Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4, Episode 3 - "Brothers"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2016
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Brothers," Jake and Willie Potts are like any brothers: practical jokes and hurt feelings followed by forgiveness. Data and Lore are like brothers too: built-in homing device, colonist murder, identity theft, patricide, stealing an emotion chip. So - forgiveness too?
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 171. |
| 0:07.0 | Brothers. Wait, wait, stop the music. We have worked up a theme song for today's. |
| 0:17.0 | We have worked up a theme song for today's show. |
| 0:24.0 | John? |
| 0:26.0 | Meet data who's been most everywhere. |
| 0:29.0 | From Angel 1 to the Big Bork Square. |
| 0:32.0 | And Lour likes to kill people but they're |
| 0:36.0 | And droids identical androids all the way one pair of matching bookends as different as night and day. |
| 0:45.6 | Two, three, wild data enjoys the violin, going out or staying in. |
| 0:52.0 | Lour likes to kill people. |
| 0:54.0 | Still their Androids, |
| 0:57.0 | identical Androids and you'll find. |
| 1:01.0 | Lour's the one who's killing people. |
| 1:03.0 | I think that's good, right? |
| 1:05.0 | We're mostly there. |
| 1:07.0 | You were a fan of the Patty Duke show in 1963. |
| 1:12.0 | That killed. And who wasn't yeah this is sort of a different though it's a different take on it sort of like a cross between the Patty Duke show and small wonder |
| 1:21.1 | both of which had a serious lack of killer robots. |
| 1:25.0 | You know, they did. |
| 1:26.0 | Although a small wonder didn't have a robot that everybody wanted to kill. |
| 1:29.9 | So that, you know, it was part of the way there. |
| 1:33.0 | Same thing. |
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