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* RealTime: [[YearOutsideHourInside While Picard experiences several decades as Kamin]], the crew trying to figure out what is happening to him and reverse it takes up roughly half the episode. That plotline explicitly 25 minutes, which would account for almost that exact runtime.

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* RealTime: [[YearOutsideHourInside While Picard experiences several decades as Kamin]], the crew trying to figure out what is happening to him and reverse it takes up roughly half the episode. That plotline is explicitly 25 minutes, which would account for almost that exact runtime.
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* AgeGapRomance: Like all of Picard's love interests, Eline younger than Picard. Patrick Stewart is 16 years older than Margot Rose.

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* AgeGapRomance: Like all of Picard's love interests, Eline is younger than Picard. Patrick Stewart is 16 years older than Margot Rose.
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* SchizoTech: The people of Kataan is almost agricultural in terms of living space but have a handful of oddly advanced technology scattered around. At the end they appear to only have chemical-propelled rockets and no dedicated space program, but they have unheard of technology in terms of psychic brainwave beams.

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* SchizoTech: The people of Kataan is almost agricultural in terms of living space but have a handful of oddly advanced technology scattered around. At the end they appear to only have chemical-propelled rockets and no dedicated space program, but they have unheard of technology in terms of psychic brainwave beams. Of course, this is all a simulation and we and Picard have no idea how accurate it is in depicting Kataan's actual civilization.
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* ApocalypticLog: The probe is an archive of the last days of a long-gone alien civilisation from the perspective of a specific individual's life, intended to be [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture discovered by some sentient species in the future]] so that they'll be remembered.
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* HumanAliens: The Kataan look exactly like humans. No [[RubberForeheadAlien rubber forehead here]]. The probe might have specifically chosen Picard because, as a human, he looks identical to the Kataan and would therefore come to accept them as his people.

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* HumanAliens: The Kataan look exactly like humans. No [[RubberForeheadAlien rubber forehead here]]. The probe might have specifically chosen Picard because, as a human, he looks identical to the Kataan and would therefore come to accept them as his people. Or the probe may be [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith presenting the people Picard interacts with as human]] to make them more relatable to him.
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* AgeGapRomance: Like all of Picard's love interests, Eline is considerably younger than Picard. Stewart is 16 years older than the actress.

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* AgeGapRomance: Like all of Picard's love interests, Eline is considerably younger than Picard. Patrick Stewart is 16 years older than the actress.Margot Rose.
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* WhamLine: Once the ''Enterprise'' crew analyze an origin of whatever grabbed Picard, they find the system of Kataan, where it doesn't seem to be inhabited anymore. When Data is asked about whether it has any life, all he can summarize is that the sun went nova; all life in the system died a thousand years ago, meaning everything Picard was seeing simply ''cannot exist'' as he seemed to be seeing it.

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* WhamLine: Once the ''Enterprise'' crew analyze an origin of whatever the probe that grabbed Picard, Picard's mind, they find it pointing to the system of Kataan, where it which doesn't seem to be inhabited anymore. When Data is asked about whether it has any life, all he can summarize is that the sun went nova; all life in the system died a thousand years ago, meaning everything Picard was seeing simply ''cannot exist'' as he seemed to be seeing it.
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* WhamLine: Once the ''Enterprise'' crew analyze an origin of whatever grabbed Picard, they find the system of Kataan, where it doesn't seem to be inhabited anymore. When Data is asked about whether it has any life, all he can summarize is that the sun went nova; all life in the system died a thousand years ago, meaning everything Picard was seeing simply ''cannot exist'' as he seemed to be seeing it.

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* SchizoTech: The people of Kataan may have only chemical-propelled rockets, but they have unheard of technology in terms of psychic brainwave beams.

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* RealTime: [[YearOutsideHourInside While Picard experiences several decades as Kamin]], the crew trying to figure out what is happening to him and reverse it takes up roughly half the episode. That plotline explicitly 25 minutes, which would account for almost that exact runtime.
* SchizoTech: The people of Kataan may is almost agricultural in terms of living space but have a handful of oddly advanced technology scattered around. At the end they appear to only have chemical-propelled rockets, rockets and no dedicated space program, but they have unheard of technology in terms of psychic brainwave beams.
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* FantasyKeepsake: The flute that Picard (as Kamin) played throughout Kamin's life is found inside the probe.
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* LodgedBladeRemoval: The reason why this is a bad idea is cited by Crusher when arguing against cutting off the beam, pointing out that they may end up doing more harm than good. Worf insists Picard is being attacked and they have to do it; Riker agrees and orders Data to disrupt the beam. Of course, Crusher is promptly proven right.

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* KilledOffScreen: The elder Batai dies between time skips.
** The entirety of the Kataan civilizations were wiped out over 1,000 earlier when the sun went nova.

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The elder Batai dies between time skips.
** The entirety of the Kataan civilizations were wiped out over 1,000 years earlier when the sun went nova.

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* BittersweetEnding: Picard has lived and loved with the lost civilization, so they will live on through him, even though they are long gone.

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* BittersweetEnding: For the people of Kataan, their probe finally found someone and Picard has lived and loved with the their lost civilization, so they will live on through him, even though they are long gone.gone.
** For the career-oriented Picard, who never thought he'd settle down and raise a family (or wanted to), he lived that life after all and found it more rewarding and meaningful than he'd ever imagined, but all of it is gone and he has only the flute and his memories left.
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** The entirety of the Kataan civilizations were wiped out over 1,000 earlier when the sun went nova.
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** They are still much more advanced than Earth was in the 14th Century. They have electricity and plumbing and are aware of outer space but have no means to get there.
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** They are still much more advanced than Earth was in the 14th Century. They have electricity and plumbing and are aware of outer space but have no means to get there.

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