Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 3, Episode 2 - "The Ensigns of Command"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2015
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Ensigns of Command," Tau Cygna V has got it all: a thriving community, strong leadership and plenty of water. The only problem is the Sheliak Corporate who are coming to wipe them out like vermin. Can Data alone convince the colonists to get out of the line of fire?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:22.8 | I hereby stipulated I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:24.8 | And in accordance with said statement, I'm John Champion. |
| 0:27.8 | Each week as laid out in the aforementioned framework, |
| 0:30.6 | we analyze an episode of Star Trek bound as we are contractually |
| 0:34.5 | to pull out the messages morals and meanings of the episode and assess whether they |
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