Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 14 - "Balance of Terror"

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🗓️ 8 November 2012

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In the Star Trek: Original Series episode, "Balance of Terror," after over 100 years, the Romulans are back to their warrior ways. The crew of the Enterprise faces an old enemy, a seemingly unstoppable weapon and its own bigotry.

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:06.0	Mission Log, a Rodenberry Star Trek podcast, episode 14, balance of terror. Good Morrow, Friends.
0:30.4	Wait, we're not doing Shakespeare this week, are we?
0:32.6	Uh, no.
0:33.7	Cool.
0:34.2	Hey, y'all, it's time for another edition of Mission Law, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast, the show that dares to ask the question, can an old TV show tell us anything about tomorrow? Spoiler alert, yes. I'm Can Ray. And I'm John Champion. Each week on Mission Log, we watch Star Trek. Then we watch it again. And then we watch it again. And we take it
0:55.8	apart to find any messages, morals, and meanings hidden within. I got to say, John, it's sad when you get
1:02.1	to a show like this week's and there aren't any. Is that a spoiler? Wait a minute. Are we giving up
1:07.6	the goat here that there are no messages, morals, and meanings this week?
1:12.7	Giving up the goat? Yeah. You've never heard that term?
1:17.5	No. Actually, this is a very fascinating episode of replete with messages, morals, and meanings.
1:23.7	So if you were fooled by my little faint there or anything else that starts with F,
1:29.2	don't be fooled again. There's a lot. There's a lot happening in this episode. I love it when
1:34.5	you quote the Who. We're talking about balance of terror, which is one of the, it really is a fan
1:41.9	favorite. It's one of those that always ends up on people's top 10 lists.
1:46.5	And, you know, we might as well just go right into the trivia because the most important thing about this episode is that it's the first time that we meet the Romulans.
1:56.7	I want to play family feud music when you say that.
1:59.9	Yeah.
2:00.7	Meet the Romulans.
2:02.2	I can't remember any of the names.
2:06.5	Tiberius.
2:08.4	Demetrius.
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