Star Trek: Voyage, Season 5, Episode 8 - "Nothing Human"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyage episode, "Nothing Human," meet Crell Moset: a charming, brilliant scientist who is conjured up in the holodeck by Voyager's Doctor to assist with the complicated task of removing an alien parasite from B'Elanna. She isn't pleased at all to see this new Cardassian character on board. Making matters worse, the real Crell's history taints his valuable research leading B'Elanna to prefer death over complicity.
Hosted by John Champion & Holly Amos
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Rotenberry Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Mission Log, A Rotenberry Podcast, |
| 0:11.0 | Mission Log, A Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast, I'm John |
| 0:34.6 | Champion and I'm Holly Amos setting in for Norman Lau. Each week on Mission Log we |
| 0:39.1 | examined an episode of Star Trek picking it apart for its morals, meetings, and |
| 0:42.8 | messages and asking ourselves if it stands the test of time. |
| 0:46.4 | This week, nothing human, the one where the holographic doctor challenges a |
| 0:50.7 | hologram of a Cardassian about some of his very non-human decisions and |
| 0:56.8 | then has to make a humane decision of his own. |
| 1:00.8 | Holly, welcome to the show, as we said last week, Norman is taking some personal time off, and I'm very happy to welcome some people to sit in the co-host chair every now and then and join Mission Log. This is new territory for us because we |
| 1:14.4 | Mission Log traditionally has never had a guest co-host. Right. Never. |
| 1:19.9 | And you've never recorded a show with somebody sitting next to you. |
| 1:23.0 | That's very true. That's very true. Never a mission log like this. Yeah. |
| 1:27.0 | So here we go, new territory for everybody. |
| 1:30.0 | And but you know what, platform the format the philosophy behind |
| 1:37.2 | Mission Log has not changed one bit nope and what we do when we get to this segment |
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