Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 9 - "The Measure of a Man"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2015
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Measure of a Man," an old foil wants to take Data apart in an effort to study him and make more Datas. Data says there is a problem though, that might kill him. But the would be studier says that is not a problem: Data is not alive. Is he? And does that matter? It is up to Picard save the existence of Commander Data.
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Today's show is brought to you by Transporter by Connected Data. |
| 0:03.4 | You can get your very own transporter at file transporter store.com. |
| 0:09.8 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 130, The Measure of a Man. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome in the Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Can Ray. |
| 0:29.2 | And I'm John Champion today on Mission Log, the Measure of a Man. |
| 0:34.4 | The Measure of a Man. |
| 0:37.4 | Sorry. |
| 0:38.2 | I say about 5-8. |
| 0:39.7 | Yeah, we did that joke except we cut it out last week and I can't, |
| 0:42.4 | it's just as dirty. it's just as dirty it's just as dirty this week as it was last week when I removed it from you know the T's so we can't yeah |
| 0:50.8 | You know what we do here on mission law we make dirty jokes that we then take out and nobody gets to hear. |
| 0:55.0 | And we also look at every episode of Star Trek at dissembling the episode to see dissembling or disassembling. |
| 1:02.0 | I say disassembling. |
| 1:03.4 | Let's say taking apart. |
| 1:05.4 | Taking apart an episode to see if we can figure out what makes the whole thing tick. |
| 1:10.4 | And yeah, as John said earlier this week, |
| 1:13.2 | the measure of a man. |
| 1:14.2 | Yeah, yeah, and you know, Ken, if we figure out how it's built, |
| 1:17.8 | maybe we can make more. |
| 1:19.6 | That's the idea, right? |
| 1:22.2 | We just populate the universe with a never-ending supply of great Star Trek episodes. |
| 1:28.1 | If it's great, we don't know yet. |
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