Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 2 - "Where Silence Has Lease"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2015
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Where Silence Has Lease," charting a previously unexplored section of the galaxy, the Enterprise is trapped in an inky blackness. An even inkier blackness than the void of space through which she normally cruises. It is governed by a being who is very interested in humans. Mostly how they die.
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:16.0 | Mission Log, A Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast, |
| 0:19.6 | episode 123, where Silence Hasley's. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome in to another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast, recording from an |
| 0:36.4 | inescapable void of nothingness, as I tend to do, I'm Ken Ray and I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log. We pick apart an |
| 0:45.8 | episode of Star Trek hunting for morals, meanings, and messages. For those in our |
| 0:50.8 | audience who are disembodied immortal alien intelligence, welcome. |
| 0:55.6 | We hope you'll stick around for the 700 plus hours it takes for us to go through the entire franchise. |
| 1:01.8 | Today, where silence has Lees. |
| 1:05.0 | Though I hear it might be looking to buy, so it's kind of exciting. |
| 1:07.0 | Oh, good. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, I hope their credit is good. |
| 1:09.0 | Well, we'll walk them through. |
| 1:11.0 | We'll see if you... |
| 1:12.0 | What would it take to get you into this silence? |
| 1:15.0 | Into this void of nothingness. |
| 1:17.0 | Indeed. |
| 1:18.0 | By the way, I can't believe I'm the only one recording from a void of nothingness. |
| 1:20.5 | Seriously, I thought you and I know well I you know it is |
| 1:25.2 | Hollywood so what more could you say right so you are you just don't talk about it |
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