"The Inner Light"
 
 
 
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, JEFFREY STRASBURG wrote:
 
> Of course, there's also the episode where the Enterprise encounters an
> alien probe from a defunct civilization.  The probe briefly takes control
> of Picard's consciousness, and he "lives" a full life within that
> civilization, all the space of about 20 mins. of "real time."  Like the
> rest, not sure about the episode title.
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> On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, John Peterson wrote:
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> > I believe the episode goes like this, Riker is 30 years in the future. He
> > has had a full life(including a son).  He soon realizes this is just a
> > Romulan trick to extract information from him.  THEN later he realizes his
> > "son" is just a lonely being with great mental ability had attempted to
> > create a reality for Riker to keep the boy company.  But of course Riker is
> > too smart.
> >
> >
> > Also, a different Star Trek Next Gen episode:
> > This one also with Riker, He is sent down with an away team to survey a
> > planet.  The entire team injestes some kind of gas.  They have to beam them
> > all out of there.  When Riker revives he learns that it is now 30 years
> > later and that he is suffering some kind of memory loss.
> > Anyway, he relizes that it is not real and then thrown into another
> > "reality" as well.  (I don't remember the name of this episode, maybe
> > somebody else can help out).
> >
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