Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 13 - "Time Squared"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2015
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Time Squared," Captain Picard returns to the Enterprise in shuttle number five. Now they will have a matching set since there are already a Captain Picard and a shuttle number five onboard. The new ones are from the future. Six hours in the future when the Enterprise has blown up. Or will blow up. Can Captain Picard keep that from happening this time around?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | It is said that it is a poor workman who blames his tools, which makes me a poor workman this week. |
| 0:07.0 | Something happened in my end of the recording for this week's mission log, and I'm enough of an audio geek that I feel the need to |
| 0:17.8 | apologize for my audio quality. Oh not right. Right now sounds great. Hold on to that, won't you? |
| 0:27.0 | Mission Log. A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, 134 Time Squared Welcome into Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:48.6 | And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log. |
| 0:51.1 | And I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:53.0 | Ken, you said that already. |
| 0:55.0 | Well, no, no, that was the other me. |
| 0:58.0 | I've apparently stopped them from the future to check on the podcast. |
| 1:01.0 | It seems that something goes horribly wrong with this. |
| 1:04.0 | Oh, oh wait a minute, other me disappeared, never mind. I guess everything is cool. |
| 1:08.0 | Sorry about that, man. I'm really excited though because I was worried about what happens to you or well happened what? |
| 1:16.0 | Huh? |
| 1:17.0 | Well no worry about it. |
| 1:18.0 | It's probably not a thing now. |
| 1:21.0 | Don't just just go ahead. |
| 1:22.0 | You were saying each week on mission log we pick |
| 1:27.1 | apart a single episode of Star Trek to dig deep to look for the morals meetings |
| 1:31.8 | and messages and to see if the morals, meetings, and messages, |
| 1:33.5 | and to see if the whole thing stands the test of time. |
| 1:37.0 | And of course, we would love to hear from you. |
| 1:39.4 | If you want to get in touch with this, |
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