Star Trek: Voyager, Season 4, Episode 21 - "The Omega Directive"

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

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4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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0:45.0	Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 520, the Omega Directive. Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast.
1:10.4	I'm John Champion.
1:12.1	And I'm Norman Lau. each week on Mission Log our directive is to review an episode of Star Trek from beginning to end from Alpha to Omega to see if the episode withstands the test of time and perhaps in a moment of clarity find
1:26.6	any morals, meanings, or messages contained therein.
1:30.1	This week, the Omega Directive, the one where Janeway is forced to play Star Fleet's
1:35.2	Ultra Top Secret Directive, sort of, over the Prime Directive, while also having yet another showdown with Seven of Nine.
1:45.0	John will be back with trivia in a moment right after I tell you how to stay in touch with us.
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