Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 7, Episode 24 - "Preemptive Strike"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Preemptive Strike," Ro Laren is back from Advanced Tactical Training, and just in time. Starfleet wants her to go undercover and infiltrate the Maquis. The Maquis have taken to attacking the Cardassians. Yes, the same Cardassians that killed Ro's father. Right in front of her. And occupied her home world. And Starfleet wants her to help them. It is a mission that will test her loyalty - to Starfleet, to Captain Picard, and to her own past. What will she do?
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| 0:30.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast |
| 0:34.1 | Episode 263, Preemptive Strike Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a |
| 0:47.8 | Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:49.8 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:51.0 | And I'm Can Ray. Each week on Mission Log we go undercover to weed out |
| 0:56.0 | the most intricate nuances of Star Trek in a search for the morals, meanings, |
| 1:00.6 | and messages in each and every story. This week preempt meanings and |
| 1:05.0 | Picard isn't quite sure if she can be |
| 1:10.0 | record isn't quite sure if she can be trusted |
| 1:12.0 | plus Riker gets to go undercover as a bajoran |
| 1:15.0 | with that nice earring to offset his beard. |
| 1:18.0 | Not the first time he's been undercover with Roe. |
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