This Star Trek Next Generation Episode Knows Just How To Pull On The Heartstrings
Ever since the mid 1960s, Star Trek has produced a whole host of varied episodes, with topics ranging from inherently political commentaries, to lighthearted comedic relief, even challenging topical diversity issues right from the program's creation. These themes continued on throughout the various additions to the franchise, potentially most varied with the fan-favorite series The Next Generation. This series provided audiences plenty of different episode themes, and continued on the precedent that theOriginal Series set. One of the most memorably tragic and emotional episodes comes into play during season 5, with the episode titled “The Inner Light.”
The episode in question starts withwell-loved captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise encountering an alien probe after a fairly standard mission in the Parvenium system. Upon scanning the probe, it emits a shot of energy directly at the captain. Picard collapses, only to wake up in bed, with different clothes, on an unknown planet. Startled by this dramatic change of scenery, things only get stranger, as an unknown woman tends to him and claims to be his wife Eline. She explains that his name is Kamin, and that he is an «iron weaver» who had been seriously ill with a fever.
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Understandably confused, fearing this to be a trap, Picard refuses to accept this. He insists he is Jean-Luc Picard, captain of the starship Enterprise, and that he must find a way to contact his crew. He finds out they are on a planet called Kataan, and upon wandering outside with Eline, he discovers the members of the town they reside in all recognize him, and congratulate him on his recovery. He insists on his identity, but everyone
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