Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 14 - "Angel One"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2014
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Angel One," Angel One is a lovely, peaceful planet. At least it was until four off-worlder men landed there and started thinking that men and women should be treated as equals. Not a popular idea on this matriarchal planet. Good thing the Enterprise is here to take the men away. Now if only they were willing to go. Can the men evade the death sentence suddenly imposed?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. I am your lowly, humble male co-host, John Champion. |
| 0:26.0 | And this one is your other lowly subservient male co-host, Ken Ray. |
| 0:31.0 | Each week we use our limited intellects and |
| 0:34.0 | weak understanding of abstract concepts to discuss an episode of Star Trek, |
| 0:38.0 | looking for its morals, meanings, and messages. |
| 0:41.0 | And Ken, we are looking at every episode of Star Trek. Yes, even that one. The one you |
| 0:47.3 | thought no one would ever talk about again. You know the one. Maybe it's not the one we're |
| 0:51.5 | talking about today, but there is that one for just about everybody. |
| 0:56.0 | Today, it is a trip to the idyllic matriarchal paradise planet known as Angel 1. |
| 1:03.0 | Yes, it is. |
| 1:05.0 | And, you know, before we get to the discussion of all the fruits of Angel 1, |
| 1:12.0 | I do want to remind our audience that we're not just a |
| 1:16.4 | Roddenberry Star Trek podcast because we like the sound of it. We're a |
| 1:20.4 | Roddenberry Star Trek podcast because well we come from Roddenberry Star Trek podcast because, well, we come from Roddenberry Entertainment. |
| 1:24.8 | And you can go check out the rest of Roddenberry Entertainment at rodenberry.com. |
| 1:30.0 | Now, Ken, we've mentioned some of the cool things that they carry in the shop there. |
| 1:34.7 | And I have yet another cool thing that I want to mention in the shop. |
| 1:40.2 | If you're playing the home version of Mission Log, you may know that we talk about some of the documents, the scripts, things that changed from time to time in Star Trek and you can actually go by expertly printed replicas of scripts from the Star Trek movies from the |
| 1:58.1 | Rotenberry Archive. |
| 1:59.6 | And it's not just the movies that were made, you know, motion picture, Wrath of Khan, etc, etc. |
| 2:03.9 | You can actually get the script for Star Trek |
| 2:06.8 | in thy image. |
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