Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 13 - "Datalore"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2014
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: [Series] episode, "Datalore," what does it mean to be alive? What does it mean to find out that you are not exactly one of a kind? Can Data find a new sense of being now that he has a brother? Or will the TV curse of the evil twin prevail?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:23.0 | And I'm Ken's totally not evil, completely benevolent, entirely |
| 0:27.6 | trustworthy twin. You could call me Yarnack, |
| 0:30.6 | but that name is taken, so I'll go by John Champion. |
| 0:34.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we take apart an episode of Star Trek trying to suss out the |
| 0:38.1 | messages, morals, and meanings of a given show and figure out whether the whole |
| 0:41.9 | thing stands the test of time. |
| 0:44.0 | This week we will be putting data lore on the operating table, maybe taking it apart, |
| 0:49.2 | maybe putting it back together, time will tell. Ken I don don't, is it Data and lore? |
| 0:55.0 | Huh? |
| 0:56.0 | Data lore? |
| 0:57.0 | Data lore, that's one guy? |
| 0:58.0 | And data lore is one word, |
| 1:00.0 | at least in the beginning of the whole thing. |
| 1:01.0 | I don't know if it's, you know, come and listen to a story about a robot named data or if it's or if it may actually be a couple of |
| 1:09.0 | Androids put together or taken apart we'll find find out, I suppose, as we go along. |
| 1:15.0 | Before we get to that, though, we should let people know, |
| 1:17.0 | or actually you should let people know, |
| 1:19.0 | if they want to get in touch with us or something like that, |
| 1:22.0 | how they can and why they should. |
| 1:24.2 | You can join us on Facebook, Skype, and Twitter where the handle is Mission Log Pod or you can call us at |
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