Reply #50: And the follow up "Lessons"

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in which Picard starts dating the head of the astrophysics (or astro-something) lab, and she's a musician.

The scene when Picard tells her how much his flute means to him, and waht happened to him, is great stuff, and magnificently acted by Stewart and the woman playing the doctor. That episode also is quite sad, and very human. Which, in my opinion, are always the best episodes - the ones that deal with the humanity (of whatever species) of the characters, and don't rely on some technological disaster as the focus of the story.

Even the second appearance of Moriarty, which is a techno event, doesn't deal much with the techno disaster, but with the philosophy of what it means to be alive, and to want to live.