Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4, Episode 16 - "Galaxy's Child"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2016
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Galaxy's Child," there is a baby space something attached to the Enterprise, feeding on its energy, and jeopardizing the lives of everyone on the ship. But Geordi has bigger problems: his real life crush just found out about the holographic simulation he made of her! Can they work through their issues and save the ship?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | This show is sponsored by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable, yet simple to use storage arrays. |
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| 0:09.5 | Visit W.W. |
| 0:11.1 | dot Drobo.com to learn more. W. 184, Galaxies Child. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome into Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log. |
| 0:38.0 | I fire up the old Ken Tron 1000 and pretend to discuss an episode of Star Trek with the real Ken Ray who I'm hoping to meet someday. |
| 0:47.0 | He's dreamy. |
| 0:48.0 | In the meantime, the Ken Tron 1000 and I look at the messages, morals, and meetings of a given episode of Star Trek |
| 0:55.1 | and figure out whether it holds up as the years roll by. |
| 0:59.3 | This week, Galaxy's Child, the one where the Enterprise delivers and |
| 1:03.4 | re-delivers a space baby. |
| 1:05.2 | And Jordi meets the real woman behind his holographic fantasies. |
| 1:09.2 | In a moment, John will hit some episode-specific trivia, but first, |
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