Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5, Episode 21 - "The Perfect Mate"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2016
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Perfect Mate," Captain Picard meets his ideal woman: she's brilliant, bold, adventurous, independent. Of course she is, because Kamala is a metamorph who becomes the perfect woman for every man she meets. Unfortunately, she's destined for a life of servitude to a man who is definitely not Picard.
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. |
| 0:05.0 | Get the Enterprise D for only 495 when you sign up today at ST-Hipers.com |
| 0:12.0 | slash Mission Log. hyphen starships dot com slash mission log |
| 0:15.3 | mission log a rodenberry start track podcast |
| 0:19.6 | episode two hundred thirteen |
| 0:21.8 | the perfect mate. |
| 0:23.0 | I am for you moonlighting podcast it is so no no no no hey can and this is mission log a |
| 0:39.7 | rotenberry star Podcast. Am I early? |
| 0:44.0 | No. |
| 0:46.0 | Um, I'm John Champion. |
| 0:50.0 | And, and I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:51.0 | I could have sworn that I was supposed to be awakened for another podcast. |
| 0:55.9 | No. |
| 0:57.1 | Each week on Mission Log, we watch an episode of Star Trek taking it apart for messages, morals, ideas, and ideals, and seeing |
| 1:06.0 | whether the episode stands the test of time. |
| 1:08.6 | Okay, according to this screen here, this week, it's the perfect mate, the one where Picard meets his perfect mate and everyone else's. |
| 1:20.0 | In a moment, John will bring us trivia, but first a word about something that brings us both joy. |
| 1:27.0 | Moonlighting. |
| 1:28.0 | That too. Now I was thinking about the official Star Trek Starships collection. |
| 1:33.4 | Oh, right, yeah, I dig that. |
| 1:36.3 | Teeny tiny ships for a big galaxy. |
| 1:38.4 | By the way, Ken, something new that I think you will find cool, |
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