Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4, Episode 17 - "Night Terrors"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2016
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Night Terrors," you would think that being trapped immobile in space would be the biggest problem facing the Enterprise. It is not. The biggest problem is that almost no one is dreaming. If they do not start soon, someone is going to die, followed by everyone else. The only person on the ship still dreaming may have the answer. But can she get it to the beings that are stopping the dreams?
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| 0:00.0 | Two people mooning one audience. |
| 0:07.0 | Two people mooning one audience. |
| 0:09.0 | Two people mooning one audience. |
| 0:17.0 | Whatever. |
| 0:19.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, Episode 185, Night Terror's |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:38.0 | And I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:40.0 | Each week we watch an episode of Star Trek, taking it apart for ideas and ideals that might well serve us today. |
| 0:46.0 | Sorry to you can enter the audience from a little bit out of it this week. |
| 0:51.0 | I've been having just the strangest dream lately. Dream? Wait, was it about two people, |
| 0:57.8 | mooning, one audience? No. Yeah, me, uh, me neither. |
| 1:07.0 | Okay. |
| 1:09.0 | This week, Knight Terror's, the one where almost no one's having dreams, and everyone's about to die. |
| 1:15.8 | I've got some trivia to hit you with in a moment, but first, Ken's going to tell you how to get |
| 1:19.9 | in touch with us. |
| 1:21.5 | Thank you very much, John. Mission Log Pod is the address to find us |
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