Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 20 - "Heart of Glory"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2014
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Heart of Glory," the Enterprise picks up three Klingons from a ship in distress in the Neutral Zone. No sooner are they aboard than they start working on Worf to throw off his allegiance to Starfleet, help them take over the Enterprise, and bring back the glory days of war, war and war! What will Worf do?
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, Episode 115, Heart of Glory. That is the warning that an episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek |
| 0:28.8 | podcast is coming. I'm John Champion and I'm Kain Ray. each week we bristled dutifully in the yoke of social convention |
| 0:36.7 | taking apart an episode of Star Trek trying to figure out the messages |
| 0:40.1 | morals and meanings therein and why we don't chunk the whole thing, steal a |
| 0:44.3 | spaceship and start blowing stuff up randomly. Anyway that's what I'm doing. This |
| 0:49.5 | week more troubles, more cling-ons. Not, not that, that's not the title, but it could have been the title, |
| 0:56.0 | part of glory. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, it's interesting that you say that, John, because there were some other alternate titles for this episode. |
| 1:02.0 | Oh, we haven't done that a long time. |
| 1:04.0 | No, we have not. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.0 | Oh, brother who art thou? |
| 1:08.0 | Nice, yes. |
| 1:09.0 | Which would have been a cute bit of wordplay, though it also would have revealed the writers |
| 1:12.0 | as time traveler since the obvious |
| 1:13.9 | reference, oh brother, where art thou, would not be out for another 13 years or so. |
| 1:19.5 | And then this one I kind of like actually, I might have gone with this one okay clinging to the |
| 1:24.0 | fast employing of course the original pronunciation of that proud warrior |
| 1:28.8 | race used by Captain James T Kirk oh so many years ago. |
| 1:34.0 | I think either way they're good ways to go. |
| 1:38.0 | And as always, we got a bit of trivia to hit for this week's episode, but before we do, we want to let you know how to get in touch with us. |
| 1:48.0 | Oh, you want me to do that? |
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