Star Trek: Voyager, Season 6, Episode 21, "Live Fast and Prosper"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, “Live Fast and Prosper,” a group of alien con artists impersonate the Voyager crew in order to get away with their latest scams. When their real counterparts catch up, maybe just being nice can save the day. Or maybe it will take a more elaborate con to beat them at their own game. Mission Log learns to "Live Fast and Prosper."
Hosted by John Champion and Norman Lao
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry podcast. |
| 0:10.8 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast, episode 571, live fast and prosper. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:35.4 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:36.8 | And I'm Norman Lau. |
| 0:40.3 | Each week on Mission Log, we strike a deal with Star Trek. We'll watch an episode, and then out of the generosity in our hearts, we'll share the morals, meanings, and messages with anyone who's in the market. |
| 0:49.2 | This week, live fast and prosper. The one where the Voyager crew caused mayhem in the Delta Quadrant |
| 0:55.3 | by swindling whatever they can from unsuspecting aliens until the Voyager crew shows up to stop them. |
| 1:02.6 | Norman, welcome back. |
| 1:04.8 | Glad to be back. |
| 1:06.1 | Here we are. |
| 1:07.0 | Here we are. |
| 1:07.7 | A milestone for our listeners to know that you are done with your journey |
| 1:13.9 | and returning to Missionally. We do have one guest host coming up a few episodes from now as kind of a |
| 1:21.1 | one-off. But it's me and you, buddy. I just wanted to say thank you to the two clerics that I met during the course of my treatment. |
| 1:29.9 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:31.0 | One who was very, they're very passionate in the work that she was doing with orphans. |
| 1:36.4 | The other one was wearing this incredibly strange yet, I don't know, suspicious looking apparatus. |
| 1:42.9 | I don't know if it was some type of healing device or we'll get to, you know, wait a second. |
| 1:46.9 | No, I'm thinking about something else. |
| 1:50.1 | I'm confused. |
| 1:50.8 | You didn't get taken in by this, did you? |
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