Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 23 - "Skin of Evil"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2015
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Skin of Evil," the La Brea tar pits meets Doomsday! It is Star Trek: The Next Generation meets The Blob! It is Tasha Yar meets her demise!
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm Kenneth T. Ray and I'm Jonathan T. Champion. |
| 0:27.0 | All right, let's do the alternate open. I'm not sure which one I'm going to go with. Let's try this one. Are you ready? |
| 0:32.0 | Okay. Hold on. I'm going to go with. Let's try this one. Are you ready? |
| 0:32.8 | Yeah, right. Hold on. |
| 0:35.4 | Welcome to Mission Log. A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I would say it's good to have you with us, but it's not. I don't need you. |
| 0:50.6 | I don't need any of you. I don't need any of you, but I'm so lonely. |
| 0:57.0 | Penn, Penn. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah. you okay. |
| 1:04.0 | you okay? |
| 1:05.0 | reading you should never eat pretzels when we record. |
| 1:08.0 | That'll really take it out of you. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.0 | That was very good by the way though. I like your armus. Thank you. |
| 1:13.5 | Yeah, no problem. |
| 1:14.5 | My armus too. |
| 1:15.5 | Who doesn't like their armus? |
| 1:17.5 | A skin of evil, should we say what the episode is if people haven't picked up on it? |
| 1:21.5 | We sure should, yeah. Yeah. And nearing the end. if people |
| 1:23.4 | in nearing the end of season one. |
| 1:26.6 | That is still amazing to me. |
| 1:28.8 | It seems like only three and a half months ago that we started. |
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