Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 17 - "Samaritan Snare"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2015
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Samaritan Snare," they are smiley. They are pudgy. They are incredibly deadly. The Enterprise comes across a benign seeming race known as Pakleds. They have much technology, but the cannot make it go. Luckily, Geordi La Forge can. He can fix lots of things. So the Pakleds decide to keep him. Now the Enterprise has to get him back, and quickly. Captain Picard is on space station 515. He is about to die and he needs the help of the Enterprise. Can the crew save both men?
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 138, Samaritan Snare. I am Ken and I am John. We look for things to make a show. |
| 0:17.0 | I am Ken and I am John. |
| 0:20.0 | We look for things. |
| 0:22.0 | We look for things to make a show. |
| 0:25.0 | When we see things, we like to talk about them. |
| 0:29.0 | Ah, I can't do it. I can't do it anymore. |
| 0:31.0 | All right, each week on Mission Log, which you were listening to right now, Mission Log, |
| 0:34.8 | a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I, John Champion, and you... |
| 0:39.8 | I am Ken. Ken Ray. We pick apart an episode of Star Trek bit by bit piece by piece to see what makes it tick and |
| 0:48.8 | see if it stands a test of time. |
| 0:51.6 | Today's episode, Samaritan Snare. |
| 0:55.0 | And if there's one thing that I've learned, John, it is that feedback makes us strong. |
| 0:59.0 | And there's lots of ways to get in touch with this. Mission Log Pod is the address to find us on Facebook, Skype, and Twitter. of That number again, 323, 522, 5641. |
| 1:13.6 | Our email address is Mission Log at Roddenberry.com. |
| 1:17.2 | Our show website including Discover Documents is at Missionlog Podcast. |
| 1:21.4 | And please do remember, we may use your comments on an upcoming |
| 1:25.0 | episode of Mission Log. May I just say I know it's a big deal that we got the |
| 1:30.8 | Borg last week and people are really excited about that and it's a big |
| 1:34.2 | deal that we've had the Ferengi. |
| 1:37.0 | We right now are looking at one of my favorite foils in Star Trek. The surgeon on Starbase. I heart Packlids. That'll be a new bumper sticker. I absolutely love the packlids. That you can put on your car. |
| 1:56.5 | I can. Or yours when you're not looking. Well I can't wait. Today, well today we introduce the pack leads and maybe we'll get to see pack leads again, but here they are. |
| 2:12.0 | They could have been the foil that I hear the Borg may in fact turn out to be at some point. |
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