Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 17 - "The Squire of Gothos"

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

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4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2012

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Squire of Gothos," the crew of the Enterprise endures forced hospitality on an inhospitable planet. Is their host a military genius, a god, or a five-year-old?

Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:06.1	Mission Log, a Rodenberry Star Trek podcast, episode 17, The Squire of Gothos. Telly-ho, Trekkies and non-Trekies alike.
0:31.5	You have the great fortune of joining us yet again for Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion.
0:39.9	And I am Canray, and I'm not doing another episode in rhyming verse or floral language.
0:44.9	For you then, I shall give it a rest.
0:48.0	Mission Log is the show where we pick apart every episode of Star Trek in order and try to
0:52.1	determine what works, how it works, and how we can make it work in real life.
0:56.3	What's the point? What's the philosophy and does it have relevance today?
1:01.3	You almost did it again, didn't you?
1:02.9	Almost.
1:04.1	This week, we're looking at the Squire of Gothos, a tale of a rambunctious youth who happens to have the powers of a god.
1:09.9	Excellent. I loved it back when it was
1:11.6	called charlie x yeah yeah spoiler alert yeah yeah there's some similarities but you know what i'm
1:20.5	going to preemptively kind of forgive them because i think this is sort of an evergreen story in a way
1:26.7	you know maybe it's too close, too soon.
1:29.9	You know, I mean, it's, it's been a while since we saw Charlie X.
1:32.5	I guess what are we on now, episode 16, 17, Charlie X.
1:37.2	Charlie X was episode three.
1:39.9	Yeah, so it's been a few weeks.
1:41.2	And it's not exactly the same because Charlie X was a human.
1:44.5	And we're not 100% certain what the Squire of Gothos actually is.
1:49.0	Right.
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