Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 3, Episode 9 - "The Vengeance Factor"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2015
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Vengeance Factor," the Acamarians have survived centuries of blood feuds. On the road to a more peaceful future, there is still one band of Acamarians - the Gatherers - bent on a violent existence. But even they would like to stop fighting come home. There is just one problem: someone is carrying an ancient grudge, and it could derail plans for peace. Can Picard broker a deal between the two sides? Can Riker stop the last of the would-be assassins?
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Can Ray. |
| 0:22.0 | And I'm John Champion. Now each week on Mission Log we pick apart a |
| 0:26.3 | single episode of Star Trek looking for morals, meanings, and messages and |
| 0:31.7 | and we're going to do every episode of Star Trek everyone ever made |
| 0:36.4 | This week one of those episodes it's the vengeance factor in a moment John will bring us a bit of episode-specific trivia, but first we want to let |
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| 1:15.7 | episode of Mission Log. Now can I have a ton of trivia just a boatload of trivia. |
| 1:23.4 | I want to be very, very clear and very certain |
| 1:26.1 | that this being the factor, this is no spin trivia. |
| 1:30.6 | Wow, I really hope that's forgotten at some point. |
| 1:33.8 | Nothing personal and please save your email. I hope yeah. I can't remember. |
| 1:40.3 | Go ahead John. Don't worry, can I get all the email. |
| 1:44.0 | Today's episode, The Vengeance Factor was directed by Timothy Bond. |
| 1:48.0 | Now, this is his first of two next-gen episodes. |
| 1:52.0 | Bond was born in Canada and his first directing |
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