Star Trek: Insurrection
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2018
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
In Star Trek: Insurrection, the Ba'ku live an idyllic life on their planet: creative, fun and peaceful and hardly aging a day. What's their secret? Wouldn't the Son'a and at least one greedy Starfleet Admiral like to find out. The Enterprise crew get caught in the middle, and Captain Picard decides if it's worth it to rebel against the orders he's been given.
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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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 Blue Apron, a better way to cook. |
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| 0:18.6 | This episode is also brought to you by Eagle Moss and the official Star Trek Discovery Starships Collection. |
| 0:26.0 | Check out the first 12 all new Starships in the collection and discover how to get yours at |
| 0:30.8 | Eagle Moss.com slash Discovery Starships. |
| 0:35.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | Episode 267. Star Trek Insiraction. Oh, So, So you're back in the cineplex again, are ya? We're glad to have you here. |
| 1:19.4 | It is Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 1:22.8 | I'm Can Ray. |
| 1:24.2 | And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log. |
| 1:27.2 | We look at an episode of Star Trek, or a movie, |
| 1:30.1 | as we do this week, and let it bask in the sun to find out of stopping and just watching for a little while |
| 1:37.6 | will lead us to morals, meanings, and messages and figuring out if the whole thing stands the test of time. |
| 1:44.0 | This week, Star Trek Interaction, the one where Salieri gets a Brazilian. |
| 1:50.0 | I'll explain that in a bit. |
| 1:52.0 | Yeah, you'll have to. I've got trivia coming up in a bit but first. |
| 1:56.6 | But first! A word from Eagle Moss and the official Star Trek Discovery Starships collection. |
| 2:03.4 | Star Trek Discovery Starships Collection. Star Trek Discovery is wrapping its first season as we record this, but they have been discovered |
| 2:09.0 | by Eagle Moss. |
| 2:10.0 | Now you know Eagle Moss for their fleet of tiny starships and their armada of |
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