Star Trek: Voyager, Season 7, Episode 14, "Prophecy"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode Prophecy, after decades adrift in the Delta Quadrant, a Klingon generation ship crosses paths with Voyager and finds what they've been looking for: a prophesied savior. Or rather, the unborn child of B'Elanna and Tom. Cue the ceremonial declarations, theological debates, and one very reluctant bat'leth duel. But when the Doctor uncovers a life-threatening illness among the Klingons, prophecy gives way to science, and that same baby might still be the key to salvation. Mission Log meets "Prophecy."
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Norman Lau. |
| 0:36.2 | And I'm John Champion. Each week on |
| 0:38.4 | Mission Log, we delve deeply into the sacred scrolls of Star Trek. Well, actually just an |
| 0:44.2 | episode of Star Trek looking for the morals, meanings, and messages contained therein and seeing |
| 0:49.5 | if it stands the test of time or interpretation. This week, prophecy. |
| 0:55.0 | The one where Belaan's unborn baby is the key to a 100-year-old Klingon pilgrimage |
| 1:01.0 | that has been looking for a mystical sign, and not the one that says Alpha Quadrant, that way. |
| 1:08.0 | I'll get back with trivia in a moment, but first, here's a prophecy. Norman is going |
| 1:12.9 | to tell you how to reach us right now. We'd love to hear from you. MissionLog is a conversation |
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| 1:52.3 | And now here's John Champion with this week's trivial reading of the tea leaves. |
| 1:56.6 | All right. |
| 1:57.9 | We have a story credited to Larry Nemechek and J. Kelly Burke. That's one pair, one combined pair, and Raff Green and Ken Biller as another pair. All right. Right away, you probably recognize Larry's name. Dr. Treck, to some of us who know him, and fellow Ronbury podcast host. |
| 2:19.1 | Now, Jay Kelly Burke is actually Larry's wife, Janet Nemechak, and she was the assistant |
| 2:24.2 | script supervisor on Voyager. So she was already around. Now, you know how old ideas never die? |
| 2:31.6 | Well, that is certainly the case here. The story that would become prophecy was pitched in December of 1994. |
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