Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4 Episode 26, Season 5 Episode 1 - "Redemption Part I & II"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2016
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes, "Redemption Part I & II," the Klingon empire is on the verge of civil war! Gowron is set to take command of the Klingon High Council, though he is challenged by a surprise son of Duras. But these episodes are full of surprises: Tasha Yar has a Romulan daughter! Worf quits Starfleet! Guinan is a sharpshooter!
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Mission Log is brought to you by the official Star Trek Starships collection. |
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| 0:16.7 | Mission Log. |
| 0:17.9 | A Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast |
| 0:20.5 | episode 194. Redemption and Redemption 2. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome into Mission 2. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome into Mission Logger Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion. |
| 0:36.0 | And I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:38.0 | Each week we watch an episode of Star Trek or occasionally two episodes of Star Trek, taking it or them apart from me. or hold up decades down the road. This week, Redemption 1, the one where Gowron takes control of the Klingon High Council |
| 0:57.2 | and Worf works to regain his family honor. |
| 0:59.5 | Then Redemption 2, the one where the Klingon Empire nearly tears itself apart with the help from the Romulans |
| 1:06.6 | and no help from the Federation. |
| 1:08.7 | In a moment, we're going to do all the stuff that we normally do but first a dramatic reading by John Champion. |
| 1:17.0 | Here in our little village of Kronos, you might say every one of us is a Klingon on the roof trying to scratch out an honorable battle without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. |
| 1:30.0 | You might ask, why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous? |
| 1:35.0 | Well, we stay up there because Kronos is our home. |
| 1:39.0 | And how do we keep our balance? |
| 1:41.0 | That I can tell you in one word. Redemption. See can this and |
| 1:48.5 | fiddler on the roof are the same thing. You think so? Same story. Yeah, an entire |
| 1:52.4 | culture is under siege from outside forces. |
| 1:55.0 | It threatened to destroy their way of life. |
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