Besides Tuvax being eliminated in voyager

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    9 months ago

    Best ‘best’ is hard to me to say; a lot of people don’t like, but i say “inner light”. As Picard receive the flute back and start playing, the emotional weight of the scene got me good.

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      9 months ago

      That episode hits so hard if you think of the idea that Picard sacrificed basically everything for his career. He never married, never had a family or settled down on some backwater planet.

      And then for a lifetime - in 27 minutes - he did. He got to have the life he never got to have.

      It just. My soul hurts for him. I still don’t know if it’s sad or beautiful or both but that episode tears my heart out every time.

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      The Inner Light was what finally got me into Star Trek.

      It’s not like I had never seen an episode, in fact I’d seen lots, but it was comfortable background noise I’d change the channel too as yet another repeat I had no context for aired. Always somehow a filler episode or the second part of a multi-episode arc. I’d written off Trek as pleasantly mediocre and wholly dependent on technobabble despite otherwise being an extremely keen sci-fi fan.

      Luckily, on some long forgotten forum, someone described an episode which sounded nothing like the Trek I had seen. As you said, the emotional weight got me good.