Star Trek: Voyager/Tear Jerker


Examples of Tear Jerkers in Star Trek: Voyager include:

  • Chakotay cradling the dead Janeway's body in "Coda", even if it turns out to be a hallucination. The anguished cry he lets out is absolutely heartbreaking.
  • The frozen bridge in "Timeless".
    • More than that, future Harry's breakdown over not being able to get Voyager home...and then his jubilation when he manages to save them at the last moment.
  • An amnesiac B'Elanna beginning to remember her old life and wondering if the similarly-amnesiac Tom will ever love her again in "Workforce".
  • Tuvok mourning Suder at the end of "Basics, Part II".
  • Tuvok saying goodbye to Janeway in "Year of Hell, Part II".
  • Seven's goodbye to Icheb in "Child's Play".
  • "Course: Oblivion" is one Tear Jerker after another.
  • 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.
  • "Drone":

Seven: You must comply! ... please ... you are hurting me.
One: You will adapt.

  • Tuvix trying to rally some support among the bridge crew. He's about to be executed, and he's literally committed no crime.
  • Seven trying to come to grips with glimpsing her holy grail in "The Omega Directive".

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 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 Downer Ending.



  • The "Year of Hell" two-parter packed many into a small space by virtue of being, well, a year of hell. Janeway sending most of the crew off for their own good. Poor, blinded Tuvok trying to shave by touch, and Seven becoming his ever-present helper. Janeway's tribute to the ship that's given them everything it had to give. Her farewell to the last few crew, who know they'll never see her again. Voyager crumpling like cardboard into the side of Annorax's ship... Nobody likes a Reset Button, but it's never come as a greater relief than in this wrenching story.
  • "Living Witness", one of the show's best episodes, involves a backup copy of the Doctor activated 700 years in the series' future. He fixes some revisionist history and brings peace to a whole world, but he'll be homesick for the rest of his life—all his crewmates died centuries ago. He sets off on a lonely journey to the Alpha Quadrant, and if he gets there, all he can hope to find are the descendants of his friends.
    • It's sad a lot of fans hate that episode because of the concept of a backup Doctor being ridiculous, although it is a logical idea. But the fact that all of his friends are gone and you can tell he misses them. When you discover he left, you really do hope he made it home. It's why The Doctor was one of the series most touching characters.
  • "Homestead". Laugh if you want, but I'm not ashamed to admit that Neelix's farewell scene is the only thing on TV that's actually made me cry. The first two times I saw it. More than any other Trek crew, Voyager's was a family, and Neelix was its heart.
  • "Equinox" was an odd episode, and had a notable amount of bad writing, But Ransom's last words were enough to make up for it.

Ransom: You've got a fine crew, Captain. Promise me you'll get them home.
Janeway:...I promise.

    • Oh, most definitely. It's bad enough I haven't seen the episode, but Ransom's death scene sounds horrible. The very concept is heartwrenching enough.
  • "Endgame"s ending where after 7 long years, Voyager finally makes it back to earth.
  • The ending of the episode "Blink Of An Eye", in which the lone astronaut (Daniel Dae Kim of Lost) who made it to Voyager and met the crew, watches the ship (considered by his society to be a god) finally warp away while sitting on a rock as an old man, with a look of heartbreak on his face. There's a reason why this is often included in the list of top Voyager episodes.
  • In "Real Life", the death of the Doctor's holographic daughter. Yes, she isn't real, but the effect it has on the Doctor is, and it's such an acute reminder of how painful ordinary life can be. What makes is sadder is that the Doctor could have just terminated the program, but he faced up to her death instead because otherwise he wouldn't have got anything out of the simulation.
  • I may be alone on this, but I found the end of the episode Maneuvers to be a mini-tearjerker; Chakotay does his best to rectify a situation he created, attempts to keep the crew out of danger, and is ultimately captured and tortured for it. And when he returns to Voyager, Janeway and he have this conversation which was the tearjerker For me—because of the emotion in Chakotay's voice, and knowing all the things that had already happened to him in this episode:

Janeway: I'm putting you on report, in case that means anything anymore.
Chakotay: It means something to me, Captain. It means I've let you down, and for that I'm truly sorry.

  • The ending of "The Chute," when Harry feels guilty about trying to kill Paris while they were in the alien prison, and Paris pauses for a moment before saying, "You want to know what I remember? Someone saying, 'This man is my friend. Nobody touches him.' I'll remember that for a long time."
  • "Jetrel" is actually quite similar to Deep Space Nine's "Duet" except this time it is Neelix who is confronting the scientist who created the weapon that destroyed his homeworld. Just before said scientist dies after trying everything to atone and reverse his mistakes, Neelix finally forgives him for his sins.
  • "Heroes and Demons": The scene where Freya dies in the Doctor's arms after sacrificing herself for him. Despite Freya being a hologram, the Doctor (obviously) finds her death no less real, and later he can't even bring himself to adopt the name he'd chosen for himself, as it reminded him of her.
  • "One Small Step". Kelly is an explorer to the last breath, and Seven is moved to tears (so naturally the audience is too).
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