Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4, Episode 22 - "Half a Life"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2016
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Half a Life," Dr. Timicin's attempt to save his planet's dying star has failed. Now, he has to kill himself. That has nothing to do with the failed science experiment. It's just his time. You see, Timicin is turning 60. On his planet, that means a tiny taste of armageddon for the birthday boy or girl. But Timicin still has work to do. Plus, he's fallen in love. Will he go gentle into that good night?
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:25.9 | And I'm John Champion. |
| 0:26.9 | Each week we do real life experiments on you, the unsuspecting audience, |
| 0:31.8 | seeing what happens when we examine an episode of |
| 0:34.0 | Star Trek for messages morals and meanings and see whether each stands a test of |
| 0:38.9 | time. This week half a life the one Frank Burns' replacement is rushing to meet his maker. |
| 0:45.6 | That doesn't ring a bell? Okay, how about this? It is the most enjoyable Lachsana Troy episode so far. |
| 0:53.0 | Still nothing? |
| 0:55.0 | Well, just listen. |
| 0:57.0 | In a moment, John's going to do half a life of trivia, but first, I'm going to tell you how to get in touch with us. |
| 1:03.0 | Mission Log Pod is the address to find us on Facebook, Skype, and Twitter. |
| 1:07.0 | If you want to leave us a voicemail you can. |
| 1:08.5 | Our phone number is 323, 522, 5641. Our email address is Mission Log at Rotenberry.com. Our show website including discovered |
| 1:18.1 | documents and pictures and places to leave comments is Mission Log Podcast. com and please do remember we may use your |
| 1:25.4 | comments on an upcoming episode of mission log and with half an intro out of the |
| 1:30.9 | way it's time for for half a life of trivia. Right, today's trivia. |
| 1:36.4 | Today's episode was written by Ted Roberts and Peter Allen Fields with the teleplay by |
| 1:41.0 | Peter Allen Fields. Now Ted Roberts is actually a very |
| 1:44.4 | accomplished music editor and supervisor with credits that range from V to |
| 1:49.0 | Galactica 1980 to the Untouchables, the TV series, and the Perry Mason TV movies from the 90s. |
| 1:56.0 | This is actually his only script story credit. |
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