Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 3, Episode 13 - "Deja Q"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2015
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Deja Q," is Q still Q without the power of Q? Find out when we put Deja Q into the Mission Log. Is Q still Q without the power of Q?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, I'm John Champion. |
| 0:22.0 | And I'm Can Ray. |
| 0:23.7 | Each week on Mission Log, we watch Star Trek. |
| 0:26.1 | Then we talk about Star Trek, |
| 0:28.1 | trying to see just how much meaning was crammed between the Prolog and the closing credits. |
| 0:32.4 | This week, we go round and round with an omnipotent being in Dejah Q. |
| 0:37.0 | You know we haven't done in a while? |
| 0:39.0 | What's that? |
| 0:40.0 | The alternate title game. |
| 0:41.0 | Oh, I missed that. |
| 0:42.8 | Yeah, you know, we actually did that I think on the first episode of this show and then just kind of quit. |
| 0:47.2 | I think we're talking like maybe twice, but we should do it more. |
| 0:49.7 | There were a few alternate titles for this week's episode. Will there ever be another cue? |
| 0:55.0 | spoiler alert. |
| 0:56.0 | Yes. |
| 0:57.0 | There was talk of just making the title a lowercase cue, |
| 1:01.0 | which you know would have worked, |
| 1:02.0 | but is probably a little too subtle and then |
| 1:04.6 | Q me baby was actually one which would have been a great tie-in to a 1990 hit by |
| 1:09.5 | Bel-Bib Devo but otherwise made absolutely no sense whatsoever. |
| 1:13.2 | I love the alternate title game. |
| 1:15.7 | It's fun. |
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