Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 7 - "Unnatural Selection"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2015
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Unnatural Selection," get to know Dr. Katherine Pulaski! When a mysterious illness starts making people very old very quickly, Dr. Pulaski wants to know why. Also, she wants to save a group of super children, genetically created in a lab. But what happens when she is stricken by the aging disease? And why is she on the Enterprise anyway?
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm Can Ray. Wow, wait how? Yes I can. Holy, yes you are John |
| 0:30.9 | Champion. Oh, oh, this is an amazingly long bit. |
| 0:36.0 | I don't think we can do this all the way to trivia dude, seriously. |
| 0:39.0 | Oh, come on. |
| 0:40.0 | I know, I really... |
| 0:41.0 | I thought about it. My telepathic powers if they reach you they can reach all of our listening audience |
| 0:46.8 | Yeah, but having to talk you know all that way and explain everything and and I don't think people would buy it anyway. |
| 0:53.0 | If I have to do it the old-fashioned way and actually talking to a microphone, then I will. |
| 0:59.0 | Yes, welcome to Mission Log and today's episode, Unnatural Selection. |
| 1:05.2 | And people may have a lot of stuff they want to tell us. |
| 1:07.4 | Let's go ahead and get that part out of the way right now and people could probably actually |
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