Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 5 - "Loud as a Whisper"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2015
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Loud as a Whisper," the Enterprise is taking the negotiator Riva to Solais V to negotiate an end to their 15-century civil war. Things are going great until someone kills the chorus. So what? Just a little less music? No - Riva is deaf. His chorus hears and speaks for him. All appears lost, and Solais V looks doomed to end its days in bloody conflict. But come on! This is Star Trek!
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Rodenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 126 Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion. I'm can Ray and I'm can Ray and I'm can Ray and I'm can Ray |
| 0:30.5 | Why are that wait what did you that three times why there are three of you? |
| 0:34.0 | Well, it's my chorus. |
| 0:35.0 | I mean, there's the dry comedic host, Kainray. |
| 0:38.0 | Then there's the philosophical Kainray. |
| 0:40.0 | And I'm often joined by an obscure pop culture references, Can Ray, all of whom can be heard on just about every edition of Mission Log. |
| 0:48.0 | Great. Today's episode is Loud as a whisper episode five season two of the next generation |
| 0:57.8 | That we get to do this one together can all of you all the all the kens all of us together. Yeah say I thought about just well I thought about |
| 1:04.4 | doing something else but it might have been a little too rebald. Ribald. Ribald? Ribbled? Ribbled? |
| 1:10.0 | Ribald? Yes. Might have been dirty. I guess that may be the way to say it. I was also working on getting an audio filter and sorry by the way I know it's only loud as a whisper I'll try to boost up the level next week I was thinking about trying to get an audio filter that that only spoke to the ladies. |
| 1:26.8 | You know yeah kind of like kind of like Riva has. Mm-hmm. Yeah he's got the passion version of Riva. Yes, he does indeed he does he doesn't have he doesn't have action version. Oh, no, he should have that. Yeah, I should but I guess he does a lot of talking he's what's the old what's the |
| 1:44.9 | line from oh Kevin Klein said it when they were measuring him for his for his little |
| 1:50.9 | figurine for the wild wild west they were looking for the Artemis pileine for the Wild Wild West. |
| 1:52.6 | They were looking for the Artemis pile action figure. |
| 1:54.8 | And he said, don't you mean in action figure? |
| 1:58.3 | Well played Kevin Clyde. |
| 2:01.0 | Yes, indeed. |
| 2:01.8 | Indeed. Indeed. So that's what Riva would need as well as the in action figure. Yes, indeed. Indeed. |
| 2:03.0 | Indeed. |
| 2:04.0 | Look for that at a convention near you. |
| 2:07.0 | I guess, by the way, that must have been the obscure pop culture references Ken Ray, who referenced |
| 2:11.4 | not only the Wild West movie but an action figure |
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