The "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Inner Light" is often listed as one of the best of the series. Its premise is novel: a passing spatial probe zaps Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) in the brain, rendering him unconscious. He awakens on the distant planet of Kataan next to a woman named Eline (Margot Rose), who claims to be his wife. She tells Picard that his real name is Kamin, and that he's a native of the Kataan. She says he's suffering from amnesia, and that his life as Picard was all an elaborate hallucination.

Picard is suspicious, but after several months, begins to feel that Eline is right. They begin to re-develop their relationship, and Picard, now Kamin, settles into a comfy life. Many years pass, and Kamin grows into an old man, fathering children, and then s

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