Star Trek: Next Generation, Season 5, Episode 5 - "Disaster"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Disaster," everything is going so well, right until it does not. A student tour turns into a deadly turbo lift ride! A chair on the bridge turns into a hot seat! An impromptu audition turns into a radioactive fire! And there is still more trouble. Yet, despite the various issues, the title is singular.
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Lock, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:22.0 | And I'm Can Ray. Each week we watch an episode of |
| 0:25.3 | Star Trek and talk about an episode of Star Trek. Provided our computers don't |
| 0:29.3 | melt, Netflix isn't down, we haven't poked ourselves in the eyes with something, or lost the ability to speak. |
| 0:35.0 | Then, it's disaster. |
| 0:38.0 | Yes, Ken, disaster! |
| 0:40.0 | Today's episode, the one where we justify why Picard hates kids. |
| 0:44.1 | Oh, kids. I don't know what's wrong with these kids today. |
| 0:47.2 | If you do though and want to tell us there are a few ways you can do it. |
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| 1:12.4 | your comments on an upcoming episode of Mission Log. |
| 1:15.0 | All right, Ken, today's trivia for disaster. |
| 1:19.0 | Disaster! |
| 1:20.0 | Would that be our thing now? |
| 1:22.0 | I don't know, it might be. |
| 1:24.0 | Could it be the ultimate disaster? |
| 1:26.0 | Ooh, they should make that one. |
| 1:28.0 | They should. |
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