Star Trek: Voyager, Season 7, Episode 21, "Friendship One"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
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🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episose Friendship One, an old Earth probe was supposed to spread friendship across the galaxy. Instead, it sparked a planetary apocalypse. When Voyager finds the wreckage of Friendship One, they also find a civilization devastated by misused antimatter and eager to hold someone, anyone, accountable. Can Starfleet ideals survive the consequences of their own curiosity? Mission Log receives Friendship One.
Hosted by John Champion and Norman Lao
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry podcast. |
| 0:11.4 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast, episode 595, Friendship One. |
| 0:36.5 | Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Norman Lau. |
| 0:37.3 | And I'm John Champion. Each week on Mission Log, we exploredenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Norman Lau. And I'm John Champion. Each |
| 0:39.2 | week on Mission Log, we explore the vast Star Trek universe one episode at a time, |
| 0:45.1 | picking apart the messages that were left for us by those who came before. Will we find |
| 0:50.3 | morals, meanings, and messages, or will it end in a nuclear winter? |
| 0:55.5 | This week, Friendship One, the one where Voyager finds a derelict space probe that |
| 1:01.1 | stopped by to say hello at a Delta Quadrant planet only to accidentally unleash L. |
| 1:09.2 | Oops. I'll be right back with trivia, but first, here's Norm with all the details on how to reach us. |
| 1:16.1 | We'd love to hear from you. |
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| 1:52.1 | And now here's John Champion recovering the signals from this week's trivia. |
| 1:56.9 | All right. Let's talk about Friendship One. We have a story and teleplay credited to Michael Taylor and Brian Fuller. They get the single writing credit here. Now, obviously, we know their work, and they were both most recently credited on Workforce Part 2 in our rewatch. But here's the thing that we always know is true. Other influences |
| 2:19.8 | help shape the story, and this was no exception. Ken Biller had some say in one of this |
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