Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 6, Episode 4 - "Relics"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Relics," an old ship, an older engineer, and a structure that's older than anyone knows. Old things, but not useless things. It is part flashback, part after school special.
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Mission Log is brought to you by Blue Apron, a better way to cook. |
| 0:04.7 | Check out this week's menu and get your first three meals free, with free shipping |
| 0:10.0 | by going to Blue Apron.com slash Mission Log. |
| 0:13.5 | This episode is also brought to you by Burn Everything Gaming. |
| 0:17.7 | Follow a completely original Star Trek story told in the style of an RPG. |
| 0:22.4 | That's role-playing game for you people not I t k |
| 0:26.9 | find them at burn everything gaming dot com slash mission log mission log a rod and bear Mission Log. |
| 0:34.0 | Mission Log. A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | Episode 221. |
| 0:39.0 | Relix. Thanks. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome into Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:52.0 | And I'm Ken Ray and I need 20 minutes to tell you what we do each week, but we don't have |
| 0:56.0 | 20 minutes, so there's no use crying about it. I'll just say that each week we watch an |
| 0:59.7 | episode of Star Trek, taking it apart for messages, morals, and meanings, and seeing whether the whole thing holds up. |
| 1:06.0 | This week, relics, the episode of NextGen, with Scotty. |
| 1:11.0 | Need you say more? |
| 1:14.0 | No, but I will. |
| 1:16.0 | There's also a Dyson sphere. |
| 1:18.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:19.0 | Need you say more? |
| 1:20.0 | Nope. |
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