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Tear Jerker / Star Trek: Nemesis

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  • For all the flak it's taken, Data's death counts as a tear jerker. While Jerry Goldsmith's score definitely helps, seeing the other members of the crew so solemn and quiet afterwards, and in one case, burst into tears, really hammers it home that he's gone. It's even harder for people who grew up watching the show, and subsequent movies, for someone they followed through all the episodes, and all the adventures, is now gone forever...
    • The shocked look on Picard's face when Data slaps the transmitter enhancer on him really sells the scene.
    • As does Deanna's blubbering at the wake.
    • When Riker talks about first meeting Data, he mentions that he was whistling a song, but now he's having trouble remembering the title.note 
      • In Star Trek: Picard He hears the first few notes of the song, has a flashback to "Encounter at Farpoint", and whistles the last part of the song just as he did in that episode, meaning he was finally able to remember the song Data was whistling when they first met.
  • The scene when Data deactivated B-4 after rescuing Picard from Shinzon. Since he's an old prototype of Data and Lore, he wasn't programmed with everything that his "brothers" learned. He obviously didn't realize that he was betraying Picard and everyone on the Enterprise by giving Shinzon important information. He sounds so scared and childlike when he asks Data why he's being restrained and being deactivated.
    • Just imagine how Data must have felt. He had found his long-lost "brother" and he had helped reconstruct him, just like he did with Lore. He had to shut down another sibling because of what he had done.
  • Picard's last attempt to convince Shinzon to do a Heel–Face Turn. The look on Picard's face after Shinzon thoroughly rejects his plea is heartbreaking, especially when you consider Picard knows that that was what he would have become in Shinzon's circumstances.
    • Because of his age and connection to him, Picard at first regards Shinzon as something of a long-lost relative, even though he's not sure if he can trust him. Once he discovers Shinzon possesses the Thalaron ray, he ruefully confesses to Beverly he wanted to believe him.
    Picard: Whatever he's after, it isn't peace.
    Beverly: Is he a lot like you?
    Picard: ...Oh yes.

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