Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 7, Episode 23 - "Emergence"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Emergence," something has taken over the Enterprise, and that something is - the Enterprise. The ship is alive and trying to create life, too. But Picard and crew have places to be. Can they wrest back control from this new life without killing it so they can go back to seeking new life? And can they please play in the holodeck without being almost killed?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:27.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast |
| 0:31.0 | Episode 262, Emergence Podcast 262. |
| 0:33.0 | Emergence. |
| 0:35.0 | Emergence. |
| 0:36.0 | The |
| 0:38.0 | The Welcome into Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm Sean Champion. |
| 0:47.6 | And I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:49.5 | Each week we watch an episode of Star Trek, taking it apart from messages, morals, and meanings, |
| 0:55.0 | and seeing whether the whole thing holds up today. |
| 0:58.0 | This week, emergence, the one where the Enterprise is taken over by The Enterprise. |
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