Star Trek: Voyager, Season 6, Episode 18, "Ashes to Ashes"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, “Ashes to Ashes,” Ensign Ballard returns to Voyager, and she has changed quite a bit. There's her new life as an alien and the fact that she's not dead - which was precisely how the crew last saw her three years ago. Harry throws caution to the wind and sparks a romatic relationship, but Ballard's new alien "family" may not so easily let her go. "Ashes to Ashes" goes into the Mission Log.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion. |
| 0:35.5 | And I'm Norman Lau. Each week on Mission Log, we examine an episode of Star Trek, picking |
| 0:40.4 | it apart for the morals, meanings, and messages, and asking ourselves if it holds up in this |
| 0:45.9 | lifetime or the next. This week, Ashes to Ashes, the one where we get to meet Lindsay |
| 0:51.7 | Ballard again, for the first time, which is during her second life, where she's not really who she was, but we're not sure. |
| 0:59.5 | And neither is she. |
| 1:01.0 | Norman, welcome back. |
| 1:02.7 | Glad that you are here. |
| 1:03.8 | We get to round out a couple more episodes of Voyager and then we got a couple of guests and then you're going to be back. |
| 1:10.4 | And that's how it goes. Yeah, I'm absolutely looking forward to it. I love the way that you kind of phrased |
| 1:16.4 | the intro to Ashes to Ashes because yeah, yeah, you're right. It's kind of like you're playing |
| 1:20.4 | second life with your second life. Yeah. You're playing your first life in second life. So, yeah, it's a little bit of, you know, who's on first, no, what, no, what's on second. |
| 1:31.1 | It's great. |
| 1:32.0 | Only, I feel like it's one of those only in science fiction kind of stories. |
| 1:35.9 | And again, leave it to Voyager to just like, do something crazy and wild and throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. But we'll |
| 1:46.3 | come back to that. So in the meantime, as all of you are pondering that, Norman, why |
| 1:51.8 | you tell them where they can reach us? We'd love to hear from you. Mission Log is a conversation |
| 1:56.3 | about Star Trek. Find us on Facebook and Mission Lockog pods and threads at Roddenberry podcasts. |
| 2:01.9 | The conversation always continues in the MissionLog Discord with near daily live events |
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| 2:11.3 | patreon.com slash mission log. While you're at it, one of the most important ways to help the |
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