Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4, Episode 21 - "The Drumhead"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2016
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Drumhead," a Klingon spy on board the Enterprise has been passing secrets to the Romulans, and that invites a deep inquiry from Starfleet. But when Admiral Satie shows up, the specter of conspiracy threatens to make enemies out of everyone - including Picard himself!
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Ken Ray and I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log we watch an episode of Star Trek and then pass judgment on it |
| 0:28.4 | Heck sometimes we don't even watch the episode and pass judgment on it |
| 0:33.0 | Wait, no, no, no, that's not true. |
| 0:35.0 | Right. |
| 0:37.0 | That is definitely not something we ever do ever. |
| 0:41.0 | I am sorry. |
| 0:42.0 | That's not, we know know that's not a thing now this week the drumhead the |
| 0:47.4 | one weird card and someone you've never heard of are put on trial by |
| 0:50.8 | gene Simmons and boy do they rock and roll all night and party every day. |
| 0:55.0 | Yes, because it's that Gene Simmons. |
| 0:57.5 | We were all so surprised when he was revealed to be this rather elderly British woman. |
| 1:03.0 | Right. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, it's not that Gene Simmons. |
| 1:08.0 | We had to do it though, we had to get that out of the way early August. |
| 1:11.0 | Can I tell you, when I was a kid, I guess eight or nine years old, I was flipping channels and there |
| 1:15.8 | was some movie. |
| 1:16.8 | You know how the used to do the, we'll return in a moment to blah blah, blah, starring so-and-so and |
| 1:21.0 | Jean Simmons? |
| 1:22.0 | I don't even remember what movie it was, but I sat and watched the whole thing because I kept waiting. |
| 1:27.0 | Well, wait a minute, it wasn't, it wasn't run away with Tom Selick, because that is awesome. |
| 1:32.0 | Nor was it Kiss and the Phantom of the Theme Park? |
| 1:35.0 | Which is also awesome. |
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