History TearJerker / StarTrekVoyager

* The end of the episode "Hunters", when the signal from Starfleet destabilizes and the relay network Voyager had used to contact the Alpha Quadrant goes offline. For the first time in three years, the crew had contact with home, and they were getting letters from their friends and family, and all too soon it's snatched away. Tom and B'Elanna's reactions are especially {{TearJerker}}-y, with B'Elanna finding out that all her Maquis friends are dead or imprisoned and Tom dreading hearing from his admiral father only to never get a chance to read his letter.

--> '''Seven:''' For 3.2 seconds...I saw perfection. When Omega stabilized, I felt a curious sensation. As I was watching it, it seemed to be watching me. The Borg have assimilated many species, with mythologies to explain such moments of clarity. I've always dismissed them as trivial. Perhaps I was wron

** It goes deeper than that. At first Janeway coldly claims that the Doctors memory was altered because she and the crew saw him as nothing more than a malfunctioning piece of technology. But it's far to easy to hear the [[BlatantLies blatant lie]] in her voice. Just watching her, B'Elanna, Tom, and Harry's behavior throughout the episode and you can see that they didn't erase his memories because they were inconvenient. They did it because they ''care'' about him and they didn't wont to see they're friend suffering.

* An amnesiac B'Elanna beginning to remember her old life and wondering if the similarly-amnesiac Tom will ever love her again in "Workforce".

* One of the assimilated personalities that Seven channels in "Infinite Regress" is an older woman who was going to meet her son, a Starfleet lieutenant, at Wolf 359 when the Borg attacked. Unaware of the nine years since then, or that she was herself taken by the Borg, she begs Janeway to help her find him and tell him that his mother is all right.
** It's Fridge Tearjerking, but there's also the personality of the girl who's about Naomi's (physical) age - we see Seven acting like a kid, smiling and just looking for fun. The stark contrast to standard Seven, combined with the knowledge that she never got to be like this before in her life...

* Tuvix trying to rally some support among the bridge crew. He's about to be executed, and he's literally committed no crime.

--> '''Seven:''' For 3.2 seconds...I saw perfection. When Omega stabilized, I felt a curious sensation. As I was watching it, it seemed to be watching me. The Borg have assimilated many species, with mythologies to explain such moments of clarity. I've always dismissed them as trivial. Perhaps I was wrong.
* The Doctor's breakdown when learning [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone what really happened]] during ''Latent Image,'' and his attempts to deal with it in the end, with the crew keeping a round the clock vigil to ensure that he avoids another system crash.

* The ending of Unforgetable, only Chakotay's writing everything down on paper manages to prevent a complete DownerEnding.
* "Threshold" may be one of the worst episodes of any ''Trek'' series, but still gives us a marvelously acted moment by Robert Picardo as the Doctor starts to put his hand of Kes' shoulder after Tom's death, then backs off.

* In the episode "Real Life," when the Doctor's fictional daughter Belle [[spoiler:is fatally injured in a sports accident. At first he ends the program at her deathbed, unable to stand it. Tom convinces him to go back and see it through, reminding him that real families don't have that choice. The Doctor and his family--at that point, reprogrammed to be more difficult--gather at Belle's bed, and the Doctor has to tell his daughter that she's going to die. It ends on the Doctor and his family pulled together in grief after Belle passes on]].

* The end of the episode "Hunters", when the signal from Starfleet destabilizes and the relay network Voyager had used to contact the Alpha Quadrant goes offline. For the first time in three years, the crew had contact with home, and they were getting letters from their friends and family, and all too soon it's snatched away. Tom and B'Elanna's reactions are especially {{TearJerker}}-y, with B'Elanna finding out that all her Maquis friends are dead or imprisoned and Tom dreading hearing from his admiral father only to never get a chance to read his letter.

* The Doctor [[spoiler:or rather a backup copy of him recovered 700 years in the future]] gets one in ''Living Witness.'' Not only does he struggle to cope with the fact that the ''Voyager'' crew [[spoiler: are long dead by this point]], but also the realization that his very rediscovery is bringing centuries-old tensions on the alien world he's on to their breaking point. He eventually becomes so distressed that he practically ''begs'' to be deactivated. [[spoiler:Fortunately though, it gets resolved.]]

* That poor old crazy codger in ''Resistance'' who thinks Janeway is his daughter. The fascistic Mokra have so thoroughly destroyed him that there's hardly a scrap of a man left.

** Made worse by the fact that this episode aired on [[TwistedChristmas December 17th, 1997.]] Two years later, however, we got a [[HeartwarmingMoments good TearJerker]] episode based on a similar subject, only B'Elanna is on the receiving end, where she goes to [[spoiler: Klingon Hell to successfully rescue her mother.]]

** Made worse by the fact that this episode aired on [[TwistedChristmas December 17th, 1997.]] Two years later, however, we got a [[HeartwarmingMoments good TearJerker episode based on a similar subject, only B'Elanna is on the receiving end, where she goes to [[spoiler: Klingon Hell to successfully rescue her mother]]

* The episode, "Mortal Coil" counts as this for poor Neelix. After dying (and staying dead for 18 hours), he's revived and brought back to life. Sounds like a reason to celebrate, right? Wrong. Neelix believed that after death, his spirit would journey to a place called the great forest, reunite with his dead loved ones, and journey together to the afterlife. What did he experience? ''Nothing.'' The rest of the episode follows him as he tries to make sense of what happened, and realizing that his life-long beliefs about the afterlife may have been a lie. Even worse is when he tries a vision quest, and encounters his long dead sister, who says [[CessationOfExistence the afterlife is a lie]], and mocks him for believing in it. As one of the series writers put it, "What would be worse than having your own dead grandmother come back and say, 'You know, there is no God. This is all a figment of your imagination, you're going to die, and there's nothing after. You disappear, and that's that. See ya!" Poor Neelix...

* The episode, "Mortal Coil" counts as this for poor Neelix. After dying (and staying dead for 18 hours), he's revived and brought back to life. Sounds like a reason to celebrate, right? Wrong. Neelix believed that after death, his spirit would journey to a place called the great forest, reunite with his dead loved ones, and journey together to the afterlife. What did he experience? ''Nothing.'' The rest of the episode follows him as he tries to make sense of what happened, and realizing that his life-long beliefs about the afterlife may have been a lie. Even worse is when he tries a vision quest, and encounters his long dead sister, who says [[CessationOfExistence the afterlife is a lie]], and mocks him for believing in it. As one of the series writers put it, "What would be worse than having your own dead grandmother come back and say, 'You know, there is no God. This is all a figment of your imagination, you're going to die, and there's nothing after. You disappear, and that's that. See ya!" Poor Neelix...
** This Episode originally Aired on December 17th, 1997, '''one week before Christmas.'''. Jim Wright, an online reviewer who followed the show by doing line-by-line recaps described it as "A wonderful life it ain't. it's more like a cross between ''Flatliners'' and Spinal Tap's ''Christmas in Hell''." He gave the episode a well-deserved 666 out of 1000 stars, and later settled on rating it as a one star episode, saved for episodes he never hopes to be subjected to again.

** This Episode originally Aired on December 17th, 1997, '''one week before Christmas.'''. Jim Wright, an online reviewer who followed the show by doing line-by-line recaps discribed it as "A wonderful life it ain't. it's more like a cross between ''Flatliners'' and Spinal Tap's ''Christmas in Hell''. He gave the episode a well-deserved 666 out of 1000 stars, and later settled on rating it as a one star episode, saved for episodes he never hopes to be subjected to again.

** This Episode originally Aired on December 17th, 1997, '''one week before Christmas.'''. Jim Wright, an online reviewer who followed the show by doing line-by-line recaps discribed it as "A wonderful life it ain't. it's more like a cross between ''Flatliners'' and Spinal Tap's ''Christmas in Hell''. He gave the episode a well-deserved 666 out of 1000 stars, and later settled on rating it as a one star review, saved for episodes he never hopes to be subjected to again.

** This Episode originally Aired on December 17th, 1997, '''one week before Christmas.'''. he gave the episode a well-deserved 666 out of 1000 stars, and later settled on rating it as a one star review, saved for episodes he never hopes to be subjected to again.

* The episode, "Mortal Coil" counts as this for poor Neelix. After dying (and staying dead for 18 hours), he's revived and brought back to life. Sounds like a reason to celebrate, right? Wrong. Neelix believed that after death, his spirit would journey to a place called the great forest, reunite with his dead loved ones, and journey together to the afterlife. What did he experience? ''Nothing.'' The rest of the episode follows him as he tries to make sense of what happened, and realizing that his life-long beliefs about the afterlife may have been a lie. Even worse is when he tries a vision quest, and encounters his long dead sister, who says [[CessationOfExistence the afterlife is a lie]], and mocks him for believing in it. As one of the series writers put it, "What would be worse than having your own dead grandmother come back and say, 'You know, there is no God. This is all a figment of your imagination, you're going to die, and there's nothing after. You disappear, and that's that. See ya!" Poor Neelix...

* "Course: Oblivion" is one TearJerker after another.

* "Threshold" may be one of the worst episodes of any ''Trek'' series, but still gives us a marvelously acted moment by Robert Picardo as the Doctor starts to put his hand of Kes' shoulder after Tom's death, then backs off.

* The ending of Unforgetable, only Chakotay's writing everything down on paper manages to prevent a complete DownerEnding.

* The ending of Unforgetable, only Chakotay's writting everything down on paper manages to prevent a complete DownerEnding.

* The ending of Unforgetable, only Chakotay's writting everything donw on paper manages to prevent a complete DownerEnding.

* The Doctor's breakdown when learning [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone what really happened]] during ''Latent Image,'' and his attempts to deal with it in the end, with the crew keeping a round the clock vigil to ensure that he avoids another system crash.

* "Course: Oblivion" is one TearJerker after another.