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The Enterprise encounters a probe that attaches itself to Picard’s mind and feeds him sped-up memories of a future on an alien world, Kataan. The rest of his future is spent, he believes, on an alien world. He has a wife, and children, and grandchildren and becomes a part of this world’s culture and community. Only when he’s eighty-five and watching this planet die from an endless drought is he told that actually this is all an illusion, a life courtesy of the alien probe, which was sent out a thousand years ago in search of someone who would live this life and know the people of Kataan and then tell their story to other worlds and other people. Picard is then awakened back on the bridge of his ship, and must get used to being Captain Picard of the Enterprise once more.






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Another superb episode. It makes you reflect on what is important to your in your life.