Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 10 - "The Dauphin"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2015
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Dauphin," Wesley is in love. With a girl. Maybe. Most of the time she is a girl. The rest of the time, she is not even human. Puppy love! Shape shifting! Planet saving!
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Can Ray and I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log we get to know the characters on Star Trek or do we? |
| 0:30.0 | Hmm, this week the Dauphin, which is English for Le Dauphin. |
| 0:36.0 | That's, see, I thought you're going to do the English to French, the, |
| 0:42.0 | very, yeah. Huh? Well, the, yeah. |
| 0:43.0 | Huh? |
| 0:44.0 | Well, okay, so this is funny to me. |
| 0:45.6 | I don't know if you ever heard Penn Gillette when he had a radio show, |
| 0:50.3 | but he mentioned something about in Vegas there was a nightclub at one of the I think it was at the Paris |
| 0:57.1 | called the L-Bistro stage where it was like called the L-Bistro cafe or whatever it was and he was like yeah, so literally the English translation is the |
| 1:09.8 | the |
| 1:09.9 | Cafe Cafe, you know? That's awesome. |
| 1:14.0 | Except wouldn't you want to translate it to |
| 1:16.0 | Le the Cafe Bistro? |
| 1:18.0 | Right. |
| 1:20.0 | Or something like that. |
| 1:21.0 | Exactly. |
| 1:22.0 | We could do this all show. |
| 1:23.4 | We could. |
| 1:24.4 | Or we could let other people do it for us. |
| 1:26.4 | If you'd like to write in with the rough English to French to English translation of today's |
| 1:31.6 | episode. |
| 1:32.8 | There are a number of ways you can actually get in touch with this. |
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