Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 1 - "The Child"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2015
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Child," the birth of season two sees the birth of a baby. Counselor Troi is suddenly pregnant. Very suddenly. Within a day, she gives birth. A day later, the child is the equivalent of eight years old. Meanwhile, members of the crew are working feverishly to battle a plague. New sets! New uniforms! A new doctor!
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Kanray, and I'm Can Ray. |
| 0:23.0 | And I'm John Champion. |
| 0:25.0 | Each week on our show, we look at another show. |
| 0:28.0 | Star Trek to be exact, and each week we pick it apart. |
| 0:31.0 | We like to put it on the examination table to see what makes it tick. |
| 0:35.0 | This week we welcome a bouncing baby season 2 kicked off by The Child. |
| 0:41.1 | And you know if you wanted to send us notes of congratulation, knitted booties, photo albums, |
| 0:46.2 | and rattles, there is a way to do that. |
| 0:48.8 | Yes, as a matter of fact, there is John several ways, actually. |
| 0:51.2 | Facebook, Skype, and Twitter where the handle is Mission Log Pod. People can call us |
| 0:55.6 | three two five six four one. They can email us Mission Log at Rothenberry.com. We do of course have a website we would love for you to |
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| 1:27.0 | I will be curious to see how you get booties through Twitter though. |
| 1:31.0 | Hmm. Yeah, you don't want to know. |
| 1:34.0 | I think you just opened yourself up for something there again. |
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