Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 7, Episode 17 - "Masks"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Masks," what do Masaka, Ihat, an old man, and a frightened child have in common? Many things. They are all a part of some ancient, unknown pantheon. They are all taking over Data's brain. And each is caught in an eternal dance that could lead to destruction for the Enterprise. Where is Korgano when you need him? And can Picard's Korgano imitation fool the imitation Masaka?
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Mission Log is sponsored by Eagle Moss and the official Star Trek Starships |
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| 0:26.4 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast |
| 0:30.5 | Episode 256, Masks. |
| 0:33.0 | Masks. Welcome into Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion. |
| 0:46.0 | And I'm Kan Ray. |
| 0:48.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we watch an episode of Star Trek, taking it apart from messages, |
| 0:52.0 | morals, and meanings, and seeing whether the whole thing |
| 0:54.8 | stands the test of time. |
| 0:57.2 | This week, masks. |
| 0:58.9 | The one-wear share plays the mother of a child with an unfortunate birth defect. |
| 1:03.0 | Mm, no. |
| 1:06.0 | Oh, then it's, it's masks, the one where robots that change shape save the world. |
| 1:14.0 | That's actually a tiny bit closer. |
| 1:17.0 | No, this is actually the one where we meet the long, long, long dead pantheon |
| 1:21.0 | of a long, long, long, dead civilization that's trying to come back to life on the enterprise. |
| 1:27.0 | Coming up, John's gonna do trivia in 12 different voices, |
| 1:31.5 | not all at once. |
| 1:33.3 | But first. |
| 1:34.8 | But first, Ken. |
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