Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 6, Episode 6 - "True Q"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "True Q," meet Amanda Rogers. She is young, smart, driven, and possibly some sort of mage. She can make puppies appear and disappear. She can change the direction of falling objects. She can contain a warp core explosion with her will. Turns out, her biological parents were Q. But is she? And what will happen if she is not?
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| 0:18.0 | podcast episode two hundred twenty three true cue episode 223. |
| 0:23.0 | True Q. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome into Mission. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome into Mission Logger Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm Ken Ray. Each week we watch an episode of Star Trek, taking it apart from messages, morals, and meanings, |
| 0:42.0 | and seeing whether the whole thing holds up. |
| 0:45.6 | This week, true cue. |
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| 0:55.4 | disappeared to which is exciting because yeah her and Winnie Cooper that's the |
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