Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 4 - "The Outrageous Okona"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2015
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Outrageous Okona," the Enterprise encounters a freighter in distress. But Captain Okona is a captivating guy. All the guys want to know home while the ladies want to KNOW him. There is a problem though. Okona is being pursued by families from two planets in the system. Now it is up to Captain Picard to figure out what to do with Okona. Also, Data wants to learn to laugh or be funny or something.
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| 0:17.0 | Mission Log, A Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast, Episode 1, 125 The Outrageous Okana. Welcome in to another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast, I'm John Champion. |
| 0:34.0 | And I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:38.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we dig around in an episode of Star Trek looking for messages morals and meanings, like a college kid digging around in a couch |
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| 1:57.0 | This week, it is The Outrageous O'Connor. |
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