Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 24 - "We'll Always Have Paris"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2015
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "We'll Always Have Paris," a lost love of Captain Picard's ends up on the Enterprise. It could be a chance for Picard to correct an old wrong, though there are a couple of problems. First - she is married. Second - experiments run by her husband are threatening the space/time continuum. Are three Datas better than one?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Episode 119. |
| 0:07.0 | We'll always have Paris. Welcome into Mission Log, A Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast. I'm John Champion. |
| 0:21.7 | And I'm Kanray. here doing that thing we do time and time again |
| 0:27.1 | Welcome into Mission Log the Rottenberry Star Trek Podcast. I'm John Champion and I I'm Ken Ray. Here doing that thing we do time and time again. |
| 0:38.8 | What's that? Oh that? That was a Mannheim effect. Eh, don't worry about it. It's this thing that happens. |
| 0:45.0 | And did happen. |
| 0:47.0 | And will happen. |
| 0:48.0 | But we'll get into it. |
| 0:50.0 | And are getting to it and have gotten to it. |
| 0:54.0 | Don't worry. It won't happen again. |
| 0:57.0 | Nor has it happen again? |
| 0:59.0 | Nor is it happening now? |
| 1:01.0 | Everybody's confused. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, well, I mean, we'll get to it as I say. |
| 1:06.0 | Okay. And we already have... |
| 1:08.0 | And it's happening now. |
| 1:11.0 | Oh, we will again. |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:13.0 | Okay. |
| 1:14.0 | It's both repetitive and redundant, John, but it's also something to look forward to. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah, yeah, yes it is. |
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