Besides Tuvax being eliminated in voyager
TNG: The First Duty, where Picard lectures Wesley. Such a powerful scene.
“The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it’s scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based, and if you can’t find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don’t deserve to wear that uniform.”
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For me it has to be the end of In The Pale Moonlight
So I will learn to live with it…Because I can live with it…I can live with it.
Computer – erase that entire personal log.
Gives me chills
I love the contrast between these two themes
I was going to post the same thing.
I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would.
Just… god damn it hits hard. Also Sisko’s change in tone turning the final “I can live with it” into a question.
“It’s a faaake!”
Toss up between Quark hacking the defiant computer to replicate drinks into his advertising cups or him and rom popping out from a jefferies tube in Sisko’s office… mostly because Sisko had previously just been staring off into space and then immediately goes back to just staring off into space.
“If you don’t have these little ‘advertisements’ cleaned up by the time we get back, I’LL come to Quark’s… and believe me, I’ll have FUN.”
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.
Inner light wrecks me.
When Mariner and Boimler show up in Strange New Worlds, played by their actual voice actors. Fantastic episode.
This is my personal favorite moment. It’s a distillation of pretty much everything I like about Star Trek in one conversation.
Pretty much the entirety of Waltz from DS9. https://youtu.be/R2HY50xw3WU
Dukat usually appears like he’s trying to be a good person, despite all the terrible things that happened under his watch. But this episode breaks that down until he finally stops lying to himself.
Don’t worry Captain, it is logical. The needs of the many outweigh
The needs of the few
…or the one.
Easily the most powerful moment is all of Star Trek.
I just love the DS9 episode “In The Pale Moonlight”, it shows that the federation can be just as capable of being bad guys as the other factions.
“I’m a doctor, not a bricklayer.”
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Man, now you just trollin’.
I get a laugh out of Sisko doing a silly child’s dance in Lethal Candyland, in that episode of DS9 when they make first contact with a bunch of gambling aliens. “Allamarane! Count to four! Allamarane! Then three more!” It’s those little moments in Star Trek where respected actors humiliate themselves for the sake of the plot that are just so great to watch. See also Armin Shimerman as the silvery announcement box in one of the early TNG episodes.
Picard on the meme planet.
The court room scene in Measure of a Man when Picard turns around to the viewer “do you?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol2WP0hc0NY
The scene with Guinan in that episode was also quite important
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T9TUeapBSQ
The black and white vs. white and black faces in the TOS episode “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” were quite brillant too.
For me, it’s This
In the episode Natural Law Seven is stranded on a planet with Chakotay. She’s anxious about getting stuck there with the natives and she goes off alone to find a part of the ship they need in order to be rescued. In contrast Chakotay trusts the situation and is fascinated by the local people.
On her mission she accidentally loses her tricorder and reality suddenly sets in. She’s a control freak and now she’s all alone in a dangerous jungle and it’s getting dark. In her despair she regresses back to her childhood self, which is all she truly has left. She’s a helpless 7 year old girl who’s going to die.
A native girl finds and saves her. Seven manages to get her to understand her mission and they continue together.
However the girl takes her to see a beautiful waterfall. At first Seven is confused and upset because she needs to find the part. However the girl is adamant about it and eventually she starts to see the beauty. It’s exactly what she needed and the girl knew that all along.
I think this moment can teach us a lot about ourselves and our relationship to technology and beauty.
