SUPPLEMENTAL: Star Trek Saves a Life
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
There are Trek geeks, then there are the Trek Geeks. On this supplemental edition of Mission Log, Dan Davidson of the podcast Trek Geeks joins us to talk about when and how the Deep Space Nine episode Captive Pursuit saved his life.
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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 41. Star Trek Saves a Life. Welcome into a supplemental episode of Mission Log, A Rottenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:30.8 | I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:32.4 | And I'm John Champion. |
| 0:34.0 | Now this is a bit of an unusual supplemental. |
| 0:37.0 | In that it centers around a particular episode of Star Trek, |
| 0:41.0 | the Deep Space Nine episode, Captive Pursuit. |
| 0:44.6 | We've gotten a few emails about this episode that we want to share. |
| 0:48.8 | But before that, we have a guest that we'd like to speak with. Yeah, if you ever feel stupid for how much you love Star Trek, don't. |
| 1:01.1 | And our guest today will illustrate why. |
| 1:03.0 | If you're not familiar with the Trekgeeks podcast, you should check them out at trekgeeks.com, Bill Smith and Dan Davidson do a weekly Star Trek podcast that is as much about their |
| 1:13.7 | friendship as it is about their mutual love of Star Trek. It's smart, it's funny, and |
| 1:19.7 | sometimes it gets really personal. |
| 1:23.0 | So today we welcome one half of Trek Geek's Dan Davidson |
| 1:27.0 | because when we discuss captive pursuit, |
| 1:30.0 | we knew that the episode played an important role in Dan's life. |
| 1:34.0 | It's hard to overstate how profound a moment it was for Dan, |
| 1:37.5 | and we want to let our listeners know now |
| 1:40.1 | that this is a serious topic and may not be suitable for all listeners. |
| 1:46.8 | So Dan, I want you to catch us up here. I'll give the brief explanation that you at a certain point in your life had hit a point of depression, |
| 1:59.4 | desperation, loneliness through a multitude of personal circumstances. |
| 2:05.0 | And you had hit absolute rock bottom in a really profound way. |
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