Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 3, Episode 22 - "The Most Toys"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2015
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Most Toys," a seemingly routine mission ends with the loss of Lt. Commander Data. Only (spoiler alert) he is not dead. He has been added to a collection of priceless items by an amoral collector. Will the crew of the Enterprise realize he is alive? If they do, will they be able to get him back? And how will Data handle kidnapping and captivity?
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:25.0 | And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log, we watch Star Trek. |
| 0:30.0 | Then we talk about Star Trek. And this week is no exception. We are adding the most toys to our |
| 0:37.8 | collection. |
| 0:38.8 | Yes we are indeed. So just sit there in your chair and we'll just sit there in your chair. Go on and sit. |
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| 1:21.1 | He is a collector of toys. He is also a collector of trivia. Ladies and |
| 1:24.8 | gentlemen, I give you Mr. John Champion. All right, Ken. Today's episode, The |
| 1:29.6 | Most Toys was written by Sherry Goodhearts. Now Sherry was a student in New York who |
| 1:34.2 | earned an internship with the Academy of TV Arts and Sciences, you know the whole |
| 1:38.4 | reason we have the Emmy Awards. Now she bounced from Columbia Pictures to Warner and finally to Paramount for Star Trek for the next generation. |
| 1:46.5 | Now remember that whole concept because we'll meet someone else who worked his way up from an internship program. |
| 1:53.0 | Anyway, Sherry has two more stories that will turn up on T&G, |
| 1:57.0 | and later in her career she focused on many children's TV shows, |
| 2:01.0 | including raw tunage for Disney Disney which earned her an Emmy. |
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