Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4, Episode 12 - "The Wounded"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2016
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Wounded," the Federation and the Cardassians enjoy a tenuous peace. But that peace is thrown into jeopardy when Captain Benjamin Maxwell takes his ship into Cardassian space and starts blowing things up. Things with Cardassians in them. Captain Picard is ordered to take the Enterprise into Cardassian space, stop Maxwell, and preserve the peace at any cost. Oh, and bring some Cardassians with you. All of that and - believe it or not - this is a Miles O'Brien episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:23.4 | And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log |
| 0:26.8 | we take a hard look at an episode of Star Trek watching it for morals and meaning |
| 0:31.2 | and matches and seeing whether the episode bear scrutiny today. |
| 0:36.1 | We do more than that though. |
| 0:37.7 | We also tell you how to get in touch with us. |
| 0:39.5 | We do trivia. |
| 0:40.9 | And when we're not being forgetful, we tell you the name of the episode that we're covering. |
| 0:43.6 | It's the wounded by the way, we're covering the wounded. |
| 0:46.5 | As for... |
| 0:48.5 | Thank goodness. |
| 0:50.5 | Just, yeah, I'm really pleased that we managed to get it in there. Yeah |
| 0:54.4 | such a smooth yeah, yeah, it was a little nonchalant. It was it was somewhere |
| 1:00.2 | between Forgetful and Ted Knight or or Ted Baxter, excuse me. |
| 1:04.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.8 | Well, by the way, we're doing the wounded. |
| 1:08.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.3 | He had a guess bit on TAS, so. |
| 1:12.3 | Did he really? Yeah, that's right. That's right. Of course he did anyway, but you know go back and listen to TAS that's the animated series by the way for those of you who skip the cartoons |
| 1:21.4 | And so let me do one of the things that I said we do where you get in touch with us or I tell you how and then |
| 1:25.8 | John's going to do trivia and then we're going to do a show. Mission Log Pod is the address to find us on |
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