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Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Mission Log is a Roddenberry Entertainment podcast with the sole purpose of exploring the Star Trek universe one episode at a time. That's right, this podcast will cover six different series and 30 seasons of television by journeying into every one of the 726 episodes with a single mission: to explore, debate and discuss one of the largest science fiction phenomena of all time, Star Trek. Starting with The Original Series' initial pilot and continuing chronologically until we reach the last…
Episodes
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 5 - "The Apple"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Apple," how are things for the people of Vaal? Well they seem good, but not good enough for Captain Kirk…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 4 - "Mirror, Mirror"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Mirror, Mirror," Beaming up from peaceful negotiations, Kirk, McCoy, Uhura and Scotty find themselves on a…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 3 - "The Changeling"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Changeling," The Enterprise encounters Earth's first deep space probe, but something is different. Instead…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 2 - "Who Mourns for Adonais"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Who Mourns for Adonais," The Enterprise confronts its most powerful super-being so far. Can getting away be as…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 1 - "Amok Time"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Amok Time," pulling a "The Cage/The Menagerie" play, John and Ken cut the first episode they ever recorded into…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 29 - "Operation: Annihilate!"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Operation: Annihilate!" Madness is sweeping the galaxy. Or - more accurately - madness is drawing a straight…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastSUPPLEMENTAL: The One with Mark Altman
John and Ken talk with Mark Altman about his movie "Free Enterprise," his time with William Shatner, and why he loves Star Trek. Then they re-argue the TOS…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 28 - "The City on the Edge of Forever"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The City on the Edge of Forever," Kirk faces an ethical and moral dilemma: Let the woman he loves die? Or let…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 27 - "The Alternative Factor"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Alternative Factor," When the Enterprise finds one guy who may be two guys (or two guys who may be one guy)…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastSUPPLEMENTAL: The One With Bobby Clark
John and Ken talk with Bobby Clark - AKA "The Gorn" - about his times on Star Trek. Plus listener feedback! It's a festival! Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 26 - "Errand of Mercy"
In the Star Trek: Original Series episode, "Errand of Mercy," war is brewing between the Federation and the Klingons, and the fate of an undeveloped race - the…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 25 - "The Devil In The Dark"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Devil In The Dark," the Enterprise comes to the aid of a group of miners being hounded by a monster deep…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 24 - "This Side of Paradise"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "This Side of Paradise," Spock's in love, the plants are in bloom, and everybody is happy. But nothing lasts…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 23 - "A Taste Of Armageddon"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "A Taste Of Armageddon," is war without the mess proper for any society? Kirk takes upon himself to decide…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 22 - "Space Seed"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Space Seed," before there was the wrath of Khan, there was Khan. Discussion of eugenics, tyranny and abusive…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 21 - "The Return of the Archons"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Return of the Archons," are you of the body? Are you here for Festival? Is this technology run amok or…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 20 - "Court Martial"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Court Martial," trips to Starbase 11 always seem to involve legal troubles. Last time it was Spock on trial…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastSUPPLEMENTAL: The One With Robert J. Sawyer
Robert J. Sawyer joins John and Ken to talk why Star Trek matters to him, his thoughts on "Balance of Terror," and the job of Science Fiction. Plus: Listener…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 19 - "Tomorrow Is Yesterday"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Tomorrow Is Yesterday," A twentieth-century man is trapped on a twenty-third-century ship that is trapped in…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 18 - "Arena"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Arena," when combat is ship to ship with an unseen enemy, Captain Kirk is ready to kill. But would he make the…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastSUPPLEMENTAL: The One with Rod Roddenberry
Rod Roddenberry joins John and Ken to talk his history with Star Trek, thoughts on his father and creating the Mission Log podcast. Plus: Hypnosis or Mind…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 17 - "The Squire of Gothos"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Squire of Gothos," the crew of the Enterprise endures forced hospitality on an inhospitable planet. Is…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 16 - "The Galileo Seven"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Galileo Seven," after well over a decade in Starfleet Spock is given his first command. Spoiler alert…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 15 - "Shore Leave"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Shore Leave," what would happen if all of your dreams came true? And what if some of those dreams were…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 14 - "Balance of Terror"
In the Star Trek: Original Series episode, "Balance of Terror," after over 100 years, the Romulans are back to their warrior ways. The crew of the Enterprise…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 13 - "The Conscience of the King"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Conscience of the King," is Kirk watching MacBeth? Or is he seeing a war criminal, believed to be dead for…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 11 & 12, "The Menagerie, Part I & II"
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…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 10 - "The Corbomite Maneuver"
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…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 9 - "Dagger of the Mind"
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: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 8 - "Miri"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Miri", a planet, a plague and a group of 300 year old truants. Throw in an Enterprise away team and what have…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 7 - "What are Little Girls Made of?"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "What are Little Girls Made of?", ancient robot technology and a brilliant but misguided scientist leave Kirk…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 6 - "Mudd's Women"
In the Star Trek: Original Series episode, "Mudd's Women," with chicanery, bureaucracy, and misogyny, it's just another day on the 23rd Century frontier…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 5 - "The Enemy Within"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Enemy Within," everyone's got a dark side, except for Kirk. He's got a living, breathing dark alter-ego. So…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast"The Naked Time" - Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 4
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Naked Time", breaking a sweat leads to multiple breakdowns on the Enterprise. Singing! Swordplay! Kirk is…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 3 - "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before," meet a couple of people who are quick to develop a God complex! Hosted by John…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 2 - "Charlie X"
Working an equation where X = an adolescent male who's never seen another living person. Throw in superhuman powers and there's a real problem to address on…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast"The Man Trap" - Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 1
Get ready for a salty look at Star Trek's first broadcast episode and your introduction to the last of a dying breed. Enjoy a cast of redshirts before they…
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek PodcastStar Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 101 - "The Cage"
On the premier of Mission Log, we begin with Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Cage." Is there anything better than sitting in a cave and watching…