Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 11 & 12, "The Menagerie, Part I & II”

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

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🗓️ 25 October 2012

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Menagerie, Part I & II", the cast of Star Trek watches the original pilot for Star Trek. Loyalty, compassion and what might have been are examined.

Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:06.7	Mission Log, a Rodenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Can Ray.
0:35.2	And I'm John Champion. You are listening to the show that has a singular mission.
0:40.3	Just seek out the meanings and messages of every episode of Star Trek, and we mean every one,
0:45.7	to find out what still holds water in this 21st century world.
0:49.9	Today, meet the crew of the Enterprise.
0:52.5	Again.
0:53.5	For the first time, again. For the first time.
0:55.0	Again.
0:56.2	For the first time.
0:57.9	Again.
0:59.5	Today we're looking at Star Trek's only two-parter for the original series, and we're
1:03.2	doing it in just one podcast episode.
1:05.6	Spot freaks out and steals the Enterprise to take his old captain, Christopher
1:08.8	Pike, to Starfleet's one and only forbidden planet, Talos 4. This is the menagerie.
1:15.6	Didn't we already meet the crew of the Enterprise again for the first time again?
1:19.6	For the first time again. Yeah, a few times. You know, I was thinking before we started
1:24.6	this episode to what we should do is just record like, you know,
1:27.6	10 minutes at the beginning, five minutes at the end, and just edit in episode one of the mission
1:32.6	log into episode 12 of the mission log because that's kind of, I mean, I applaud the whole,
1:38.4	you know, reduce, reuse, recycle thing. But if you've seen the cage, you've seen half of both
1:43.9	of these episodes.
	...

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