Saturday Morning Star Trek: The Animated Series, Season 2, Episodes 1-2

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

Roddenberry Entertainment

Arts, Performing Arts, Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2014

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In Star Trek: The Animated Series season 2, episodes 1-2, the Enterprise comes across some Orions - DRESSED AS ORIONS! But they are actually "The Pirates of Orion". Then lizards, a god-like being and a bug-eyed monster are just some of the things we tackle in "Bem".

Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray

Welcome to Mission Log, a Roddenberry Entertainment podcast, where we explore the Star Trek universe one episode at a time. Each week, Mission Log examines a single episode of Star Trek, diving into its ethical subtext, metaphors, and cultural significance. From the show's most iconic moments to its hidden gems, we analyze what makes Star Trek one of the greatest science fiction sagas of all time.

In this Episode of Mission Log we'll...

Recap the story and analyze key moments.
Discuss the moral dilemmas presented.
Debate whether the episode holds up and if the messages are still relevant.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You can hold back and wait to react, but when you react, smack it!
0:06.0	Smack it! Smack it! Sack it! New from Hasbro!
0:14.6	Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. Episode 88. The Pirates of Orion.
0:21.6	And, BAM.
0:23.1	From Star Trek, the animated series.
0:31.2	This one welcomes you to Mission Log, a Star Trek podcast of Roddenberry.
0:41.1	Honorary Commander Ken, am I?
0:44.6	And I'm John Champion.
0:46.7	Each week we take apart a Star Trek story or two, analyzing it for messages and morals and such.
0:53.7	Disassemble them, we do.
0:56.3	Ken, are you imitating Bem or a Yoda?
1:00.6	Bem, dude. Bem. I'm like Bem, Scala, Bem over here. I'm like, Bem, the two of us need
1:06.8	look no more. Bem there, done that. I'm trying to get all of these out of the way early.
1:12.1	Did you, are you good now?
1:13.8	Or is this going to be throughout your rest of the episode?
1:16.5	So here's the suggestion as we were recording, you just write it down and decide,
1:20.4	should I really do this in the air?
1:23.2	And if you hesitate, just crumble it up and throw it away.
1:25.7	On the other hand, this could be the deadliest drinking game episode of Star Trek ever, or mission log, excuse me, ever.
1:32.4	Just every time I do a bad BEM pun, you know, take another shot.
1:36.4	And if you're still standing at the end of it, well, you really should have sat down because it's going to be a while.
1:40.4	But also, good on you because, yeah, this could get ugly.
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