Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 27 - "The Alternative Factor"

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🗓️ 7 February 2013

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Alternative Factor," When the Enterprise finds one guy who may be two guys (or two guys who may be one guy) on an uninhabited planet along with an undetectable source of radiation, it's up to Kirk, Spock and McCoy to figure out the intricacies.

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:05.5	Mission Log, a Rodenberry Star Trek podcast, episode 27.
0:10.5	The Alternative Factor. It's that time again where we open up the corridor between this universe and another.
0:33.4	On Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Headwound Champion.
0:38.3	I'm Ken Headwoon Grey.
0:40.7	And I'm John Non-Headwoon Champion.
0:43.6	And I'm Ken non-headwooned Ray.
0:46.6	God, I'm so confused already.
0:48.2	I'm going to be up front here.
0:50.2	You, dear audience, you may wish for a universal escape hatch after this week's episode.
0:57.5	Dude.
0:58.2	Really?
0:58.7	What?
0:59.3	Yeah.
0:59.7	I just gave it up.
1:01.1	Spoiler alert.
1:02.2	Yeah.
1:02.4	I just gave it up.
1:03.3	Well, because they're so cool.
1:07.1	Maybe that's why.
1:07.9	Maybe you didn't spoil anything.
1:09.2	Maybe because having a universal escape hatch would be awesome.
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