Picard is struck by an energy beam from an alien probe, which renders him unconscious and places him in the life of a citizen on the planet Kataan, with his memory of the Enterprise intact. Although he searches for a way to return, he finally decides to live his life with his Kataan wife, have children & grandchildren, learning to play a flute and completely immersing in the Kataan culture. He finds the planet is dying due to an imbalance of its sun. With no way to evacuate the planet's people, the government builds a probe which will tell others how they lived. The same probe that Picard met. Picard wakes to find himself back on the Enterprise having lived an entire lifetime in just minutes. The probe, having disgorged its memories, gives one last gift: the flute (which shows up in later episodes.)

Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - Redemption, Part II
• s05e02 - Darmok
• s05e03 - Ensign Ro
• s05e04 - Silicon Avatar
• s05e05 - Disaster
• s05e06 - The Game
• s05e07 - Unification, Part I
• s05e08 - Unification, Part II
• s05e09 - A Matter of Time
• s05e10 - New Ground
• s05e11 - Hero Worship
• s05e12 - Violations
• s05e13 - The Masterpiece Society
• s05e14 - Conundrum
• s05e15 - Power Play
• s05e16 - Ethics
• s05e17 - The Outcast
• s05e18 - Cause and Effect
• s05e19 - The First Duty
• s05e20 - Cost of Living
• s05e21 - The Perfect Mate
• s05e22 - Imaginary Friend
• s05e23 - I, Borg
• s05e24 - The Next Phase
• s05e25 - The Inner Light
• s05e26 - Time's Arrow, Part I

Star Trek: The Next Generation Show Summary

"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no one has gone before".

In this highly successful spin-off to the original Star Trek, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Galaxy-Class starship, the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, set out to explore the final frontier. Along the way, they make first contact with myriad different species and solve reconflicts among those societies with whom they were already familiar, most notably the Klingon Empire.