Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 3, Episode 8 - "The Price"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2015
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Price," there is a seemingly stable wormhole and control of it is up for negotiation. Counselor Troi is taken with one of the negotiators, though he is hiding a secret that may win him the negotiations, but lose him her heart. Meanwhile, Data and Geordi are looking deep into the wormhole. It may not be all it is supposed to be.
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, a |
| 0:17.0 | Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:21.0 | And I'm Ken Ray each week on Mission Law. |
| 0:24.1 | John let me stuff you right there. |
| 0:26.7 | What if I propose a sort of a cooperative arrangement for this week's show? |
| 0:30.6 | One wherein we look at an episode of Star Trek and examine it for |
| 0:34.1 | messages, morals, and meanings and figure out whether they apply today. |
| 0:38.0 | Well, that's what we do every week and that's exactly what I was going to say. |
| 0:44.1 | Now I know you're thinking we do that all the time and I was actually going to |
| 0:47.6 | uh gonna suggest something like that but I think you have to admit John that that the term I've negotiated here is well it's better. |
| 0:56.0 | If I do, um, okay, can we move on? |
| 1:01.0 | You're welcome. |
| 1:04.0 | This week, we're looking at the price. |
| 1:06.0 | In a moment, John will be laying down some episode-specific trivia, |
| 1:10.0 | but first, I want to let you know how you can get in touch with us. |
| 1:13.0 | All right, Ken, while you do that, I'm going to go slip out of this Chinese Spandex workout gear. |
| 1:17.0 | I'll be right back. |
| 1:18.0 | Mission Log Pod is the address to find us on Facebook, Skype, and Twitter. and |
| 1:25.0 | the address to find us on Facebook, Skype and Twitter. |
| 1:25.2 | If you want to leave us a voicemail, you can. |
| 1:26.8 | Call us 323, 522, 5641. |
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