Saturday Morning Star Trek: The Animated Series, Season 1, Episodes 13-14
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2014
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In Star Trek: The Animated Series season 1, episodes 13-14, Kirk and Spock feel like fish out of water - even aboard the Enterprise. Find out why in "The Ambergris Element". Then, Spock, Uhura and Sulu venture out on their own on a Planet Express-type run. And just like with Planet Express, trouble ensues. The fish-cats return in "The Slaver Weapon".
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Bugs Bunny or Bozo the Clown. |
| 0:03.2 | You can make lots of pretty pictures with Light Bright from Hasbro. |
| 0:10.0 | Mission Log, A Rodenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 86, The Amber Grace Element, and The Sliver |
| 0:19.6 | Weapon from Star Trek, the animated series. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to Mission Log a Rodenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:37.4 | And I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:38.7 | Today on the show, where we pick apart and analyze every episode of Star Trek, the Amber Grie element, and the slaver weapon. |
| 0:46.0 | Ken, not too much in the way of poetic titles this week, I'm afraid. |
| 0:50.0 | Amber Gries, which we'll get to in a moment, plays a role in our first episode, and the slaver weapon is about a weapon built by the slavers, literally. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah. So we got that, no Shakespeare to that. |
| 1:05.0 | I love that. |
| 1:06.0 | You think somebody was tired? |
| 1:08.0 | Or both of those writers were tired this week. |
| 1:10.0 | Just like, what are you gonna call it? |
| 1:11.0 | How we could call it? |
| 1:12.0 | We call it, eh, screw it how we could call it we call it |
| 1:13.0 | screw let's call it what it is I'm bored I've got I've got lunch yeah so let's go yeah |
| 1:20.0 | so those are the two episodes for this week, the Amber Greece element and the slaver weapon and boy, howdy, are you in for a fun show today? |
| 1:30.0 | But Ken, before we get into the excitement of these two animated episodes, I'm just, I'm ready, I'm willing, and I'm waiting to get to the trivia. |
| 1:41.0 | Well, wait no more, my friend. Go ahead and get right to that trivia thing that you do. |
| 1:45.0 | All right, Ken, I got two very important elements to talk about today. |
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