Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 6, Episode 20 - "The Chase"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2017
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "The Next Generation," Captain Picard is visited by his old archaeology professor with an intriguing proposal: leave the Enterprise and come with him to uncover one of the great mysteries of the ages. Hot on his tail though are Klingons, Cardassians and Romulans who are after the same thing. Is it a weapon? A source of power? Or something with far greater meaning?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:29.6 | Mission Log a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | Episode 235 The Chase. |
| 0:37.0 | Well, Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, A Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:51.4 | And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log. |
| 0:54.3 | We follow the tiniest clues and I hope to unravel the biggest mysteries, one episode of Star |
| 0:59.6 | Track at a time. |
| 1:01.4 | This week's show, The Chase, the one where John Houseman plays a stern Harvard Law Professor. |
| 1:07.5 | That would make for a scintillating episode of TNG, especially with Picard's new career as a lecturer, |
| 1:12.4 | but now this is actually the episode where |
| 1:14.6 | Picard's old professor shows up with a challenge for his student. |
| 1:18.6 | Oh, so it's the paper chase. |
| 1:21.0 | Except for the deeply metaphysical aspects and the spaceships. the |
| 1:24.1 | except for the deeply metaphysical aspects and the spaceships and the aliens. |
| 1:27.1 | More deep thoughts about Star Trek in a moment, but first, a word from Blue |
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| 1:32.5 | Sometimes, you know, you want to go to the grocery store |
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