Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 26 - "The Neutral Zone"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2015
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Neutral Zone," the end of season one of TNG is a blast from the past. Actually it is a few blasts. Three people from the 20th century end up on the Enterprise. Plus - say hello to our new old bad guys - the Romulans! What messages do they bring as we head into season two?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:23.0 | And I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:25.0 | And we are back. |
| 0:27.0 | Internet media has gotten too soft. |
| 0:29.0 | Look what's happened since we've been away. |
| 0:31.0 | The expansion of shows about people who think they can dance and videos of animals failing at being animals and wearing clothing. Beware producers of substandard topical discussion programs. |
| 0:43.3 | We are back. |
| 0:46.0 | You are kind of scary, man. |
| 0:48.4 | Dude, you gotta take a hard blind. |
| 0:50.6 | Each week on Mission Log, we take a deep look at every single episode of Star Trek ever from the beginning and we mine it to its core to find out the morals, meanings, messages, epics, and philosophies buried within. |
| 1:05.9 | This week we're talking about the Neutral Zone. |
| 1:08.7 | Ken, it's the final episode of season one of the next generation. |
| 1:13.0 | That is so crazy to me. |
| 1:15.0 | That is insane. |
| 1:16.0 | That we never get here. |
| 1:17.0 | I can't believe we're already here. |
| 1:19.0 | Are you kidding me? |
| 1:20.0 | It's amazing to me that this seems to have gone much faster than the first season of Star Trek, the original series that we did. |
| 1:27.0 | Oh, really? |
| 1:28.0 | It did to me, yeah. |
| 1:29.0 | It felt like this just like flew by. |
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