Star Trek: Voyager, Season 1, Episode 6 - "The Cloud"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, "The Cloud," what do you call a cloud in space? If you're Captain Janeway, you might cal it a potential source of coffee. But what if it turns out to be a living organism that needs help?
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 1:01.0 | Mission log a rodenberry Star Trek Podcast, I'm Norman Lau. |
| 1:25.8 | And I'm John Champion. Each week on Mission Log, we explore an episode of Star Trek, examining |
| 1:31.2 | it for morals, meanings, and messages, and seeing if we can leave |
| 1:35.1 | it at least as good as we found it. |
| 1:37.7 | This week, The Cloud, the one where Chief O'Brien and Dr. Bashir find themselves in the middle of a bajoran religious ceremony |
| 1:45.1 | and have to talk their way out. |
| 1:47.0 | Wait, hang on, checking my notes. |
| 1:51.5 | That sounds very familiar, but I'm going to go with a different cloud. This one in the |
| 1:56.6 | delta quadrant. Go with me here, new ship, new crew, different problem, any of that sound familiar? |
| 2:04.0 | Agree to disagree. |
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