Star Trek: Voyager, Season 6, Episode 20, "Good Shepherd"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, “Good Shepherd,” not everyone on Voyager is cut out for deep space exploration. Captain Janeway takes three misfit crew members on an away mission to help them find their place in the flock, but an alien threat turns their trip into a fight for survival. These wayward "sheep" will have to find their way home when "Good Shepherd" goes into the Mission Log.
Hosted by John Champion and Ashley Thomas
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Producer - John Champion
Associate Producer - Jessica Lynn Verdi
Executive Producer - Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry podcast. |
| 0:10.8 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John |
| 0:35.0 | Champion. And I'm Ashley Thomas sitting in for Norman Lau. |
| 0:39.2 | Each week on Mission Log, we set out on a mission to explore an episode of Star Trek for the |
| 0:43.9 | morals, meanings, and messages. But the real mission is in here. The one of getting to know each other, |
| 0:52.1 | and of course, asking ourselves if the stories stand the test of time. |
| 0:57.2 | This week, Good Shepherd, the one where Janeway leads a group of quirky misfits on their first away mission, |
| 1:03.7 | between the hull damage, the creepy aliens, and Elyx's suit, maybe they should have just stayed at home safe in Voyager's lower decks. |
| 1:12.0 | Ashley, welcome to Mission Log. |
| 1:14.3 | It's so great to have you for anybody who doesn't know already. |
| 1:18.1 | You are already a co-host on a Roddenberry podcast called Genealogy, which everybody |
| 1:24.7 | should be listening to. |
| 1:25.9 | Tell us what you're up to over there. |
| 1:27.4 | Sure, yeah. So myself, alongside the illustrious Earl Green, we talk all about Gene Roddenberry's |
| 1:36.4 | pre-Star Trek TV writing. So we've covered a lot of his work so far, like Have Gun Will |
| 1:43.3 | Travel, the detectives. We just finished a series of his work so far, like Have Gun Will Travel, the Detectives. We just finished a series |
| 1:48.4 | called Rangler, which is the first series Gene Roddenberry got past the pilot stage. So we had |
| 1:55.3 | scripts to work from, but I was lucky enough to get to take a little field trip out to L.A. |
| 2:01.9 | with Mission Log prodigy Charlene Schmidt. |
| 2:04.6 | And the two of us got to watch all seven recorded episodes of Wrangler together, including |
| 2:11.5 | the pilot that you did not get to see, John Champion. |
| 2:13.7 | I know. You have seen one more episode than I have, so I got to go back to UCLA. I got to check it out. I am so excited that you did that, really to the whole team, doing the amount of detective work that you did on Wrangler. And now is the time, folks. If you haven't checked it out, we now have as definitive as it can be, at least, right now, the complete collection |
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