Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 7, Episode 21 - "Firstborn"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Firstborn," Alexander is back, as is Alexander. Worf's son has come from the future to convince his younger self to down his prune juice and follow the way of the warrior. And if that doesn't work, he'll kill himself - in younger form. But older Alexander has a lot to learn from - hang on - a lot to learn from Worf, who may not be the worst father ever after all. It is Alexander as you have never seen him before: cool.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Mission Log is brought to you by Eagle Moss and the official Star Trek Stars |
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| 0:27.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast |
| 0:31.2 | Episode 260 First Born. Welcome into Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:47.8 | And I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:49.5 | Each week we watch an episode of Star Trek, sifting through it for messages, morals, and meanings, |
| 0:55.8 | and seeing whether the whole thing stands the test of time. |
| 0:59.3 | This week, firstborn, the one where Alexander tries to rid the Star Trek universe of Alexander. |
| 1:07.0 | I've got trivia coming up in a bit, but first... |
| 1:10.0 | But first! |
| 1:11.0 | A word from Eagle Moss, and the official Star Trek Starships XL editions. |
| 1:16.1 | People ask for bigger ships, John. |
| 1:18.8 | They ask for bigger ships. |
| 1:20.0 | You know what Eagle Moss did? |
| 1:21.2 | What did they do? |
| 1:22.2 | They gave them bigger ships. |
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| 1:28.8 | It's not like, you know, it's woke up one day. |
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