SUPPLEMENTAL: The One with David Livingston
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
What’s it like to direct more hours of Star Trek than anyone else? From Next Gen to Enterprise, David Livingston helped define the look and feel of Star Trek for a generation. In this Mission LogSupplemental, Norman and John sit down with the longtime Trek veteran to talk production pressures, on-set memories, and what kept him coming back across four different series. Then the pressure is really on when David faces the lightning round and shares his desert-island picks.
Hosted by John Champion and Norman Lao
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Rodbury podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | This episode of Mission Log is sponsored by Insta 360. |
| 0:13.0 | Their new X5 camera captures your world, all of it, in stunning 8K-360 degrees. |
| 0:24.6 | Head to store.insta360.com and use code mission log to claim |
| 0:26.8 | your free invisible selfie stick |
| 0:28.8 | while supplies last. |
| 0:32.2 | Mission log, a Roddenberry Star Trek |
| 0:34.8 | podcast. Supplemental number 80, |
| 0:37.5 | the one with David Livingston. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome into a supplemental episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:53.5 | I'm Norman Lau. And I'm John Champion. |
| 0:56.2 | Each week on Mission Log, we examine an episode of Star Trek for its morals, meanings, and |
| 1:01.1 | messages, but that is not what we're doing today. Today, as we head into the home stretch of Voyager, |
| 1:08.7 | we'll take a look back at the first six seasons and some |
| 1:12.2 | other stops along the way with legendary Star Trek director David Livingston. |
| 1:17.9 | Yep, you've heard his name come up innumerable times on Mission Log as the record holder |
| 1:23.7 | for the most trek helmed by anyone, and we're looking forward to the inside scoop of bringing |
| 1:30.0 | some of our favorite stories to life. So without further ado, David, welcome to the show. |
| 1:37.3 | Thank you for having me. I'm legendary. You didn't know that? You're legendary. Well, wait a minute. |
| 1:43.2 | I know that we've described you as journeyman director, which is... |
| 1:47.5 | I'll accept that. Definitely true. But you hold the record by, I think, our last count, something like 62 hours of Trek that you have directed. |
| 1:57.6 | Well, not 62 hours because they were only 45 minutes long. |
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