Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 6 - "The Schizoid Man"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2015
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Schizoid Man," Dr. Ira Graves is a genius with an ingenious idea: transfer his consciousness into a computer. What could possibly go wrong? Well, he has this idea in the Star Trek universe, so probably a lot could go wrong.
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Ken Ray, and I'm the brilliant, |
| 0:25.4 | lovable, humble, and delightful John Champion. |
| 0:31.0 | Okay, anything else? |
| 0:34.0 | Oh, nothing, nothing, just that to know me is to love me and to love me is to know me. |
| 0:42.0 | You done? |
| 0:44.0 | Not really, I figured this is my big chance, you know, get it all on tape. |
| 0:48.0 | Okay, you're done. |
| 0:49.0 | Seriously, you're finished. |
| 0:52.0 | You know, I'm thinking though, unless this is your Tashi Yar moment. |
| 0:55.0 | I mean, yeah, it could be. |
| 0:57.0 | This is what you're doing. |
| 0:59.0 | Right. |
| 1:00.0 | It is your farewell to the troops, as it were. |
| 1:02.0 | Today's episode, the Skizoid Man. |
| 1:05.0 | Oh, we are all excited, by which I mean me. |
| 1:09.0 | I thought about that, Ken. I thought maybe that this was a show that I could just sit out. |
| 1:15.8 | This is a show. Well, no, I'm going to need you to hold me back a little bit later. |
| 1:20.0 | Okay. There's a minute or two where I got a little, where I got a little, but we can talk about that a bit later. |
| 1:26.5 | And if people want to talk to us about this later or other stuff later or is really just one phrase Mission Log Pod because you can find us there at |
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