History Heartwarming / StarTrekVoyager

* Sad as hell, but Lon Suder's HeroicSacrifice lets him [[RedemptionEqualsDeath redeem]] himself for his past crimes. Then there's Tuvok's words as he says his goodbye.

** Janeway mentions to Seven of Nine that her Borg designation is a little cumbersome, offering the suggestion that she use her birth name, Annika. Seven responds that she has been "Seven of Nine" for effectively as long as she can remember. Immediately, Janeway drops the idea and offers the shortening of "Seven," which Seven deems acceptable. In the moment, it's Janeway giving Seven her first real choice, a choice of who she wants to be. As time has gone on, and particularly in the use on ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' of Seven's experiences with her name as a mirror to the experience of trans people who have to fight to have their chosen names recognized, it's retroactively an extension of that metaphor.

* The scene in "Homestead" when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT89qGhv41U Tuvok dances for Neelix]]; after all this time we find that Tuvok really, honestly developed some serious respect for him. But that's just the tip of the iceberg - "Homestead" is an episode of heartwarming for Neelix. Some forty thousand light years from Talax and the rest of his entire species, Voyager discovers a colony of Talaxians struggling to establish a home. In helping to defend their colony, he finds himself torn between staying with them or going with ''Voyager.'' When they prepare to leave, Janeway, recognizing his conflict, makes a proposal -- ''Voyager'' and Starfleet need an official ambassador to the Delta Quadrant, which, if he accepts, allows him to stay with the Talaxians but also stay in contact with his friends and family on ''Voyager'', even as they continue their travel to Earth. Neelix, of course, accepts, and he gets a beautiful hero's sendoff, with [[FriendshipMoment the whole crew lining the corridor on his way to the shuttle bay.]] After GrowingTheBeard in the last few seasons, Neelix deserved it.[[note]]On a meta-note, those are actually extras and members of the crew who were put into uniforms, and put on camera, just to make it extra special for Ethan Phillips. Jeri Ryan later admitted she was "blubbering" while shooting this episode.[[/note]]

* Every time in the past the Federation has encountered the Borg has been a desperate, life-or death struggle that costs thousands of lives. Janeway decides to ''go out and hunt them'' in "Dark Frontier" in an attempt to steal a Transwarp Coil. Starfleet doesn't issue pants big enough to contain brass balls like that.

* The scene in "Homestead" when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT89qGhv41U Tuvok dances for Neelix]]; after all this time we find that Tuvok really, honestly developed some serious respect for him. But that's just the tip of the iceberg - "Homestead" is an episode of heartwarming for Neelix. Some forty thousand light years from Talax and the rest of his entire species, Voyager discovers a colony of Talaxians struggling to establish a home. In helping to defend their colony, he finds himself torn between staying with them or going with ''Voyager.'' When they prepare to leave, Janeway, recognizing his conflict, makes a proposal -- ''Voyager'' and Starfleet need an official ambassador to the Delta Quadrant, which, if he accepts, allows him to stay with the Talaxians but also stay in contact with his friends and family on ''Voyager'', even as they continue their travel to Earth. Neelix, of course, accepts, and he gets a beautiful hero's sendoff, with [[FriendshipMoment the whole crew lining the corridor on his way to the transporter.]] After GrowingTheBeard in the last few seasons, Neelix deserved it.[[note]]On a meta-note, those are actually extras and members of the crew who were put into uniforms, and put on camera, just to make it extra special for Ethan Phillips. Jeri Ryan later admitted she was "blubbering" while shooting this episode.[[/note]]

** When Chakotay is babbling nonsense, clearly hallucinating, and tells Janeway, "...he's got a few kilowatts on me, a few centimeters in height, but I can take him, Captain!" His tone of voice suggest he wants to do it for her and the crew. There's something heartwarming about the fact that even when he's too delusional to tell up from down, Chakotay still wants to serve Janeway and the crew.

*** On a smaller, personal level, consider who Tuvok assigned to particular roles. While Chakotay was the antagonist, Kes and Harry Kim are basically treated as "extras", and Neelix was quick to defect (likely based on what Tuvok knew of him at the time), the absence of the Doctor and B'Elanna can be attributed to neither of them having grabbed Tuvok's attention at this point. With this in mind, there's something moving about how Tuvok decided that Tom Paris was the only other prominent person on the crew (discounting himself) who would unquestionably be on Janeway's side in a mutiny, reflecting how he defied the initial prejudice against Tom to show him, not as a coward hiding behind Janeway, but a loyal ally who joins her in trying to retake the ship.

*** Particularly poignant when you consider that ''everyone'' on the ship -- even the lower-ranking crewmembers we don't see interacting with the Doctor that often -- must have agreed to sacrifice (or at least delay) their own chances to communicate with their loved ones on Earth so that the senior staff could defend the Doctor's rights as an individual in court; he might have started out as a simple back-up medical officer, but clearly everyone on ''Voyager'' agrees with Janeway's expressed sentiment that the Doctor deserves the same rights as the rest of the crew.

* In an interesting sense, the opening. It's a series of shots of Voyager flying through all kinds of scenic environments alone, with the soft but resolute and inspiring theme playing. This is a ship that's stuck on its own trying to get home, but that's OK. They crew have got quite the journey to go through, but also an amazing series of things to see and they're all in it together. Arguably, it's Star Trek's optimism, wonder, and camraderie at its purest.

* Tom and B’Elanna forging a tender connection in "Workforce" despite not remembering one another, and especially B’Elanna then slowly regaining her memories of their life together and realizing that far from being alone while expecting, she had a devoted partner that adores her to the point it ''beat brainwashing''.

* The young Q Junior in "Q2" making friends with Icheb after he's turned into a human, including the way they call each other [[InsultOfEndearment "Itchy" and "Q-ball"]]. When Icheb's life is endangered because of Junior's mistakes, Junior is even willing to sacrifice his life for his only friend. And at the end of the episode, a reempowered Junior repays [[HonoraryUncle "Aunt Kathy"]] for helping him by filling her office with roses.

* The scene in "Homestead" when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT89qGhv41U Tuvok dances for Neelix]]; after all this time we find that Tuvok really, honestly developed some serious respect for him. But that's just the tip of the iceberg - "Homestead" is an episode of heartwarming for Neelix. Some forty thousand light years from Talax and the rest of his entire species, Voyager discovers a colony of Talaxians struggling to establish a home. In helping to defend their colony, he finds himself torn between staying with them or going with ''Voyager.'' When they prepare to leave, Janeway, recognizing his conflict, makes a proposal -- ''Voyager'' and Starfleet need an official ambassador to the Delta Quadrant, which, if he accepts, allows him to stay with the Talaxians but also stay in contact with his friends and family on ''Voyager'', even as they continue their travel to Earth. Neelix, of course, accepts, and he gets a beautiful hero's sendoff, with [[FriendshipMoment the whole crew lining the corridor on his way to the transporter.]] After GrowingTheBeard in the last few seasons, Neelix deserved it.[[note]]On a meta-note, those are actually extras and members of the crew who were put into uniforms, and put on camera, just to make it extra special for Ethan Phillips. Jeri Ryan later admitted she was "blubbering" while shooting this episode.[[/note]]

* "Author, Author" had a short but great one. When Voyager gets its first visual link with the Alpha Quadrant, Barclay relays them a live image of Earth.
** Seven of Nine gets a little one of her own. Since she joined the crew, [[DoNotCallMePaul she's always hated being called Annika.]] Then she gets the chance to talk to her aunt from Earth for the first time since before she was assimilated. Her aunt, delighted to see her again, calls her by that name, and Seven is notably silent.
** In general, the crew defending the Doctor's rights as a sentient being is just a joy to watch, showing that he really did earn everyone's respect over the years with his CharacterDevelopment. Janeway in particular makes an impassioned defense, demonstrating how far she's come since "Latent Image."
*** Particularly poignant when you consider that ''everyone'' on the ship -- even the lower-ranking crewmembers we don't see interacting with the Doctor that often -- must have agreed to sacrifice (or at least delay) their own chances to communicate with their loved ones on Earth so that the senior staff could defend the Doctor's rights as an individual in court; he might have started out as a simple back-up medical officer, but clearly everyone on ''Voyager'' agrees with Janeway's expressed sentiment that the Doctor deserves the same rights as the rest of the crew.

** "Flashback" takes us back to when Tuvok served on the ''Excelsior''--showing how Captain Sulu reacted to [[Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry Kirk and McCoy being arrested and put on trial]]. Also a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
-->'''Sulu:''' You'll find that more happens on the bridge of a starship than just carrying out orders and observing regulations. There is a sense of loyalty to the men and women you serve with; a sense of family. Those two men on trial... I served with them for a long time. I owe them my life a dozen times over. And right now they're in trouble, and I'm going to help them; let the regulations be damned.\\

'''Sulu:''' ''You better believe it.'' Helm, '''engage!'''
** A small detail but, Janeway smiling whenever Rand gave Tuvok a friendly ribbing.

* Twofold one in "Worst Case Scenario." First, Tuvok had set aside the Insurrection Alpha training program, meant to train his security personnel for the event of the Maquis crew revolting and taking over the ship, when he realized that the crews were getting along better than he'd expected and believed that it might create the situation it was meant to prevent (logical or not, it's still heartwarming to realize how much a Vulcan cares about morale).
** Then, when it IS discovered by the crew, rather than being something the fractures and divides them, there's a great deal of fascination and genuine enthusiasm for the idea of basically [=LARPing=] themselves in a situation that none of them believe will happen - after three years, the Voyager crew are a single crew, and the division of "Starfleet" and "Maquis" means nothing in practice anymore, and instead of a tactical training program, they're seeing it as almost a community endeavor and entertainment.
* In "Scorpion," Janeway struggles with the choice between pushing on into Borg space to get home and risking assimilation, or turning the ship around and asking her crew to live out their lives in the Delta Quadrant. Chakotay responds by just being TrueCompanions personified.

* In "The Gift", Kes' powers suddenly surge and she is forced to leave the ship before she inadvertently destroys it as she [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence becomes an energy being]]. The episode's title comes from her last line: ''my gift to you''. In gratitude to the ship's crew, she sends the ship about 10,000 light-years ahead, significantly reducing their journey. And just before the credits roll, Tuvok dresses in his formal Vulcan robes and lights a meditation candle in the window of his quarters as a tribute to her while the camera pans out into space. Also a ''huge'' TearJerker, if you're a big Kes fan (and many ''Voyager'' fans are).

* Tuvok, though Neelix pesters him to immediately read the letter from his wife, intends to complete the work he's doing first. Neelix says that he inadvertently read the first few lines when checking to see who it was for, and reads them out to Tuvok, revealing that his eldest son has taken a mate and fathered a daughter, making Tuvok a newly minted grandfather. Neelix leaves, Tuvok resumes his work for a moment...then succumbs to the desire to read the rest of the letter. That's touching coming from a guy who's ostensibly emotionless.