Star Trek: Voyager, Season 7, Episodes 25-26, "Endgame"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episose Endgame, after 23 years in the Delta Quadrant, Admiral Janeway finally made it home, but at too high a cost. Now she's crossing time and space to rewrite history, determined to give her crew a better ending. But who decides what the "right" ending is? And is it worth risking everything they already sacrificed to find out? One timeline, two stubborn Janeways, and a final reckoning with the Borg when Endgame 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 599, end game. Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Norman |
| 0:36.3 | Lau. And I'm John Champion. Each week on Mission Log, we celebrate Star Trek's journey, one episode at a time, and we try to figure out what we've learned along the way. Are there morals, meanings, and messages in that nebula? We're just coffee. |
| 0:51.8 | This week, Endgame. The one where we start at the end, go back, and end it all again for a new beginning. |
| 1:01.0 | Kind of like playing a favorite game? |
| 1:04.1 | I will be back with trivia in a moment, but first, Norman will tell all of you how to reach us. |
| 1:10.1 | We'd love to hear from you. |
| 1:11.7 | MissionLog is a conversation about Star Trek. |
| 1:14.0 | Find us on Facebook at MissionLog Pod and on Instagram and Threads at Roddenberry Podcasts. |
| 1:19.9 | The conversation always continues in the MissionLog Discord with near daily live events and 24-7 chat about the topics you love. |
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| 1:34.3 | ways to help your favorite podcasts is to leave a five-star rating and a review, an Apple or your |
| 1:39.6 | preferred podcast platform. And remember, your comments could be used on the show. And now here's John |
| 1:46.3 | Champion with this week's trivia. All right. Let's talk about endgame. We have a story credited |
| 1:54.0 | to Rick Berman, Ken Biller, and Brannan Braga. And as he might imagine, this was a moment in Voyager's |
| 2:00.8 | run that took a lot of planning, |
| 2:03.2 | really during the entirety of the season. But those bigger questions about how and even if the |
| 2:08.8 | crew gets home were kicked around from the very beginning of the series. Brannon, at this point, |
| 2:14.8 | was working on Enterprise, but he did work with Rick and Ken to contribute to this story. |
| 2:20.1 | All three knew that they wanted something epic. |
| 2:22.8 | They knew it would involve the Borg somehow, and they knew that there would be the bow to wrap up seven years. |
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