Star Trek: Voyager, Season 2, Episode 6 - "Twisted"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, "Twisted," the ship's layout is changing. Voyager is plunging toward an uncertain fate, and the options seem to be to do everything possible to stop it, or do... nothing?
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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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. |
| 0:14.6 | Join us today at Patreon.com |
| 0:17.0 | slash Mission Log, a Roddenberry's Star Trek Podcast, I'm Norman Laus. into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm Norman Lau. |
| 0:45.9 | And I'm John Champion. |
| 0:47.4 | Each week on Mission Log, we take a look at each and every episode of Star Trek, bending |
| 0:51.8 | around each and every corner searching for |
| 0:53.9 | the morals meanings and messages and seeing if they withstand the twist of |
| 0:59.0 | time. This week, twisted, the one where not only the Voyager gets bent out of shape, but so do a few of the crew. |
| 1:08.0 | I'll be back with trivia in a moment right after Norman tells you how you can reach us. |
| 1:14.4 | Mission Log is a conversation about Star Trek. |
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| 1:37.0 | And now, here is John Champion with this week's trivia. |
| 1:41.0 | All right, this week we have a story by Arnold Rudnick and Rich Hoek. |
| 1:47.2 | And these are two names that are new to us in our Star Trek coverage, |
| 1:50.7 | and this is the only credit they both have with the franchise. |
| 1:54.0 | Now prior to this they had successfully sold a story to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air |
| 1:59.0 | and shortly after Voyager they both worked as writers and consultants on multiple episodes, the entire |
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