SUPPLEMENTAL: The One with Mike McMahan

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

Roddenberry Entertainment

Arts, Performing Arts, Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

We got to seriously geek out with the hilarious creator and Executive Producer of Star Trek Lower Decks, Mike McMahan! From writing the eighth season of The Next Generation to Rick & Morty to a Trek show of his own, Mike opens up in this spoiler-filled chat. Get his take on linking the Star Trek universe, dropping in references and hanging out with his favorite characters.

Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao

Welcome to Mission Log, a Roddenberry Entertainment podcast where we explore the Star Trek universe one episode at a time. Each week, Mission Log examines a single episode of Star Trek, diving into its ethical subtext, metaphors, and cultural significance. From the show's most iconic moments to its hidden gems, we analyze what makes Star Trek one of the greatest science fiction sagas of all time...

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0:00.0	RPN, the Rotenberry Podcast Network.
0:06.0	Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast, supplemental number 62, the one with Mike McMahon. Welcome into a supplemental edition of Mission Log, a Rotinberry Star Trek podcast.
0:32.8	I'm Norman Lau.
0:34.1	I'm John Champion.
0:35.3	And I'm Ashley Victoria Robinson.
0:37.6	Bet you weren't prepared for this.
0:39.9	Triple header Mission Log supplemental.
0:42.1	What? We've never done that before. Thank you for joining. Triple Header Mission Log Supplemental Wide.
0:42.7	We've never done that before.
0:44.4	Thank you for joining us, Ashley.
0:45.9	Thank you for having me.
0:47.6	It was truly such a treat to be in the same virtual Zoom room
0:51.7	as both John and Norman and then to have Mike come and be so
0:56.4	freaking incredible this has been the best time I've had and I don't know how long.
1:01.6	I cannot wait for people to hear this interview. Mike McMahon,
1:04.5	Creator and executive producer of Star Trek Lower Decks, who was so generous
1:09.1	with his time and honestly I think the thing that I come away from this with is this man loves Star Trek.
1:16.3	Clearly. Yeah, quite a lot. So I can't wait for people to hear it and to, look, if you're not part of our patron at patreon.com slash mission log go there
1:26.5	because we'll post video there and maybe some of the the unexpregated parts of this because I think maybe it was my fault we didn't warn him that we don't have an explicit tag on iTunes.
1:39.0	We just like rolled right into it too. Oh yeah there's that. Yeah, yeah. So I
1:48.1	I... Please play a laser sound over every time. Oh you know you know what I like I think the, shh, from the doors on TELS.
1:55.2	That or buttons in the bridge, you know.
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