Mission Log, A. Rodenberry Star Trek Podcast. Episode 96. Star Trek Six. The Undiscovered Country Oh, Welcome into another episode of Mission Log for

Rodinberry Star Trek Podcast.

I'm John Champion.

And I'm Ken Ray.

Each week on Mission Log, we analyze a Star Trek story or two,

sifting through for messages, morals, and meanings, and trying to figure out whether

any or all of it holds up lo these many years later.

Ken, today we're doing Star Trek Six, the Undiscovered Country.

Can I just cut to the chase and say that

we got Shakespeare right in the title because as we know when you don't know where else to go you go for

Shakespeare. Honestly it's like there's a thing, you know, they did this line in Barton Fink about Hollywood,

throw a rock in this town, you'll hit a writer.

Yeah, if you took all the pages of Star Trek 6 and put them on a wall, blindfolded yourself and threw a dart, you would hit a Shakespeare quote.

Yes, you would, yes you would. The line actually comes from Hamlet and to put it into a little bit

better context here, but that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from who is born no traveler returns,

puzzles the will.

Hitler 1938.

Oh wait, I'm sorry.

That's later. My bad. Yeah. Yeah, but nice little line to put that title into context. I thought it was a nice bit to grab.

Ken, I feel like today's episode is just going to be chock full of discussion and information.

So before we get into that, I do want to remind people how they can reach out to us. We get fabulous emails and comments and Facebook posts from everybody and I really really appreciate it. If you want to chime in on that conversation you can reach

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