Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4, Episode 10 - "The Loss"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2016
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Loss," the Enterprise is being dragged to its doom by two-dimensional creatures headed to a destructive cosmic string. Time with Counselor Troi might help us deal, but she has her own problems. She has lost her Betazoid emphatic abilities. Can she still function as ship's counselor? And will everyone die before we know?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm Ken Ray. And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log |
| 0:25.2 | we like to analyze and pick apart a single episode of Star Trek to see if it |
| 0:30.4 | stands a test of time and to pick apart the morals, meanings, and messages buried therein. |
| 0:36.5 | Well, each week we liked to... I can't believe it, but we've reached the end of our mission the final episode of |
| 0:44.2 | mission log it's it's amazing to me how many years they just seem to go like that man |
| 0:48.8 | okay all right time out time out time out. We can't do that joke again. |
| 0:53.4 | We just, we can't, two weeks in a row, now the third week, it doesn't even work for the title |
| 0:59.3 | of today's episode. |
| 1:00.3 | Oh, it doesn't. |
| 1:02.3 | Well, no, no, today, it's, it's the loss. Well, no today. |
| 1:04.0 | It's the loss. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.0 | So what you're telling me is you're not going to feel the loss |
| 1:10.0 | when all of this is over. |
| 1:12.0 | Is that it? No, no, no, no, no, no, not at all. |
| 1:15.0 | Fine. I see how you are. No, no, no, no, no really. Don't apologize. |
| 1:21.0 | Because I sense there might be one coming eventually. |
| 1:25.2 | In a moment John is going to do trivia and and by the way we have agreed we're going to bury |
| 1:30.2 | that at least until the next time it seems like it might be funny. |
| 1:33.2 | There were a few listeners who actually were worried. |
| 1:36.0 | Really? |
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