Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2014
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
In Star Trek: The Motion Picture, ten years after the original series and five years after the animated series, Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the crew of the Enterprise head to the cinema - and just in time, too! Something is headed to Earth, killing everything in its path. Big screen! Big adventure! Get your ticket to Star Trek: The Motion Picture!
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Episode 91. Star Trek The Motion Picture. the motion picture. Oh, Welcome to another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:44.4 | I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:45.8 | And I'm John Champion and Ken. |
| 0:47.7 | I wouldn't necessarily call this just another mission log. |
| 0:52.4 | We're entering a new era today with our coverage of the original |
| 0:56.4 | cast movies today. Star Trek the Motion Picture which opened December 7th, 1979. Ah yes, December 7th, 1979. |
| 1:03.0 | Ah yes, December 7th, a day which will live in Star Trek history for being the time that they went to the movies. |
| 1:10.0 | It's a new phase, pun intended. Four Mission Log. |
| 1:14.0 | So we got some new formatting for this show. |
| 1:16.4 | Movies are long. |
| 1:18.4 | Your podcast, well, we shouldn't make it short just because we always make it short, but I don't think it would be fair to say, well, the movies long, so the podcast is going to be too. |
| 1:27.0 | It's, it's, uh, the show's going to be about as long as it needs to be, would be my thinking. |
| 1:32.0 | What about you John? |
| 1:33.1 | I thought about actually doing just a 20 minute walk around my computer in order to lead into |
| 1:39.8 | today's show. Wait a minute, wait a minute, only thought about it? |
| 1:44.0 | Well, you did it actually. |
| 1:46.0 | Dude, you could have called me. |
| 1:48.0 | I will say though, the underside of my Mac looks amazing, you know, even that third time that you get by it. |
| 1:55.0 | Wow, it's just magnificent. |
| 1:57.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:58.5 | Well, what that means is that, you know, we're going to change the format a little bit here rather than our usual very pithy |
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