Star Trek: Deep Space Nine/Tear Jerker: Difference between revisions

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* And let's not forget [[Cruel Twist Ending|the end of "Duet"]].

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-YyL7X4CWw&feature=related The final monologue to "In the Pale Moonlight"] sprung tears, perhaps [[Manly Tears]].

** Suffice it to say that if ''Deep Space Nine'' wants you to cry, you ''will'' cry.

* An unusual entry, I know, but, Nog's true [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcATQUFsz68 reasons for wanting to join Starfleet] always made me feel absolutely awful. The look on Captain Sisko's face throughout made it even worse; he almost looked ashamed of himself.

** It's also [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], considering that Nog's failure of a father becomes the Grand Nagus and leads a successful top-down revolution of the way Ferengi do business.

* Time's Orphan, 8-year old girl stranded, alone, 300 years in the past. Brought back as a feral girl 10 years (relative to her) later. Eventually, her parents have to send her BACK as her only shot at being happy. Sorry chief, looks like being [[The Woobie]] runs in the family.

** This one ends up inverted though. Feral-Molly ends up arriving in the past mere minutes after her younger self and ends up performing a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to send the little girl home, choosing to negate her own existence in the process. So it's a happy ending, but still tear jerking on behalf of Feral Molly.

** That only added to the tears. Would list all the things that add to the tears but that turned into a synopsis (minus the Kirayoshi subplot). This troper would put this episode on a Tear Jerker level with Jurassic Bark (if not higher). After watching it had to go back to the Ferengi episode just prior to stop sniffling.

* Hell, the first episode ''starts'' with a [[Tear Jerker]] as Sisko is dragged kicking and screaming from his wife's half-buried body.

'''Sisko:''' Dammit, we just can't leave her here! }}

** And later when Sisko meets the Prophets and has to confront his own refusal to move on because he doesn't know how to live without her:

'''Sisko''': [sobs] No. It's not linear. }}

* Weyoun... poor, poor Weyoun. Not just his death(s), but his entire existence, really. Particularly the "defective" one who died in Odo's arms after a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. But even the look on one of the regular Weyouns's face when one of his Gods (who would throw away his life in a heartbeat, if she had a heart at all) refers to him as a trustworthy and loyal servant.

* Remata'Klan's [[Honor Before Reason]] death at the end of "Rocks and Shoals":

'''Remata Klan''': It is not my life to give up, Captain-and it never was. }}

* There's also "Ties of Blood and Water" and the death of Tekeny Ghemor. Becomes bittersweet when Kira, after initially refusing to speak to him after discovering that he took part in an attack during the Cardassian Occupation (he was nineteen years old and was told that the people he killed were smuggling weapons), chooses to forgive the man who has come to think of her as a daughter and buries him on Bajor beside her real father (whose dying moments she had been unable to face, choosing instead to go out and hunt down the Cardassians who had killed him). She found the strength to stay by Tekeny's side and her description of his final, struggling breaths is heart-wrenching.

 

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