Picards Flute Duet

This is from Star Trek: The Next Generation
season 6 episode 19
www.thewhistles...
Picard's flute theme + piano duet.
Enjoy

[@firstnamelastname2552]

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.

[@cuhlainnslane1564]

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.

[@lucettabutt0926]

It's life.... Past, present, and future....

[@xannondaalder1173]

Couldn’t agree more!

[@lt.creggar5903]

Or “woke” bs either!

[@Phillip713]

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

[@gatorboymike]

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.

[@DarkKnightTrinity]

Well I'm sure he told the life to someone else, they literally asked him to share it with others.

[@athstreamsandmore]

I wonder if that is what we are seeing in Picard. Another life that he lived and it is just a simulation?

[@bigchungus6223]

@@athstreamsandmore Nah, just a cash grab by people who have never watched TNG. :(

[@jordanbridges]

And then it was never touched on again lol

[@sarahberkner]

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).

[@Juidodin]

"i never heard you play with such feeling" - "it took me a lifetime to get it right"

[@whiskersnbeans]

Bruh.....I was not expecting that. Sucker punch right to the feels.

[@cgavin1]

😭

[@DonnEStarside]

Aaaaaaaah! My f*cking heaaaaart ;-;

[@RuralTowner]

If she only knew...

[@punishercastle5487]

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”

[@amead78]

“It’s...an old folk melody.” If she only knew.

[@wolfeusmc2011]

I think in the bounds of love she knew before he even told her.

[@Kalebfenoir]

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.

[@Lizfan2]

@sweetblackblood1 Where the music came from.

[@PrinceHill]

Made me cry that episode and then again on this episode wh n picard finally had a taste of love

[@CYBERVISIONSdotCom]

@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.

[@TomGervais]

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.

[@lampard4]

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.

[@futurexjam2]

I agree with you...

[@lordcoz99]

i like to imagine q , is just around the corner listening to 1 of those few times picard opens up.

[@Srcsqwrn]

I think about this tune a lot because of this reason.

[@emircanakdeniz7037]

@@lordcoz99 what a wonderful thougt. would be amazing to see this scene happen

[@garethinstone4653]

Everytime I hear that piece on the flute... chills.... every - damn - time.......

[@mscolli3]

Well Picard did work on it for like 40 years in "Inner Light"

[@derekscanlan4641]

was just gunna say the same

[@SkellyClone]

Gareth Instone yep very accurate

[@Joreel]

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 😍

[@jrsinger78]

Gareth Instone I’m going to learn to play this. So beautiful

[@jamesmcpherson7851]

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]

Got a link to the full orchestra 30th?

[@ReincarnatedViolinist]

Thank you! 🙏

[@cullenyanosy4283]

@@WirzWorld kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHi7n558p82jiJo kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKq8mZV5ZbKLors

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

@@WirzWorld Star Trek:The Inner Light - "sinfonisches blasorchester wehdel" kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmmcaqKpiMl-n9k .

[@sheetpostmodernist398]

@@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.

[@kay-kay6483]

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.

[@Juidodin]

maybe because she looks like his "wife"

[@FinalFront]

@@Juidodin She also looks like Beverly crusher a bit too

[@DredPiratWestley]

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.

[@Blondesax]

It’s such genius to actually connect The Inner Light here, that Picard’s whole ordeal has a real, profound, lasting effect on him. It’s beautiful.

[@piotrd.4850]

and he loses loved one again.

[@holyswordStockholm]

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.

[@ArmyJames]

I thought only a few seconds had passed in our timeline during what he perceived as a lifetime on the other planet.

[@cac8793]

So true, a writer of the week made something that even now we appreciate 30 years later. Beautiful

[@FinalFront]

@@ArmyJames He was unconscious on the Enterprise bridge for about 25mins in our time, and experienced over 40 years on Kataan as Kamin

[@CoolsBreeze]

I would've loved to hear them play the full song especially with that piano accompaniment

[@TheVFXbyArt]

they released a special recording of this. I did find this one here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYvEd4F8rtqpaNk

[@DerethAC]

@@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.

[@steveanderson6180]

Here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/naSqqaB9md6Fjpo

[@StoatoftheSouth]

@@TheVFXbyArt you shall forever be our hero...

[@captaincough2326]

Jean-Luc Picard. Great philosopher-captain of the enlightened future. The heart of a warrior-poet.

[@badbeardbill9956]

Okay Tyr of the Kodiaks. We get it.

[@Unicorn679]

"You have the heart of an explorer and the soul of a poet" (Lt. Natasha Yar; her goodbye)

[@TomKeresey10]

When Jean-Luc joins in at 1:45-2:16, it always brings tears to my eyes. It's just so beautiful and moving.

[@TheFirephoenix76]

I know... Picard made me cry...

[@mckinleymac3452]

@@TheFirephoenix76 Oh please, could you two go boo-hoo somewhere else? Wait, you're from San Francisco aren't you....thought so

[@J4CKWR4TH]

@@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

[@steveanderson6180]

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.

[@vulcan2882]

Fact ... the actor who played Picards son in Episode The Inner Light was Patrick Stewarts real life son.

[@linawalter5104]

It’s an inversion of Over the Sea to Sky .

[@MithranArkanere]

Who needs autotune when you have Jefferies tubes?

[@commando21]

wow comment of the year lmao!

[@queeniechicosplay6364]

MithranArkanere Simple you don't need auto tune

[@AndieBlack13]

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.

[@swiitchpstalent342]

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

[@DragoMusivini]

You win the internet.

[@AlyssMa7rin]

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

[@arthureustaquio8835]

The most beautiful scene i have seen in all of the Star Trek Universe

[@grumpyoldgraymetalhead2441]

Next to the ending of The Inner Light.

[@gregrupedski4987]

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.

[@ppsarrakis]

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.

[@SoundtracksRUS]

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.

[@SoundtracksRUS]

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.

[@Americalandofthefree]

One of my favorite episodes! RIP Wendy Hughes, 1952-2014

[@spsniper1170]

Oh man..the actress is deceased?? Oh man...I'm so saddened..she was ethereal

[@emdee8840]

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.

[@Akatsukileader9]

She was the perfect woman for him out of all in the entire series.

[@NimsChannel]

Vash

[@yanasto]

Hard disagree. Picard and Beverly were meant to be together.

[@ue8472]

Agreed she was the only one who could have made him voluntarily give his heart to her

[@jessegonzalez9753]

Vash was perfect...this discussion is over!

[@jadziamedmar3652]

she is perfect

[@constructivist6]

Holy crap, could whoever is cutting onions please stop.

[@stephaniearnold8196]

constructivist6 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Your comment was very humerus 😂

[@vundertaker1156]

The onions are still being cut..fuck man😢

[@caitlyncherro6025]

@@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

[@MisterMarin]

Yeah, sorry about that. I'll chop some broccoli instead. :-p

[@juarezmenegassi]

T_T

[@Blackwind_Legacy]

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."

[@aelithmackinnon8656]

The Ascians would be pleased.

[@JusBidniss]

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.

[@theshadowsovereign8914]

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

[@rackley98052]

Inner Light. One of my favorite episodes as well.

[@MrPeterpiper1969]

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.

[@upupuptheziggurat.liketysplit]

MrPeterpiper1969 yeah but im off to go and stream this one now

[@MrPeterpiper1969]

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.

[@dragonsword7370]

This was a good episode because it reflected so well on an earlier emotional an great episode.

[@piotrd.4850]

@@MrPeterpiper1969 The Wounded was probably most sad war movie without single shot being fired on screen.

[@wpatterson82]

This was the greatest scene ever filmed.

[@LGranthamsHeir]

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.

[@elmalloc]

no

[@flashlightfreek]

William Patterson also the inner light 😭😭😭

[@ThekiBoran]

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."

[@bobinvegas]

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

[@colethompson8962]

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.

[@DonnEStarside]

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.

[@emdee8840]

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.

[@jherrenor]

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.

[@marcello234]

Oh Picard - you got me in the feels on this one. One of his best scenes in any Star Trek episode he ever did.

[@annw1395]

When they play that duet, it always brings me to tears.

[@ryanlewisken]

the song is an interpritation of skye boat song, a scottish folk melody :)

[@ChristopherAndertonSWE]

Example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6LOYn-id7ucfJI

[@SeansModelBuilds]

I knew that song as Speed Bonnie Boat; my grandma sang it to me when I was a child in the early 1980s.

[@meepitydoodle]

Oh thanks!! I thought I recognized it!!

[@dreimann]

Yes, thank you for this! Outlander also uses this song for their main theme.

[@tejaswoman]

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.

[@Aetila]

Such a magical ST moment starting at 0:55, I could listen to it for ever.

[@starpaladinmilk4443]

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.

[@LordPicard]

R.I.P. Wendy Hughes. It was one of my favorite guest star from TNG :(

[@jasonlyles6477]

I didn't know she passed away... I am honestly abit sad.

[@AECRADIO1]

@@jasonlyles6477 THAT WAS HORRIBLE NEWS. I HAD NO IDEA SHE PASSED...GOOD CHARACTER TO CONTINUE.

[@archentity]

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??

[@Kiwi_Tea]

Data had just come in to see Geordi staring up a jefferies tube

[@LeagueOfGaming1000]

Jen Dowie He still should have heard it before, he most likely has a superior hearing capability

[@Kiwi_Tea]

LeagueOfGaming1000 When it is activated probably

[@archentity]

Jen Dowie I guess Data occasionally turns it off to fit in with the other humans.

[@LeagueOfGaming1000]

I suppose, I will have to consider this more

[@smally8499234]

I love this scene, beautiful music and the chemistry is brilliant between these two. Best scene/episode in Star Trek TNG in my opinion

[@artonline01]

This makes me cry almost every time, I just watched this episode tonight

[@huetuber1204]

The scene when the camera was panning out away from them is just simply brilliant cinematography.

[@vladdracula5851]

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

[@ella5901]

2021...still crying over this masterpiece

[@Roarke231]

Man, when he plays that tune, I bet all the love and sore for a family loved and lost must flood back to him

[@stephaneneron]

Hearing this magnificent flute song again gives me goose bumps everywhere.

[@fredwood1490]

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.

[@osiriswillmont7856]

Doesn't matter where I am or how bad I might feel Star trek always puts a smile on my face

[@Species1571]

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.

[@seanwolslau-holdren6731]

I could

[@37thraven]

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!

[@OneofInfinity.]

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.

[@WirzWorld]

Beautiful piece and episode. You’d never get something like this in Picard. What a missed opportunity of a show.

[@artemiswallace8716]

@@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

[@kellicos]

This brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it.

[@russell5078084]

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.

[@downtime86stars17]

Skye Boat Song. Opening credits from Outlander.

[@sam17me]

Star Trek Insurrection : Baku Village is just as beautiful

[@Redshirt434]

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.

[@piotrd.4850]

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.

[@groom_of_the_stools]

@@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.

[@groom_of_the_stools]

Michael Pillar. Not Rick Berman.

[@CorndogMaker]

I'm glad they revisited that because you can't just have a character lead a second lifetime, and have it be an everyday throwaway episode.

[@scotttaylor9183]

One of my favorite scenes from TNG. Beautiful melody from another favorite episode.

[@FAAMS1]

Still coming to this scene in 2019!

[@lancecoopie]

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

[@emersonmacintosh7673]

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.

[@raterus]

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"

[@cowboyfimbop]

It doesn't is pure violence and hate and darkness. And Icheb is killed by 7of9. Trek is dead.

[@thelockenbubi7117]

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

[@zhuala]

The Riker said to Picard about he never been a father Picard should reply he has been a father and a grandfather

[@Martok2309]

Yeah... No. If only

[@LGranthamsHeir]

I want to see Picard playing his Ressikan flute one more time in Season 2...

[@gljay]

What also makes this is her gentle demeanor and softer non-shrill voice. One can only wonder how she was in real life. 🙁

[@snyggmikael]

I always wipe tears away when hearing this being played.. its.. so profound

[@markfrellips5633]

The glory of having a show having many seasons under its belt and given a scheduled season being 20+ episodes, you just get (not so) quiet wonderful moments, spec scripts from fans, and just great memories

[@groom_of_the_stools]

Only -six- *seven episodes from 1988 to 2001 were spec. Four were TNG episodes. TNG - The Bonding, Measure of A Man, The Offspring, Tin Man DS9 - Starship Down, Only a Paper Moon VOY - Prime Factors

[@joriskemper5392]

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.

[@lukessummerguitar]

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.

[@SvnFire7]

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!

[@TheGreatShnopy]

Do you know what the other person is doing on the piano before picard starts

[@Lizfan2]

Playing "Moonlight Sonata".@@TheGreatShnopy

[@sithersproductions]

Long live Charles III

[@asmundpinas3192]

It's a variation of the Skye Boat Song And he only mimic the fingering, i dont remember what the original artist was named.

[@darkangel333ful]

Love the flute always touch my heart and soul in a world of my own thunder strikes and the sun will again shine

[@lynnanderson8062]

I have always this scene. So touching.

[@tedying6030]

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.

[@FluffyFooFookins]

Just realised you'd never get a scene like this in Picard.

[@MrTaryns]

oh I hope the chance comes up to use that tune and part of his story

[@Blue84Stang]

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]

If the first season of tng came out now, i would guess that would be the reaction most people would have towards it.

[@M0butu]

@@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.

[@threatmaker]

@@M0butu Maybe, maybe not

[@Possi_ball]

Episode that he learns the flute = BEST EPISODE FROM ANY SERIES EVER.

[@JeremyTani]

Inner Light - easily one of the best episode of any series, ever.

[@rockdog2584]

Why does this still run chills coursing through me, after all these years? Though now, this sounds like something that would fit right into the soundtrack of "The Outsider"...then!...it sounded like something so 'other-worldly'. "The Inner Light"...was one of those very few programs that touched me in a way that I just can't quite describe. So poignant...so...To The Heart. If only they would make such great programming as this again....

[@downtime86stars17]

It's The Skye Boat Song. The song in Outlander's opening credits.

[@hiker64]

"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.

[@outsider238]

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.

[@ExhaustedElox]

This tune makes me bawl my eyes out. It's so bittersweet. An entire society lives on in it, but no one from it will hear it again. It makes me think about what I will leave behind.

[@TheNitroG1]

This absolutely beautiful moment intercut with Jordi looking around confused is pretty great.

[@hsitt2000]

This is a Wonderful song, from Star Trek the Next Generation. I love it

[@temptinTAUREANMichaelWeidner]

A very soothing song for a sci-fi flick. Nicely done.

[@countravid3768]

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.

[@MarkWick]

I had never seen this scene until now. The episode it goes back to is one of my two all-time favorite Star Trek episodes. I was in high school during the original series. Forty-seven years later, after not playing trumpet since high school, this was included in a selection from Star Trek that was one of the pieces we performed in my first performance with a community orchestra. That makes this special to me.

[@GrandSupremeDaddyo]

"It's umm . . . An old folk melody" 😭

[@theoperumal5174]

GrandSupremeDaddyo I loved that too

[@graceskerp]

By the 24th century, it was.

[@whisperingwind2]

So sad, no doubt he at times mourned the loss of his wife and children when he played this song.

[@DeFilmKater]

He's right in even two ways, 'cause it's also the Skye Boat Song. 😏

[@jherrenor]

​@@DeFilmKater​The 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.

[@raterus]

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: !!!!

[@wingedfish1175]

Yeah like the million things that would have been explained if they ever utilised the godamn surveillance camera's

[@groom_of_the_stools]

@@wingedfish1175 The show Enterprise did that several times to figure out problems.

[@FishinDBA]

Have been binge-watching (read catching up as I missed it when it first came out) Next Generation and this episode isn't far away. Astounding how this tune rips tears from a fifty year old.

[@DredPiratWestley]

Steve Lawrence You’re not the only one, my friend! Now that I’ve heard it again, I’m going to try to learn to play it.

[@WolfFireheart]

That "Old folk melody" still brings a tear to my eye. Such a lovely, and sad melody. Brings back the memories of the whole episode.

[@AustralianLeprechaun]

Wendy Hughes was so gorgeous!!

[@jivebunny3765]

Just found out that she died this year. So sad. No age at all. Fuck cancer.

[@BattleCat380]

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.

[@jasonlyles6477]

rip

[@Wickian]

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.

[@peterhagan8454]

still brings tears to my eyes

[@denisrox544]

This Scene is since 30 Years in my Brain. Never forget it.

[@VolcanoEarth]

Gives me chills ...every---single----time!

[@mossy642]

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.

[@dfire351]

This was one of the most emotional episodes in all Star Trek series. When they split up in the end you just wanted to shed a few tears. 😭

[@MarkusNapp]

Has me in tears every time.

[@skinni_the_P00hBear]

Markus Napp ikr

[@makara4615]

Still to this day I notice little things in Star Trek that I haven't noticed the the rewatches before. Like the piano stopping before the flute, indicating that she initiated it, not Picard. Little character implications the show never spoke out loud.

[@Questor-ky2fv]

This flute melody is hauntingly beautiful. The first episode using the Ressikan flute was one of the best STNG episodes, but this second one, with the character of Nella Daren was also very well done. I also liked it when Giordi Laforge was trying to locate where the music was coming from. I'm wondering if someone has done this tune a couple of octaves lower for those of us who feel pain from very high pitched music. I absolutely love this tune, and the STNG episodes that go with it, but it's pitched at pain level for me. There are lower pitched wind instruments that don't cause me pain. Also, the wooden ones tend to sound better to me than the metal ones. I am a great lover of music, but can't do more than hunt & peck playing on any instrument, can't read music, and I have a terrible singing voice, but at least I can enjoy listening to it. I also like many different types of music, so I will never get tired of it.🤗

[@bcgrittner8076]

As long as you enjoy it

[@FBomb2F]

That song that Picard learns to play on the flute has never left my mind since the first time I saw this episode as a child. When I was in high school I learned to play it on the clarinet and everyone in the band thought it was an amazing tune but no one knew where it came from. Until I told them where I'd learned it, they thought I'd made it up myself. I still find myself whistling it as I drive down the road or walk through the store. Star Trek was a BIG part of my childhood and I can't wait till I have children and I can relive the expirience with them.

[@Meatwaggon]

Inner Light, one of the few TNG episodes that literally brings a tear to my eyes....

[@byrokrat07]

One of the most emotive moments in TNG ...i love it :-)

[@Helbore]

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.

[@vaiosan775]

:-)

[@Shindai]

That's completely cracked me up :D Thanks for that, I needed that laugh

[@captainbroady]

Data: I do not hear anything.

[@FirstLast-fr4hb]

That was a great joke. Though I dont picture using the word boning.

[@ragnarokofborg]

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).

[@longshot5866]

Just watched this episode again. I had to come here just to read comments from people who really get how amazing it is.

[@Erdnussspass]

When I watched this as a kid, a rollpiano was an unimaginable and a totally futuristic thing. Now I can order one at amazon. Strange times...

[@pspboy7]

Nice to find a woman who can read you like a book... and love you for it!

[@pspboy7]

Funny thing is that Data should have been able to detect the music even before Geordi did.

[@gabegu5102]

pspboy7 true but being blind im sure his since of hearing is very good

[@Martok2309]

He walked in after didn't he? Could be he entered engineering and when towards the source of the music

[@JRGProjects]

When you are blind other senses are enhanced to compensate. Geordi was Daredevil before Daredevil was a thing.

[@JackLambert44]

The inner light really touches my heart so much, this song reminds me of my parents who now spending together in heaven.

[@beforeandafterphotos]

Only episode that ever made me cry. And still does.

[@carolinehirst4921]

So sad about Wendy Hughes.