Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4, Episode 24 - "The Mind's Eye"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Mind's Eye," from the people who brought you the Star Trek edition of Monopoly and the Star Trek edition of Risk, it is the Star Trek edition of The Manchurian Candidate. Angela Lansbury is a Klingon. Henry Silva is a Romulan. And John Champion is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being you have ever known in your life. Also, Geordi does stuff.
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:21.0 | John Champion is the kindest, bravest, |
| 0:23.7 | most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life. |
| 0:27.7 | And I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:29.1 | Each week on Mission Log, we watch an episode of Star Trek, |
| 0:31.6 | looking for what's really happening in the episode not just |
| 0:34.9 | what's presented on the surface. |
| 0:36.8 | This week, the Mind's Eye, the one where Angela Lansbury is a Klingon, Henry Silver's |
| 0:41.9 | Romulan, and John Champion is the kind is a |
| 0:45.0 | jimulan, and John Champion is the kindest, bravest, |
| 0:46.0 | most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life. |
| 0:49.0 | In a moment, I'll be doing the trivia thing, but first... |
| 0:52.0 | But first, I want to tell you how to get in touch with this |
| 0:56.4 | Mission Log Pod is the address to find us on Facebook Skype and Twitter |
| 1:00.6 | If you want to leave us a voicemail, call us please. |
| 1:03.0 | 323, 522, 5641. |
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| 1:09.0 | Our email address is Mission Log at Rodenberry.com, |
| 1:12.0 | our show website including discovered documents and places to leave comments and other fun little nuggets is Mission Log Podcast. |
| 1:21.0 | And please do remember we may use your comments on an upcoming episode of Mission Log and now it's time for trivia |
| 1:29.0 | Wait that that's it |
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