Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2014
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, saving Spock was relatively simple. How will the crew of the stolen Klingon vessel save the whales when the whales have been dead for over 200 years?
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 | Mission Log, A Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 94, Star Trek 4, The Voyage Home. The voyage home. Oh, Welcome in to another edition of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Cat and Ray. |
| 0:47.0 | Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, John, hold on your, your translator's not working. |
| 0:54.8 | Hey one second, on the, uh... |
| 0:55.8 | All right, try that. |
| 1:00.6 | And I'm John Champion. Much better. |
| 1:03.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we like to dive deep. |
| 1:06.0 | We like to open up the lines of communication |
| 1:09.0 | and talk about an episode of Star Trek. |
| 1:12.0 | Or in this case, a movie of Star Trek or in this case a movie of Star Trek this weekend it is |
| 1:16.4 | Star Trek for the voyage home or as everybody in the world says it oh you mean the one with the whales? |
| 1:24.0 | These save the whales edition. |
| 1:27.0 | Well, maybe other people have different names for it though. |
| 1:30.0 | If you could keep them clean and we want to get in touch with us, we would love to hear from you. |
| 1:34.7 | Facebook, Skype and Twitter, there is one handle for all three places. |
| 1:38.0 | Mission Log Pod is that handle. |
| 1:40.9 | You can call us 323, 522, 5641. You can call us 323-52-56-41. You can email us Mission Log at |
| 1:47.1 | Rotenberry.com. We've got a couple of places you can check us out online. |
| 1:51.8 | First of all there is our website, Missionlog Podcast.com. |
| 1:56.5 | And we are now proudly featured on the front page of Trek Movie. |
| 1:59.8 | Com as well. |
| 2:01.9 | Well, we're proud to be featured. I shouldn't say we're |
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