You're listening to a Roddenberry Podcast.

Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion.

And I'm Matt Meyer sitting in for Norman Low.

Each week on Mission Log, we spend a few hours or a few months with an episode of Star Trek picking it apart for the morals, meanings, and messages and asking ourselves if it stands the test of time.

This week, gravity! The one where a shuttle gets caught in a gravity well making rescue very difficult while

Tuvok wrestles with the singular weight of his emotions or lack thereof because he's

a Vulcan and he totally doesn't get bothered by his emotions, right?

Well, I've always wondered how Laurie Petty would react to a ship going down and I got to see it in this episode.

Got to, is it? yeah it's satisfied that answer

Matt Meyer a welcome to the show for our listeners who may not know your

Star Trek bona fides and background why don't you share a little with them?

Okay so I first saw Star Trek when I was saying no.

Lifelong Trek fan there was a point in time where I hosted After Trek on CBS All Access back

pre-Paramount Plus days. Long may she wave. Yes. Will Wheaton took my job ruthlessly. Yeah, we know what that feels like here. You know, it's just it's

Will is a hate that he's so nice in person likeable just as a human being that I really can't actually hold grutches.

Sure.

But yeah, I did that. I host a number of podcasts back in the day.

You might even know me from Nerst.

You might know me from James Bonding.

Absolutely.

If you're a Star Trek fan, there's a podcast I do called Star Trek The Next

Conversation, which is a podcast I only agreed to do because I thought the title was funny enough. I was like, yes.

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