BBC America plays Star Trek NG episodes early every morning while I am having my first cup of coffee.  This morning was a special treat.  No Romulans.  No Ferengis.  No being trapped in a nebula with no visible means of escape.  If it's a good episode I'll watch it for an hour and sip my coffee.

This morning was a special treat.  My absolute favorite episode.

Jean-Luc lives an entire adult lifetime on a dying planet.  He has a wife, children and a grandson.  He grows old.  His wife and best friend die but he keeps going trying to find a way to stop or mitigate the warming of the planet.  Picard gains a family and a flute he plays rather badly.  But he gets to experience the joys and sorrows of being a family man.

It's a wonderful episode and every time I watch it I always tear up at the end.

Noel

It was one of the finest episodes, ever! I too teared up at the end...

One of my favorite episodes of the entire Star Trek franchise: The Inner Light  Excellent acting, excellent direction, and of course excellent writing.

For sure, my favorite too. 

 

What a bunch of cry babies! 🤣

3 minutes ago, FBW737 said:

What a bunch of cry babies! 🤣

Hey! If I were sixty years younger*, I'd be called an "EMO" I'll have you know! Heck, I sometimes cry while reading, when something tragic occurs. 🥰

* I'd be fourteen

28 minutes ago, n4gix said:

Heck, I sometimes cry while reading, when something tragic occurs. 

Or when something heartwarming occurs.  I may have posted this here a few years ago

70 years ago when I was crossing the Pacific on a troop ship on the way to Korea we had a talent show in one of the empty holds.

You know how Marines are.  Hooten' and holleren' at the acts of the Marines performing on stage.

Then a young Marine went to the front and started singing Danny Boy in the most beautiful tenor voice you ever heard.  After the first few words the Marines in that hold were silent.  When that young Marine was done singing he got a rousing round of applause.  And there was more than one pair of damp eyes in the crowd as the words of that song reminded us of what we were leaving and where we were going.  Marines were crowding around that young Marine and patting him on the back.

I've long forgotten his name and I don't know what ever happened to him.  But it's an incident I'll never forget.

 

41 minutes ago, FBW737 said:

What a bunch of cry babies!

I'm not ashamed to shed a tear when I see something moving on TV or listen to some classical music arrangements or read an emotional paragraph in a book.

Noel

 

I cry all the time when watching emotional stuff, but then I have always been a sensitive soul.

I don't cry easily, tbh. But it happens. One person that gets me every darn time is Eva Cassidy. My god, what a voice she had. 

Eva Cassidy - Over The Rainbow - YouTube

 

 

Don't ever watch "If Anything Happens I Love You" is all I'll say here.

20 hours ago, birdguy said:

It's a wonderful episode and every time I watch it I always tear up at the end.

 

That was a very good episode indeed. I recall Patrick Stewarts awesome acting as an old man.

My daughters favorite is "Measure of a Man". Her dissertation was on artificial intelligence, and of course, the episode related to whether Data was a sentient being or just a machine.

I have many episodes I love. One of them was the Dyson Sphere episode, where the Enterprise encounters a Dyson Sphere and a crashed Federation shuttle on the surface. They discover Scotty trapped in the transporters pattern buffer. Great episode and interaction between Picard and Scotty. 

Best of Both Worlds of course, is a classic. Picard transformed into a Borg.

DS9 would have to be in the running for me though. Superb writing. Way of The Warrior was exceptional. 

1 hour ago, Christopher Low said:

I cry all the time when watching emotional stuff, but then I have always been a sensitive soul.

 

Me too. Our testosterone drops as we age of course, but like you, I've always been that way. 

Some of us have empathy and some don't. Some of us appreciate the significance of events, some don't. 

Edited April 5, 20233 yr by martin-w

46 minutes ago, martin-w said:

Some of us have empathy and some don't. Some of us appreciate the significance of events, some don't. 

Empathy has nothing to do with crying or not crying in certain situations. 

I'll give you an example. When my first kid was born and I retold the situation at work, one of my co-workers (male) asked me if I cried during the procedure (because, apparently, he had been oh-so-emotional during his own kids births). My answer was "No. Of course not. Why would I?" and he goes on about how oh so gripping the situation when his children had been born had been, and how he couldn't believe I didn't cry . This kind of ruffled my feathers a bit, and my short answer was something in the line of:

"Look. My wife had been in labour for the past ten hours. Me crying like a little i.d.i.o.t instead of making sure I keep my head level and see to it that she and the kid was taken care of was kind of my first priority". 

This caused affirmative nods from the female population in the vicinity and he kind of shut up after that. 

"Crying like a little word not allowed"? Some people have difficulty holding back the tears in certain situations. There is nothing wrong with that. Just because you are able to do it should not automatically mean that you are somehow more of a man because of it. We are all different, and we should respect that.

48 minutes ago, Swe_Richard said:

"Look. My wife had been in labour for the past ten hours. Me crying like a little i.d.i.o.t instead of making sure I keep my head level and see to it that she and the kid was taken care of was kind of my first priority". 

 

That's different though Richard. What we are talking about is the urge to cry, the propensity.

You controlling your emotions in order to focus on the priorities is laudable, but its how you felt at the time that's of interest. Whether you felt emotional but controlled it, or if you felt nothing.

You said you "don't cry easily", but is that self control or lack of emotion? I would think, for you, its self control.

None of this is meant as a criticism of course, we are all different. The differences amongst us are just interesting. 

 

Seems, according to science, there are a number of reasons why some cry more readily. One of them is empathy.

https://www.tlc.com/style---self-care/why-do-some-people-cry-more-than-others

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and those who are empathetic are shown to cry more frequently 

 

 

Edited April 5, 20233 yr by martin-w