The Inner Light

The Inner Light
Attribution
Series:	The Next Generation
Story by:	Morgan Gendel
Teleplay by:	Morgan Gendel and Peter Allan Fields
Directed by:	Peter Lauritson
Production information
Episode no.:	TNG season 5x25
Production no.:	225
First aired:	week of 1 June 1992
Chronology
Date:	2368
Stardate:	45944.1

Jean-Luc Picard experiences another life as an inhabitant of a world that will soon be destroyed.

References

Characters

Batai • Batai (Kamin's son) • Beverly Crusher • Data • Eline • Gates • Jae • Kamie • Geordi La Forge • Martinez • Meribor • Alyssa Ogawa • Jean-Luc Picard • William Riker • Worf

Referenced only

Kamin

Locations

Silarian sector

Referenced only

Kataan • Ressik • Starbase 218

Starships and vehicles

USS Enterprise-D (Galaxy-class explorer)

Species

android • Human • Klingon • Kataan native

States and organizations

Starfleet • United Federation of Planets

Other references

crystalline emiristol • delactovine • nucleonic beam • paricium • Ressikan flute • talgonite

Appendices

Related media

• ST reference: The Star Trek Encyclopedia
  • Information about this episode is presented consistently in all volumes.

Video releases

VHS release.

Images

Connections

Timeline

published order
Previous episode: The Next Phase	TNG episode produced	Next episode: Time's Arrow
Previous episode: The Next Phase	TNG episode aired	Next episode: Time's Arrow
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Disgrace	Memory Beta Chronology	Next Adventure: The Promise
Previous Adventure: Grounded	Pocket	Next Adventure: The Promise

External link

• The Inner Light article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.