Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 21 - "Peak Performance"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Peak Performance," it is war-games a go-go when the Enterprise faces off against the Hathaway, a derelict ship commanded for the games by William T. Riker. Shooting, bobbing, weaving. It is all in good fun, until the Ferengi come in firing real weapons and demanding the Enterprise surrender the Hathaway. It may be time to abandon the Hathaway. Or maybe blow it up.
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm John Champion. And I'm Ken Ray. Each week on Mission Log we take apart an episode of Star Trek pulling pieces from the prologue all the way to the closing credits, |
| 0:30.7 | searching for messages, morals, and meanings, and seeing what, if anything, we can take |
| 0:35.2 | away. |
| 0:36.2 | This week, peak performance, or the one where Picard finally fires photons at worst. |
| 0:41.6 | Look, I'm not saying he had it coming. I'm saying it can't be the first |
| 0:45.7 | time Picard thought of it. He's got a big brain do it. He does he thinks of a lot of |
| 0:49.4 | things. Speaking of thoughts, if you have some, not you John, because you'll be sharing yours throughout the show. |
| 0:55.0 | Sure, it's my prerogative. |
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| 1:34.4 | chosen at random. Now it's time for trivia. |
| 1:37.0 | John. |
| 1:38.0 | Great, thank you, sir. |
| 1:40.0 | All right, this week's episode, Peak Performance was directed by Robert Shearer. |
| 1:44.1 | This is the second time that we've seen a Shearer directed episode. |
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