Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4, Episode 3 - "Ensign Ro"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2016
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Ensign Ro," a Bajoran terrorist attack on a Federation colony has got everyone a little jumpy. Enter Ensign Ro Laren, Starfleet officer and Bajoran herself, who has been released from prison to help find the attackers. But what do the Cardassians have to do with all this? And why does Starfleet's Admiral Kennelly seem to be keeping secrets?
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Mission Log is brought to you by the official Star Trek Starships collection. |
| 0:04.6 | Get the Enterprise D for only $4.95 when you sign up today at ST-Stars ships. |
| 0:11.5 | com slash Mission Log. A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. Episode 196 and CINROL. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome into a mission. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome into Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast, or a |
| 0:35.5 | Rotenberry Star Trek podcast Mission Log in the tradition of the Bajura. |
| 0:40.1 | I'm can Ray. Can. |
| 0:45.3 | And I'm John Champion each week. |
| 0:47.3 | On Mission Log, we pick apart a single episode of Star Trek |
| 0:50.8 | looking for Morals, Meaningings, messages, and trying to figure out if the whole thing stands a test of time. |
| 0:56.0 | This week, Ensign Rowe, the first one with Ensign Rowe. |
| 1:02.0 | Coming up, trivia. But first, lots of words about tiny ships. |
| 1:07.0 | That's how we have it written out, right? |
| 1:11.0 | Lots of words, tiny ships. Yeah, we have the privilege of talking |
| 1:15.0 | about our sponsor again this week. It is the Star Trek Starships collection. Now, Ken, we've talked |
| 1:21.2 | about this for a couple of weeks and we've had the great pleasure of sharing |
| 1:25.4 | photos online and seeing photos of people who sent back to us of their ships. They're super cool. |
| 1:30.9 | I wanted to talk a little bit today about how they actually make these things because it is way cool. I mentioned before that they are authorized by CBS that they're available only from Eagle Moss collections and that they actually |
| 1:46.2 | source these back to the original CGI models from the various shows where they go |
| 1:51.4 | back to reference materials from |
| 1:53.4 | from the physical models when those were available and |
| 1:57.4 | CBS actively reviews and approves these models. I have had the great pleasure of seeing some prototypes |
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