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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304614075
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6304614071
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: January 01, 1998
Running Time: 46 minutes
Sales Rank: 13895
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 1987
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
When the Enterprise detects a foreign object floating in space, a relatively primitive probe of some sort, the crew members are surprised when a beam of energy is able to penetrate their shields. Before they know it (and before the credits), Captain Picard is knocked down and psychically linked to the probe through the beam. In Picard's head, he is on a desert planet where everybody thinks he is Kamin, a man recovering from a fever, even his wife. He quickly ascertains that he is not in a holodeck program, that he's not a prisoner, that there is no way to find--much less contact--the Enterprise, and that everybody thinks he is nuts for believing he is a starship captain. On the bridge, Dr. Crusher and company are trying to understand the beam's effect on Picard, while on the desert planet entire years are passing. Kamin gives up on ever finding the Enterprise. Over the years he falls in love with his wife and starts a family. Though previous episodes have explored the fact that Picard has foregone personal relationships in favor of his career, here he is forced to live a stable family life and, in so doing, finds out that not only is he good at it, but he likes it. When the beam turns itself off 20 minutes later, Picard emerges changed, having been given the chance to live the life he never thought he wanted. Excellent acting supports a strong and thoughtful script. --Andy Spletzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Outstanding Trek
This episode is certainly worth owning. To me, it embodies everything that was great about Patrick Stewart's classically influenced TNG acting chops, and the quality and sensibilities that made/make Star Trek so great. In fact, it is this sort of writing that makes science fiction thick and rich with potential. It's about imagination, but imagination within the realm of possibility. How many other worlds are out there now? How many have come and gone before us? This episode explores those very ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful episode, haunting melody
I agree with everyone else - this may well be the most wonderful episode of TV drama ever. I have seen it again and again and I always love it. I am a lifelong Star Trek fan and I wanted to share a wonderful recent experience. My daughters and I went to see the National Symphony Orchestra perform "To Boldly Go, (narrated by Leonard Nimoy)" at Wolf Trap in Virginia, and they included the melody from "The Inner Light" in the program.
Legions of Star Trek fans were absolutely thrilled!
Rating: - A quiet ode to a lost people
Overall setting: The U.S.S. Enterprise is the flagship of the Federation's Star Fleet, and is captained by the somewhat aloof, intellectual, but also passionate Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). Almost one hundred years after Captain Kirk led an earlier Enterprise on its trek through the stars, this Enterprise continues to explore the galaxy and seek out intelligent life.
This episode: In the opening moments, the Enterprise encounters a small ship or probe, adrift in space. They do not ... Read More
Rating: - By far the best episode of this series.
I agree with other 5-star reviewers. This is not only the best episode of this long-running series, but one of the best hours of television, period.
The story first struck me in this way (and by the way, I think you need to be of a certain age to think of it this way -- teenagers can skip over this thought): What if I were to suddenly awaken and find that I was back in, say, 1976 -- when I was 20? And realized that the last 30 or so years had been a dream, that my wife and children and friends, the ... Read More
Rating: - I Love This Story
For someone who digested almost every episode of this show over it's run I guess I slept on this for awhile.But when I revisted it after the series ended and now it is one of my top five favorite stand alone episodes and I know it is to alot of other people.I think one reason is you don't have to be a Star Trek fan to enjoy it.Little of it takes place in the Star Trek universe.But the story touches the viewer in some very unexpected ways with alot of emotional twists and turns.
What is it ... Read More
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