Star Trek: Voyager, Season 7, Episode 5, "Critical Care"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
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🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, Critical Care, the Doctor is forced to confront a system where medical care is doled out based on social status.
Good thing that’s just science fiction.
No parallels to the modern world at all.
Mission Log administers Critical Care.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry podcast. |
| 0:10.4 | Mission Lock, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Norman |
| 0:36.7 | Lau. And I'm John Champion. Each week on Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Norman Lau. And I'm John Champion. |
| 0:38.5 | Each week on Mission Log, we carefully assess the situation and vowed to do no harm as we |
| 0:44.1 | examine an episode of Star Trek and pick it apart for the morals, meanings, and messages |
| 0:49.2 | and see if the whole thing stands the test of time. This week, critical care. |
| 0:55.3 | The one where Voyager's doctor finds himself teaching a bunch of aliens about medical ethics, |
| 1:00.9 | even if he has to hurt some of them in the process. |
| 1:03.7 | I'll be back with trivia in a moment, but first, Norman is going to tell all of you how to reach us. |
| 1:10.1 | You know we'd love to hear from you. |
| 1:12.0 | Mission Log is a conversation about Star Trek. |
| 1:14.6 | Find us on Facebook at Mission Log Pod and on Instagram and threads at Roddenberry Podcasts. |
| 1:20.5 | The conversation always continues in the Mission Log Discord with near daily live events and 24-7 chat about the topics you love. |
| 1:28.3 | Get your invitation to our private server by joining patreon.com slash mission log. |
| 1:33.5 | While you're at it, one of the most important ways to help your favorite podcasts |
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| 1:43.1 | And remember, your comments could be used on the show. |
| 1:46.7 | And now here's John Champion with this week's diagnosis. Trivia. This week's diagnosed trivia. |
| 1:53.4 | There we go. There we go. All right. So trivia for critical care. We have a story by Kenneth |
| 1:58.9 | Biller and Robert Doherty. So we know both of these names pretty well by now. |
| 2:03.5 | Robert was the young Wunderkin, the youngest staff writer for Voyager when he started in 1997. |
| 2:09.9 | The most recent of his teleplays we discussed was imperfection. And Ken, by the seventh season, of course, |
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