Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Oct 23, 2025 · 1 hr 17 min · 14 segments
In the Star Trek: Voyager episose Friendship One, an old Earth probe was supposed to spread friendship across the galaxy. Instead, it sparked a planetary apocalypse. When Voyager finds the wreckage…
Now obviously, we know their work and they were both most recently credited on Workforce Part 2 in our rewatch, but here's the thing that we always know is true.
Ken Biller had, uh, some say in one of this episode's most important decisions, which was who would be killed off from Voyager's recurring cast? Well, we can talk a little bit more about that the further we get into the story.
And this episode was directed by Mike Vejar, and we are firmly in the longest run of Mike's Trek directing career.
Uh, in fact, he still has more to go on Voyager as this is Episode 12 out of his baker's dozen, and he's back, uh, one more time before Enterprise.
We have Peter Dennis as Admiral Hendricks, and Dennis had appeared in Voyager previously playing Isaac Newton in the episode Death Wish.
Back then, we mentioned that he is perhaps best known for his one-man stage work.
He performed Bother - The Brain of Pooh, a solo adaptation of A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh stories.
Uh, born in 1933 in Surrey, England, he worked as a surveyor and accountant before turning full-time to acting.
She was May in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, and she performs a variety of additional voices in Monsters Inc.
Credits for her include spots for McDonald's, Mattel Toys, Neosporin, Purina, Toyota, so much more.
Now, a side note here, Bryn is a character named in the script, but not on screen.
Now obviously, we know their work and they were both most recently credited on Workforce Part 2 in our rewatch, but here's the thing that we always know is true.
Ken Biller had, uh, some say in one of this episode's most important decisions, which was who would be killed off from Voyager's recurring cast? Well, we can talk a little bit more about that the further we get into the story.
And this episode was directed by Mike Vejar, and we are firmly in the longest run of Mike's Trek directing career.
Uh, in fact, he still has more to go on Voyager as this is Episode 12 out of his baker's dozen, and he's back, uh, one more time before Enterprise.
We have Peter Dennis as Admiral Hendricks, and Dennis had appeared in Voyager previously playing Isaac Newton in the episode Death Wish.
Back then, we mentioned that he is perhaps best known for his one-man stage work.
He performed Bother - The Brain of Pooh, a solo adaptation of A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh stories.
Uh, born in 1933 in Surrey, England, he worked as a surveyor and accountant before turning full-time to acting.
She was May in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, and she performs a variety of additional voices in Monsters Inc.
Credits for her include spots for McDonald's, Mattel Toys, Neosporin, Purina, Toyota, so much more.
Now, a side note here, Bryn is a character named in the script, but not on screen.
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