Star Trek: Voyager, Season 2, Episode 7 - "Parturition"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, "Parturition," can Tom and Neelix find common ground over Kes? No. Can they cooperate on an away mission? Unlikely. Can they bond over a lizard baby? Almost certainly.
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. |
| 0:12.4 | Supporters on Patreon |
| 0:14.2 | join us today at patreon.com slash mission log |
| 0:19.8 | mission log a rodenberries star track podcast episode four hundred fifty eight Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm |
| 0:44.7 | Norman Lough and I'm John Champion. On each episode of Mission Log you'll find the |
| 0:49.6 | two of us navigating our way through sometimes dangerous conditions where we get to know each other |
| 0:56.0 | a little better, find common ground, and see if at the end of the day there's a message |
| 1:01.1 | to be found in those episodes of Star Trek that we watch. |
| 1:05.7 | This week, Parturition, the one where Neelix becomes a godfather or Godmother or something to a little lizard baby but that's only after he's |
| 1:16.9 | been something else to his girlfriend and one of his crewmates. |
| 1:20.9 | I will be back with trivia in a moment right after Norm tells all of you how |
| 1:26.1 | you can reach all of us. Mission Log is a conversation about Star Trek. Drop us a line at Mission Log at rodenberry.com and join us on |
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| 1:50.8 | And now, after a quick change of clothes, after our angel hair pasta spaghetti fight, here's |
| 1:55.8 | John Champion with this week's trivia. |
| 1:58.4 | All right, this week's episode was written by Tom Salosi. It's interesting that Tom's pro-writing career |
| 2:06.2 | starts in the late 70s with comedies like Three's Company and then transitions |
| 2:10.9 | quite easily into the popular action and sci-fi shows of the day where he really spent most of his time. |
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