Why Captain Picard needs therapy
BBC America just aired The Inner Light. I hadn't seen it in years and had forgotten how good it was. And reminded me of this cartoon:
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But Picard is a grocer, not a starship captain.
Dude gets around.
My favorite ST: TNG episode of the entire series. Probably my favorite of ANY Star Trek series.
When it first aired, at the end when Picard breaks down, I cried too. The idea of living an entire other life in the span of a few minutes and being left with the loss of everything you thought you loved was a little too much for my even 17 year old mind.
Definitely Star Trek at its greatest.
To break the mood: My second favorite is Conundrum. Riker scores 2 (possibly 3) times that ep, different girl every time, all of them his subordinates 
Classic Riker.
Perhaps the best way to describe Picard's ability to deal with "God-like" status is the episode, "Who Watches the Watchers", where the prime directive is violated with the race who is being "watched".
I think Picard says something like, "my people, too, once lived in caves.." It's a perfect philosophy of what the entire human experience should be taught, based on the evolution I have wished would exist.... and still do.
Hail, the PICARD! 
