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Mission Log A Rottenberry Star Trek Podcast Episode 496, before and after.

Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rottenberry Star Trek podcast I'm Norman

and I'm John Champion. Each week on Mission Log we look at an episode of Star Trek,

forwards and backwards, backwards and forwards, looking for morals, meanings and messages,

and asking ourselves whether it stands the test of time. This week, before and after,

the one where Kess's life literally flashes before and after her eyes proving in any temporal

reality, she'll always have Paris. Mission Log is a conversation about Star Trek.

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on the Rottenberry YouTube channel. And now here's John Champion with this week's trivia.

All right. Well, today's episode before and after was written by Kenneth Biller,

not a surprise to see his name on the list and we most recently covered his story Unity and it

should also come as no surprise that he wrote another Kess centric story, Illogium. This was

directed by Alan Croker. Now here's a name that you should remember since Alan directed a Baker's

dozen of episodes for DS9, including the series finale, just as he did many season finales as well.

He's kind of the closer like that. Well, now he makes his debut as a director on Voyager and we will

see him exactly 12 times more nice symmetry with his career there where he will also stay true to

his reputation of closing out seasons and the full series. We have a number of guest stars look

at. It's time to meet the Kess family current and alternate timelines included. There's Kess's daughter

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