Star Trek: Voyager, Season 2, Episode 1 - "The 37s"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, "The 37s," Voyager encounters one of the strangest things yet seen in the Delta Quadrant: a 1936 Ford truck. That leads to something even stranger: Amelia Earhart and more people from Earth's past.
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:34.9 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry's Star Trek podcast, episode 452, the 37th. |
| 0:49.7 | Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Norman Lau. |
| 0:58.0 | And I'm John Champion. Each week on Mission Log, we follow the leads wherever they take us, |
| 1:03.4 | exploring one episode of Star Trek at a time, having a look at the morals, meanings, and messages |
| 1:09.0 | along the way. This week, the 37s, the one in which the Voyager crew gets to take a crash course in Earth |
| 1:16.4 | history and decide if the trip home is really worth the effort. |
| 1:21.0 | I'll be right back with trivia, just after Norman tells all of you how to reach us. |
| 1:26.3 | Mission Log is a conversation about Star Trek. |
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| 1:48.9 | And now, here is John Champion with this week's trivia. |
| 1:52.6 | All right, trivia for the 37s. |
| 1:54.9 | We have an episode written by Jerry Taylor and Brennan Braga. |
| 1:59.0 | For two of Trek's most prolific writer producers at the time. |
| 2:03.2 | This is actually the only episode that they are credited together on a story and a screenplay. |
| 2:10.3 | But, as we all know, they have their hands in so much of Voyager from the get-go. |
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