Star Trek: Voyager, Season 7, Episode 2, "Imperfection"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, Imperfection, Seven’s journey toward humanity takes a painful turn when a failing cortical node threatens to end her life. While Janeway and the crew search for a cure, the true remedy may lie not in medicine, but in an unexpected show of loyalty. A story of sacrifice, survival, and the value of every connection, this week, Imperfection goes into the Mission Log.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast, episode 578, Imperfection. Welcome. |
| 0:34.8 | Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:38.9 | And I'm Norman Lau. Each week on Mission Log, |
| 0:44.4 | we give our cortical nodes a workout by examining an episode of Star Trek, picking apart the morals, meanings, and messages, and asking if the whole thing stands the test of time. |
| 0:50.2 | This week, imperfection, the one where seven of nine has a medical crisis, but it's nothing the little teamwork and Borg tech can't solve. |
| 0:59.1 | I'll be back with trivia in just a moment right after Norman tells all of you how to reach us. |
| 1:04.8 | We would love to hear from all of you. |
| 1:06.7 | Mission Log is a conversation about Star Trek. |
| 1:09.0 | Find us on Facebook at Mission LogPod and on Instagram and threads at Roddenberry podcasts. |
| 1:15.1 | The conversation always continues in the Mission Log Discord with near daily live events and 24-7 chat about the topics you love. |
| 1:23.0 | Get your invitation to our private server by joining patreon.com slash mission log. |
| 1:28.7 | While you're at it, |
| 1:33.9 | one of the most important ways to help your favorite podcasts is to leave a five-star rating and a review at Apple or your preferred podcast platform. And remember, your comments could be used on the show. |
| 1:41.9 | And now, here's John Champion with this week's trivia. |
| 1:47.3 | Okay, I will try to make this as perfect as I can. We have a story by Andre Bormannas, |
| 1:53.4 | and it's always nice to see science consultant, turn story, editor, and writer Andre's |
| 1:58.5 | name in the credits. Now, most recently, we discussed his episode Riddles, and he will be back throughout |
| 2:04.9 | Season 7 of Voyager before making the jump over to Enterprise. |
| 2:09.7 | The teleplay is credited to Charlton Eastlake and Robert Doherty. |
| 2:14.3 | Now, we've seen Robert's name a lot, like recently, when we discussed another of his |
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