Star Trek: Voyager, Season 2, Episode 15 - "Threshold"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, "Threshold," two words: lizard babies. Two more words: Mission Log. The day has arrived when we take on one of the most discussed, debated, and derided episodes in Star Trek history. What's our verdict?
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Rottenberry Podcast. |
| 0:08.6 | This episode of Mission Log is brought to you by listeners like you supporters on Patreon |
| 0:14.4 | join us today at patreon dot com |
| 0:17.2 | slash mission log |
| 0:20.1 | mission log a roden berry star track podcast episode four hundred sixty Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:46.2 | And I'm Norman Lough. |
| 0:47.6 | Each week on Mission Log, we take a look at each and every episode of Star Trek, examining it at the quantum level for morals, |
| 0:55.6 | meanings, and messages, and trying to determine if it stands the test of Transwarp. |
| 1:01.2 | This week, threshold. The one where Tom Paris risks literal life, limb, and the pursuit of |
| 1:08.0 | lizard fatherhood happiness, all in the name of his father's happiness and pepperoni pizza. |
| 1:15.0 | John will return shortly with trivia, but first let me tell all of you how you can trust the |
| 1:19.3 | communications threshold if you would like to stay in touch with all of us. Mission Log is a conversation |
| 1:24.8 | about Star Trek. Drop us a line at missionlog at rodenberry.com and join us on |
| 1:29.6 | Twitter and Facebook at Mission Log Pod. While you're at it, leave us a review and a |
| 1:34.6 | rating at Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast platform. And please remember |
| 1:39.7 | your comments could be used on Mission Log or Engage on the Rodinberry YouTube channel. |
| 1:45.4 | And now here is John Champion with this week's pizza. Trivia with this week's trivia topped |
| 1:50.9 | with Kavarian olives. I'll do what I can. Trivia for Threshold. Well we have a story |
| 1:56.8 | credited to Michael DeLuca and this is one of the biggest names in the industry to have a credit on Star Trek, but you may not know him. |
| 2:07.0 | At the time, Michael had come up through Hollywood as a writer with, surprise, surprise, a good number of horror credits. |
| 2:15.0 | He wrote a number of episodes for the series Freddie's Nightmare |
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