Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 21 - "The Return of the Archons"

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🗓️ 27 December 2012

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Return of the Archons," are you of the body? Are you here for Festival? Is this technology run amok or order so stringent, it's killing the society it was set up to protect?

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:05.4	Mission Log, a Rodenberry Star Trek podcast, episode 21, peace and contentment fulfill you.
0:32.9	Welcome to another edition of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast.
0:39.3	I'm John Champion.
0:41.3	And I'm Ken Ray.
0:42.8	Each week we watch an episode of Star Trek.
0:44.9	We analyze and dissect and ask the big questions, what was it about, what ideas were presented, and does the whole ball of wax stand the test of time?
0:53.8	The big question this week, though, Ken, are you of the body?
0:59.3	Of the body?
1:00.2	Dude, I rock the body.
1:01.9	You'd make a terrible cult member.
1:03.8	I would make, well, no, I would, but I'd be a pretty good cult leader, I think.
1:08.4	Really?
1:10.2	Did you voted that in high school? Like, most likely to lead a cult, Ken Ray?
1:14.6	It's a secret dream that I have. It's, you know, I'm not, I'm not saying I'll pursue it because it's been a secret dream of mine for a while. But, you know, if you're looking for somebody to blindly follow, give me a call. We'll talk.
1:25.5	All right. Well, this week we are, of course, covering return of the archons, or the return
1:31.4	of the archons, if we were to be more correct. And I almost didn't watch this episode,
1:36.1	actually, because I missed the one with the archons. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. Where have all the
1:40.3	archons gone? Well, this week we find out. No, no.
1:46.7	So we're going to find out what happened to all those arcons.
1:50.7	We go to the planet beta three and things are a little weird.
1:53.6	There's a lot going on in this episode.
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