Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 7, Episode 14 - "Sub Rosa"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2017
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Sub Rosa," Beverly's recently deceased, 100-year-old grandmother had a 34-year-old boyfriend. It is cool though. He was actually 800-years-old. It is not cool though. He was a ghost. No wait! He was a candle! NO WAIT! He was an anaphasic being. Or was he Nana-phasic? So much to unpack when Dr. Crusher packs up and leaves the Enterprise.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Mission Log is brought to you by Eagle Moss and the official Star Trek Discovery Stars |
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| 0:07.2 | Reserve the USS Shinsu today for only $9.95 by visiting Eagle Moss.com slash Discovery Starships. |
| 0:20.0 | Let's do something we don't normally do. |
| 0:22.0 | A song and dance? Let's do something we don't normally do. |
| 0:24.0 | Song and Dance? Yeah, well, maybe that later. |
| 0:26.0 | Although I think both of us have been... |
| 0:28.0 | Well, I know I've been known to sing at time or two on this show. |
| 0:30.0 | And I dance every time, just people can't see because you know it's audio. |
| 0:37.0 | It's not quite a disclaimer but if you're in the habit of listening to Mission Log with your kids, you may want to listen to this |
| 0:47.0 | episode without them first. |
| 0:49.5 | Now as we begin, we're really beginning. We haven't actually started recording yet so I'm not |
| 0:54.4 | telling you we're going to say something horribly offensive or whatever but I know |
| 0:59.2 | that this episode is going to touch on themes that you may want to have other kinds of discussions with your kids |
| 1:05.8 | about them or you may be the kind of person who doesn't want to have these discussions with |
| 1:08.8 | your kids at all. And either one of those is fine. It's just generally speaking we feel pretty good about saying sure listen with the 12 year old end up. You know, maybe a particular mature 10 year old. |
| 1:20.0 | But today we're both thinking you may want to give this one to listen yourself |
| 1:26.9 | before you have the kids join in so I don't want to say you're warned, but you are. |
| 1:37.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek |
| 1:39.5 | Podcast, Episode 253, Sub-Rose Up. Welcome to Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion. |
| 1:56.3 | And I'm Ken Ray. Each week on Mission Log, we watch an episode of Star Trek, taking it |
| 2:01.0 | apart for messages, morals, and meanings, and seeing whether the whole thing |
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