Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 29 - "Operation: Annihilate!"

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

Roddenberry Entertainment

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4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2013

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Operation: Annihilate!" Madness is sweeping the galaxy. Or - more accurately - madness is drawing a straight line through the galaxy. Can Kirk, Spock and McCoy stop it without killing a million people?

Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray

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0:00.0	Now entering Nerstist.com.
0:05.0	Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, Episode 29, Operation Annihilate. Operation annihilate Welcome into another edition of Mission Long, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast.
0:32.2	I'm Can Ray.
0:33.4	And I'm John Champion and today I'll be appearing as the alien parasite attached to Can Ray's back.
0:39.6	Hey, are you growing a mustache?
0:41.8	Oh, no, that's my brother.
0:45.0	Okay.
0:46.0	He lives on Dunneova.
0:48.0	I get to do it, you confused.
0:50.0	Hey, here's what we're doing.
0:51.0	Each week on Mission Log, we take apart an episode of
0:52.8	Star Trek analyzing it for messages morals and meanings and figuring out
0:57.1	whether the whole thing stands the test of time. This week operation annihilate
1:02.0	Ken after every sentence on this episode I'm going to end up with an exclamation point.
1:06.3	Are you really? I mean exclamation point.
1:10.8	Dude, you're going to be happy by the end of this episode. I'm not going to tell you why right now. I'm not going to spoil it for you. By the end of this episode, you're going to be happy.
1:18.0	Really? Who's to say I'm not happy right now? Well, you mean I'm going to be happier. I believe you will be by the end of this episode but we'll save that for the end of the episode.
1:27.4	Cool, okay. Because there are things we do at the end of the episode. There are things that we do at the
1:29.7	end of the episode. There are things that we do at the beginning of the episode and there are things that we do at the beginning of every episode is John Champion lays some trivial knowledge down upon us.
1:40.0	Hit me with your best shot friend.
1:42.0	All right.
1:43.0	So we are talking about Operation Annihilate, and for those of you who are just getting warmed up,
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