Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 3, Episode 4 - "Who Watches the Watchers"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2015
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Who Watches the Watchers, think of the worst game of hide-and-seek you have ever had. Now quintuple it. Yours may have ended with name calling and hurt feelings. This one is derailing the development of a civilization and reigniting a belief in magic and superstition. What does Captain Picard say when asked if he is a god?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, Episode 147. |
| 0:07.8 | Who Watchers? Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:22.6 | And I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:24.1 | Each week on Mission... |
| 0:25.1 | Who's there? |
| 0:26.1 | A voice in my head. |
| 0:29.1 | Yet there is no one I can see. |
| 0:32.1 | It's me. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm on the microphone. |
| 0:35.0 | You're wearing headphones. |
| 0:36.0 | We're talking. |
| 0:37.0 | What magic is this? |
| 0:38.0 | Who's there? |
| 0:40.0 | It's not magic. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Ken. |
| 0:42.0 | And we're doing a show together like we do every week |
| 0:45.6 | Okay, the Ken if I do a good job will you look favorably upon me and make the winters mild and the rains fall. |
| 0:53.0 | Well you do live in California so one of those is guaranteed the other one. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm going to say yeah. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm liking where this is going so he has can no no cut the bit the bit is so man |
| 1:08.2 | That's too bad because I thought I had a shot here at something really incredible that. Hope you enjoyed it while it lasted. |
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