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Mission Log, A. Rodenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 20, Court Marshall. Welcome again friends to Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast, the show where we try to figure out what makes

Star Trek tick one episode at a time.

I'm John Champion, and I'm Kanray.

If you thought Star Trek was all Fazers and Green Girls,

we're about two-thirds through season one

and we're already back in court.

We were there once with the menagerie

where we put Spock on trial,

but why stop there?

When we can go full-on court-martial with James T. Kirk.

I still think we're about two hepticives away from a whole law and order spin-off

in the Federation.

You know, and I tried to think of something, you know, like in the criminal justice system, the people will be represented by a big hairy green thing.

Right. And something that used to suck salt from people, but now, you know, defends them. I don't know. I couldn't come up with anything, but I like the law and order reference.

Yeah, yeah. You know, it's interesting about these show the the cool thing about science fiction

of any stripe is that you can do any kind of story in science fiction you can do a

court show you can do a war show you can do really anything you want, and

Star Trek is a malleable enough format to be able to fit something like this in it.

Now I don't want to spoil it here too much but I think we've already seen the best of that in the menagerie

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