Star Trek: Voyager, Season 7, Episode 24, "Renaissance Man"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episose Renaissance Man, The Doctor doesn't quite seem himself. In fact, he seems like just about everyone else on the senior staff. But the impersonations are part of a high-stakes mission: rescue Captain Janeway from a hostile alien race despite her veryspecific orders not to. It's EMH meets ECH meets identity crisis when Renaissance Man goes into the Mission Log.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry podcast. Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast, episode 598, Renaissance Man. I'm |
| 0:20.0 | The Renaissance Man. |
| 0:35.1 | Welcome into another episode of Mission Log or Rodmary Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:38.9 | And I'm Norman Lau. Each week on Mission Log, we inhabit an episode of Star Trek moment by moment, character by character, |
| 0:44.9 | and see if the experience will reveal morals, meanings, and messages to us. Then we ask if it stands |
| 0:51.9 | the test of time. This week, Renaissance Man, the one where the doctor goes rogue, disobeys the captain, |
| 0:59.3 | and hides a few of his fellow crewmates in the morgue. |
| 1:02.6 | But it's all for a good reason. |
| 1:05.3 | We promise. |
| 1:06.9 | John will be back with trivia in a moment, but first, here's how all of you can reach us. |
| 1:11.9 | We'd love to hear from you. Mission Log is a conversation about Star Trek. |
| 1:16.1 | Find us on Facebook at Mission Log Pod and on Instagram and threads at Roddenberry podcasts. |
| 1:22.3 | The conversation always continues in the Mission Log Discord with near daily live events and 24-7 chat about the topics |
| 1:29.0 | you love. Get your invitation to our private server by joining patreon.com slash mission log. |
| 1:35.2 | While you're at it, one of the most important ways to help your favorite podcasts is to leave a |
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| 1:46.0 | could be used on the show. And now here's John Champion with this week's trivia |
| 1:50.8 | AI. Right. This is good. Yes, trivia for Renaissance Man. We were already the penultimate |
| 1:59.7 | episode of Voyager. |
| 2:01.8 | And the honors here go to a story by Andrew Shepard Price and Mark Gaborman. |
| 2:08.2 | And this writing pair are both at the end of their five-episode run of Star Trek contributions, all on Voyager. |
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