Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 6, Episode 21 - "Frame of Mind"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Frame of Mind," Commander Riker is having a bad week. He may have gone insane! He may have killed a guy! He may have sided with his captors against Worf and Data! Or none of this may have happened.
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:27.0 | Mission Log. |
| 0:28.0 | A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast |
| 0:31.0 | Episode 236 Frame of Mind Cast episode 236, 236, frame of mind. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome into Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:47.6 | And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log. We watch an episode of Star Trek looking for truths. |
| 0:54.5 | Or do we? |
| 0:56.1 | This week, Frame of Mind, the one where All Riker One was a Pepsi and they wouldn't give it to |
| 1:00.8 | him. |
| 1:01.8 | All Riker One was a Pepsi and they wouldn't give it to him. He's not the one that's crazy. He's not the one that's crazy. You're the one that's crazy. |
| 1:09.0 | Ken Ken Ken Ken Ken Ken Ken. Can. It may be time for another treatment. |
| 1:14.0 | No, I'm, I'm good. |
| 1:17.0 | Coming up a bit of trivia, but first, |
| 1:21.0 | oh, but first, a word from the Eagle Moss shop and a thing about which I am very excited. |
| 1:26.7 | John mentioned right before the show started. Yeah. Yeah. This is exciting. |
| 1:31.6 | I'm whole I'm I, yeah, I like this. |
| 1:34.8 | So Eagle Moss, as you know, we talked a lot about the tiny little |
| 1:38.0 | starships that they have. |
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