Star Trek: Voyager, Season 2, Episode 13 - "Prototype"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, "Prototype," Automated Unit 3947 has a pleasant voice and is very friendly toward B'Elanna Torres, up until the point that he kidnaps her and endangers Voyager until she agrees to energize an army of robot soldiers.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | This episode of Mission Log is brought to you by listeners like you supporters on Patreon join us today at |
| 0:15.8 | Patreon.com slash mission log a rod and berry star track podcast episode 400 Mission Log, a Renberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Norman Lau. |
| 0:46.0 | And I'm John Champion. |
| 0:48.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we get a fresh infusion of Warp Plasma so we can study an episode of Star Trek one at a time |
| 0:55.0 | until we get to all of them |
| 0:57.0 | to study the morals, meanings, and messages |
| 1:00.0 | contained therein. |
| 1:02.0 | This week, prototype, the one where Bologna Torres diligently saves a broken down robot, |
| 1:09.0 | then it tries to kill everyone on Voyager. |
| 1:12.0 | Hey, you win some, you lose some, am I right? |
| 1:15.0 | I'll be back with trivia in just a moment, |
| 1:18.0 | just as soon as Norman tells all of you how to reach us. |
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| 1:45.2 | And now here's John Champion with this week's trivia. |
| 1:48.8 | All right, we'll keep it nice and tight for you this week. |
| 1:52.0 | Trivia for a prototype, we have an episode that was |
| 1:54.7 | written by Nicholas Korea not a new name for Trek fans. You may remember that Nicholas |
| 2:00.9 | is credited on two DS nine episodes, |
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