Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 20 - "Court Martial"

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🗓️ 20 December 2012

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Court Martial," trips to Starbase 11 always seem to involve legal troubles. Last time it was Spock on trial. This time, Captain James T. Kirk faces "Court Martial."

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:05.1	This episode of MissionLog is brought to you by Audible, where you can download the audiobook of your choice for free from Audiblepodcast.com slash mission log.
0:17.2	Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast, Episode 20, Court Marshall.
0:48.6	Welcome again, friends, to Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast, the show where we try to figure out what makes Star Trek tick one episode at a time.
0:49.6	I'm John Champion.
0:51.0	And I'm Can Ray.
0:56.0	If you thought Star Trek was all phasers and green girls, we're about two-thirds through season one and we're already back in court.
0:58.2	We were there once with the menagerie where we put Spock on trial, but why stop there
1:02.0	when we can go full-on court-martial with James T. Kirk?
1:06.1	I still think we're about two episodes away from a whole Law and Order spinoff in the
1:10.0	Federation. still think we're about two episodes away from a whole law and order spinoff in the federation. You know, and I tried to think of something, you know, like in the criminal justice system,
1:14.9	the people will be represented by a big, hairy green thing.
1:20.0	Right.
1:20.6	And something that used to suck salt from people, but now, you know, defends them.
1:25.1	I don't know.
1:25.6	I couldn't come up with anything, but I like the Law and Order reference.
1:29.0	Yeah.
1:29.4	Yeah.
1:29.7	You know,
1:30.2	it's interesting about these shows.
1:31.7	The cool thing about science fiction of any stripe is that you can do any kind of story
1:38.7	in science fiction.
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