Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4, Episode 11 - "Data's Day"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Data's Day," which of these is the least important?
A - A wedding that may not happen
B - Feeding a cat
C - A standoff with the Romulans
D - Learning to dance
Find out the correct answer when we put Data's Day the Mission Log.
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Can Ray. |
| 0:22.4 | And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log we watch an episode of |
| 0:27.0 | Star Trek from the first frame to the closing credits examining it for messages |
| 0:31.8 | and ideas we can take with us today. |
| 0:35.0 | This week, Data's Day. |
| 0:37.0 | That sounds great, you luckhead. |
| 0:40.0 | Wait a minute, what? |
| 0:42.0 | I said that sounds great one Ked oh. Oh. Oh. Oh I get it like in the show |
| 0:48.1 | That was in the show |
| 0:52.1 | In a moment John's going to do the trivia thing, but first I'm going to do the how to get in touch with this thing. |
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| 1:16.7 | discovered documents is at Mission Log Podcast.com and please do remember we may |
| 1:21.5 | use your comments on an upcoming episode of Mission Log and how it goes. Anyway, you've got trivia, right? |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, here we go. And actually, I've got a lot of trivia. So get okay today's episode was written by Harold |
| 1:46.4 | after and he had the idea of following a personal log it was decided that ultimately that data should be the one to follow. |
| 1:55.8 | Some of the other ideas that are kicked around marrying Picard, having O'Brien Mary, the young |
| 2:00.5 | woman we see at the helm since Wesley left so all of these are sort of in play |
| 2:04.7 | since about season three but finally it was boiled down into the script now speaking of the |
| 2:11.1 | script Ken I have read the first draft of this script in its entirety and I'm here to tell you that there was some very interesting changes between the first draft and what actually aired. |
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