The "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Inner Light" (June 2, 1992) is often considered one of the show's best. In it, Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) is zapped in the brain and knocked unconscious by a passing spatial probe, only to wake up on a distant alien world he's never seen before. Picard is told that he is actually a Kataanian named Kamin, and that his life as Captain Picard was only a hallucination. In actuality, Picard is passed out on the floor of the Enterprise, and his experiences on Kataan are hallucinations fed to him by the probe.

In real time, Picard only spends about 25 minutes unconscious. In his mind, however, decades pass. Picard accepts that he is actually Kamin, falls in love with his wife, fathers children, and grows into a very old man. He learns music

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