SUPPLEMENTAL: But, is it Star Trek? Or, Yet another one from the Rio
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Incendiary for six-years running, John and Ken pose the age old question, "But, is it Star Trek?" Spoiler alert: Yes. And, no? Yet another one from the Rio goes into the Mission Log.
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | RPN, the Rotenberry Podcast Network. |
| 0:06.0 | Mission Log Supplemental, Number 44. |
| 0:09.0 | But is it Star Trek? |
| 0:12.0 | Or, yet another one from the Rio. Welcome to another supplemental episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, second one this week, second |
| 0:36.2 | supplemental this week. |
| 0:38.9 | I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:41.3 | And I'm John Champion, doing my best to contain my excitement unlike you can. We are back from Victorville. |
| 0:49.0 | Oh, and we're also back from Las Vegas. |
| 0:52.8 | Now why we did not bring you any frozen custard, |
| 0:56.4 | because we ate it. |
| 0:57.8 | We did bring you another show. |
| 1:00.2 | But is it Star Trek? That's the, oh, incendiary topic of this year's mission log panel, |
| 1:08.0 | kind of tied to the fandom divided panel that we brought you a couple of weeks back from Comic Con. |
| 1:12.0 | Well, we'll hit that in a moment, but first, a word from The Great Courses Plus. |
| 1:19.5 | These are Great Courses, Ken. |
| 1:20.9 | Are they? |
| 1:21.9 | Yeah, right there on the title. |
| 1:23.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah, sure. |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah, they are courses covering all sorts of topics from history to learning a language, to writing a |
| 1:31.4 | screen play to the inexplicable universe. |
| 1:36.4 | But with the Great Courses Plus, you don't have to pick. |
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