This really blew my mind. Remember the TNG episode The Survivors 3x03? <br />Rishon lost his wife due to the planets surface being destroyed by an enemy. <br />He lives beyond the physical so he recreates the house and his wife. The symbolism of a music box of a woman dancing is extremely powerful in this episode and haunted Troi. The composers and audio effects crew did an amazing job. Ron Jones?<br /><br />But you don't know the half of it. <br />The actor who played Rishon had recently lost his wife in real life before this project (see IMDb trivia https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708823/trivia?ref_=ttsnd_ql_1).<br /><br />And, 14 years before this episode (1975), there was an episode ("Haunted House") of Little House on the Prairie where his character believed his wife, a dancer was still alive and he was obsessed with music boxes. I came across it yesterday and my brain started smoking. There is a scene where he is in denial, goes into a room filled with music boxes and begins engaging ALL of them and yelling at Mary Ingalls. <br /><br />I don't know how this came about but it's very powerful. <br />I believe it's a huge coincidence.. TNG crew had no idea about that Prairie episode.
