Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 13 - "The Conscience of the King"

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🗓️ 1 November 2012

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Conscience of the King," is Kirk watching MacBeth? Or is he seeing a war criminal, believed to be dead for the past 20 years?

Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:05.9	Mission Log, a Rodenberry Star Trek podcast, sure to set your teeth on edge.
0:36.0	I'm Ken Ray.
0:37.3	And I'm John Champion.
0:39.2	Once more into the breach, dear friends.
0:42.1	We hold up an episode of Star Trek to see if the morals and the messages make neither rhyme nor reason.
0:48.5	This is the short and the long of it, but...
0:51.6	Why this week with the heavy use of the Bard's own words?
0:54.0	Well, the play is the thing that leads Captain Kirk to bring a mass murderer to justice
0:58.1	in this week's episode, The Conscience of the King.
1:01.5	Now, before we get going, if you've not slept one wink, because you just have to let us
1:06.3	know your thoughts about the show. You can contact us in a number of ways. You can email us at
1:11.5	Missionlog at Roddenberry.com, tweet us at Missionlogpod, or find us at Facebook.com
1:17.7	slash Missionlogpod pod. You can even leave us a voicemail at Missionlog pod on Skype or
1:23.3	call 323 522-5641. In one fell swoop, we'll have your comments and we may even use them
1:31.8	on a future episode. I know not of this voicemail of which you speaketh. We've got to stop that,
1:40.0	right? We're going to stop that now? No, we're not because throughout this episode, I have scattered
1:45.8	phrases of Shakespeare. You did that. I did. I did that. And so if you are paying attention
1:52.6	as a listener, you will hear these little bits and pieces. Some of them are just painfully obvious,
1:57.7	like our entire opening. Yeah. You won't hear those from me, by the way. You
2:01.3	will catch a lot of 70s and 80s music references from me. Okay. None of which, I believe,
2:06.4	were written by the bar. By Shakespeare? No, okay. I don't believe so. Well, tonight's episode
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