Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 3, Episode 23 - "Sarek"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Sarek," an old friend returns to the Star Trek universe. The 1701-D will play host to a series of negotiations to be directed by Ambassador Sarek. However, when an illness plaguing the ambassador puts the talks in jeopardy, Captain Picard plays host in a more meaningful and potentially dangerous way.
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 166. |
| 0:07.0 | Sarik. Welcome into Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. I'm Can Ray. |
| 0:22.0 | And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log we examine an episode of Star Trek |
| 0:26.9 | looking it over for messages and ideas that may or may not work into our daily lives today. |
| 0:34.0 | This week. |
| 0:35.0 | I hope I'm pronouncing this right. |
| 0:37.0 | Is it, it's a Saerak? |
| 0:39.0 | Is it a Sarek? |
| 0:41.0 | No, Kenneth. |
| 0:42.0 | It's Sarac. |
| 0:44.0 | Should I know who that is? |
| 0:46.0 | Yeah, well, see, we met him before. |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah. He was, you may not remember this because it's kind of, you know, it's a very minor thing. |
| 0:54.5 | He's, he's Spock's father. |
| 0:57.0 | Really? |
| 0:58.0 | I'm sorry, you know, it's terrible, I am so bad with character names. |
| 1:02.1 | I guess I should have known that I mean you know if it's an |
| 1:04.6 | important character like a minuet or you know Leah Brahms yeah or for Moriarty. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, see there was a show before the next generation called Star Trek. |
| 1:16.0 | And there was an episode called Journey to Babel, |
| 1:19.0 | and we met Spock's father. Hmm, really? |
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