Star Trek: Voyager, Season 6, Episode 19, "Child's Play"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, “Child's Play,” homecoming can be tough. There's the pressure to impress your parents, the struggle to fit back in, and your old bedroom is smaller than you rememebr. It's even tougher when you find out that you were genetically engineered as a bio-weapon to defeat the Borg. "Child's Play" goes into the Mission Log.
Hosted by John Champion and Earl Green
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry podcast. |
| 0:10.4 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast, episode 569, child's play. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:35.4 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:38.8 | And I'm Earl Green sitting in for the mighty Norman Lau. |
| 0:43.7 | Each week on Mission Log, we run a background check on a newly adopted episode of Star Trek, |
| 0:48.1 | seeing what morals, meanings, and messages we can glean from the records. |
| 1:10.8 | This week, Child's Play, the one where Echab gets to go home again. He'll have his own room, get to play sports, and have a rewarding career in agricultural genetics. Just don't ask about the part of being engineered as a bio weapon. Oh, family. Earl, welcome back. I've changed a few diapers in my time. Every child is a bio weapon. |
| 1:28.4 | You speak from experience. I like that. That's why we need you here. Seriously, it is good to have you back. Norman is getting to the end of his off time with his procedure. We're very happy about that. Time now, though, for a few last guest hosts. |
| 1:30.2 | And it's about time we had you back on the show. |
| 1:33.1 | Hey, I'm always ready to talk about something better than the fight. |
| 1:37.8 | Well, you got it this week. |
| 1:44.7 | And I tell you what, if you out there know of an episode that you like better than the fight. Might be all of them. |
| 1:48.2 | Why don't you send us an email or a message? |
| 1:50.4 | Earl, why don't you tell folks where they can reach us? |
| 1:51.5 | Gladly. |
| 1:53.3 | We would love to hear from you. |
| 1:55.7 | Mission Log is a conversation about Star Trek. |
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