Yap, it's so heartwarming, touching and moving

Yes. This has been a powerful moment to this TNG fan for decades.

One of the best episodes !

😭😭😭

Absolutely, Because I Watched This Episode, The Inner Light, When It First Aired, And I Also Cried When Riker Handed Him The Box, With The Recorder Flute . . . That Episode Was Magnificently Written, Directed And Acted Out . . . :-)

Agreed

agreed, the flute theme is nicely done and I admit gets me a bit teary eyed when I hear it. Plus it has Stewarts son in it.

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Agreed🍺.

@@marleybob3157make now the most important time…

For someone who delegates away missions to Riker so much, Picard does get grabbed a lot.

And now she REALLY likes him!

He was pretty off putting in the pilot episode

Unfortunately for Cassie, the biggest and most shocking Picard kidnapping is still to come 😨 💡💡💡💡

​@@ZeusCristoI was super confused by what you meant until I saw the emojis at the end , well played 😊

I'm sure ship in a bottle will be viewed.

No Lt. Brocolli? ​@@Citizen_J

Poor Broccoli... 😢

This was not a good way to watch a show, any show. You can't just pick and choose episodes.

This works better than DS9 it has too many plots to miss episodes and yes need more episodes with Reginald he had real growth over the shows and movies especially with Voyager.

Imagine that he lived about 40 years there...I have a problem with him easily becoming captain again

Actually it's been more than 30 years ago. A few weeks ago, May 23rd was the 30th anniversary of All Good Things, the final episode of TNG. The show had 7 seasons. So it's been at least 32 years since the episodes shown in this video first aired

i thought for once it wouldn't hit, but it did.

Watching this vid right now...tears are flowing hard.

​@kunserndsittizen2655 I don't think he easily became Captain again. He said he was having to adjust back to his life so I'm sure there were talks with Counselor Troi about his experience.

top 3 probably

top3

One of the few times a TV show episode has made me cry.

Wrong.

@@GeorgeProwse No way.

I believe the trick was they filmed scenes once from multiple angles and then repeated the footage from the different cameras. Anything that was identical was as a result identical but looked like it was repeated because of the different angle.

@@Vipre- No, they actually filmed the same scenes multiple times, trying to make it exactly the same, so the changes are tiny, but none of them are exactly the same.

@@vrenak Correct, also this episode was directed by Riker's actor, Jonathan Frakes (not his first, we've already seen two picked before "Reunion" and "The Drumhead".) Frakes decided to use multiple angles to avoid pure repeats. In many of the shots it would not be possible to have multiple camera's around. This is 80s / late 90s, shooting on 35 mm heavy cinematic film camera's. The bridge set would open up the front wall whenever shots from the front would have to be made. Many cast members used to show to get some experience directing, but Frakes and LaVar Burton really made it part of their career, directing many episodes on later Star Trek shows and other shows

Cause and Effect is fun, Inner Light is profound. Not really comparable. What's so genius about filming a scene different repeated times? That's standard practice so the director can then pick out the best one. This time it was done for a different reason. Changing camera position (and lighting) isn't that complicated. People making it out as it it's a genius move lol.

Cause and Effect is another great episode for sure

There are four lights.

@@ElizabethRMarquardt There are five!

@@ElizabethRMarquardt I don't know how you could be so mistaken.

LOL

that one is gonna make her angry lol

Her shipping them so hard has been hilarious to watch!

@@earlofbroadst and a bit nauseating.

​@@twalters8is her excitement nauseating?

@@twalters8 You sound fun.

Single funniest line I've heard in a reaction video about Trek. 🤣🤣🤣

And when I read that, I was a little mad that it went for that LITTLE....

According to Google, it recently sold at another auction for $237,000. If true, that was a very smart investment.

That auction massively underestimated EVERY selling price - it was almost embarrassing😁

@@JMUDoc well you have to also take in account for the Auction view of the Recorder being a non-playable piece...now if it was a working playable piece.... oh, you can believe 100% they would have never just assumed it would only net $900 they would have put the value in the 10's of thousands right off the bat.

@@jason42080 Another fun fact, they leased it back from the owner for use in Picard.

He's so lucky that a space alien wife is so attractive, because it could have been one of those fish aliens, or big hairy ones with horns. She was even his exact same race and height for that matter. What if she looked perfect but was only 3 feet high? He could have come back with PTSD.

Well stated!

Does anyone else see this as the opposite impact on Picard as Locutis of Borg?

Someone told me TNG "borrowed" ideas from UK TV show 'Red Dwarf' and vice versa: There's an episode of Red Dwarf made before The Inner Light that had a similar idea....! 'Thanks For The Memory', I wont spoil the plot because, like this one, its better to not know what happens. It is a must see though.

@@elcorado83 'Thanks For The Memory' has similarities to 'Clues', not so much 'Inner Light'. 'Inner Light' is clearly inspired by the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything".

He did get father's hairline.

That makes the grumpy muttering all the more beautiful :D It was probably not acting at all in that regard!

And it was the son who played the flute. Patrick mimed the motions, he could never play it.

That episode always gets me.

Thanks, didn't know that. Cheers 🍺

Also, the brother of the actress who plays Meribor would play a young Picard in Tapestry.

And Geordi's reaction to Hugh's look signifys that Geordi knows.

Seriously? Dumb people didn't get the memo 😅

I remember seeing this episode when it first aired, and I thought the same thing after the first commercial break. But I am a big enough nerd with enough time travel viewing under my belt, that I quickly figured it out.

lol 😂

@chacaf22 keep in mind... TV was different back then. The audiences weren't as used to this kind of plot. And obviously these people jumped the gun and called in to complain before the show was finished lol

Never heard of that one, but I have to laugh. Even when I was a kid, and even before I watched Groundhog Day I understood the basic concept of what a time loop was as it was a common troupe in movies/TV even at the time. Hell, even Power Rangers had a couple of time loop episodes. For me, both as a kid, and as an adult Cause & Effect has always been one of my favorite TNG episodes.

Groundhog day seems much more dated than Cause and Effect.

"12:01 P.M." short story, 1973. Adapted as a (academy award nominated) short film in 1990.

The Flash did a spoof (parody? Homage?) of this episode and called it “Cause & XS” (because that particular character had time-travel abilities). They also had an episode called “Cause and effect” that had absolutely nothing to do with time travel.

@@nadzee7101 Lol nope, both are.

*Chain of Command*

@@jowbloe3673 Oooo....seeing and raising. 👍

Two Banger, and one wet fart

And the next season becomes even crazier - nearly every single episode is a classic!

Well two bangers and one squib.

There is a video out there that shows Sir Patrick laughing that is sold for some outrageous price since it doesn't play. It's just a prop.

@@vincentturner4051 still worth every penny

I want a Horga'hn 😁

@@jeffrey_live1748I want that girl that approached Picard. I swear I saw bush poking out from her bikini.

@@vincentturner4051 "The damned thing doesn't work." lol

This. I couldn't say it any better.

It is mine as well. I've pondered on it many times over the years.

same for me! No science fiction show has ever affected me in the way that episdode did

It's among my LEAST favorites. The entire theme of the episode is horrid. Picard was assaulted and forced to endure what he thought was a different reality. Even he thought he was losing his mind for years, while this culture gaslit him into surrendering his mind to the illusion. What if the target of this probe was a father? They would mourn the loss of their children for years. And don't even get me started on the PTSD that would come after the whole experience ended. That probe is one of the most horrifyingly evil things ever in Trek, particularly because it's displayed as so benevolent and beautiful.

Definitely one of my favorites from TNG, but my favorite in all of Trek is DS9’s The Visitor. Absolutely wrecks me every single time.

Yes! Cassie apparently missed that. Hugh's final glance at Geordi was the sign that he hadn't lost his individuality.

It was: Oh crap, did I leave the oven on?

Her saying "I comma Borg" reminds me of a MadTV sketch, an alien calling himself Smith comma John.

Let's compare the storytelling of those episodes from back then with some TV-series from today... for example The Acolyte.

Pretty good price too for something that was just a prop, wasn't even playable

in TWENTY-FIVE minutes!!

It's absolutely DISGUSTING is what it is. Picard was assaulted and forced to endure what he thought was a different reality. Even he thought he was losing his mind for years, while this culture gaslit him into surrendering his mind to the illusion. What if the target of this probe was a father? They would mourn the loss of their children for years. And don't even get me started on the PTSD that would come after the whole experience ended. That probe is one of the most horrifyingly evil things ever in Trek, particularly because it's displayed as so benevolent and beautiful.

"Inner Light" is far-and-away my favorite STNG episode. "Lessons" is a close second. I love the way subsequent episode authors occassionally take a moment to include music in general and his flute playing in particular as a central facet of Picard's character.

I love "Lessons"! The Jefferies Tube scene is top-shelf Picard material. That roll-up piano with the golden keys is my dream technology. My family bought me a real roll-up piano a few years after I fell in love with the episode, but it is atrocious and basically unusable for real music-making. The TNG fan in me was so let down! 😢

Yes, “Lessons” is a really special one. I hope Cassie makes an exception to add that very special episode to her patron recommended episodes. Maybe make it her, "Cassie Pick of the Month" or something.

@@GMJ7 Is your hair, blue, green, lime?

Not really a part two elements of inner light are referenced but that’s about it. But agreed it’s a good episode and a great character arc moment for Picard

TNG and DS9 were good about souvenir continuity, with the Mintakan Tapestry from "Who Watches the Watchers", the Ressikan Flute, and the Kurlan naiskos all in his ready room or quarters, and The Sisko having his Baseball from "IF Wishes Were Horses" and his clock from "Dramatis Personae"

Data remebered some lingo from The Royale.

I love that Data is just being Data and has no idea how funny it is.

The emotional impact of the Inner Light is one of sheer horror for me. Gaslighting, assault, thinking you've lost forever your loved ones, and then after they convince you it's real, for what you think is a lifetime, they let you go. Picard should have decades of trauma from this experience, but the writers paint it as beautiful. It's absolutely disgusting to me.

@@trekkiejunk I see what you're saying, but no one has a lifetime that is free from pain and loss, and arguably those feelings and those memories are essential to the experience of a lifetime, what gives it meaning. So, the people of the doomed planet of Kataan could have left behind what - a statue? a memorial wall? - would that preserve their memory in any meaningful way? Whatever its emotional effect on Picard, you might follow the Trek motto of 'the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few - or the one' -! Having said all that, though, I think you make a fair point, and the writers did address it in the DS9 episode 'Hard Time' when they sentenced Miles O'Brien to 20yrs in prison *in his own mind*

@@trekkiejunk See it like this - Picard was given the unique opportunity to live TWO lives. The life he gave up to become Captain became reality, as is his life as Captain still is. What an amazing journey that must be. I would be very grateful to have been given this chance - one life to fulfil your dream career, and one to fulfil my personal dream with a partnaer and a family. Nearly all of us are forced to choose one or the other...

@@trekkiejunk So tonight if you dream you have a wife and kids and then wake up, is that also disgusting? Sheesh

Good point. My thought was they were stuck in the same location so they never left, whereas Enterprise kept looping. So they didn't experience it as a loop, just a few hours. Whatever happened they didn't seem to be so aware of the loop.

@@promontorium Whatever the Enterprise was doing was also resetting the 2268 side of the rift. The 2278 side was unaffected, so the Bozeman would have only existed within the time loop for a couple of seconds before hitting the Enterprise, certainly not enough time to perceive the deja vu on the level the Enterprise had been because they had at least a day in the loop to figure it out. Put another way, the Bozeman only entered the 2278 rift once, but then emerged into a series of timelines that kept getting reset until the timeline stabilized with the disruption of the loop. Given that the Enterprise was 17 days out of sync with the rest of the universe, that means that a third-party observer sitting outside the Typhon Expanse would have been able to witness the localized area of space-time resetting itself. So, in theory, if the whole dekyon thing that gave the crew deja vu wasn't happening and the ship was just stuck in the time loop indefinitely, a ship from outside the loop could have swooped in to prevent the explosion and brought the Enterprise out of it.

@@michaelpapp5518 since the Bozeman seems to appear out of nowhere, I think the anomaly jumped them forward in time. That being the case their own loop might just be the 40 or so seconds from their emergence to the crash - not enough time to pick up on the Deja vu.

​@@MrDanJB85that is what I always assumed. Stargate SG1 did a very good - and funny - Groundhog Day episode where only Jack and Tealc were aware of the loop and each day had to study and learn ancient to translate the device that was causing the loop. I loved it when they realised the loop meant no consequences. The golf scene was particularly good " in the middle of my backswing......!!!!!"

@@tonygreenfield7820 The loop had no _lasting_ consequences... but there was one repeating consequence. 🤣 Definitely one of the great SG-1 episodes.

That's exactly what I wanted to say, this was run as a dream in his mind. And in our minds time is relative. A lot happens and it's so fast or slow depending on our dreams.

this was not the Inner Light. it was Cause and Effect.

Greetings, fellow Tolkien nerd!

Right. They gaslit him for what he thought was a lifetime. Made him spend the first few years trying to escape, before he thought he was going insane, and then surrendering to the fake reality, only to have it taken away from him. I absolutely hate that these events are played off as beautiful, instead of horrific. At least the Romulans only will kill you once. These guys will torture your mind for what you think is decades.

Season 6. Lessons.

Yes, the whole episode is basically based on "For the Man Who Has Everything".

Yeah I don't think they did the best job explaining it but the loop was caused by the antimatter explosion so close to the time distortion. Also the Bozeman doesn't have top-notch engineers from the future, so they may have noticed the repetition, but weren't able to do anything about it.

right up there with doctor who "don't blink"

I agree, but The City on the Edge of Forever would like a word.

It became an odd status symbol in the NBA to be a Klingon extra.

Always the romantic

She says something cute frequently 🥰

It "floored" Picard too. :)

They have to discuss the new mutant cure

The woman standing behind Bateson's shoulder was originally written to be Saavik, but Kirstie Alley wanted way too much money for a non-speaking cameo (seems to have been kind of a theme with her...)

"Good night, everybody!"

Interesting, I've seen Brent Spiner (Data) on Cheers at one point. And Kelsey Grammer on Cause and Effect just now.

The woman behind Bateson was even originally written to be Saavik, but Kirstie Alley wanted too much money.

And Lilith was in the episode First Contact where she molested Riker. (My friend's dad wrote that one.) Plus Rick Berman who replaced Gene R. was the producer of Cheers.

@@drivers99 Bebe Nueworth was on STNG. Kate Mulgrew was on Cheers. Patrick Stewart was on Frasier. The character Morn on DS9 is a nod to Norm on Cheers.

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