Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 9 - "The Battle"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2014
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Battle," this episode marks the return of the Ferengi, both to TNG and to the life of Jean Luc Picard. It turns out his first time meeting the Ferengi was long before The Last Outpost. And now, he is forced to remember it and relive it, with potentially deadly results. How will they escape?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm Ken Ray, but you can call me Damon Ray. |
| 0:27.8 | And I'm John Champion, but you can call me John Champion. |
| 0:33.5 | Each week on Mission Log, we look deeply |
| 0:36.7 | into a single episode of Star Trek, |
| 0:39.3 | and we're looking at every episode of Star Trek to pick it apart for the morals, meanings, messages, |
| 0:45.9 | the deep hidden ideas that lie maybe just underneath the surface. |
| 0:51.4 | This week, the battle or a battle depending on who you ask and their opinion of it. |
| 0:58.3 | Speaking of which opinions that is if you have some to share with us with us on Facebook Skype or Twitter |
| 1:06.2 | where our handle is Mission Log Pod. |
| 1:09.0 | You can call us 323, 522, 5641, you can email us Mission Log at Rotenberry.com. |
| 1:17.0 | We have a great website that we would love for you to check out Mission Log Podcast. |
| 1:21.0 | And then there are a couple of other places on the web that you can bump into us too. |
| 1:25.0 | We are proudly carried on trek movie.com and on trekfm. |
| 1:30.0 | and that is found online at trek dot fm or on the iTunes or in the other places where they do the other pod things |
| 1:39.0 | and please remember wherever you get in touch with this we may use your comments on an upcoming |
| 1:43.8 | episode of Mission Log. Ken I was really trying to picture you getting into |
| 1:48.2 | character as a forangay for the opening. I was dancing around like crazy |
| 1:51.5 | although I was doing I was doing more last outpost hand movement okay I was wondering yeah is it the |
| 1:57.6 | old school you know the really old last outpost for the frangay that we got used to for so long. |
| 2:04.3 | How we had those like you know crazy spastic frangay for what like 46 47 minutes maybe? |
| 2:10.0 | Yeah. Yeah yeah it's such a, it's starting to change and we're really starting to see that difference in the Ferengue. |
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