Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 12 - "The Royale"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2015
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Royale," investigating the wreckage of a 300-year-old spaceship from Earth, the Enterprise finds a building capable of supporting life in a very unlikely place. But what they find inside is even more unlikely: a staffed and operating, mid-1990s hotel, complete with a front desk, room service and a casino. How did it get there? And how do Riker, Data, and Worf get out?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 133, The Royal. All right guys and gals it's time to get down to business. What sort of Bidness are you getting down to? The Bidness of Mission |
| 0:27.3 | Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Ken Ray, but you can call me Tennessee for the duration of this episode. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm John Champion, but you can call me John Champion. |
| 0:40.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we dig deeply into a singular episode of Star Trek to see what makes a tick and whether or not it can stand the test of time. |
| 0:50.0 | Today, we're looking at The Royale, or should I say we're looking at the Royal. |
| 0:53.0 | Where should I say we're checking into the Royal? |
| 0:55.0 | Ah, yes, you may well say that. |
| 0:58.0 | I feel weird by the way. |
| 0:59.0 | I grew up in the South, we talk about this, plenty of times. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm never confident in my southern accent. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, well, Ken, it's good to have you back and not Tennessee for the whole episode. |
| 1:10.0 | You can call me Tennessee if you want to, and it's still applicable. |
| 1:12.0 | Hey, I know, you know, T is for Texas, |
| 1:15.0 | who is a character in this show. |
| 1:16.1 | T is also for Tennessee. |
| 1:18.2 | And T is for trivia, which we're gonna get to in a moment. |
| 1:22.1 | But before we do, I want to let people know |
| 1:24.4 | if they want to leave a message for someone |
| 1:26.0 | at the Royal, if they have something |
| 1:27.7 | they like to leave at the front desk, |
| 1:28.8 | there are a few ways they can do that. |
| 1:30.7 | Mission Log Pod is one way to do that in a bunch of places that's on Facebook Skype and Twitter |
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