Star Trek: Voyager, Season 6, Episode 14, "Memorial"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, “Memorial,” the crew start having nightmares about their involvement in a brutal war. As the dreams become more vivid, they seek out the location of the atrocities for some answers. What they find only leaves them with a more difficult question. "Memorial" goes into the Mission Log.  Â
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:35.1 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:36.5 | And I'm Norman Lau. Each week on Mission Log, |
| 0:39.1 | we do our best to fully experience and then remember an episode of Star Trek, embodying the |
| 0:44.6 | morals, meanings, and messages, and then asking ourselves if it stands the test of time for now |
| 0:51.2 | and maybe for a few centuries from now. |
| 1:02.2 | This week, Memorial, the one where the crew start having flashbacks about participating in a war that they were never a part of. |
| 1:07.1 | The experience may have been someone else's, but the trauma is very real. |
| 1:12.1 | Norman, I'm sorry, that's not a fun way to get into an episode, but, yeah. |
| 1:17.7 | It's a very honest way of kind of preambling what we're about to discuss. |
| 1:25.2 | Indeed, indeed. But hey, glad you're here in the co-host chair as we get to do and things going well for you. And we got a few more, you know, guest co-host lined |
| 1:28.9 | up. But then, you know, you're going to be back in between there and then back a bit more. |
| 1:34.4 | So glad that's coming up. Things are going well for you. Yeah, we're on kind of, we're on impulse |
| 1:39.5 | right now, but we're looking for testing out warp 1.01. |
| 1:49.9 | And hopefully no renegade asteroids or wormholes to be seen. |
| 1:53.2 | Yeah, just don't fire phasers if that happens. |
| 1:56.5 | You learn, you know, photon torpedoes away. |
| 1:57.9 | That's right. |
| 1:58.4 | That's right. |
| 2:04.4 | Yeah, because I know for a fact that we have rerouted main power through the shields. |
| 2:17.3 | Well, yeah. Of course. You know that. Everybody knows that. Yeah. Except for certain people. Yeah. Mm-hmm. All right. Well, well, everybody is contemplating that. Why don't you tell them where to reach us? |
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