Star Trek: Voyager, Season 1, Episode 11 - "State of Flux"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, "State of Flux," an encounter with a Kazon ship presents a mystery: how did they get Federation technology? Then a bigger mystery: who on board Voyager is a traitor?
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:40.0 | episode 446, state of flux. Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 1:00.3 | I'm John Champion. |
| 1:01.7 | And I'm Norman Low. Each week week on Mission Log we take a deep dive into an episode of Star Trek examining it for morals, meanings and messages and seeing if it withstands the test of time. |
| 1:13.3 | This week, state of flux, the one where we're kind of reintroduced to the Kazon |
| 1:18.7 | and discover that not all on Voyager is exactly what it appears to be. |
| 1:24.6 | We will let you get back to enjoying your guilt-free mushroom soup in a moment, |
| 1:28.7 | but first here's how to stay in touch with us. |
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| 1:48.4 | or engage on the Rodinberry YouTube channel. And now here is John Champion with this week's |
| 1:54.8 | trivia. Mm. Tast guilty. All right today's episode of State of Fox we have a |
| 2:00.5 | story by Paul Robert Coyle. |
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