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The Inner Light

  • byJoe Siegler
  • Posted on January 20, 2025March 13, 2025
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The Inner Light

This Story: Season 5 Episode 25 (production code 225)
TNG Overall: Episode 125
Trek Overall: Story 222, Episode 227
Airdate: 1 Jun 1992
Story by Morgan Gendel
Teleplay by Morgan Gendel & Peter Allen Fields
Directed by Peter Lauritsen

Notes

  • Deanna Troi does not appear in this episode.
  • Some of the earliest Deep Space Nine development was done around this time as Rick Sternbach doodled some designs for the DS9 station on his script for this episode.  There is a picture of this on the Memory Alpha page for this episode linked below.
  • During Picard’s life on Kataan, Patrick Stewart’s real life son Daniel played his son Batai.
  • The flute from this episode was filmed in a scene from Star Trek: Nemesis, but the scene was cut.
  • Patrick Stewart claimed this episode was his hardest acting challenge in the entire seven years of the series.
  • This episode won the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
  • This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series.

Links

[ Wikipedia | Memory Alpha | IMDB | Amazon US DVD | Amazon US Blu-Ray ]

#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek TNG Ep 125 - The Inner Light - 1 Jun 1992 1/2 Not only one of the best TNG eps, but one of the best Trek eps EVER. Picard is zapped by an alien probe, & lives an entire lifetime in his head while unconscious. We see that life play out as the bulk of the ep. It is a tour

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— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) January 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM

#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek TNG Ep 125 - The Inner Light - 1 Jun 1992 2/2 de force performance by Patrick Stewart. While I rarely cry watching TV, this one came close to doing it for me. There are a few scenes on the Ent, but don't care. My description doesn't do it justice, you have to watch it.

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— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) January 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM

Patrick Stewart’s real life son.

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