Star Trek: Voyager, Season 6, Episode 17, "Spirit Folk"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
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🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, “Spirit Folk,” the crew spend more time in their Irish holodeck simulation for a little R&R, but the locals start to grow suspicious of the visitors. The accusations of black magic threaten Tom and Harry's very lives while, possibly worse, they could drive a wedge between Janeway and her holo-boyfriend, Michael Sullivan. Mission Log returns to Fair Haven with "Spirit Folk."
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast, episode 567, Spirit Folk. at folk. |
| 0:34.2 | Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:35.5 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:38.4 | And I am Charlene Schmidt sitting in for Norman Lau. |
| 0:43.1 | Each week on Mission Log, we go down to the pub for a pint, meet the locals, and have a deep discussion about the morals, meanings, and messages in Star Trek, and ask ourselves if they stand the |
| 0:48.0 | test of time, or if they're just the work of some black magic. This week, Spirit Folk, the one where we can't get enough of the good folks in Fairhaven, |
| 0:57.6 | but they're pretty sure that they've had enough of us. |
| 1:00.4 | All right, Sharr, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:03.7 | You brought this upon yourself because we, we covered Fairhaven not that long ago, it seems. |
| 1:11.8 | It really wasn't. |
| 1:12.6 | It was maybe not even a few weeks ago. |
| 1:15.9 | Yeah, like six weeks. |
| 1:17.5 | So, and if that is not even episode zero, it's just five weeks, five episodes. |
| 1:23.2 | So, you know what that means, John? |
| 1:26.1 | What is that mean? |
| 1:26.5 | Tom was ahead of schedule. |
| 1:28.9 | He was. |
| 1:29.5 | He said six or seven weeks to fix it. |
| 1:32.7 | I've got thoughts. |
| 1:34.0 | Okay. |
| 1:35.0 | He's desperate to get back into Fairhaven. |
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