Have to say, this is quite possibly one of, if not, my favorite TNG moment. Picard's most sacred life experience reawakened and given a new warmth, shared in a way he could never imagine.
Tom Gervais Well put. I felt so sorry for Picard, living 40 years with family and kids in 25 minutes. I have 10 or so episodes left of TNG but I am sure The Inner Light will be one of the most memorable episodes.
They could have utilized this in his show. That android girl they introduced could have been a way to generate pathos, about the family he lost in the blink of an eye. But no its gotta be about data, because they only ever saw the fucking movies.
They would never think to make an episode like this anymore. Another example is Darmok. That episode is about 2 people learning to communicate and work together. There are so many quiet scenes and episodes in TNG that didn't need space battles or effects. This series gets more impressive and profound as the years go by
Probably one of the greatest callbacks. It'd hard to imagine the melancholy, the memories he associates to that music, and what it represents. Kinda hoped there'd be a spot in a museum on Earth somewhere, where a copy of the music, both written and recorded, as well as a duplicate of the flute, and a record of all that Picard could remember of that civilization is. So they were never forgotten.
@sweetblackblood1 "If only she knew" means 'If only Cdr. Nella Daren knew that Picard learned that flute folk melody on another planet....1,000 years ago.....in another lifetime that he lived while unconscious for only 25 minutes in the present (S5, Ep. 25, "The Inner Light")'. Picard does explain to Daren later in the Episode shown here (S6, Ep. 19, "Lessons") why it means so much to him.
Man, the way he looks at her, like he STILL doesn't quite know if he trusts her with this sacred part of him, and the absolutely respectful way she adapts it and plays with him, I can't imagine how much it meant to hear the song reborn.
I don’t know if the writers of this episode meant to do this when bringing back this melody from “The Inner Light” episode, but hearing Picard play, seeing her reaction, and then watching a love spring from it made me extremely happy because - in a way - it accomplished the probe’s task of keeping the dying race from “Inner Light” alive through their influence. A very touching and meaningful scene for me.
Picard's flute theme is 100% original, made specifically for the episode "inner light" (S05E25). it was composed by Jay Chattaway (a composer for film and television scores including frequent work for TNG, DS9, VOY and Enterprise) for the episode and was rearranged for a full orchestra for the 30th anniversary. The flute arrangement for Inner Light remains his most popular single piece.
@@WirzWorld What's always been funny to me is that this duet during the episode differed from the original piece and the orchestrated version in a few ways. I think I actually heard this duet version first, and I've always loved the harmony from the piano. This one always felt a bit brighter and happier to me than the original.
The reason I love this scene so much is because it brings some continuity into the series. While the script writers of the week may have forgotten that Picard spent half his life in a memory on another planet, the audience has not.
@@TheVFXbyArt People always, and I mean always, overproduce it and add too many layers. I think that what most people want is just a simple rendition with the flute and piano, exactly like how it was played here.
@@mckinleymac3452 what in the actual fuck is wrong with you? Attacking people for there feelings is a tactic of the weak and mentally ill. Either way get your shit together and grow up
Musical accompaniment, production & creation of music, & general hi-tech accurate recordings made TNG an acoustic treasure to both watch and listen to...watch the "Minuet " introduction episode with "Riker", the short piece of music won an award.
Kudos to The Inner Light. An episode so perfect that a simple reference to it a year later in a different season could still bring fans to tears. Thank you, Morgan Gendel.
It's the Inner LIght which makes this scene truly powerful. Otherwise it would just be a nice little romance scene....maybe enough to make a Picard shipboard romance believable but nothing more....it's for true TNG fans that know the background to the tune that makes it a poignant and emotional moment and brings the believability of their relationship to the next level.
I"m with Richard on this one. The haunting pseudo-Celtic style of the piece makes it "work its magic" in the junction, but the TRUE power behind that musical magic was the legacy, the experiential nature, of the emotion behind it. It's why most of us that hear this tune or watch its episode sob on command. THE scene, beyond this actual performance, in "Lessons" that makes me cry follows this scene by a few minutes. It's when the Captain "apologizes" to Nella for appearing to blow her off in the turbolift. In his apology, he reveals his true gratitude for his experience on Kataan, and how wonderful it finally felt for him to SHARE that with someone on such a level. I had a somewhat similar experience in how I met my own wife, so I knew EXACTLY where Picard was coming from. Very well written and well executed scene on Stewart's part. It's a bit sad that the rest of the episode (outside the shared music etc) was so ordinary. The scene in his quarters makes me cry everytime.
This is the quote: kills me every time Captain Jean-Luc Picard: ...And when I awoke, all that I had left of that life... was the flute that I'd taught myself to play. Lt. Cmdr. Nella Daren: Why are you telling me this? Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Because I want you to understand what my music means to me... and what it means for me to be able to share it with someone.
The inner light was such a profoundly deep and emotional episode, and this moment of Picard tentively sharing his most vulnerable side and her tender response... to this day just hearing this music instantly puts tears in my eyes...
To this very day, this melody brings to tears to my eyes, which is a rare thing to do. It's just something about the original storyline, from Picard living an entire life on a dying planet, and holding on to the one memory that brings him back to that life. When he plays that flute, he goes back to that life. It is a part of him now and it will never leave him. That is why it is a very moving and emotional melody to me. It almost brings back my Soul to where I was before this life. I can't grasp it or remember it, but I know it's there. I am very happy he shared it with us. :D
The hopes & dreams, the history of those people long gone, live on through Picard. A beautiful melody, even if only one person remembers them ages later. I hope our species leaves such a message in a bottle when our time has passed as well.
Paul Callaghan-Fowler Don't blame you a bit my friend. This is also a truly wonderful episode. I think TNG was at its best when it explored characters and emotional issues like this. No need for big explosions and the like when the story is so well written, directed and acted.
The next generation is by far the climax of Star Trek....and story telling. The first time I watched the inner light episode I was so taken back. Could you imagine living a whole life then brought back to reality that it was real and all those moments are now haunting you for the rest of your life....then you get captured by the Borg. Resistance is futile
I know of few songs that can so beautifully convey grief, loss, hope, responsibility, happiness and love all at the same time. The gift and burden of what Picard went through in "The Inner Light" can not be over stated. The magnitude of it all is awe inspiring. This song was his connection to it in this life. "Remember us... Remember that we once lived."
I always loved that the piano stopped first, two beats earlier, which always meant that Darin had gotten up first to kiss Picard, just means something to me.
This was the first scene in star trek I ever watched when I was 12 and I remember thinking it was so boring before picking up a lightsaber and going to play with my sister in the yard. I'm 17 now and every time I hear the song tears come to my eyes. I'm studying to become a professional musician partly because of this show. I live with the hope that I can one day move someone in the way this show has moved me.
Whenever I hear this song I get chills... And tears. He played this song for each of his children. They may have been part of a computer program, but he was living a lifetime in it. He raised them. They were his. And he'll never see them again.
But it felt like Picard got to see "the road not taken", a gift no one actually gets. He felt the joys and sorrows of a rich family life. Helene, the children, and his grandson were a wondrous experience. He richly lived for having lived a lifetime with them.
Notice the gentle and careful way the kiss at the end happened, it's perfect. It's like a careful embrace, because they're both vulnerable and a bit scared to hurt/be hurt.
Agreed. While I always root for a Picard-Crusher coupling, Nella Darren is my second choice for Picard's ideal soulmate. She can follow all ihs wits, matches his temper, and read his mind like a book. The type of woman you wish would've been your own soulmate as well.
I don't know if I'd go that far. The scene when Picard learns that the probe being sent up from Resik would find him in the future and when his deceased wife and friend come back to say goodbye again was way more moving. "It's me, it's me it finds."
I love how Picard learned to improvise around the original tune and made it even more amazing. The happiness in the melody, compared to the haunting one, conveys Picard's emotions perfectly. He is able to freely express himself through music to another that understands its interpretation. Something that until now had been a very personal secret.
Thank you. I was looking for that. Seems to me now that you mention it that when I was in choir in middle school, we sang something that was based on this tune but had its own lyrics.
I've found a certain "emotional resonance" in musical melody on rare occasions. The ability of certain progressions of notes or chords to elicit an emotional response even without lyrics. This is one of those and it's made even more powerful by the underlying story. I've always loved this episode
I will always adore Next Generation. and this (along with the episode that this is a callback to) are some of the major reasons why. absolutely beautiful. legitimately brings tears to my eyes, even after all this time.
This is how those ancient people survive, music and songs being played over each other in a sacred and emotional moment held in a room fashioning itself into a holy of holies
Geordi: I hear music Data: Music? Geordi: It seems to have stopped. Data: Intriguing, All I hear is Captain Picard boning the head of astrophysics in one of the Jefferies tubes. Rhythmic, perhaps, but I would not call it music, Geordi. Geordi: You have no soul, Data. Plus...eww.
Yeah, I know that was made in humor - but please, "boning"? Ick. All they showed was kissing.. Not even "making out" You know, like Hermione's comment about Cormac having more tentacles than a Snargaluff plant, Ginny's about Ron and Lavender thrashing around like a pair of eels, things seen in high schools across America every day (at least the US, I don't know about other countries).
His smile when she starts improvising around the melody, elaborating on this very personal composition, is perfect. As if this melody is holy ground to him, yet he doesn't mind, is in fact pleased to allow this extraordinary woman to walk around in it.
Can you imagine a Discovery episode with this level of feeling? I love the callback to "The Inner Light", it shows that what he experienced during that 22 minutes would affect him forever.
Yup. The episodic nature of TNG (and most of 90s tv) often leaves you wondering why people barely react to major events (Geordi & Ro dying & reappearing at their funeral? nbd). But the writers did a good job of re-acknowledging things like Picard's assimilation by the borg and living a *WHOLE life* on Kataan. I swear, most enterprise crewmates should have crippling PTSD after all the stuff they go through in space!
I see them trying to make Mary Sue Burnham go back in time and help the old white man (Picard) defeat the Borg, because shes so good and hes so incompetent that without her it wouldn't succeed.
@@OneofInfinity. I was looking for confirmation that all the discovery hate is because of racist and idiots. Thanks for the proof. Can't wait to watch discovery
In the opening sequence to the show when Picard says 'To Explore Strange New Worlds...' that doesn't mean to explore fictional space every episode. It has always meant that the show is going to explore the human condition, which is what this scene represents along with the whole episode. Thats what Star Trek has always been about. Holding up a mirror to the audience and showing us a better version of ourselves. I miss this Star Trek, and is the reason I adore the Galaxy class design of starship. I never personally went aboard one, but I learnt a lot about myself watching a show set on one. I miss this Star Trek dearly...
I wish I could go back there again. And everything could be the same. I've got a ticket to the moon. I'll be leaving here any day soon. Yeah, I've got a ticket to the moon. But I'd rather see the sunrise, in your eyes. Got a ticket to the moon. I'll be rising high above the earth so soon. And the tears I cry might turn into the rain. That gently falls upon your window. You'll never know. Ticket to the moon. Ticket to the moon. Ticket to the moon. Fly, fly through a troubled sky. Up to a new world shining bright, oh oh. Flying high above. Soaring madly through the mysteries that come. Wondering sadly if the ways that led me here. Could turn around and I would see you there. Standing there (I would see you there). Ticket to the moon. Flight leaves here today from Satellite 2. As the minutes go by, what shall I do. I paid the fare, what more can I say? It's just one way. Ticket to the moon. Ticket to the moon. Ticket to the moon.
I used to run stairs at the local university. Once for a couple years a student used to play flute in it. I’m sure she selected it for the echo. I’d listen for a while, then go off and come back later. She didn’t need me clomping up and down. Once when she finished I sat for a moment before starting up my routine. You could hear a whole series of doors open and close. People that on different floors had been listening.
0:55 oh man, that Inner Light music, it gets me every time.... Thank you, Jay Chattaway,for sneaking in this masterpiece during the Rick Berman era of blah wallpaper music scores.
Say what you want about Berman, but he held the ship steady, didn't rock the boat and didn't crash it and he had the guts to admit mistakes (see interview with him on ENT ending episode) - or, well, at least acknowledge viewers feelings and respect them.
@@piotrd.4850 New drinking game: Take a shot every time someone credits Rick Berman with things Michael Pillar did. You'll be d e a d before you reach page two of a comment section.
But it took six years to get to that point.... First season Picard would NEVER have been this open either, so how about actually giving Picard a chance, instead of dumping on it, and killing any chance of it developing to this point?
@@threatmaker I doubt that. NuTrek has almost everything wrong, I see no light at the end of the tunnel. Very different with TNG. It all looked improvised and stiff, but all the ingredients were present from the start.
Picard is playing "The Skye Boat Song" A tune recalling the escape of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) from Uist to the Isle of Skye after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
Thank you so much for that!!! I have spent years trying to figure out where this came from. I should have knows why this is so haunting since I married my Scotish Lass in 2006. Makes it so much more special!
This story arc was always my most favorite I really wish that they would have continued With It Captain Picard deserve to have someone in his life like that that was so magical and Powerful it brought tears to my eyes with them playing the song together with the flute and the piano chills all over
Here's hoping "Star Trek: Picard" has more moments like this where Picard is thrown into a world of emotion and memory from his other lifetime in the episode "The Inner Light"
such a simple and Beautiful tune. never get tired of hearing it. But no recording I've ever found that tryed to repeat this has never been as good as the rendition in this video.
I remember this from the series, I thought it was most beautiful then and I still do. They found a place, a blanket fort or a tree bowl, whatever you want to call it, where they could be totally honest and unguarded and then they were! It the kind of situation that comes up in First Love and makes it the most special of all.
Inner Light is one of the best episodes from TNG which was the best of the Star Trek series. I have this tune as my ring tone on my cell phone and it brings me such warmth whenever my cell rings.
@@DeFilmKaterThe initial riff is the same but the rest of it is not. Plus Picard actually changed it over the years to a slightly happier yet still haunting tone. Listen to the original from the Inner Light again to hear the difference.
Data: "Computer: Identity source of music near main engineering" Computer: "Music is coming from the 4th intersect of Jefferies tube #25" Data: "Computer: On screen" Data & Geordi: !!!!
I remember when this first aired on tv, I watched that scene a few times (on my VCR) because of how beautiful that song sounded with the piano accompaniment and the echo of the Jeffries tube. It's hauntingly beautiful in that scene.
Groove Mistress Well said...i too lost an aunt to Cancer last year....this is one of my favorite episodes. Hearing and watching this episode helped my mother deal with the loss of her sister. In fact this melody was played at her service,when we laid her to rest. I'm in tears when ever i hear it....it was my aunt's favorite episode too.
Some people say the best parts of a show or any other kind of media are the action, the epic battles, and the story, but it is the scenes like this that bring me joy.
It wasn't often that Captain Picard had a relationship with a woman, but when he did, such as this one, it was a beautiful and meaningful experience. I hope a lot of people enjoyed the meaning, depth, and beauty of the episode, especially this scene as I did.
Two children, grandchildren, a wife, an entire lifetime of experience, increasing his mental age by nearly half a century. And all he has is a melody to show that it was real.
Such emotion and this song ties in with another episode where pickard lives a whole life in the space of an hour when they investigate a satellite from another race that became extinct, that episode was called; The inner light. Pickard and his son play the flute in this episode too
"i never heard you play with such feeling" - "it took me a lifetime to get it right"
Bruh.....I was not expecting that. Sucker punch right to the feels.
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Aaaaaaaah! My f*cking heaaaaart ;-;
If she only knew...
Not to mention when she asks him earlier in the episode if he’s played long and he pauses before responding “.... yes a long time”
The flute and the song are pretty much all Picard has left of his other life. And this was the only time he ever shared them with someone else.
Well I'm sure he told the life to someone else, they literally asked him to share it with others.
I wonder if that is what we are seeing in Picard. Another life that he lived and it is just a simulation?
@@athstreamsandmore Nah, just a cash grab by people who have never watched TNG. :(
And then it was never touched on again lol
I like to think he shared it with others, that was the point, but also with someone we meet in Picard season 3 (no spoilers).
Have to say, this is quite possibly one of, if not, my favorite TNG moment. Picard's most sacred life experience reawakened and given a new warmth, shared in a way he could never imagine.
Tom Gervais Well put. I felt so sorry for Picard, living 40 years with family and kids in 25 minutes. I have 10 or so episodes left of TNG but I am sure The Inner Light will be one of the most memorable episodes.
I agree with you...
i like to imagine q , is just around the corner listening to 1 of those few times picard opens up.
I think about this tune a lot because of this reason.
@@lordcoz99 what a wonderful thougt. would be amazing to see this scene happen
I wish whoever writes modern Trek would realize that this is what it's about. It's not space battles and frantic action. It's this.
They could have utilized this in his show. That android girl they introduced could have been a way to generate pathos, about the family he lost in the blink of an eye. But no its gotta be about data, because they only ever saw the fucking movies.
It's life.... Past, present, and future....
Couldn’t agree more!
Or “woke” bs either!
They would never think to make an episode like this anymore. Another example is Darmok. That episode is about 2 people learning to communicate and work together. There are so many quiet scenes and episodes in TNG that didn't need space battles or effects. This series gets more impressive and profound as the years go by
The way the camera pulls back on Picard sitting in the junction, just like he would sit in the window at his home and play
Everytime I hear that piece on the flute... chills.... every - damn - time.......
Well Picard did work on it for like 40 years in "Inner Light"
was just gunna say the same
Gareth Instone yep very accurate
I learned how to play that melody on a 26 string psaltery. It's was such a beautiful melody and I wanted to recreate it 😍
Gareth Instone I’m going to learn to play this. So beautiful
“It’s...an old folk melody.”
If she only knew.
I think in the bounds of love she knew before he even told her.
Probably one of the greatest callbacks. It'd hard to imagine the melancholy, the memories he associates to that music, and what it represents. Kinda hoped there'd be a spot in a museum on Earth somewhere, where a copy of the music, both written and recorded, as well as a duplicate of the flute, and a record of all that Picard could remember of that civilization is. So they were never forgotten.
@sweetblackblood1 Where the music came from.
Made me cry that episode and then again on this episode wh n picard finally had a taste of love
@sweetblackblood1 "If only she knew" means 'If only Cdr. Nella Daren knew that Picard learned that flute folk melody on another planet....1,000 years ago.....in another lifetime that he lived while unconscious for only 25 minutes in the present (S5, Ep. 25, "The Inner Light")'. Picard does explain to Daren later in the Episode shown here (S6, Ep. 19, "Lessons") why it means so much to him.
Man, the way he looks at her, like he STILL doesn't quite know if he trusts her with this sacred part of him, and the absolutely respectful way she adapts it and plays with him, I can't imagine how much it meant to hear the song reborn.
maybe because she looks like his "wife"
@@Juidodin She also looks like Beverly crusher a bit too
I don’t know if the writers of this episode meant to do this when bringing back this melody from “The Inner Light” episode, but hearing Picard play, seeing her reaction, and then watching a love spring from it made me extremely happy because - in a way - it accomplished the probe’s task of keeping the dying race from “Inner Light” alive through their influence. A very touching and meaningful scene for me.
From what I remember, Picard eventually tells her about what happened to him in “The Inner Light” so it was most likely intentional.
Picard's flute theme is 100% original, made specifically for the episode "inner light" (S05E25). it was composed by Jay Chattaway (a composer for film and television scores including frequent work for TNG, DS9, VOY and Enterprise) for the episode and was rearranged for a full orchestra for the 30th anniversary. The flute arrangement for Inner Light remains his most popular single piece.
Got a link to the full orchestra 30th?
Thank you! 🙏
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Star Trek:The Inner Light - "sinfonisches blasorchester wehdel"
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@@WirzWorld What's always been funny to me is that this duet during the episode differed from the original piece and the orchestrated version in a few ways.
I think I actually heard this duet version first, and I've always loved the harmony from the piano. This one always felt a bit brighter and happier to me than the original.
The reason I love this scene so much is because it brings some continuity into the series. While the script writers of the week may have forgotten that Picard spent half his life in a memory on another planet, the audience has not.
I thought only a few seconds had passed in our timeline during what he perceived as a lifetime on the other planet.
So true, a writer of the week made something that even now we appreciate 30 years later. Beautiful
@@ArmyJames He was unconscious on the Enterprise bridge for about 25mins in our time, and experienced over 40 years on Kataan as Kamin
I would've loved to hear them play the full song especially with that piano accompaniment
they released a special recording of this. I did find this one here:
ua-cam.com/video/KZaFNFyuv2w/v-deo.html
@@TheVFXbyArt People always, and I mean always, overproduce it and add too many layers. I think that what most people want is just a simple rendition with the flute and piano, exactly like how it was played here.
Here it is: ua-cam.com/video/gsGxmGdyRX8/v-deo.html
@@TheVFXbyArt you shall forever be our hero...
When Jean-Luc joins in at 1:45-2:16, it always brings tears to my eyes. It's just so beautiful and moving.
I know...
Picard made me cry...
@@TheFirephoenix76
Oh please, could you two go boo-hoo somewhere else?
Wait, you're from San Francisco aren't you....thought so
@@mckinleymac3452 what in the actual fuck is wrong with you? Attacking people for there feelings is a tactic of the weak and mentally ill. Either way get your shit together and grow up
Who needs autotune when you have Jefferies tubes?
wow comment of the year lmao!
MithranArkanere
Simple you don't need auto tune
Musical accompaniment, production & creation of music, & general hi-tech accurate recordings made TNG an acoustic treasure to both watch and listen to...watch the "Minuet " introduction episode with "Riker", the short piece of music won an award.
Lol not to be a know-it-all but auto-tune is for vocals. The effect that being in the Jefferies tube would have caused is Reverb
4 years later... and still the comment of the year. Haha
Jean-Luc Picard. Great philosopher-captain of the enlightened future. The heart of a warrior-poet.
Okay Tyr of the Kodiaks. We get it.
"You have the heart of an explorer and the soul of a poet" (Lt. Natasha Yar; her goodbye)
Kudos to The Inner Light. An episode so perfect that a simple reference to it a year later in a different season could still bring fans to tears. Thank you, Morgan Gendel.
Fact ... the actor who played Picards son in Episode The Inner Light was Patrick Stewarts real life son.
It’s an inversion of Over the Sea to Sky .
The most beautiful scene i have seen in all of the Star Trek Universe
Next to the ending of The Inner Light.
It's the Inner LIght which makes this scene truly powerful. Otherwise it would just be a nice little romance scene....maybe enough to make a Picard shipboard romance believable but nothing more....it's for true TNG fans that know the background to the tune that makes it a poignant and emotional moment and brings the believability of their relationship to the next level.
man the The Inner Light episode was amazing....
not a single laser was fired on that episode and it still hit me right in the soul.
I"m with Richard on this one. The haunting pseudo-Celtic style of the piece makes it "work its magic" in the junction, but the TRUE power behind that musical magic was the legacy, the experiential nature, of the emotion behind it. It's why most of us that hear this tune or watch its episode sob on command. THE scene, beyond this actual performance, in "Lessons" that makes me cry follows this scene by a few minutes. It's when the Captain "apologizes" to Nella for appearing to blow her off in the turbolift. In his apology, he reveals his true gratitude for his experience on Kataan, and how wonderful it finally felt for him to SHARE that with someone on such a level. I had a somewhat similar experience in how I met my own wife, so I knew EXACTLY where Picard was coming from. Very well written and well executed scene on Stewart's part. It's a bit sad that the rest of the episode (outside the shared music etc) was so ordinary. The scene in his quarters makes me cry everytime.
This is the quote: kills me every time
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: ...And when I awoke, all that I had left of that life... was the flute that I'd taught myself to play.
Lt. Cmdr. Nella Daren: Why are you telling me this?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Because I want you to understand what my music means to me... and what it means for me to be able to share it with someone.
The inner light was such a profoundly deep and emotional episode, and this moment of Picard tentively sharing his most vulnerable side and her tender response... to this day just hearing this music instantly puts tears in my eyes...
To this very day, this melody brings to tears to my eyes, which is a rare thing to do. It's just something about the original storyline, from Picard living an entire life on a dying planet, and holding on to the one memory that brings him back to that life. When he plays that flute, he goes back to that life. It is a part of him now and it will never leave him. That is why it is a very moving and emotional melody to me. It almost brings back my Soul to where I was before this life. I can't grasp it or remember it, but I know it's there.
I am very happy he shared it with us. :D
The hopes & dreams, the history of those people long gone, live on through Picard. A beautiful melody, even if only one person remembers them ages later. I hope our species leaves such a message in a bottle when our time has passed as well.
She was the perfect woman for him out of all in the entire series.
Vash
Hard disagree. Picard and Beverly were meant to be together.
Agreed she was the only one who could have made him voluntarily give his heart to her
Vash was perfect...this discussion is over!
she is perfect
Holy crap, could whoever is cutting onions please stop.
constructivist6 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Your comment was very humerus 😂
The onions are still being cut..fuck man😢
@@vundertaker1156 There's someone here, who's made it their personal mission in life to cut onions, so the rest of us can only weep uncontrollably
Yeah, sorry about that. I'll chop some broccoli instead. :-p
T_T
Inner Light. One of my favorite episodes as well.
rackley this isn't Inner Light my friend although the music does of course feature in that awesome episode. This is "Lessons" from Season 6.
MrPeterpiper1969 yeah but im off to go and stream this one now
Paul Callaghan-Fowler Don't blame you a bit my friend. This is also a truly wonderful episode. I think TNG was at its best when it explored characters and emotional issues like this. No need for big explosions and the like when the story is so well written, directed and acted.
This was a good episode because it reflected so well on an earlier emotional an great episode.
@@MrPeterpiper1969 The Wounded was probably most sad war movie without single shot being fired on screen.
Oh Picard - you got me in the feels on this one. One of his best scenes in any Star Trek episode he ever did.
The next generation is by far the climax of Star Trek....and story telling. The first time I watched the inner light episode I was so taken back. Could you imagine living a whole life then brought back to reality that it was real and all those moments are now haunting you for the rest of your life....then you get captured by the Borg. Resistance is futile
Still constantly revisiting this clip to this day. Some sort of comfort I’ve never known.
I know of few songs that can so beautifully convey grief, loss, hope, responsibility, happiness and love all at the same time. The gift and burden of what Picard went through in "The Inner Light" can not be over stated. The magnitude of it all is awe inspiring. This song was his connection to it in this life.
"Remember us... Remember that we once lived."
The Ascians would be pleased.
I always loved that the piano stopped first, two beats earlier, which always meant that Darin had gotten up first to kiss Picard, just means something to me.
This was the first scene in star trek I ever watched when I was 12 and I remember thinking it was so boring before picking up a lightsaber and going to play with my sister in the yard. I'm 17 now and every time I hear the song tears come to my eyes. I'm studying to become a professional musician partly because of this show. I live with the hope that I can one day move someone in the way this show has moved me.
One of my favorite episodes! RIP Wendy Hughes, 1952-2014
Oh man..the actress is deceased?? Oh man...I'm so saddened..she was ethereal
Is the actress who played Helene, his wife in Inner Light, still alive? She was so good. She displayed a gentle humor and a very loving nature.
Whenever I hear this song I get chills... And tears. He played this song for each of his children. They may have been part of a computer program, but he was living a lifetime in it. He raised them. They were his. And he'll never see them again.
But it felt like Picard got to see "the road not taken", a gift no one actually gets. He felt the joys and sorrows of a rich family life. Helene, the children, and his grandson were a wondrous experience. He richly lived for having lived a lifetime with them.
Notice the gentle and careful way the kiss at the end happened, it's perfect. It's like a careful embrace, because they're both vulnerable and a bit scared to hurt/be hurt.
This was the greatest scene ever filmed.
Agreed. While I always root for a Picard-Crusher coupling, Nella Darren is my second choice for Picard's ideal soulmate. She can follow all ihs wits, matches his temper, and read his mind like a book. The type of woman you wish would've been your own soulmate as well.
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William Patterson also the inner light 😭😭😭
I don't know if I'd go that far. The scene when Picard learns that the probe being sent up from Resik would find him in the future and when his deceased wife and friend come back to say goodbye again was way more moving. "It's me, it's me it finds."
I love how Picard learned to improvise around the original tune and made it even more amazing. The happiness in the melody, compared to the haunting one, conveys Picard's emotions perfectly. He is able to freely express himself through music to another that understands its interpretation. Something that until now had been a very personal secret.
When they play that duet, it always brings me to tears.
Such a magical ST moment starting at 0:55, I could listen to it for ever.
the song is an interpritation of skye boat song, a scottish folk melody :)
Example: ua-cam.com/video/iqk1LlBViF0/v-deo.html
I knew that song as Speed Bonnie Boat; my grandma sang it to me when I was a child in the early 1980s.
Oh thanks!! I thought I recognized it!!
Yes, thank you for this! Outlander also uses this song for their main theme.
Thank you. I was looking for that. Seems to me now that you mention it that when I was in choir in middle school, we sang something that was based on this tune but had its own lyrics.
I've found a certain "emotional resonance" in musical melody on rare occasions. The ability of certain progressions of notes or chords to elicit an emotional response even without lyrics. This is one of those and it's made even more powerful by the underlying story. I've always loved this episode
I will always adore Next Generation. and this (along with the episode that this is a callback to) are some of the major reasons why. absolutely beautiful. legitimately brings tears to my eyes, even after all this time.
This show has so many moments that touched your heart as well as your sense of adventure and exploring. I’m glad I grew up with this in my life
R.I.P. Wendy Hughes. It was one of my favorite guest star from TNG :(
I didn't know she passed away... I am honestly abit sad.
@@jasonlyles6477 THAT WAS HORRIBLE NEWS.
I HAD NO IDEA SHE PASSED...GOOD CHARACTER TO CONTINUE.
I have always this scene. So touching.
Time out. How did Geordi notice the music before Data did. Didn't Data say that his hearing is better than the average dog's??
Data had just come in to see Geordi staring up a jefferies tube
Jen Dowie He still should have heard it before, he most likely has a superior hearing capability
LeagueOfGaming1000 When it is activated probably
Jen Dowie I guess Data occasionally turns it off to fit in with the other humans.
I suppose, I will have to consider this more
This is how those ancient people survive, music and songs being played over each other in a sacred and emotional moment held in a room fashioning itself into a holy of holies
Geordi: I hear music
Data: Music?
Geordi: It seems to have stopped.
Data: Intriguing, All I hear is Captain Picard boning the head of astrophysics in one of the Jefferies tubes. Rhythmic, perhaps, but I would not call it music, Geordi.
Geordi: You have no soul, Data. Plus...eww.
:-)
That's completely cracked me up :D Thanks for that, I needed that laugh
Data: I do not hear anything.
That was a great joke. Though I dont picture using the word boning.
Yeah, I know that was made in humor - but please, "boning"? Ick. All they showed was kissing.. Not even "making out" You know, like Hermione's comment about Cormac having more tentacles than a Snargaluff plant, Ginny's about Ron and Lavender thrashing around like a pair of eels, things seen in high schools across America every day (at least the US, I don't know about other countries).
His smile when she starts improvising around the melody, elaborating on this very personal composition, is perfect. As if this melody is holy ground to him, yet he doesn't mind, is in fact pleased to allow this extraordinary woman to walk around in it.
Can you imagine a Discovery episode with this level of feeling?
I love the callback to "The Inner Light", it shows that what he experienced during that 22 minutes would affect him forever.
I could
Yup. The episodic nature of TNG (and most of 90s tv) often leaves you wondering why people barely react to major events (Geordi & Ro dying & reappearing at their funeral? nbd). But the writers did a good job of re-acknowledging things like Picard's assimilation by the borg and living a *WHOLE life* on Kataan.
I swear, most enterprise crewmates should have crippling PTSD after all the stuff they go through in space!
I see them trying to make Mary Sue Burnham go back in time and help the old white man (Picard) defeat the Borg, because shes so good and hes so incompetent that without her it wouldn't succeed.
Beautiful piece and episode. You’d never get something like this in Picard. What a missed opportunity of a show.
@@OneofInfinity. I was looking for confirmation that all the discovery hate is because of racist and idiots. Thanks for the proof. Can't wait to watch discovery
In the opening sequence to the show when Picard says 'To Explore Strange New Worlds...' that doesn't mean to explore fictional space every episode. It has always meant that the show is going to explore the human condition, which is what this scene represents along with the whole episode.
Thats what Star Trek has always been about. Holding up a mirror to the audience and showing us a better version of ourselves.
I miss this Star Trek, and is the reason I adore the Galaxy class design of starship. I never personally went aboard one, but I learnt a lot about myself watching a show set on one. I miss this Star Trek dearly...
I love this scene, beautiful music and the chemistry is brilliant between these two. Best scene/episode in Star Trek TNG in my opinion
This brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it.
0:18 -- Remember the good ole 1980s.... When things were so uncomplicated....
I wish I could go back there again.
And everything could be the same.
I've got a ticket to the moon.
I'll be leaving here any day soon.
Yeah, I've got a ticket to the moon.
But I'd rather see the sunrise, in your eyes.
Got a ticket to the moon.
I'll be rising high above the earth so soon.
And the tears I cry might turn into the rain.
That gently falls upon your window.
You'll never know.
Ticket to the moon.
Ticket to the moon.
Ticket to the moon.
Fly, fly through a troubled sky.
Up to a new world shining bright, oh oh.
Flying high above.
Soaring madly through the mysteries that come.
Wondering sadly if the ways that led me here.
Could turn around and I would see you there.
Standing there (I would see you there).
Ticket to the moon.
Flight leaves here today from Satellite 2.
As the minutes go by, what shall I do.
I paid the fare, what more can I say?
It's just one way.
Ticket to the moon.
Ticket to the moon.
Ticket to the moon.
I used to run stairs at the local university. Once for a couple years a student used to play flute in it. I’m sure she selected it for the echo. I’d listen for a while, then go off and come back later. She didn’t need me clomping up and down. Once when she finished I sat for a moment before starting up my routine. You could hear a whole series of doors open and close. People that on different floors had been listening.
This makes me cry almost every time, I just watched this episode tonight
0:55 sad, beautiful and heartbreaking all at the same time.
The scene when the camera was panning out away from them is just simply brilliant cinematography.
One of my favorite scenes ever in STnG..ever
0:55 oh man, that Inner Light music, it gets me every time.... Thank you, Jay Chattaway,for sneaking in this masterpiece during the Rick Berman era of blah wallpaper music scores.
Say what you want about Berman, but he held the ship steady, didn't rock the boat and didn't crash it and he had the guts to admit mistakes (see interview with him on ENT ending episode) - or, well, at least acknowledge viewers feelings and respect them.
@@piotrd.4850 New drinking game: Take a shot every time someone credits Rick Berman with things Michael Pillar did. You'll be d e a d before you reach page two of a comment section.
Michael Pillar. Not Rick Berman.
This Scene is since 30 Years in my Brain. Never forget it.
Just realised you'd never get a scene like this in Picard.
oh I hope the chance comes up to use that tune and part of his story
But it took six years to get to that point.... First season Picard would NEVER have been this open either, so how about actually giving Picard a chance, instead of dumping on it, and killing any chance of it developing to this point?
If the first season of tng came out now, i would guess that would be the reaction most people would have towards it.
@@threatmaker I doubt that. NuTrek has almost everything wrong, I see no light at the end of the tunnel.
Very different with TNG. It all looked improvised and stiff, but all the ingredients were present from the start.
@@M0butu Maybe, maybe not
Makes me cry every time.
Picard is playing "The Skye Boat Song"
A tune recalling the escape of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) from Uist to the Isle of Skye after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
Thank you so much for that!!! I have spent years trying to figure out where this came from. I should have knows why this is so haunting since I married my Scotish Lass in 2006. Makes it so much more special!
Do you know what the other person is doing on the piano before picard starts
Playing "Moonlight Sonata".@@TheGreatShnopy
Long live Charles III
It's a variation of the Skye Boat Song
And he only mimic the fingering, i dont remember what the original artist was named.
Her beauty and her Intelligence matches Captain Picard boldness and wisdom.They just make a nice couple.
This story arc was always my most favorite I really wish that they would have continued With It Captain Picard deserve to have someone in his life like that that was so magical and Powerful it brought tears to my eyes with them playing the song together with the flute and the piano chills all over
The Inner Light Duet
Composed by Jay Chattaway.
The best part of the episode: Lessons.
Here's hoping "Star Trek: Picard" has more moments like this where Picard is thrown into a world of emotion and memory from his other lifetime in the episode "The Inner Light"
It doesn't is pure violence and hate and darkness. And Icheb is killed by 7of9. Trek is dead.
Episodes like this will never be made again. It's sad to think about. Star Trek has moved away from the intellectual to the dramatic and generic
The Riker said to Picard about he never been a father Picard should reply he has been a father and a grandfather
Yeah... No. If only
I want to see Picard playing his Ressikan flute one more time in Season 2...
The romance of being able to express the subtleties of who you are, where you've been and how you feel when you can play a musical instrument.
such a simple and Beautiful tune. never get tired of hearing it. But no recording I've ever found that tryed to repeat this has never been as good as the rendition in this video.
Skye Boat Song. Opening credits from Outlander.
Star Trek Insurrection : Baku Village is just as beautiful
Likely the the most humble Moment in the entire Series. When they play the Duet
I remember this from the series, I thought it was most beautiful then and I still do. They found a place, a blanket fort or a tree bowl, whatever you want to call it, where they could be totally honest and unguarded and then they were! It the kind of situation that comes up in First Love and makes it the most special of all.
Hearing this magnificent flute song again gives me goose bumps everywhere.
Doesn't matter where I am or how bad I might feel Star trek always puts a smile on my face
I absolutely love this song
I always wipe tears away when hearing this being played.. its.. so profound
Inner Light is one of the best episodes from TNG which was the best of the Star Trek series. I have this tune as my ring tone on my cell phone and it brings me such warmth whenever my cell rings.
2021...still crying over this masterpiece
"The Inner Light" is probably one of the best STNG episodes, for sure. It's good to see the flute appear here and there afterward.
"It's umm . . . An old folk melody"
😭
GrandSupremeDaddyo I loved that too
By the 24th century, it was.
So sad, no doubt he at times mourned the loss of his wife and children when he played this song.
He's right in even two ways, 'cause it's also the Skye Boat Song. 😏
@@DeFilmKaterThe initial riff is the same but the rest of it is not. Plus Picard actually changed it over the years to a slightly happier yet still haunting tone. Listen to the original from the Inner Light again to hear the difference.
Beautiful music leads to Beautiful things❤
Still coming to this scene in 2019!
If I just need to make myself cry for some reason, I watch this scene. The feels are too real.
Data: "Computer: Identity source of music near main engineering"
Computer: "Music is coming from the 4th intersect of Jefferies tube #25"
Data: "Computer: On screen"
Data & Geordi: !!!!
Yeah like the million things that would have been explained if they ever utilised the godamn surveillance camera's
@@wingedfish1175 The show Enterprise did that several times to figure out problems.
An entire life lived in just 25 minutes. The Roy, of star trek.
I remember when this first aired on tv, I watched that scene a few times (on my VCR) because of how beautiful that song sounded with the piano accompaniment and the echo of the Jeffries tube. It's hauntingly beautiful in that scene.
Not gonna lie, this brings a tear to my eye every time.
Episode that he learns the flute = BEST EPISODE FROM ANY SERIES EVER.
Inner Light - easily one of the best episode of any series, ever.
"an old folk melody", there's so much there in that breath and pause
Love the flute always touch my heart and soul in a world of my own thunder strikes and the sun will again shine
This is so beautiful.
What also makes this is her gentle demeanor and softer non-shrill voice. One can only wonder how she was in real life. 🙁
I wish this relationship had continued. It would have added yet another interest facet to Picard.
Wendy Hughes was so gorgeous!!
Just found out that she died this year. So sad. No age at all. Fuck cancer.
Groove Mistress Well said...i too lost an aunt to Cancer last year....this is one of my favorite episodes. Hearing and watching this episode helped my mother deal with the loss of her sister. In fact this melody was played at her service,when we laid her to rest. I'm in tears when ever i hear it....it was my aunt's favorite episode too.
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Some people say the best parts of a show or any other kind of media are the action, the epic battles, and the story, but it is the scenes like this that bring me joy.
It wasn't often that Captain Picard had a relationship with a woman, but when he did, such as this one, it was a beautiful and meaningful experience. I hope a lot of people enjoyed the meaning, depth, and beauty of the episode, especially this scene as I did.
It's the small things and the memories we make with others that matter in the end.
Two children, grandchildren, a wife, an entire lifetime of experience, increasing his mental age by nearly half a century.
And all he has is a melody to show that it was real.
"Show us Picard's Flute!"
ding ding ding
"How did you...."
"I was in the survey"
This is a Wonderful song, from Star Trek the Next Generation.
I love it
Such emotion and this song ties in with another episode where pickard lives a whole life in the space of an hour when they investigate a satellite from another race that became extinct, that episode was called; The inner light.
Pickard and his son play the flute in this episode too
A beautiful scene, and one of the best and most moving in the entire series. Thanks for posting! :D
Only episode that ever made me cry. And still does.