Lessons
- Episode aired Apr 3, 1993
- TV-PG
- 45m
Picard falls for the new head of the stellar science services department, but has feelings of misgivings when he's forced to assign her to a dangerous mission.Picard falls for the new head of the stellar science services department, but has feelings of misgivings when he's forced to assign her to a dangerous mission.Picard falls for the new head of the stellar science services department, but has feelings of misgivings when he's forced to assign her to a dangerous mission.
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- Ensign Gates
- (uncredited)
- Ensign Armstrong
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- Lt. Jae
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- Lieutenant jg Marquez
- (uncredited)
- Ensign Russell
- (uncredited)
- Sciences Division Officer
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- Ten Forward Waitress
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- Operations Division Officer
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- Enterprise-D Sciences Officer
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis episode brings out of storage Picard's beloved Ressikan flute, that he learned to play in the previous season's critically acclaimed episode The Inner Light (1992).
- GoofsThe Enterprise beams the rescue team into a hot, dusty firestorm without basic safety equipment like work gloves or goggles, let alone respirators, self-contained air supplies, or sealed, heat-resistant environment suits.
- Quotes
[Picard tells Lt. Cmdr. Daren of his life on Kataan from "The Inner Light"]
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.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Star Trek: Generations Review (2008)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
In fact for a second in Generations, I thought that actually was Wendy Hughes when they first show "Picard's wife"... but it was in fact Braden (Carson had directed Generations...), who we originally saw in "The Loss"... when she was able to lie to Troi during a time when Troi had lost her empathic powers because of 2D Creatures...
I adore this episode mostly because of the music. I don't know if that is actually a Chopin piece played by Hughes, Spiner and the Cellist, but it was a very powerful, memorable piece of music.
And it is great that Picard comes up afterward to complement her on a change in an arpeggio... even though the musical language he used was technically wrong.
I just thought that Wendy Hughes was the perfect woman for Stewart. They had quite a lot in common. Not just as characters, but as actors.
Maybe that could be a problem though, maybe they were too much alike. But for whatever reason, they never brought the character back even though they should have. She was much more interesting than Vash... and Vash did just fine on her own on deep space nine without Picard even being around...
This is another episode where Picard inadvertently treats his girlfriend rudely... The first time was in Q-Pid, but I don't think that was particularly his fault. Vash was being Nosy, asking everybody that she met if Picard had even mentioned her, which he would not have. Because of his own standards where he cannot let any crewmember see any kind of weakness or humanity, let alone any kind of romantic connection at all.
Darren was much better for Picard.
We get to see stellar cartography here, but it is not the huge set that they made for generations. In fact we see the globe that Darren is using to map the future constellations all the way back in first season episodes, it was just a prop that was floating around the Paramount lot since The Original Series possibly.
Darren inadvertently talks Riker into letting her lead a dangerous mission and it's too much for her to chew on... "Never eat anything bigger than your head".
There is one point where Picard believes the worst has happened, he is never going to play his Rissican flute again. The music that is playing at that point is very similar to a piece that was used in 2001: A Space Odyssey and also at the very beginning of Aliens when Ripleys escape craft is being salvaged.
It is not quite the same music, but somebody describes this piece in the trivia section and they are spot on.
- XweAponX
- Jun 9, 2022
Details
- Runtime45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1