Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 18 - "Up The Long Ladder"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2015
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Up The Long Ladder," meet the Bringloidi: Danilo, Brenna and the colonists. Their interests include farming, washing and drinking. Also meet the Mariposans: Granger, Granger, Granger and the others. Their interests include clones, cloning and being cloned.
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:27.0 | All right, I'll quit. |
| 0:28.1 | Geez, you're gonna talk, aren't you? |
| 0:30.4 | Do you promise? |
| 0:31.8 | What, that I'll quit? |
| 0:33.0 | Yes. |
| 0:35.0 | Yes? |
| 0:36.0 | Okay, in that case, I'm John Champion. |
| 0:41.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we follow the veritable rainbow that is an episode of Star Trek |
| 0:46.5 | to its end where, like a pot of gold, we look for messages, morals and meanings and |
| 0:50.8 | and find out whether it all sticks together. This week, oh my lucky charms, it's up the long |
| 0:58.9 | ladder. I'm not doing the voice, don't worry about it. |
| 1:04.0 | But I am doing contact information. |
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| 1:35.0 | Can I tell you the hardest thing about doing that fake accent? |
| 1:39.0 | Aside from hearing it, which I assume is dreadful. Yeah, Yeah yeah it just was painful for me. Yeah I would imagine so yeah but the hardest thing though is to not keep doing it. |
| 1:48.0 | Well, fortunately, yeah, I'm going to give you a little break. |
| 1:53.0 | Oh, because you got the trivia thing, don't you? |
| 1:56.0 | Yeah, yeah, I'll do that. I do that for you and for our listeners. |
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