Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 22- "Shades of Gray"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Shades of Gray," Riker gets stung. Then Riker has flashbacks. Was it poison or acid in that thorn? Interestingly, it was actually a sort of parasitic or symbiotic life form that… WHO CARES? IT IS A CLIP SHOW!
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 143, Shades of Grey. You know that that that that that that that that tard guy that was cool. |
| 0:26.2 | They remember that time that that I did that bad accent and in the episode and oh yeah |
| 0:31.6 | were like oh that accent's like terrible that's yeah |
| 0:34.4 | you took the voice yeah that was that was awesome yeah |
| 0:39.3 | remember that time that we that we reference Dune during the show? Yeah that was that was that was every time on the show. |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah, yeah. Man we could do this for like three-fifths of today's show. Well we could do this for like three fifths of today's show. |
| 0:53.4 | Well we could we could or or we could just let people know that this is mission |
| 0:59.2 | log not very Star Trek podcast today's episode, Cadden, |
| 1:03.0 | the very end of season two of next generation, Shades of Grey. |
| 1:08.0 | I feel silly insisting on this part because we could certainly cut it in |
| 1:12.0 | from almost any episode that we've done, from almost any episode that we've done maybe even any episode that we've done but we should say who we are I'm Ken Ray |
| 1:18.4 | Oh, and I'm John Champion. Yeah and and really if I had more time I would just cut this part in from another, but it would take too long to not say it, so I'll just say each week what we do is we go through an episode of Star Trek calling messages |
| 1:34.0 | the moorals and meanings and trying to figure out whether the whole thing stands a test of time. |
| 1:35.0 | As John mentioned, this week is Shades of Grey and interestingly it sounds like at the end of season two, |
| 1:39.0 | they did the same thing that we do every week. |
| 1:42.0 | They watched Star Trek and went, yeah that's good. Yeah, |
| 1:46.0 | so that in. Okay, that'll be fine. Yeah, let's put that in. What do we have to 48 minutes yet? |
| 1:51.1 | That's lunch. Just stop. |
| 1:53.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:54.0 | Get it out there and see what sticks. |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:58.0 | Indeed. |
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