You're listening to a Roddenberry Podcast.

Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion.

And I'm Norman Lough. Each week on Mission Log, we explore Star Trek one episode at a time looking for the morals, meanings, and messages and trying to determine

if the whole thing stands the test of time.

This week, In The Flesh, the one where we have a relaxing trip back to Starfleet headquarters except it's not

really Starfleet and it's not really relaxing when you determine that probably everyone there

wants to kill you.

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so he says with this week's trivia.

All right, we have an episode in the flash written by Nick Sagan and I hope you all

recognize that name and not just because he was credited as a writer on two T&G episodes

attached and bloodlines. Nick is the son of the late Carl Sagan and among his

many other writing credits he pitched to Star Trek pretty often.

This story, like most others, took some radical changes from concept to finish product, though. At one point point we had kind of an ancient aliens thread

with species 8472 having visited Earth in the past and then we had a much more

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