Mission Log Supplemental 84 – Voyager Wrap-Up Part 2: The One with Ken Biller
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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After seven seasons and one very contested transporter accident, we welcome Voyager executive producer and co-creator of Tuvix, Ken Biller, for a wide-ranging conversation about the legacy of Star Trek: Voyager. Guest co-host Earl Green joins John to explore the creative pressures behind the series finale, the constraints of '90s television, and how a light-hearted idea about a goofy transporter mix-up became one of Trek's most morally complex debates. Also: alternate titles, unwritten sequels, and that time Ken was a Jeopardy! answer.
It's a candid, thoughtful look back from someone who was there from the first season to Endgame.
Hosted by John Champion and Earl Green
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry podcast. Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. Supplemental number 84. Star Trek Voyager series wrap up part two, the one with Ken Biller. |
| 0:32.7 | Welcome into a supplemental episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:35.7 | And I'm Earl Green. |
| 0:41.5 | Each week on Mission Log, we examine an episode of Star Trek looking for the morals, meanings, and messages. |
| 0:47.1 | Unless it's like today, because that is not what we are doing today. The bit never gets old, Earl. |
| 0:49.6 | It never gets old. |
| 0:50.8 | We do a supplemental episode, and we have a special guest. |
| 0:53.7 | But no, today it is time again to look back lovingly to reflect on our time of the Delta Quadrant. And this time, we've got a special guest who created some of your favorite Voyager stories. |
| 1:08.7 | Ken Biller's time on Voyager goes from soup to nuts, starting out as executive story editor on |
| 1:14.2 | season one and seeing the whole thing through by co-writing the series finale and game. |
| 1:20.3 | And with that, welcome to Mission Log, Ken. |
| 1:23.8 | We're so glad that you could join us and walk us through our journey from the farthest outreach of the Delta Quadron, back home safely to Earth. |
| 1:33.8 | We do thank you. |
| 1:35.0 | Well, I'm happy to be here. |
| 1:36.3 | I am going to get right into it. |
| 1:38.4 | And I preface this whole thing by saying that mission log is conversational. |
| 1:44.0 | We do a deep dive into topics of |
| 1:46.6 | moral importance, philosophical, ethical stories that are told by Star Trek. Part of the |
| 1:53.4 | reason that you are here today is that we've finished our episode by episode look at Voyager. |
| 1:58.7 | But I remember back a couple of years ago, Trek Talks, |
| 2:03.2 | the annual fundraiser for Hollywood Food Coalition, we did a special panel about Tuvix. |
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