Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 9 - "Dagger of the Mind"

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🗓️ 11 October 2012

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, “Dagger of the Mind”, sometimes memories light the corners of the mind. Other times lights steal memories. This Mission Log finds the Enterprise running into another mad scientist wielding a "Dagger of the Mind".

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0:11.6	Before we get to the next thing that we're getting to, we have a question for you.
0:15.2	What do you do when you're all caught up with Mission Lock?
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