Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 10 - "The Corbomite Maneuver"

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

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4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2012

⏱️ 59 minutes

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n the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, “The Corbomite Maneuver”, a scary looking alien gives the Enterprise a lot of grief, but Kirk has a way out.

Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:05.9	Mission Log, a Rodenberry Star Trek podcast, episode 11, the Corbamite maneuver. Were yourselves a glass of tang?
0:30.1	Wait, we mean Tranya, and join us for another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry
0:35.4	Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion. And I'm Ken Ray.
0:39.7	You're listening to the podcast that dissects every episode of Star Trek that ever was or ever will be
0:44.9	and gets to the heart of the matter, or sometimes the antimatter. Are there morals and messages
0:49.3	in a show from the mid-20th century that still have meeting in the 21st, and will they help us get to the 23rd?
0:55.1	On today's show, a fearsome alien named Baylock is not too pleased at all with the Enterprise
1:00.7	or its inhabitants. He has decided they need to be destroyed because of their violent nature.
1:06.1	Kirk, of course, politely disagrees. It all comes down to a new element to add to your periodic table.
1:12.3	It's the Corbamite maneuver. I love that. Yeah? I love that. I heard that Apple was coming out
1:19.0	with the new Corbemite Unibody Max. Exactly. Exactly. If you drop it, oh, bad times.
1:27.4	Yeah. If your web browser crashes, then the entire house comes falling down around you.
1:33.7	You know what I like to do every weekend is I like to pepper the podcast with a little trivia.
1:38.8	Oh, that's not what I was thinking you were going to say, but go ahead.
1:41.3	No? Well, I'm going to lay some trivia on you. So here's the thing.
1:47.9	This episode is unique because it is the first regular episode of the original series that was
1:53.9	filmed. So we had the cage and we had Where No Man has gone before, pilot number one, pilot number two,
1:59.4	and then they go into regular production.
2:01.3	Great, we get the order to go.
2:02.8	Now we've got to go shoot an episode.
2:04.5	This was actually the first one.
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