Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4, Episode 9 - "Final Mission"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2016
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Final Mission," Wesley Crusher is headed to Starfleet Academy. He just needs to run a quick errand, survive a shuttle crash, solve a logic problem, and save the life of Captain Picard. Also, the Enterprise does a stint as the galaxy's most luxurious tugboat. Asteroids! Deserts! Radioactive waste!
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm, uh, I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:26.0 | And I'm John Champion. |
| 0:28.0 | Ugh, um, wait, last episode? |
| 0:31.5 | Well, I assume so. My notes say final mission. Oh no no wait I I see what happened. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah. It's not our last show. Okay. We thought it was last week and I can see how you can think that it would be this week |
| 0:45.2 | That's actually in the name of the episode final mission |
| 0:49.4 | Wow that makes this cake kind of stupid, huh? |
| 0:54.0 | Cake is never stupid. |
| 0:57.0 | Sometimes though, the cake is a lie. |
| 0:59.0 | And that's for the video gamers out there. |
| 1:01.0 | Hey, John's gonna do a little trivia in a second because that is one of the things |
| 1:04.6 | that John does, but before he does that, I'm going to do one of the things I do, and that is let |
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| 1:43.8 | You know, it's getting to be a running gag. |
| 1:45.3 | I think really every episode from now on. |
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