Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 6, Episode 16 & 17 - "Birthright Part I & II"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2017
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes, "Birthright Part I & II," Worf hears the worst news he could imagine: that his father is alive and well on a Romulan prison planet. He sets off to investigate what became of the Klingons who survived the Khitomer massacre and discovers those prisoners may not want to be freed. Meanwhile, Data is having daddy issues of his own. A power surge causes his positronic brain to start vividly dreaming about the late Dr. Soong, and it seems that where theres smoke, there's a bird!
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| 0:25.0 | That's Harries.com slash Mission Log. |
| 0:28.0 | A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:33.7 | Episode 232. |
| 0:36.0 | Birth Right, Parts 1 and 2. Welcome into Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:50.0 | And I'm John Champion each week. We watch an episode or two of Star Trek then we sleep on it |
| 0:56.4 | Then our dreams take flight and tell us what it all means |
| 1:01.2 | Just as we were programmed to do. |
| 1:03.4 | This week, Birthright, Part 1, |
| 1:06.0 | the one where Wharf goes to find his father |
| 1:08.4 | and Data sees his dad in a dream. |
| 1:11.4 | Then Birthright Part 2, two starring wharf as Moses |
| 1:16.1 | also a distinct lack of data in birthright part two are we going to talk about that by |
| 1:21.5 | the way maybe Maybe, maybe. |
| 1:24.0 | That might come to play. |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah. |
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