Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5, Episode 4 - "Silicon Avatar"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2016
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Silicon Avatar," the Enterprise says "hello" to an old enemy. Or tries to say "hello." And tries to figure out whether it is an enemy. Along to help is Dr. Kila Marr. Or is it help she is offering? She is getting to know her son, and will not let a little thing like his dying a few years ago stand in her way.
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. |
| 0:05.2 | Get the Enterprise D for only 495 when you sign up today at ST-H hyphen Stars. dot com slash mission log |
| 0:16.0 | mission log a rotenberry star trek podcast |
| 0:20.1 | episode one hundred ninety seven silicon avatar Episode 197, Silicon Avatar Hey Liho, Naboritos, welcome to another edition of Mission Log, a |
| 0:34.5 | Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Ken Ray. And I'm John Champion and you know |
| 0:39.9 | the score. Each week on Mission Log we pick apart a single episode of Star Trek mining it for |
| 0:46.0 | the morals, meanings, and messages, and to ask ourselves whether the whole thing stands |
| 0:50.9 | the test of time. |
| 0:52.8 | This week, Silicon Avatar, a notable title for two reasons. |
| 0:56.8 | First, it is the episode of NextGen wherein we re-encounder the Crystalline entity. |
| 1:01.4 | Silicon Avatar, though, also notable because it's the name of my |
| 1:03.9 | missing person's cover band. Oh this guy love missing person. Yeah and the band |
| 1:08.7 | fingers crossed should be big as big as a cover band gets. |
| 1:12.8 | We're at the rickshaw stop this Friday night, by the way, at nine. |
| 1:16.2 | I know you're saying, wait, when was this recorded? |
| 1:18.3 | Don't worry about it. |
| 1:19.0 | Any Friday night at nine. |
| 1:21.3 | The ricks's stop. |
| 1:23.0 | Silicon Avatar asks for me by name. |
| 1:25.0 | Ken, before we move into the show, |
| 1:28.0 | we get the privilege of talking about our sponsor again. |
| 1:32.0 | That is the Star Shrek Starships collection and I mentioned |
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