Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 7, Episode 2 - "Liaisons"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Liaisons," the Enterprise crew is taking part in a cultural exchange. Two Iyaarans will visit the ship, while Picard visits their homeworld. The Iyaarans on the ship are tough to deal with, but Picard's Iyaaran is worse - mostly because he dies on their trip. Thank goodness for Anna. She loves Picard! After knowing him for 15 minutes. Any chance Picard could hang out with the dead guy?
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Lock, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Episode 242, liaisons. Welcome into Mission Log, A Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast. I'm Can Ray. |
| 0:22.0 | And I'm John Champion Champion each week on Mission Log we watch an episode of |
| 0:26.2 | Star Trek pulling it apart from messages morals and meetings and seeing |
| 0:30.8 | whether the whole thing stands the test of time. |
| 0:34.0 | This week, liaisons, the one where the Vicon Valmont and the Marquise de Mertre |
| 0:39.4 | wreak havoc on 18th century Parisian society. |
| 0:43.0 | Or the one where three aliens want to learn about stuff like antagonism, love, and pleasure. |
| 0:48.0 | It's not nearly as sexy as it sounds. |
| 0:51.0 | John's got trivia coming up in a moment, but first. |
| 0:53.0 | But first! |
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| 1:26.0 | Let's see where are we we're now we're now we're not quite well into season seven |
| 1:32.0 | but we're in. No we got a foothold. seven but we're in no we got a foothold yeah we're in |
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