Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5, Episode 6 - "The Game"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2016
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Game," Wesley Crusher is back on the Enterprise, though there is very little time for him. Everyone is playing this great new game! The only one with a real interest in Wes is Robin, a fetching young ensign in engineering. She and Wes have no interest in the game, until it starts seriously wrecking productivity.
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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-Hifen Stars.com slash Mission Log. T hyphen starships dot com slash mission log |
| 0:16.0 | mission log a rodenberry star track podcast |
| 0:20.2 | episode one hundred ninety, the game. |
| 0:24.0 | The game. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome into... |
| 0:31.0 | What? |
| 0:32.0 | Another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast? |
| 0:36.0 | I'm Ken Ray. And I'm John Champion. Now most weeks on Mission Log, we dive into an episode of Star Trek, taking it apart from messages, morals, and |
| 0:44.8 | meetings and seeing whether that episode is relevant today. |
| 0:49.5 | And that is what we are doing today with the game the one with baby Judd where you put |
| 0:56.8 | the disc in the tube and lose your free well. John Stryapalooza is coming up a moment, but first a few words about the many |
| 1:05.2 | mini spaceships in the official Star Trek Starships collection. |
| 1:08.4 | Hey Mr Trivia, I got a question for you. |
| 1:10.5 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:11.5 | Did you know that once refit the Enterprise 1 701 was 14 meters longer than it had been. |
| 1:18.0 | I did not know that you must mean a real life version of that ship |
| 1:24.8 | as opposed to the miniature |
| 1:27.3 | because there would be a huge miniature |
| 1:29.3 | that would be a huge many as yeah no in universe when they refed the Enterprise 1701 between, you know, the five-year |
| 1:35.2 | mission and the events of the motion picture, yep. |
| 1:39.2 | Gained 14 meters. Now, do you know how I learned that by reading what I was reading the little I was |
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