Anyone find the Kataan race cruel in "The Inner Light"?

[The Rock]

I mean think about it........the probe the Kataan people made forced Picard to live an entire lifetime in REAL time in a simulation. In other words, Picard had to live out an entire 20-40 years (or however long Kamin lived) years before the "simulation" ended. That felt unnecessarily cruel to me. It's basically a prison that Picard (in his mind at least) was stuck in for 20-40 years. It would've been one thing if that probe just showed Picard the highlights of Kataan's life but nope, he was forced to live out every single one of Kataan's years. Every single month. Every single day. Every single hour. Every single minute. Every single second! That was just wrong.

Anyone else here feel the same?

I also wonder how Picard didn't have PTSD after waking up from that. He forgot that he was Picard during the simulation and then when he wakes up, he remembers who he really is and that everything he has experienced was just a simulation.

 

[Tosk]

Miles got the nasty version, Jean-Luc got the nice one...provided you don't mind living in some boring-ass village.

Not only do the Kataan force their story on him, they lay a major guilt trip about him now being the sole method of their story being told. For reasons I can't fathom, they made the probe a one-use item. So odd.

 

[XCV330]

For people who were so advanced in virtualization, seems odd they didn't try the Morlock route and go underground, or even deep virtual, waiting on a better period of time to reclaim their world. it might have been hard work but many people enjoy playing settlers of Kataan. Anyway, still a good episode.

 

[1001001]

Miles got the nasty version

So did the crew of Voyager.