Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 18 - "Home Soil"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2014
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Home Soil," the Enterprise pays a visit to a group of terraformers. There's just one problem: that terra may not be theirs to form. There's something going on on the planet, and all signs point to alien life. Except for the life part. Murder! Mystery! Shiny objects!
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Can Ray. |
| 0:25.0 | And I'm John Champion. Each week we drill down through the top layer of soil to see what is seething just under the surface of Star Trek. |
| 0:35.6 | And Ken, well done the transition from computer translator voice to Ken Ray voice. |
| 0:41.3 | Really well done. |
| 0:42.3 | You probably thought it was one of the home soil aliens doing that. |
| 0:45.6 | Home soil, by the way, is the show that we're doing this week. |
| 0:48.8 | And with the title like that, you know that the alien life form is going to win, |
| 0:51.4 | because I don't care how good your team is. Home soil |
| 0:54.2 | advantage is very hard to overcome. It's very difficult. So yeah, you know, I thought |
| 0:59.1 | about doing the whole show that way and then realized after 30 seconds I wanted to kill myself doing it so I |
| 1:05.0 | figured why you know although it might put podcasting back on the map. |
| 1:08.8 | Everybody's driving themselves off a cliff because I did this dumb computer voice all the way through. |
| 1:15.6 | So I think I chose well. |
| 1:17.4 | I thought that the way you announced that the home soil aliens, I thought it sounded like a new sponsor for the show. |
| 1:23.8 | And you know, Home Soil, brought to you by the Home Soil Aliens. |
| 1:28.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.2 | It's more like a sports team to me though, the Home Soil Aliens versus the, I don't know know the Rijel 7 right maybe yeah right |
| 1:35.7 | something along those lines hey I have nothing clever to say to get us into trivia |
| 1:41.3 | so let's just jump in the trivia. |
| 1:42.6 | John? |
| 1:43.6 | Right on. |
| 1:44.6 | I've got quick trivia for you today and so when I get right to the story. |
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