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Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

SUPPLEMENTAL: Doug Drexler is Caught in the Nexus

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

Roddenberry Entertainment

Arts, Performing Arts, Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week, Academy Award wining makeup artist and Star Trek journeyman Doug Drexler joins a group of people in the Roddenberry Nexus in Sansar to talk about his moves from makeup to art department to computer graphics to how he got started in makeup in the first place. Plus - what's Doug into now? Here's a hint: Its initials are V.R. Doug Drexler's virtual meet up in the Nexus makes a very special Supplemental Mission Log.

Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray

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RPN, the Rotenberry Podcast Network.

0:06.0

Mission Log Supplemental, Number 45.

0:10.0

Doug Drexler is caught in the Nexus. Welcome to this supplemental edition of Mission Loggy, Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast,

0:30.4

I'm Ken Ray.

0:31.4

And I'm John Champion, and we're in kind of an unconventional place to do the

0:37.2

intro for a supplemental edition of Mission Log Ken where are we?

0:42.2

We are in Fantasyland, I believe, in Disneyland in Anaheim, California, home of course, of Disneyland.

0:51.0

You say it's an unconventional place to do a supplemental, but it's kind of an unconventional

0:54.8

supplemental as well.

0:55.8

It is. Now, we're going to lead you very soon into the VR experience that we had with Doug Drexler.

1:02.0

He of the Academy Award Doug Drexler. He of the Academy Award winning

1:04.2

Doug Drexler and has worked on Star Trek for nearly 30 years or something.

1:11.2

So we'll hear that in just a moment, but yeah I just have to say

1:14.8

that when I tell friends and people who listen to our show, yeah, Ken and I are

1:19.3

going to go have a meeting and we're having a meeting at Disneyland. They don't believe me, but we're actually

1:24.6

recording the intro to a show right here at Disneyland. We're making the most out of our

1:28.4

day. Yeah, I think we've been at Disneyland for about six hours now and we've written one ride unless you count the tram to get here in which case

1:37.6

There are two rides but I don't think that really counts so yeah

1:42.0

So we actually got to welcome somebody in the

1:44.5

Censar last night into the Nexus, the Rotenberry Nexus in Sansar, Doug Drexler

1:49.6

as John mentioned earlier and I will say it was a moment and you'll hear me say this at the end if you

1:55.4

stated at the end which I really hope you will because it's a fantastic fantastic talk that

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