Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 6, Episode 5 - "Schisms"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Schisms," do you have trouble concentrating at work? Do you have problems sleeping at night? Are you feeling anxious and snapping at the people who care about you? Maybe you need a good night's sleep. Or maybe that's when the aliens from another dimension abduct you and carry out gruesome experiments on your body. Sleep tight!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Mission Log is brought to you by You. |
| 0:03.8 | Find out how you can support this show at Patreon.com |
| 0:07.8 | slash Mission Log. |
| 0:10.3 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast |
| 0:14.7 | Episode 222 Skisms Welcome to another pulse pounding episode of Mission Log, |
| 0:28.7 | a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:38.0 | This week, schisms. Sorry, just had to get that out. |
| 0:41.0 | Skisms, the one where Reiker gets abducted by aliens. |
| 0:45.0 | Okay, maybe Reiker gets studied by a fellow spacefaring culture. We'll have to talk that over. |
| 0:59.0 | Well, you really are too kind and thank you and here it is now |
| 1:05.6 | Trivia for schisms this episode was written by Brannin and Braga yep and kind of a perfect fit for him. You remember we talked about Brannon, how he liked to inject a little horror into his writing way back when we discussed identity crisis and again with imaginary friend. |
| 1:22.0 | Now the original story pitch is credited to again with Imaginary Friend. |
| 1:22.6 | Now the original story pitch is credited to Jean Louise Matias |
| 1:26.4 | and Ron Wilkerson. |
| 1:27.8 | Gene Louise and Ron were first produced together |
| 1:30.8 | on NextGen with their story, Imaginary Friend. |
| 1:34.6 | Today's episode was directed by Robert Weamer. |
| 1:37.2 | Now we first saw Robert's work |
| 1:38.8 | way back in Who Watches The Watchers, |
| 1:41.6 | and most recently in violations. |
| 1:45.2 | So today's episode opens in the Amargosa diaspora. |
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