Star Trek: Voyager, Season 1, Episode 8 - "Ex Post Facto"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, "Ex Post Facto," Tom Paris is in dutch, and it all started with a dame who encouraged bad habits like smoking... and murder.
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | This episode of Mission Log is brought to you by listeners like you. |
| 0:13.2 | Supporters on Patreon. |
| 0:14.9 | Join us today at Patreon.com |
| 0:17.4 | slash Mission Log. |
| 0:20.7 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:44.6 | I'm Norman Lough. |
| 0:46.4 | And I'm John Champion. |
| 0:48.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we explore an episode of Star Trek, examining it for morals, meanings, and messages and seeing if our |
| 0:55.6 | point of view can hold up under Vulcan cross-examination. |
| 0:59.6 | This week, X post facto, the one where Star Trek Voyager meets double indemnity and well as the |
| 1:06.7 | saying goes at least someone will always have Paris we'll get back to X post facto in a moment right after Norman tells all of |
| 1:15.4 | you about the other factos of how you can stay in touch with us. Mission Log is a conversation |
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| 1:42.2 | And now, fresh from implantation with all of this episode's trivia here once |
| 1:46.6 | again is John Champion. Why thank you for that let's talk trivia for ex post |
| 1:51.8 | facto we have a story by Evan Carlos Summers and you may remember |
| 1:56.1 | that Evan wrote three episodes of DS9 notably Melora which paralleled |
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