Star Trek: Voyager, Season 1, Episode 16 - "Learning Curve"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, "Learning Curve," Neelix inadvertently releases a dangerous pathogen into the ship's bio-neural systems while Tuvok takes charge of Maquis crewmembers reluctant to meet Starfleet standards.
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry Podcast. |
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| 0:19.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, Episode 451, Learning Curve. Welcome into another episode of Mission Log of Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:44.8 | And I'm Norman Lau. |
| 0:46.2 | Each week on Mission Log, we do our best to be good students |
| 0:49.4 | and learn all that we can from an episode of Star Trek, taking it apart for morals, meanings, and |
| 0:54.7 | messages that we can take with us for the rest of our lives. |
| 0:59.8 | Today it's learning curve, the one where Tuvok takes charge of some students who do not want to learn what he's teaching. |
| 1:07.0 | We will get back to learning curve in a moment right after I let all of you know how you can stay in touch with all of us. Mission Log is a conversation |
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| 1:34.4 | YouTube channel and now here's John Champion to learn us on some trivia. |
| 1:40.8 | All right today's episode learning curve was written by Ronald Wilkerson and Gene Louise Mathias. |
| 1:48.2 | All right, think way back to those days of Star Trek, the next generation, and we saw the combined names of this |
| 1:55.0 | writing team a total of four times. Let's see there was imaginary friend there was |
| 1:59.9 | schisms schisms and there was lessons, and most thematically connected, maybe there was lower decks. |
| 2:07.2 | As Voyager ramped up production, Ronald and Jean sent in a few pitches, and they even had a story that was heavily focused on |
| 2:14.4 | Neelix but along came Jutrell and their story then took the back seat while |
| 2:20.6 | Jutrell was pushed into production. |
| 2:23.0 | Still, they had a story in which the B plot included some of the crew who didn't fit in, |
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