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* It's pretty damn sad when Abraham Lincoln (yes, Abraham Lincoln) is attempting to console Surak, assuming Surak is simply too overwhelmed with self-recrimination to respond. But the heel team killed him already when he approached them unarmed to negotiate for peace, and then they left his dead body sitting tied up.
--> '''Lincoln:''' It was a worthy effort, Surak. Worthy. No need to blame yourself before its failure.
* It's pretty damn sad when Abraham Lincoln (yes, Abraham Lincoln) is attempting to console Surak, assuming Surak is simply too overwhelmed with self-recrimination to respond. But the heel team killed him already when he approached them unarmed to negotiate for peace, and then they left his dead body sitting tied up.
--> '''Lincoln:''' It was a worthy effort, Surak. Worthy. No need to blame yourself before its failure.
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* Spock's horrified expression when he comes out of the blood fever and realizes what happened. You can easily imagine [[ItsAllMyFault what]] the poor guy [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone is thinking]] as he shuts down. Dealing with Kirk's death under normal circumstances (say, if a mission went wrong) would be heartbreaking enough, but Spock wakes up to find himself standing over his best friend's lifeless body, the weapon that killed him still in his hands. [[spoiler: At least it turns out that McCoy gave Kirk a shot of what turned out to be a neuroparalyzer to fake Kirk’s death.]]
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* Spock's horrified expression when he comes out of the blood fever and realizes what happened. You can easily imagine [[ItsAllMyFault what]] the poor guy [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone is thinking]] as he shuts down. Dealing with Kirk's death under normal circumstances (say, if a mission went wrong) would be heartbreaking enough, but Spock wakes up to find himself standing over his best friend's lifeless body, the weapon that killed him still in his hands. [[spoiler: At least it turns out that McCoy [=McCoy=] gave Kirk a shot of what turned out to be a neuroparalyzer to fake Kirk’s death.]]
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* When Kirk is assumed and later declared dead, Spock and [=McCoy=] argue without him as a balancing presence, and one crewmember is completely hysterical at the memorial service and has to be sedated. Later, they review Kirk's video will where he tells Spock to trust [=McCoy's=] intuition and [=McCoy=] to trust Spock's logic, and they both apologize to one another before trying to move on.
-->'''Kirk:''' Spock, you have control of the ship and are probably making the most difficult decisions of your career. I can offer only one small piece of advice, for whatever it's worth. Use every scrap of knowledge and logic you have to save the ship. But temper your judgment with intuitive insight. I believe you have those qualities, but if you can't find them in yourself, seek out [=McCoy=]. Ask his advice. And if you find it sound, take it. Bones, you've heard what I've just told Spock. Help him if you can. But remember he is the Captain. His decisions must be followed without question. You might find that he is capable of human insight and human error. They are most difficult to defend, but you will find that he is deserving of the same loyalty and confidence each of you have given me. Take care.
* When Kirk is assumed and later declared dead, Spock and [=McCoy=] argue without him as a balancing presence, and one crewmember is completely hysterical at the memorial service and has to be sedated. Later, they review Kirk's video will where he tells Spock to trust [=McCoy's=] intuition and [=McCoy=] to trust Spock's logic, and they both apologize to one another before trying to move on.
-->'''Kirk:''' Spock, you have control of the ship and are probably making the most difficult decisions of your career. I can offer only one small piece of advice, for whatever it's worth. Use every scrap of knowledge and logic you have to save the ship. But temper your judgment with intuitive insight. I believe you have those qualities, but if you can't find them in yourself, seek out [=McCoy=]. Ask his advice. And if you find it sound, take it. Bones, you've heard what I've just told Spock. Help him if you can. But remember he is the Captain. His decisions must be followed without question. You might find that he is capable of human insight and human error. They are most difficult to defend, but you will find that he is deserving of the same loyalty and confidence each of you have given me. Take care.
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* Kirk, Spock and [=McCoy=] all act like they’ve been abused after the first bout of MindRape. They’re angry and hurt and very quiet about it, especially Spock, who needs reassurance that Kirk is alright and says he has to control his rage -- [[NotSoStoic right before breaking a vase he's holding]]. Alexander’s rage after realising it’s not him to blame but the Platonians, is also affecting.#
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* At the time, Nurse Chapel's confession of her feelings for Spock was more played for laughs, especially considering that she was being introduced in this episode. [[CerberusRetcon However,]] after ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'' has established that Chapel and Spock have known each other for years, her admission becomes all the more heartbreaking, knowing how long that these feelings have weighed on her, and how long she has kept this to herself.
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* At the time, Nurse Chapel's confession of her feelings for Spock was more played for laughs, especially considering that she was being introduced in this episode. [[CerberusRetcon However,]] after ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'' has established that Chapel and Spock have known each other for years, her admission becomes all the more heartbreaking, knowing how long that these feelings have weighed on her, and how long she has kept this to herself.
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* Spock's horrified expression when he comes out of the blood fever and realizes what happened. You can easily imagine [[ItsAllMyFault what]] the poor guy [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone is thinking]] as he shuts down. Dealing with Kirk's death under normal circumstances (say, if a mission went wrong) would be heartbreaking enough, but Spock wakes up to find himself standing over his best friend's lifeless body, the weapon that killed him still in his hands.
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* Spock's horrified expression when he comes out of the blood fever and realizes what happened. You can easily imagine [[ItsAllMyFault what]] the poor guy [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone is thinking]] as he shuts down. Dealing with Kirk's death under normal circumstances (say, if a mission went wrong) would be heartbreaking enough, but Spock wakes up to find himself standing over his best friend's lifeless body, the weapon that killed him still in his hands. [[spoiler: At least it turns out that McCoy gave Kirk a shot of what turned out to be a neuroparalyzer to fake Kirk’s death.]]
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** The episode makes it clear that Charlie could do precisely the same thing to the Thasians that he did to the humans yet his actions would have been harmless to the Thasians -- ''the only race he remembers being around until he was picked up less than a month ago.'' He makes people disappear, but Thasians disappear and reappear all the time; he changes people into other lifeforms, but Thasians have no set form at all. One is left with the impression that he has only a child's understanding of what death really is.
** The ending hits hard anyone who ever tried to escape a nightmarish home life only to have the police return one right back into the hands of the abusive parents.
** The ending hits hard anyone who ever tried to escape a nightmarish home life only to have the police return one right back into the hands of the abusive parents.
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* Spock's reaction to the Psi 2000 virus. The incurably [[TheStoic stoic]] Vulcan [[BrokenTears breaks down]] in [[InelegantBlubbering sobs]]. His explanation to Kirk of his regrets might also count, especially since Kirk is too pressed for time to listen.
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* Spock's reaction to the Psi 2000 virus. The incurably [[TheStoic stoic]] Vulcan [[BrokenTears breaks down]] in [[InelegantBlubbering sobs]]. It's one of the most famous scenes in the entire show, and it was devised by Nimoy himself, with Roddenberry's okay and director Marc Daniels' help. Nimoy described to Daniels how the scene should be set up, the table here, the chair here, and the camera angle like this. The scene was originally written that Spock would stagger down the corridor alternately laughing, crying, and so forth. Instead, as he conceived it, he begins to cry and quickly ducks into an empty conference room, tries vainly to collect himself, and collapses into a chair, sobbing hysterically. You can see his struggle to maintain control right up to the point he is alone, and you can't tell if his Vulcan control slips now that he's alone, or that it finally gave out and, for dignity's sake, he was lucky enough to find a private place when it did. It was [[TheOner all done in one take]], and the crew were so involved that when the production manager objected to the time it would take to light it properly, they alerted Nimoy so he could explain why it was important. He was right, too. When "The Naked Time" was aired, Nimoy's mail leaped from a few hundred to ten thousand letters a week.
** His explanation to Kirk of his regrets might also count, especially since Kirk is too pressed for time to listen.
** His explanation to Kirk of his regrets might also count, especially since Kirk is too pressed for time to listen.
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* The death of the man who was about to be married in "Balance of Terror" and [[WidowedAtTheWedding his fiancée's]] reaction at the end of the episode, is probably the saddest death in the series.
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* Poor Yeoman Thompson, [[WouldHitAGirl the only female red shirt to die onscreen in TOS]], who was turned into a mineral cube by Rojan and crushed. While most of these one-shot characters who are killed off aren't portrayed in a sad way, she and Shea were [[MauveShirt slightly fleshed out as characters]], and her death was more impactful on the main cast than the typical RedShirt death.
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* The deaths of so many [[RedShirt Red Shirts]]. Yes, the death of Red Shirts was a RunningGag, but let's be honest: Some of these deaths were very heartbreaking.
** Poor Yeoman Thompson, [[WouldHitAGirl the only female red shirt to die onscreen in TOS]], who was turned into a mineral cube by Rojan and crushed in "By Any Other Name."
** The young engineer Harper who got vaporized by a plasma flow activated by M-5 to restore its power supply. The worst part is how [[MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal Daystrom]] tried to rationalize it as Harper simply "getting in the way."
** While it's not mentioned afterward ([[ForgottenFallenFriend figures]]), the two security officers who got beamed into open space while Sulu and Chekov were under the induced illusion that the ship was still in orbit of a planet in "And the Children Shall Lead." Poor guys...
** The death of the man who was about to be married in "Balance of Terror" and [[WidowedAtTheWedding his fiancée's]] reaction at the end of the episode, is probably the saddest one in the series.
** Galloway, the young man from "The Omega Glory" who was killed not by an enemy race or savage monster, but by a rogue Starfleet captain -- one of his brothers-in-arms.
** Part of this is that, RunningGag it may have become, to Kirk, [[AFatherToHisMen the fact that these crewmen died on his watch is clearly a personal failing]]--he may have saved the ship, but his role as captain is to protect those men and women under his command, so to him, not coming home with everyone means he still failed. Combine that with the number of crewmen killed during the series, and the poor captain seriously comes off as a StoicWoobie.
* "Literature/TheAutobiographyOfJamesTKirk" fills in a lot of gaps, from the point of view of Kirk himself, and when it's not being full of ironic {{call forward}}s, it's filled with sad.
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* It's only several episodes later before we figure out ''[[Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing why]]'', but what’s happening - a group of people left alone after a “clean” massacre, food running out, assumes that kids just want protection and comfort - is clearly CloseToHome to Kirk. Sure “no blah blah blah!” is ridiculous, but in context he’s desperately begging the kids to listen, and is losing his mind at the thought of these children reliving similar circumstances to those he went through.
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* Kirk himself gets a few of these. While the episode doesn't provide very many details about what he witnessed/endured, it's clear every time the massacre comes up that he's still hurting deeply over it. Keep in mind that while it's not stated in the episode itself, series canon ultimately established that Kirk was ''thirteen'' at the time [[note]]this was not the original intention of the script, as a deleted line would have revealed that Kirk was already in Starfleet at the time of the massacre, but the way the timeline ultimately fell out just makes everything about the situation that much more poignant[[/note]].
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* The scene where, in an attempt to cure Spock of the parasitic infection, [=McCoy=] exposes him to intense light, comparable to that of the system's sun. The cure works. . .but leaves Spock blind.
** What's worse, [=McCoy=] receives test results that clearly show he ''didn't need to'', that the parasite would have died without Spock having to be blinded in the process. [=McCoy=] is gutted, and Kirk looks at his old friend with barely-contained ''fury'':
** What's worse, [=McCoy=] receives test results that clearly show he ''didn't need to'', that the parasite would have died without Spock having to be blinded in the process. [=McCoy=] is gutted, and Kirk looks at his old friend with barely-contained ''fury'':
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** What's worse, [=McCoy=] receives test results shortly thereafter that clearly show he ''didn't need to'', that the parasite would have died without Spock having to be blinded in the process. [=McCoy=] is gutted, and Kirk looks at his old friend with barely-contained ''fury'':
** What's worse, [=McCoy=] receives test results shortly thereafter that clearly show he ''didn't need to'', that the parasite would have died without Spock having to be blinded in the process. [=McCoy=] is gutted, and Kirk looks at his old friend with barely-contained ''fury'':
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* As awful as he is, evil Kirk pathetically sobbing and begging that he doesn’t want to die.
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* The end after “Requiem For Methuselah” The latter had Kirk break down after being used yet again, so when Odona complains how he can look at her and he dismisses it, it makes him look like a StepfordSmiler.
* The end after “Requiem For Methuselah” The latter had Kirk break down after being used yet again, so when Odona complains how he can look at her and he dismisses it, it makes him look like a StepfordSmiler.
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* When Kirk plans to self destruct to kill the machine and beam out at the last second, Spock has the very real worry that Kirk is suicidal like Decker. Already known complete lack of self-preservation aside, Kirk doesn’t plan to kill himself, but muses later that dying to save others isn’t the worst way to go.
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* After Decker dies, Spock tries to offer his condolences, and as in common with him in a HeroicBSOD, Kirk goes quiet and can’t even seem to talk at first.
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-->'''Kirk''': I also have the option to disregard those orders if I consider them overly hazardous. This isn't that important a mission, Spock. Not worth the lives of three of my men. I drop my guard for a minute because I like the smell of growing things, and now three men are dead.
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** Kirk is in such a quiet ThousandYardStare state that Uhura and Scotty, initially excited to see the trio back so soon, cotton on fast that something is wrong, but neither push it.
