In the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Inner Light," the U.S.S. Enterprise is sailing through space when it happens upon a strange probe, unknown to its databases. The probe zaps Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) in the brain, and he falls unconscious. Picard awakens on the planet of Kataan, and is told that his real name is Kamin, and that he is married to a woman named Eline (Margot Rose). Picard assumes he's been kidnapped, but can't figure out why.

Months pass, though, and Picard begins to accept that, yes, he actually is Kamin. He and Eline have kids and a loving family together. "Picard" vanishes from his memory. He masters the flute. He grows into a very old man. Kamin eventually dies in his 90s when Kataan is destroyed by an unavoidable natural cataclysm.

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