Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 3, Episode 25 - "Transfigurations"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2016
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Transfigurations," it is a long slow period of star charting for the Enterprise, and good thing too. The ship has picked up a potentially troubling alien. He seems nice enough, and he can heal people with a touch. There is just one problem: The government of his home world says he is dangerous and must be put to death. Also, he killed Worf, so maybe there are a couple of problems. Who or what is this being? Find out for yourself!
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A R Rotenberry Star Trek |
| 0:21.9 | Podcast. I'm Ken Ray and I'm John. Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:24.0 | And I'm John Champion. |
| 0:26.0 | On Mission Log, we talk Trek. |
| 0:28.0 | Star Trek. |
| 0:29.0 | Examining it for deep meanings and interesting points |
| 0:32.0 | we can fold into our daily lives this week |
| 0:36.6 | Transfigurations. |
| 0:37.8 | Oh, you're gonna do a magic trek. |
| 0:39.8 | No, no, no, no, that's the name of the episode. It's transfigurations. |
| 0:46.2 | That's a bummer. Yeah, and we're an audio show you could just tell people that you're doing a magic trick. |
| 0:51.6 | I did a magic trick. |
| 0:54.0 | Well, I don't think anybody's going to believe it now. |
| 0:55.4 | I think though if you had, like I said, |
| 0:57.4 | hey, you're going to do a magic trick, |
| 0:58.6 | and you might have said, hey Ken, |
| 1:00.0 | watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat. |
| 1:01.6 | Right, again. And then people would be like, oh wow. watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat. Right. |
| 1:03.0 | And then people would be like, oh wow, John's going to do a... |
| 1:06.0 | Now they're just going to do their show though. |
| 1:08.0 | Which of course has various pieces and parts that we put in certain orders. |
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