I Just watched one of the best episodes of TNG so far and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that it contains no filler, ever second adds to this episode. There's no insipid Troi dialouge, there's little to no senseless techno-babble and there's no defending the right to live of a species or entity that would kill humans without a second thought.
This episode is about a man made space object, that when it comes in to contact with the enterprise, "transports" Captain Picard to what appears to be a small village on some world where he has a different name and a wife, yet throughout the episode it's revealed that Picard is actually back on the Enterprise and it's as if he's only dreaming.
I wont spoil the whole thing, but on the planet Picard is on there is a drought and he must figure out a way to counteract the drought, or else risking the family that he makes there, because while he is only "dreaming" for half an hour he lives out a life within this dream until he is an old man with kids and even a grandchild.
Of course when you get down to it its not really about the drought and what it all means, it's about the bonds he makes with the people in his dream world, this is what makes the episode so interesting. When it's all over you know those people will be gone, but Picards memory of them will remain, and so will his attachment to them, so he can tell the story of their planet, and their people.
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