. I was glad Picard continued to play that flute in future episodes.
I hope they didn't steal her script without credit to build the episode "Lessons"
No, she wrote it after the show wrapped.
"Duet" During Marritza's confession as to why he disguised himself as Darhe'el. It gets me bawling.
Voyager's Real Life? That ruins me, every time.
Me too but this list thinks Voyager don't count
Holy balls I'm rewatching Voyager now and literally watched Real Life yesterday and balled my goddam eyes out. I teared up just thinking about it to write this comment!
Yeah, came to the comments to say the exact same thing. That final scene where his daughter's asking when she'll be able to see again ... I can't. I just can't.
oh yeah... that one is really a good one. That loss even if it was holographic was real.
OMG. The first time I saw Real Life, I cried like a baby at the end when Belle died. Even her brother, who acted like he was a Klingon, was in tears when she died.
Marritza's Bochco-esque death at the end of DS9's Duet, after Kira had realized who he really was, misted me up a bit.
I felt that was horribly ham fisted. It screamed juvenile writing to my tastes. Him leaving to no fanfare or crowds or martyrdom would have been far more impactful, IMO. That his attempts to make everyone see failed...
Great list...a couple more: 1) The Borg dying in front of Seven of Nine in the Voyager episode, "Drone", and 2) the confessions and then death of the Cardassian pretending to be a war criminal in DS9's , "Duet"...
"But why?! Why did you kill him?!!"
"He's Cardassian...isn't that enough?"
"NO!"
...bet Kira Nerys never thought she'd say *that*...
@@MishraArtificer it was a powerful episode...
Here's one no one has mentioned, but it's one of my favorite DS9 eps: Children of Time.
The Defiant crew meet their own descendants and realize their descendants would be wiped out of existence if they try to go back to DS9. They each slowly accept their new reality (slowest being O'Brien, since he has a wife and child on DS9), but all ultimately decide to stay, only to have the decision made for them.
The ep is kind of an outlier since it happens in the middle of the Dominion War, but it made an emotional impact on me.
And the absolute most heartbreaking thing about Sito and her mission is that at the time her pod was destroyed, she had actually completed her mission and escorted her Cardassian back to the sector.
It really was just a simple matter of dumb luck and fate calling her name.
You forgot to add trek III the death of the 1701.
My god Bones. What have I done?
I cried when Spock died. I cried harder when the ship died.
Lori B
Friend of mine said he got up and saluted when the 1701 died.
@@CathrineMacNiel That's the first thought I had when I read 2BitUser's comment!
Thanks for not forgetting Enterprise. I might have included when Trip was opening up to T'Pol and speaking about his sister in 'The Forgotten'
Or Sim!!!
@@2bituser569 Sim and baby Elizabeth were gut punches to me. Connor and Jolene performed so well in that last scene you honestly forget that they are actors and not parents mourning over the loss of there baby.
Jared Shaw
Oh yes Elizabeth too.
Trip and T'Pol such a being could not exist,
@@djackson4657 What?
Can't believe Drone didn't make it. Cito should definitely be higher. Can't make through either with dry eyes. I appreciate someone pointing out this specific element and thereby the range of Star Trek! Good job!
Adam, thank you! I think you and your crew nailed this list.. I haven't cried that much or that intensely for 10 solid minutes in my life... I felt drained after watching this all I wanted to do was be held by a loved one after.
The end of " Real Life" crushing
This is the one that immediately came to mind for me.
@@DannyOcean31 the way the episode started I was NOT prepared for the gut punch of that scene.
Oh my day's I know it was supposed to be a holographic simulation but it was so well written & acted.
"Real Life" is the one Star Trek episode I just can't go back and watch because of how expertly it hurts.
You nailed that one. The ending was soul crushing.
Fun fact: Patrick Stewart has gone on record stating that "Inner Light" is his favorite Star Trek episode.
Well done! Thank you.
Thanks for kicking me in the feels and getting me misty eyed through the whole vid.
A lot of people are forgetting the one where Dr crusher falls in love with a gho--I can’t even type that with a straight face 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
To me Spocks death was the saddest 🖖
Adam you and your team are doing such a great job with this channel!!!
How could he leave out the saddest Star Trek moment: Lwaxana Troi's repressed memories of her older daughter's drowning in "Dark Page?" That episode made me cry like a baby and gave me more respect for Majel Barret's acting chops.
What about Picard's confession to his brother in "Family" about what the Borg "made" him do?
Why the scare quotes? They *did* make him do it.
I think that's what he actually said
The moment that made me cry harder than any other in recent trek memory: there are two: The moment that Picard said Kestra's name - the entirety of Lwoxana's life played before my eyes, her pain, her dreams, her daughter who died, reese witherspoon as Hedril, Deanna comforting her mother, the thought of them together, the family coming back together, and when Picard finally met with Deanna and they hugged... omfg i'm choking up right now typing this. But the moment he said "Kestra" I literally had to pause the show and just sob.
I had to read your post twice before i realized what you were talking about. Yes, I agree. That scene hit me as well. I heard the name and realized the meaning behind it. It was sort of bittersweet. I thought it was nice that the writers took it in that direction.
Kirsten Dunst played Hedril, not Reece Witherspoon. But yes that is one of the saddest episodes on TNG.
What show is this from?
@@julier.1902 This was an episode of Picard. He caught up with Deanna, who had a daughter named Kestra. That was the name of Deannas deceased sister. The story in ST:TNG involved a character called Hedril.
All heartbreaking moments thanks for making this video
Such fun watching this channel and especially you, Adam. 15 minutes of Trekkie heaven. I cook dinner while listening and watching and this has become habbit. Thanx 🙏💪🖖