Inner Light
Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise is a man who projects an aura of serene confidence and wisdom. Speaks like an Oxford don even when he’s about to fire a photon torpedo or two. Keeps his emotions veiled behind an invisible burqa.
Then there’s the other Picard, the McLovin’ of Ressik, playing music, making babies, scarfing down his wife’s homemade stew out of a weird pot with an antler for a handle and bromancing the stone-faced noodge better known as his best friend Batai. And oh yes, being very loudly protective of his tight-knit little village, which is about to turn into a charcoal briquette.
That Picard was better known as Kamin during his sojourn on the doomed planet Kataan in Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, “The Inner Light.” He didn’t live that life but he has all the memories of someone who did.
Morgan Gendel
wrote the award-winning "Inner Light" episode of TNG as well as episodes of Deep Space Nine,
Tekwar (the movies), Wiseguy, 21 Jump Street, Law & Order and Drop Dead Diva. He served as
Executive producer of MTV'S Spider-Man, V.I.P. and The Dresden Files. He is co-writing a
feature film based on a new character created by Stan Lee and speaks regularly at Star Trek
conventions and Comic-cons across America.
