Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 16 - "Too Short a Season"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2014
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Too Short a Season," Admiral Jameson is called out of retirement to negotiate with a people he last saw 45 years ago. His frail body may not be up to the challenge. Good thing he has a wonder-drug that will literally make him younger. But is it really a good thing? Vengeance! Hubris! Marital strife!
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm Ken Ray. And I'm John Champion each week we try to |
| 0:25.8 | recapture our lost youth by administering a healthy dose of Star Trek from way back |
| 0:30.9 | at the beginning with TOS and beyond we'll be looking at every episode of |
| 0:35.5 | Trek ever made and trying to figure out what the lesson is at the end of the day. |
| 0:40.0 | Well, until such day that we totally regress in the men, children who can't work the recording equipment, but you know, we've got time. |
| 0:49.0 | Today's show, too short a season. |
| 0:52.0 | You're not going to make a joke too long an episode or... |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, oh, oh, whoa! |
| 0:57.0 | Whoa! |
| 0:58.0 | Would that not be a spoiler? |
| 0:59.0 | Would that not be just skipping straight to the end of the show? |
| 1:02.0 | It might just be... I'm not saying that's a joke that I would even make because I don't want to let |
| 1:05.4 | anybody in on anything that I'm thinking about. Too short a season. Hey, before we get to John |
| 1:12.4 | Champions Tri, sponsored by, insert your sponsorship here, |
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| 1:32.0 | things like that. |
| 1:33.0 | Right. And that is of course not everything that Roddenberry is about and that's not everything that |
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