Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4, Episode 13 - "Devil's Due"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2016
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Devil's Due," the population of Ventax II is losing its collective mind. That's because Ardra, the deity that brought 1,000 years of peace to the planet, is coming back to collect her payment: the servitude of every Ventaxian, as well as the servitude of every person orbiting Ventax II. Sadly, this includes the captain and crew of the starship Enterprise. But maybe Captain Picard can find a loophole in the contract. Also, are we SURE Ardra is a deity?
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, a |
| 0:17.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm Janage Champion. |
| 0:21.7 | And I'm Connect Ray. Each week week on Mission Log we take a hard look at an episode of |
| 0:25.9 | Star Trek pouring through it frame by frame looking for what it demands of us and ways we can get out of it |
| 0:32.4 | this week devils do and ways we can get out of it. This week, Devil's Do. |
| 0:34.0 | Devil's do what? |
| 0:36.0 | Oh, I'm so sad I used that last week. |
| 0:39.0 | Because it would have been so much better. |
| 0:41.0 | It's not a joke until we do it three times. |
| 0:44.0 | That's true, so listen in next week. |
| 0:45.8 | I don't know how we're going to work it in, |
| 0:46.8 | but we will. |
| 0:47.6 | Trust us. |
| 0:49.2 | Culture, excuse me. |
| 0:51.3 | In a moment, John Champion will hit your head with all sorts of devils do trivia. |
| 0:55.6 | Oh yeah, Devil do trivia. But first, if you would like to get in touch with this show, |
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| 1:25.2 | Mission Log. And now it's time for trivia on Devil's Due. This episode is written by |
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