"The Inner Light" Line-by-Line

Back on the Enterprise...

Crusher: His vital signs are holding. They've been stable ever since the beam was restored.

 

LaForge: Commander Riker, we've started to receive telemetry from the probe we launched.

 

RIKER: Go ahead.

 

Geordi: We've charted the alien probe's radiation trail for over one light year.

 

Riker: Any way to extrapolate an origin?

 

LAFORGE: Looks like a star system in the Silarian sector. Kataan.

 

RIKER: Never heard of it. Data?

 

DATA: It is an unmapped system of six planets, sir.

 

RIKER: Any of them inhabited?

 

DATA: Not any longer, sir. The star went nova. All life in the system was destroyed approximately one thousand years ago.

 

[Courtyard]

(more years have past. Eline is old and grey, whilst Picard is still peering into his refractor telescope)

ELINE: I put away your shoes for you again.

 

PICARD: Yes, thank you, dear.

 

ELINE: You know, I've been looking through this thing off and on for over 30 years, and I still don't see what you and Meribor find so fascinating.

 

PICARD: Fine. Then maybe you'll sit down and have a rest like you're supposed to.

 

ELINE: You treat me like some frail flower. People have surgery all the time.

(flute music starts from inside the house)

 

ELINE: He loves playing. He's quite good at it, don't you think?

 

PICARD: He loves doing a lot of things too many. Last week, all he wanted to do was be a botanist. The week before that, a sculptor. I wish he could find some focus in his life.

 

ELINE: I think he has. Maybe you should talk to him.

 

Picard: Batai?

 

YOUNG BATAI (played by Patrick Stewart's son, Daniel): Father?