Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 14 - "The Icarus Factor"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2015
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Icarus Factor," Riker is sad because his dad is on the Enterprise. Worf is sad because he has no dad to watch him get beaten ritualistically. Troi is sad because Riker is leaving the Enterprise. And Wesley… is just so Wesley. Promotions! Grudges! Old flames! TRON costumes!
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 135, The Acurus Factor. John. |
| 0:17.0 | Ken? |
| 0:20.0 | You're looking well. |
| 0:21.0 | You're looking well? You're looking well? |
| 0:25.0 | What's that supposed to mean? |
| 0:27.0 | Oh, every time with this. |
| 0:28.0 | You know, before this is over, you and I are going to have it out, Mr. |
| 0:31.0 | In the meantime, though, we should welcome people to Mission Log a |
| 0:34.8 | Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Kan Ray and I'm John Champion each week we |
| 0:40.8 | pick apart a single episode of Star Trek to see what makes it tick, |
| 0:45.2 | then we see if it stands a test of time. |
| 0:47.3 | So Ken, would you like to tell people how to get in touch with us? |
| 0:51.4 | No, you would like that, wouldn't you? |
| 0:54.0 | Fine. |
| 0:56.0 | Mission Log Pod is the place to find us on Facebook, Skype, and Twitter. |
| 1:00.0 | That's our handle on all those places. |
| 1:02.0 | You can call me, or I guess if you want to. |
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| 1:15.0 | I do read some of the emails by the way. |
| 1:17.0 | I read. |
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