Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5, Episode 19 - "The First Duty"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2016
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The First Duty," Wesley Crusher is a pilot on an elite team of flyers. Yeah. We are not sure when that happened either. Tragedy has hit the team though. A crash has led to the death of a member of Nova Squadron. They say it was an accident, and it probably was. Still, the members of the team know more than they are telling. It is up to Captain Picard and Groundskeeper Boothby to bring the truth to light. Or to get Wesley to do it.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Mission Log is brought to you by the official Star Trek Starships collection. |
| 0:05.1 | Get the Enterprise D for only 495 when you sign up today at ST-Hifon Starships. |
| 0:11.2 | com slash Mission Log. hyphen starships dot com slash mission log |
| 0:15.0 | a rodenberry star trek podcast |
| 0:19.3 | episode two hundred eleven |
| 0:21.2 | the first duty The First Duty |
| 0:31.0 | Doidy. Welcome in to another episode of Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm one of your hosts. |
| 0:36.0 | And I'm also one of your hosts. |
| 0:39.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we examine an episode of Star Trek in forensic detail trying to determine |
| 0:44.7 | what are the truths to be found and what's really important at the end of the day. |
| 0:50.1 | Now remind me, are you Ken or Ray? |
| 0:55.0 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:57.0 | Which one are you? |
| 0:59.0 | I can't remember. |
| 1:01.0 | This week, young Cadet Wesley Crusher learns a very tough lesson about truth and loyalty. |
| 1:07.0 | It's the first duty on today's after school special. |
| 1:11.0 | Can I go ahead and say that now? |
| 1:12.0 | I think you should. Just go ahead. You can get it out there. We'll say it again three or four more times. |
| 1:17.0 | This week on a very special next generation. |
| 1:20.0 | John's got trivia coming up for this episode in just a moment but first a few words about a bunch of starships |
| 1:26.2 | so this past weekend as we record this I got to hang out with a bunch of Star Trek geeks which was a lot of fun |
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