Star Trek: Voyager, Season 3, Episode 12 - "Macrocosm"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, "Macrocosm," tips for avoiding viral infections: stay 2 meters away from others, wear a mask, wash your hands, carry a phaser rifle, and if all else fails, fight the virus with a knife in a corridor.
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:43.0 | Mission Log. |
| 0:46.0 | Mission Log, A Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast, Episode 487, Maccra Kossum. 187 macrocosm. Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 1:09.8 | I'm Norman Lau. |
| 1:11.5 | And I'm John Champion. |
| 1:13.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we look at the tiniest little details in an episode of Star Trek, |
| 1:18.3 | magnify them, and examine them to see if there are morals, meanings, and messages to be found, and if they blow up real good |
| 1:25.3 | in the end. |
| 1:26.4 | This week, Macrocosm, the one where the crew of Voyager comes down with a viral infection. Then the virus gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, |
| 1:35.0 | Go Big or Go Home. |
| 1:37.0 | Or blow up real good, just saying that is an option too. |
| 1:40.0 | I'll be back with trivia in a moment after a reminder on how to reach us. |
| 1:45.0 | Mission Log is a conversation about Star Trek. |
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