Star Trek: Voyager, Season 3, Episode 13 - "Fair Trade"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, "Fair Trade," what's the worst thing that could happen when stopping to ask for directions? Getting wrapped up in a murderous drug ring for starters.
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:22.4 | This episode is also sponsored by listeners like you. |
| 0:27.0 | Supporters on Patreon. |
| 0:28.0 | Join us today for early access to shows and the Mission Log Discord at patreon.com slash Mission Log. |
| 0:37.0 | Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 488, fair trade. Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, A Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm Norman Lough. |
| 1:02.0 | And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log we seek to make a deal. |
| 1:07.0 | We'll examine Star Trek and then we'll size it up for morals, meanings, and messages and see if it all holds up at the end of the day, |
| 1:15.0 | or if we get double-crossed and have to find a clever way out. |
| 1:19.0 | This week, Fair Trade, the one where the title alone should indicate that the trade in question is definitely not fair. |
| 1:27.6 | I'll be right back with some trivia to sweeten the deal for you right after some additional business from Norm. |
| 1:35.0 | Mission Log is a conversation about Star Trek. |
| 1:38.0 | Drop us a line at Mission Log at rodenberry.com and join us on Twitter and Facebook at Mission Log Pod. While you're at it, leave us and Remember, your comments could be used on Mission Log or Engage on the Rod and Barry YouTube channel. |
| 1:55.0 | We'll have John's trivia for you in just a moment, but first a word from one of our sponsors this week, and that is you. |
| 2:01.0 | Norman, I'm so excited that almost every day we see a new name pop up in our Patreon subscriber list and then those become people who show up in discord and we really get to know each other and |
| 2:14.4 | engage with some great conversation over there. I'm going to skip to the part that I usually do last, |
| 2:19.7 | which is say thank you to Philip, Nick, Ryan, Kiegar, Rees, Michael, and I saved this one for you, B5 for the first time. |
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