Star Trek: Voyager, Season 7, Episode 18, "Human Error"

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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In the Star Trek: Voyager episode Human Error, Seven of Nine is trying something new: a little music, a little cooking, and a little romantic roleplay—typical holodeck experiments in humanity. But when feelings get real and a Borg failsafe kicks in, the cost of vulnerability may be more than just emotional. Oh, and yes, Voyager is also facing a dangerous space-time shockwave, but honestly? We're just here for the "Human Error," this week on Mission Log.

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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 592, Human Error. human error.
0:34.5	Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast.
0:35.8	I'm John Champion.
0:37.2	And I'm Norman Lau.
0:42.8	Each week on Mission Log, we explore a story in a fantasy simulation and figure out if the lessons can shed a little light on real-world morals, meanings, and messages.
0:47.3	And we ask ourselves if it stands the test of time.
0:50.3	This week, human error, the one where seven of nine goes through an all-too-human process of living out of fantasy, while finding that it has some repercussions when she gets back to work the next day.
1:02.1	I'll be right back with trivia, but first, here's Norman with all the details on how to reach us.
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1:39.3	And remember, your comments could be used on the show.
1:42.4	And now here's John Champion with this week's trivia.
1:46.2	All right. Here we go for human error. We have a story credited to Andre Bormannas and Kenneth Biller.
1:53.3	And we saw Andre's name in the credits earlier this season with the teleplay for Nightingale. And here he
2:00.3	shares that story credit with Ken, who most recently was credited on both parts of workforce.
2:07.4	Now, they got the story credit.
2:09.4	We go up to the teleplay, and that is credited to Brannan Braga and Andre as well.
2:14.8	And it's good to see Andre's name here again in writing the teleplay. Now, he said that he was, he took this quite seriously. He wanted to explore themes of PTSD in the episode. And he's glad with the way that it turned out. And also, you may have noticed that we haven't seen Brandon's name on a teleplay since the very beginning of the season with Unmatrix
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