Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 19 - "Coming of Age"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2014
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Coming of Age," Wes is off to take the Starfleet Academy entrance exams. Making friends and facing fears is the order of the day, but does he have what it takes to succeed? Meanwhile, an old friend of Picard's is aboard the Enterprise, testing the patience of both the captain and his crew. Growing, exploring, learning…
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. |
| 0:22.3 | And I'm John Champion today. our find cigarettes under Wesley's mattress where Wesley kisses a girl while |
| 0:34.0 | backpacking through Europe and the enterprise crew adopt a wise-cracking kid |
| 0:38.2 | who shows them all what it means to be a family. |
| 0:41.0 | Look for Kristen McNichickle on this episode. |
| 0:43.0 | It really is just, it's truly special. |
| 0:47.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we take apart an episode of Star Trek or a telling of Star Trek of some sort |
| 0:53.0 | assessing out the messages, morals, and meanings, |
| 0:55.4 | and whether the whole thing stands the test of time. |
| 0:57.8 | And as John said before, this week, we are coming of age. |
| 1:01.7 | I'm kind of excited. |
| 1:02.4 | Oh, oh!. Oh, just giddy. Just giddy that we're coming of age. |
| 1:08.0 | My voice was changing actually. Yeah. |
| 1:10.0 | Do they even do the after school specials anymore? I don't know that they do they made a ton of them back in the day |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah, and christie mick Nicole was the only one I could think of it seems like I remember seeing her in one but that might have actually just been family |
| 1:23.0 | Right you could be. |
| 1:25.0 | Nothing to think about it. |
| 1:26.0 | But there were a lot of big stars who did the actual, you know, yeah. |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah, absolutely because you know what's going to get people to pay attention to morality more than say |
| 1:34.9 | Christy McNissical or Christy McNichal rather or Lake Garrett? |
| 1:38.9 | Helen Hunt sure you go absolutely Eric St still, except now we're doing mask. |
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