Now entering Nerstist.com. Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 50. Patterns of Force Hello people. Welcome to the most efficient podcast Earth has ever known. It's Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast.

I'm Canton Ray.

And I'm John Champion each week.

We look at a single episode of Star Trek and pick it apart to find the morals, meanings, and messages

that lay within.

This week we visit the planet Echoes.

It's got it bad for Germany in the 1940s, and that can't be good. It's patterns of force though

don't bother checking the simplicity catalog you'll not find that pattern there.

I like the idea of a pattern of force. I think if you look at my parents

closet from the 1970s there were a lot of patterns of force on on those clothes.

Now wait are we talking about you know horribly garish

designs or are we talking about yeah something we don't want to talk about when we're talking

about anybody's parents? No we're talking about you, plaid polyester pants.

I think that would be a pattern of force.

Oh, okay.

Because I did not want to have the other conversation.

No, no, you did not.

So yeah, right mnazi's right I know nastink it you know is it too soon it today

Right and then oh my goodness is it too soon in 1968?

Yeah, I, you know, I took some notes about that that I think we'll get to later in the show because I,

it's kind of like when we were talking about gangsters on Star Trek.

Like there's this weird, you know, a cultural pendulum that swings where at one point

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