Star Trek: First Contact
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2018
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
In Star Trek: First Contact, it's the return of the Borg! You remember them! And the return of the Borg Queen! You remember her! No? Well, Picard does. He and the newly christened Enterprise 1701-E trace the technological terrors back to 21st century Earth, where the Borg are trying to stop first contact and assimilate humanity. So, we'll need to find Zefram Cochran, get his ship running, and take him on… some sort of star trek. Can the crew save the day?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
Welcome to Mission Log, a Roddenberry Entertainment podcast, where we explore the Star Trek universe one episode at a time. Each week, Mission Log examines a single episode of Star Trek, diving into its ethical subtext, metaphors, and cultural significance. From the show's most iconic moments to its hidden gems, we analyze what makes Star Trek one of the greatest science fiction sagas of all time.
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| 0:00.0 | RPN, the Rotenberry Podcast Network. |
| 0:05.0 | This episode of Mission Log is brought to you by Eagle Moss and the official Star Trek Discovery |
| 0:10.6 | Starships Collection. |
| 0:12.2 | Check out the first 12 all new Starships in the collection and discover how to get yours at |
| 0:17.8 | Eagle Moss.com. |
| 0:20.0 | Discovery Starships. |
| 0:29.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. Episode 266, Star Trek First Contact. Oh, back to the big screen we go for this edition of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek |
| 1:06.6 | podcast. I'm Ken Ray and I'm John Champion. Each week on Mission Log, we dive deep into Star Trek, taking it apart for messages, morals, and |
| 1:17.0 | meanings, and seeing whether the whole thing holds up today. |
| 1:21.4 | This week, Star Trek First Contact, the one where we meet Zefram Cochran for the first time for the second time, and Captain Picard goes a little crazy, and Star Trek meets real rock and roll. |
| 1:35.7 | John's got trivia coming up in a moment but first. |
| 1:39.1 | But first, a word from Eagle Moss and the official Star Trek Discovery Starships collection. |
| 1:45.3 | Whether you're discovering new shows or rediscovering Star Trek's past, |
| 1:49.7 | the ships from Eagle Moss can be excellent companions. |
| 1:53.2 | I see what you did there. |
| 1:54.8 | Discovering, Discovering all over the place. |
| 1:58.2 | Of course, because of the Discovery Starships collection. |
| 2:01.6 | The people that we know from making tiny starships and big starships, would like to introduce |
| 2:06.3 | you to the great big discovery ships in the Eagle Moss collection. |
| 2:11.0 | Tons of ships headed your way, seven Federation ships, including the Discovery, the |
| 2:16.4 | Shenjo, and the Europa, and five Klingon ships like the Re-imagined Bird of of prey and the velarch. |
| 2:23.9 | You like that? |
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