Sometimes, with Betazoid babies, you can actually sense their thoughts. Such contentment.

“I’m fine, if that’s what you’re asking,” Leeta said, her hostility plainly evident.
“And your friend, Ezri,” her mother said. “Is she well?”
“She’s not my ‘friend,’ Mother, she’s my wife.”

(Mirror Universe novel, Saturn’s Children)

I’d like to try.

It’s just a simple form of expression, I suppose.

Sisko: What about this story of theirs that the transport ship just wandered off course into a combat area?
Odo: I checked the flight plan the captain filed and the projected course was near the border.

O'Brien: I heard every word you said.
Bashir: And what do you think?
O'Brien: About what?
Bashir: Any of it.

There are times when Worf literally gets misty-eyed talking about Klingon rituals.

I don’t care what her popular image is. She is no hero. The only thing that she cares about is her own power. Why can’t people see that? We spent so many years fighting the Cardassians. We spent so much time hoping and praying for a Bajor that was free.