Lieut. The Nerdy Flutist: Like a melody whispered by the cosmic breeze, Where stars ignite and dance with ease, A saga unfolds in the galactic sprawl, On Enterprise, where wonders call. A flute weaves tunes in the cosmic night, As life fulfills its purpose, taking flight, Upon a dying planet's final stand, A message sent across the cosmic sand. Through depths of space, a tale reverberates, Of lives and loves, of destinies and fates, In the heart of stars, Enterprise glows, A beacon of hope, as the universe it rows. Each note echoes stories, both near and far, Of dreams aloft, beneath each twinkling star, In the boundless sea of endless night, Enterprise sails, a celestial light. Exploring realms where dreams take flight, In the vast expanse of eternal night, A flute's sweet song, the universe sails, Onward it travels, where wonder prevails. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 have a good one

Picard was knocked unconscious by a probe, and in 20 minutes, experienced a full lifetime with a wife, a family, and in the end, the death of his planet. He learned to play the flute in that life. When the probe was opened, THAT SAME flute was there, for him, as a tangible item to prove the experience was real. It was the most moving episode of the entire 8 year run.

It never ceases to amaze me how the episode "Inner Light" and the simple but beautiful tune that was integral to the episode, came to be endeared in the hearts of so many fans of TNG series.

One of the most beautiful moments regret sadness and love wrapped in one song beautiful moment of tng ever

This makes me cry every time. My husband and I would watch Star Trek TNG and this was a favorite while we were in HOSPICE, Im thinking of Tom now.. Thank You,, so beautiful...

Thank you for this. I am crying. The best Star Trek episode ever. Thank you, thank you very much

I always wished I could hear the whole song played on a Star Trek episode, and this fills that gap beautifully. I really loved your arrangement of this piece!

A more classic rendering than I’ve ever heard of this song. It may have made its way into classic tv but it’s actually an old folk tune about a lullaby that dragons would sing to their young to comfort them. Thank you for that comfort. In today’s world I need it.

My violin teacher asked me to go home and figure out any tune by ear on the violin and this was the first thing that came to mind. I'm going to use your video to figure it out. Thanks and well done!

this was one of the best Star Trek episodes ever

Inner light - forever changed something inside me. Like your version of this beautiful melody!

When your emotions are often numb from decades of emotional abuse, this is just what I needed to feel again.

That....was incredible. I've never heard anyone play that song with such skill and feeling.

This is my all-time favourite Trek piece, you play it so beautifully and the way you personalised it made me smile. Thank you for this.

I loved this so much. I'm not crying, you're crying

The only time I was moved to tears as a ST fan at teenage time… and now at age 42 again… THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PLAYING AND SHARING

It has been arranged that this will be played at my funeral.

my dog and I both howled to this interpretation. Even shed tears. Not ashamed in doing so.

Thank you. That was the best episode from TNG, the music in it was poignant, and your rendition is beautiful.

It has been 22 years since "Inner Light" was aired , and people, both Star Trek fans and not, are still moved by this episode. I think about this episode for days after I watch it. And the nerdy flutist honors this episode with her amazing rendition of the song Picard imself learns to play.

Oh, thank you so much for this! Motion picture and television scoring is my favourite music! You are absolutely flawless! I repeated this several times!

This piece sings to my soul and I bought my whistle just to learn how to play it.

You're literally amazing and I'm so glad you're out there somewhere on the planet

This piece has been in my head since Inner Light aired. I've always wanted to learn to play it, but never had the space to do it where practicing wouldn't annoy people. All I have is a tin whistle in the key of D, which I can sort of play the basic tune on. I used to play the flute in high school band. Your playing is beautiful.

Again: I am blown away how nice you play every note and melody! You bring light into the life of people. It is also astonishing how pretty this tiny little flute can sound! Greetings and best wishes from Frank, Germany.

You are a beautiful soul. Thank you for this.

You can tell a great song not by it's complexity, but by its simplicity. With just a slow handful of soulful notes, this piece manages to evoke all kinds of emotions and a sense of heartbreaking nostolgia... as if for a love lost, or memories of a time gone by, now gone forever... Very beautiful and hard to believe it was composed for use in an episode of Star Trek of all things.

Beautiful performance. Absolutely love this episode.

Well done, Captain 👏

So glad I came across your video which played Picard and Lt. Cmdr. Nella Darin’s version of the song in the Enterprise Jeffries tube. Beautifully played - thank you! I’ve used the full version for my Tribute to Frisket that moved so many of our friends to tears.

My favorite STNG episode and wow you played this soooo well!

Beautiful, just beautiful. ❤

Such a beautiful interpretation of „The inner light“. Thank you so much for it 🫶🏻

This song provides so much calm and comfort to me when I need it. Ever since I first saw the episode I have always had a special place for this. Thank you so much for this.

As onde of the billions of people that believe in reincarnation and that past lives are forgotten to let us focus on the lessons of this one (but still stored in our unconscious mind), I see a beautiful spiritual metaphor in this episode. It is bittersweet that by absorving the memories of a good man and a people deceased a long time ago, Picard could experiment what in this his choices denied him, like being a husband and a father with a stable life. We all had and will have countless chances to do everything. Maybe even be captains of starships. ❤️

a truly fantastic rendition, thank you!

Ahhh... this song is so moving... so beautiful... so full of emotion! Puts me right back into that episode and the heartfelt way Picard plays it at the end of that show. Well done!

Finally found it ! Yes I was watching Star trek Enterprise and I had to find out more about this beautiful music

Fabulous!! Found the video after reading Sir Patrick Stewart's book and doing a little research into his "most moving" episode. Thank you ♥

Played perfectly! Thank you!

This has to be the most beautiful song. Its not only the melody, but what it also means when you see the episode. A whole life resumed in a single flute and its melody. I just finished Picard season 3, and seeing all the crew, reunited in this finale made me cry. Cry of nostalgy, cry of growing old and seeing my favorite cast getting older as well. It also brought back memories of my younger self watching those series (Next Generation especially) and having such a pool of emotions from start to finish. Thank you for recreating this song as it was originally. I tried to find the same complete duo elsewhere but most other musicians always added something else or something more that removed its authenticity.

Oh noes... now I'm going to have to learn to play this on my whistle. And it will probably take me months. See what you've done! :D

All I can say is wow

Stellar performance. By far the most moving piece of music I have ever heard. I could listen to this all day long and never get tired of it.

This remains one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written, and your performance is haunting; thank you. 🥲

Love that tune.

Love this piece! My favorite episode ever. You are a wonderful musician. I play this with my piccolo. Beautiful Beautiful

Awesome performance. Thanks for sharing

You just made me cry… beautiful, beautiful work. Thank you for what you do.

Thats just perfection in its purest form. Outstanding...

Absolutely love this piece (and the episode)! Beautifully performed Captain!

Ooohhhhhh Yessssss 👏👏 This is beautifully played 😢 Big time Trekker and this is my fave episode. Gets you right in the feels every single time. Thank you ❤

That sounds SOOOO good! I’m just blown away. It’s angelic

Stunning, thank you.

Proud to be the 1000th like on this video. Well done.

I love Star Trek TNG! Beautiful played! ❤️

That was absolutely gorgeous! Wow! Now I'm really keen on getting a tin whistle just so I can learn how to play this song. ^_^

So Beautiful.

Beautifully done!

What a beautiful piece and played so elegantly. Bravo.

OMG!I love this. I love it!!! Star Trek Nerd for life! Only thing that comes close to this song is the music for First Contact! I bet I've watched both 50 times. Thanks for posting!

Absolutely beautiful, and so uniquely distinct. I remember when I was a kid I remember vividly hearing that same melody but I never really knew what it was, I asked my uncle watching Star Trek on the television set and he was telling me about all about the show. I guess as a kid I had other things going on in my mind because I forgot all about it, until recently when I decided to watch the series again. When I heard The Inner Light again, I was snapped back to that time when I was six or seven years old and I had just fell in love with it, and you play it so eloquently, thank you.

;-) Brought a tear to my eye. Wonderful!

Just rewatched this episode on PlutoTV. One of my favorite eps and in my opinion one of the best episodes of TNG. Gets me all up in my feels!!!😢 This is a beautiful rendition!!!

I cannot (shortly) tell you how very grateful I am to you for posting this...I'm not sure I've ever posted a comment on YT; I hope my doing so, here and now, imparts that I value so highly your beautiful performance of this piece. Without getting (even more) long-winded about it, I'll say that I've loved this since the obvious (and fantastically well-done) TNG episode first aired, and have listened to it during many major life moments (including during my deployments to Iraq/elsewhere). Thank you, deeply, for sharing the finest performance of it I've heard.

Beautifully played, thank you. :-)

Love this! Thank you. I just ordered 2 Tin Whistles (C & D). I also just dowloaded the Score. It's my goal to learn this and other tunes when my whistles arrive.

That was excellent. Thank you so much!! 🙏

Moving due to an overflow of nostalgia!

That's so beautiful! Thank you for playing it!

I can't believe it. This just made my whole day! And you wore the uniform 😍 I'm about to learn how to play the Tin Whistle like a pro.

Great work 👏 thank you 😃

Tears flowing... Thank you.

Wonderful 💓 Live long and prosper 🖖

bravo! encore! encore! *clicks play*

I prefer this extended version over the others that I’ve seen . Great job !

Thank you for this video. From the bottom of my Trekkie heart. (I've been a Trekkie since the first episode... yes, i was there for it but I was a baby so Star Trek in my dna.... lol). I wish I had the words to describe what this episode and song meant, means, to those of us that were changed by it.

Beautiful! I just watched the “Inner Light” on Prime and wanted to hear the entire song. Thank you!

You play very beautifully. Thank you so much for sharing. 🪈🖖🏻💖

this song is amazing

Saved to my favorites! Thank you!

wonderful. thank you

I've seen this performed by many, but only one other matches this, and that's the original.

Beautifully played 🎶🎵

Interesting to know Picard's flute prop never actually worked😅 but The Nerdy Flute does😊👍it was such an emotional episode made more emotional from a single Ressikan flute😊

This music is one of my favorites. It is beautiful and sad at the same time .The.episode is my favorite one

Chekov "Very good..." Mr Scott "Brought a tear to my eye" The Nerdy Flutist "Oh do be quiet" 🖖😎

Thanks

I love this beautiful melody! I think the best time that I heard it played on Star Trek was on season six episode 19 STG, when Captain Picard and his science officer who he fell in love with, played it in the best acoustic spot aboard the starship enterprise. It was absolutely beautiful.

Absolutely gorgeous. Thank you so very much.

The single best piece of music in Star Trek history. The Klingon pop recently aired in Strange New Worlds ain't bad either.

To quote the legendary Leonard Nimoy, fascinating".

Who wrote that melody, it is simply Beautiful and will never forget the two episodes you hear it in.

Well done

Great presentation

I just love it!❤

One of my favorite pieces❤

I really enjoyed this performance! You're very talented, keep it up! I need to re-download twitch now to catch livestreams...

Ty very nice love it

awe dude this is awesome!