History TearJerker / StarTrekVoyager

** Watching how Janeway's reactions toward him change. At first, when she realizes he's insane and believes her to be his daughter, she embraces him with a disturbed look only the viewer can see. Later, once she learns what happened to his wife and why he's so determined the two of them must rescue her, she becomes more and more supportive of him--defending him to Darod, doing everything she can to protect him, and giving him a genuine embrace. At the last, when he and Augris end up in a MutualKill, she finally gives in to Caylem's delusion, telling him she is Ralkana, that they saved his wife, and both of them forgive him, [[LetThemDieHappy so he can die happy]]. The episode ends with her in her ready room, clutching [[TragicKeepsake Relkana's necklace]] as she gazes off with a teary-eyed, ThousandYardStare.

** Watching how Janeway's reactions toward him change. At first, when she realizes he's insane and believes her to be his daughter, she embraces him with a disturbed look only the viewer can see. Later, once she learns what happened to his wife and why he's so determined the two of them must rescue her, she becomes more and more supportive of him--defending him to Darod, doing everything she can to protect him, and giving him a genuine embrace. At the last, when he and Augris end up in a MutualKill, she finally gives in to Caylem's delusion, telling him she is Relkana, that they saved his wife, and both of them forgive him, [[LetThemDieHappy so he can die happy]]. The episode ends with her in her ready room, clutching [[TragicKeepsake Relkana's necklace]] as she gazes off with a teary-eyed, ThousandYardStare.

* "Prototype" has B'elanna trying to design a new power module for a dying race of robots. [[spoiler: She's so proud of creating a new prototype unit, but once she realizes that they're programmed to never stop fighting a war, she has no choice but to destroy her prototype.]]

** The caretaker is ultimately a sad, lonely, dying man, scared that his children can’t look after themselves, and Janeway clearly sees some of herself in it.

* 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.[[note]](Oh, and just to make things worse, she says that her son was serving aboard the USS ''Melbourne''. Which, if you don't remember, was the ship whose saucer section the Borg completely disintegrated with a single shot near the start of [=DS9's=] pilot episode. Her son was almost certainly killed in the opening seconds of the battle, and she spent her final minutes as an individual completely unaware of this fact)[[/note]]

* 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.
** It goes deeper than that. At first Janeway coldly claims that the Doctor's memory was altered because she and the crew saw him as nothing more than a malfunctioning piece of technology. But it's far too easy to hear the [[BlatantLies blatant lie]] in her voice. Just watching her, B'Elanna, Tom, and Harry's behavior throughout the episode, 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 their friend suffering.

** The whole Maquis thing brings up a {{Fridge}} Tearjerker: In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', [[spoiler: the feisty Bajoran crew member, Ro Laren,]] joins the Maquis, meaning that by now she's either dead or imprisoned.

** The Doc probably has it pretty bad in this, despite his abilities in the simulation he's still ultimately unable to save one of the very people his seeming invulnerability was meant to be used to protect.

* The death of RedShirt Bennett near the beginning of "Innocence" is surprisingly moving. As he's dying, he mentions that he regrets not having anyone back on Earth who will miss him. Tuvok tries to [[LetThemDieHappy help him die happy]], mentioning at least one female crewmember might mourn him. Th poor guy isn't given much time to contemplate that, as he dies seconds later.

* "Critical Care" features the Doctor being put to work in a hospital where [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the more "valuable" you are to society, the better treatment you get.]] Watching him trying to squeeze the system for any kind of justice for the "less worthy" patients on Red Level is brutal. It gets worse when he finds out the IllBoy he was treating with pilfered medicine died from a secondary infection. A secondary infection they didn't treat because [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the Doctor had already run through his allotment of medicine treating the original illness.]]

* "Lineage," pretty much as a whole once it starts digging in. First of all, it's got flashbacks to a camping trip with her father, overhearing him complaining about living with two Klingon women, later revealing that he left B'Elanna and her mother about two weeks later. These flashbacks are also filled with young B'Elanna feeling isolated and alone among her human cousins because of her Klingon heritage. Meanwhile, in the present, B'Elanna learns that she's pregnant. Because of the dominance of Klingon genetics, her daughter is going to have the distinctive cranial ridges. B'Elanna goes to extreme lengths, including reprogramming the Doctor, to do genetic modifications that will remove them, make her look human. When Tom confronts her, she breaks down in Sickbay, because of her fears that because she was part-Klingon, that was what drove her father away, and she doesn't want to drive Tom away. Then Tom assures her that he isn't going anywhere and wouldn't be against more children.

* It's become more and more common, as people learn about the CreativeDifferences and TroubledProduction issues from behind the scenes, to regret that Voyager seemed to have been hobbled by many decisions beyond the control of any individual writer or actor - the actors were told to tone down their performances, the writers struggled against the restrictions imposed on them by the executives and the networks, the infusion of new blood at various points (be it actors like Jeri Ryan or writers like Ron Moore) only seemed to wear the newcomer down, if not drive them away entirely... Even people who love what Voyager was regret that it never got the chance to really solidify an identity of its own - even the production codes simply continue the numbering of TNG.

* "Eye of the Needle". The ''Voyager'' crew was so damn close to getting home; the Romulan they meet is entirely willing to help transport them back. Until it's revealed that the wormhole also goes back 20 years in time and they're not about to change history just to take a shortcut across 70,000 light years. Oh that's right, they can just have said Romulan deliver a message to Starfleet at the right time to reassure them that the crew is all right and misses their loved ones dearly...except once the Romulan returns to his home time, Tuvok reveals that the poor guy died four years before their present time, and now the crew doesn't know if he was able to get the message through somehow...

* In "Extreme Risk", Torres dealing with depression and her utter inability to feel anything (caused by the death/imprisonment of the Maquis), so she starts hurting herself. Her utter apathy and numbness while Neelix tries to make her happy by giving her banana pancakes shows how far she's fallen.