Star Trek: Voyager, Season 1, Episode 7 - "Eye of the Needle"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, "Eye of the Needle," Voyager encounters a wormhole - a teeny, tiny wormhole. What it lacks in size it more than makes up in promise. Can they get a message home through to the other side? Who will be there to listen?
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 1:08.0 | Podcast episode 442, I of the needle. Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 1:29.0 | I'm Norman Lough. |
| 1:30.0 | And I'm John Champion. |
| 1:32.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we send a message through the wormhole |
| 1:35.0 | and hope that someone somewhere on the other side is there to hear it. |
| 1:40.0 | This week, Eye of the Needle, the one where the Voyager crew comes face to face with a |
| 1:46.2 | Romulan who can help them out. Or not? Romulans are hard to read like that. |
| 1:52.0 | I'll come right back with trivia as soon as Norm tells you how to reach us. |
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