Star Trek: Voyager, Season 7, Episode 3, "Drive"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
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🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, Drive, Tom enters a peace-promoting space rally. B’Elanna wonders if their relationship is running on fumes. A saboteur targets the Delta Flyer mid-race, but the biggest surprise of all? A detour into romance. Buckle up as Mission Log takes “Drive" out for a spin.
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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 579, drive. Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John |
| 0:35.8 | Champion. And I'm Norman Lau. Each week on Mission Log, we rev up our engines to review an episode of Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion. And I'm Norman Lau. Each week on mission log, |
| 0:39.1 | we rev up our engines to review an episode of Star Trek, navigating the twists and turns of the story |
| 0:44.1 | to see if it holds up and stand the test of time and hopefully finding any morals, meanings, |
| 0:49.2 | or messages along the way before we get to the finish line. This week, drive, the one where Tom has pushed to the limits and a stress test in every way possible, |
| 0:59.4 | including learning how to communicate with his partner. |
| 1:02.7 | Also, this is a story about a space race. |
| 1:05.9 | I'll be back in a moment with trivia, but first, Norman is going to tell you how to reach us. |
| 1:11.1 | We'd love to hear from you. MissionLog is a conversation about Star Trek. Find us on Facebook |
| 1:15.8 | at MissionLog Pod and on Instagram and threads at Roddenberry Podcasts. The conversation always |
| 1:22.3 | continues in the MissionLog Discord with near daily live events and 24-7 chat about the topics you love. |
| 1:28.9 | Get your invitation to our private server by joining patreon.com slash mission log. |
| 1:33.7 | While you're at it, one of the most important ways you can help your favorite podcasts is to leave a five-star rating and a review at Apple or your preferred podcast platform. |
| 1:42.7 | And remember, your comments could be used on the show. |
| 1:46.3 | And now here's John Champion sliding into first with this week's trivia. |
| 1:51.6 | All right. Trivia for Drive. |
| 1:54.4 | Well, we get a single written by credit on this one, and that goes to Michael Taylor, who, as you'll recall, maybe, wrote key |
| 2:03.0 | DS9 episodes like The Visitor and in the Pale Moonlight. He spent much more of his time |
| 2:08.8 | at Voyager, though, and the most recent of his stories that we covered was Fury, which he co-wrote |
| 2:14.3 | with Brian Fuller. He's got four more credits with the series through this season. |
| 2:19.9 | This was directed by Vienrich Colby. |
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