Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 3, Episode 14 - "A Matter of Perspective"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2015
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "A Matter of Perspective," Commander Riker is on trial for murder. He tells his story, but the widow of the dead man tells a different story that tears holes in the story told by Riker… and Counselor Troi says neither person is lying. Meanwhile, an unknown something is tearing holes in the Enterprise. How can both of these mysteries be solved?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 157. |
| 0:07.0 | A matter of perspective. Welcome into Mission Log, A Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast. I'm Can Ray. |
| 0:22.0 | And I'm John Champion. |
| 0:23.5 | Each week on Mission Log, we watch an episode of Star Trek. |
| 0:26.5 | And we watch it again. |
| 0:28.5 | Then we talk about it, pulling it apart from messages that might echo through the ages. |
| 0:34.0 | This week, the episode, a matter of perspective. |
| 0:37.0 | And I will say, John, I have a real problem with this episode. |
| 0:40.0 | I can't tell if the issue is covered in it or small or just really far away. |
| 0:45.0 | Boom! Thank you! |
| 0:48.0 | The Art Historian and me comes out. |
| 0:50.0 | It's a prospective joke, ladies and come up. |
| 0:52.0 | Is what that is. It's's very it's also kind of |
| 0:54.9 | throws back to a Stephen Wright joke that I remember from when I was a kid there's just so much about |
| 0:58.7 | this day yeah I could I could think of other, other adjectives to modify the word joke. |
| 1:05.6 | Hmm. |
| 1:06.6 | That don't involve the word perspective. |
| 1:08.6 | Well, I would love to do that, John. |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.6 | I don't think we have time right oh because I got to give |
| 1:14.9 | but yeah I know yeah it's well you know because here's the thing you can you can do that |
| 1:18.7 | if you want to but then we run out at time for trivia you see and I know people are waiting for trivia fair you see. And I know people are waiting for trivia. You know, like me. |
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