Kamin

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Kamin was an ironweaver on the planet Kataan sometime during the 14th century.

In 2368, the USS Enterprise-D encountered a probe launched from Kataan shortly before their sun went nova. The probe initiated a memory transfer with Captain Jean-Luc Picard and in less than 30 minutes he experienced a full 42 years of Kamin's life, including his marriage to Eline and the birth of their children.

However, Picard's former life was not completely obscured during the memory transfer and he retained many of his former interests, such as astronomy and music. During the period he experienced Kamin's life Picard struggled to master the Ressikan flute, made observations of the stars from Kataan, and conducted studies of the soil and climate of the planet. By the time his grandson was born Kamin had concluded that Kataan was a dying planet. He lived just long enough to witness the launch of the probe that he would encounter aboard the Enterprise several hundred years later. (TNG: "The Inner Light")

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In a comic story, Perchance to Dream, the Enterprise crew were attacked by a telepathic weapon called the Chova, which forced its victims to experience dreams and hallucinations focused on their personal failures. However, it was discovered that those with Multiple Personality Disorder could render the Chova inert (The multiple personas overwhelming the Chova, which could only attack one personality at the time), so Picard was deliberately infected with the Chova, as his mind-meld with Sarek, the probe that gave him the memories of Kamin and the remnants of Locutus of Borg still in his mind gave Picard the makings of an MPD. The four defeated the Chova, but Locutus then attempted to regain control of Picard's body, nearly 'killing' Kamin and Sarek before Picard gathered the mental strength to stop Locutus.