Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 3, Episode 24 - "The Next Phase"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Next Phase," when Ensign Ro and Geordi LaForge are beamed back from a damaged Romulan ship, a transporter accident leaves them missing and presumed dead. The rest of the crew are organizing a memorial service, but Ro and Geordi are trapped out of phase and desperate to get back among the living. They may need a lot more memorials, though. The Romulans are planning to blow up the Enterprise!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Mission Log is brought to you by the official Star Trek Starships collection. |
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| 0:16.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:19.7 | Episode 216, The next phase. Welcome into Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm Kan Ray. |
| 0:37.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we watch an episode of Star Trek, taking it apart for morals, meanings, and |
| 0:41.9 | messages, and figuring out whether the whole thing holds |
| 0:44.7 | up. |
| 0:45.7 | This week, the next phase, not to be confused with phase two nor Deep Space Nine. This is the TNG episode of the next phase, the one where |
| 0:54.4 | Jordi and Rode die, except they don't. And the Romulans blow up the |
| 0:59.0 | enterprise except they don't. Points to them though for trying this time, I will say. |
| 1:05.0 | I mean, because you always make fun of them, right? |
| 1:07.0 | The wrong ones never do anything. |
| 1:09.0 | Man, they really showed up this time. |
| 1:10.0 | They seriously... |
| 1:11.0 | This night, they were ready. They were so ready. Yeah, they would have so |
| 1:15.4 | blown up the enterprise except of course once again. Yeah, you meet a |
| 1:19.6 | Romulan pretty much safe. In a moment, John's got trivia for the next phase but first let us |
| 1:25.1 | tell you all about the official Star Trek Starships collection brought to you |
| 1:29.2 | by Eagle Moss sponsors of this week's show. You've heard us talk about them before of course. These are the tiny little |
| 1:35.1 | ships ready to fly into your life as soon as you are ready to let them. |
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