Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 6, Episode 18 - "Starship Mine"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2017
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Starship Mine," the Enterprise is due for a baryon sweep which means it's the perfect time for the crew to get a little R&R. With no one minding the ship, it's also the perfect time for a group of terrorists to steal a deadly compound from the engines. The one person they didn't count on to thwart their plans, though, is Jean Luc Picard as Mot the Barber as John McClane.
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| 0:32.1 | Mission Log. |
| 0:33.0 | A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast |
| 0:36.0 | Episode 233. |
| 0:38.0 | Starship Mine Welcome into Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion. |
| 0:51.3 | And I'm Kan Ray. each week we watch an episode of Star Trek |
| 0:55.4 | taking it apart from messages morals and meanings and seeing whether there's any |
| 0:59.5 | other pop culture property it resembles. This week, Starship Mine, the one where Captain Picard |
| 1:06.1 | outwits Hans Gruber and his plan to take over Nakatomi Tower. |
| 1:10.1 | Interesting. I had an intro on mine along a similar line. |
| 1:15.0 | Okay, let's hear it. |
| 1:17.0 | This week, Starship Mine, starring Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard as John McLean and Patrick Stewart as Jean Luke Picard as John McLean and Patrick Stewart as |
| 1:24.6 | Hans Gruber. Also Patrick Stewart as Jean Luke Picard as Mad the Barber. |
| 1:31.3 | I love that. |
| 1:34.0 | He's a multi-layered person. |
| 1:37.0 | He is, he is. |
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