Star Trek: Voyager, Season 6, Episode 24, "Life Line"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
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🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, “Life Line,” the Doctor makes a housecall in the Alpha Quadrant to help save his programmer’s life, but Lewis Zimmerman isn’t exactly thrilled to see his so-called greatest failure. Enter Reg Barclay, trying to hold it all together while Deanna Troi referees the emotional fallout. It's time for group therapy when Mission Log checks for a “Life Line.”
Hosted by John Champion and Norman Lao
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Rodbury podcast. |
| 0:08.3 | This episode of Mission Log is brought to you by the Insta 360 camera. |
| 0:13.6 | Shoot mind-blowing 8K video in 360 degrees. |
| 0:17.8 | Visit store.com. |
| 0:20.1 | That's 360.com and use the checkout code mission log. The first 30 people get a free, invisible selfie stick. That's store.com and use the checkout code mission log. |
| 0:37.3 | Mission log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast episode |
| 0:41.3 | 574 lifeline welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion. |
| 1:02.4 | And I'm Norman Lau. Each week on Mission Log, we come face to face with an episode of Star Trek |
| 1:07.5 | and use our best diagnostic skills to analyze it for the morals, |
| 1:11.9 | meanings, and messages and figure out if the whole thing stands the test of time. |
| 1:16.7 | This week, Lifeline, the one where Voyager's unstoppable doctor meets his immovable creator, |
| 1:23.4 | and we get to see which one budges first. Norman, I mean, we talked about it last week, but of course, welcome back to your regular gig. |
| 1:33.9 | Admission log. |
| 1:35.2 | Good to have you here, and glad things are going well. |
| 1:38.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:38.3 | Glad to be back. |
| 1:39.1 | Glad to be in the chair and more of a consistent ratio of me being here instead of not being here. |
| 1:45.0 | Sure. |
| 1:45.8 | I feel like I feel like I need to settle in now and wear some type of like crumpled linen full-length robe just to... |
| 1:55.2 | He pulls that off daringly well. |
| 1:58.4 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 2:00.3 | Well, I tell you what, that and other fashion choices, |
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