Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 3 - "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2012
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” meet a couple of people who are quick to develop a God complex!
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Now entering nerdist.com |
| 0:04.7 | The Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm your co-host, John Champion. |
| 0:38.1 | And I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:39.5 | Each week, our mission is to watch an episode of Star Trek and answer a few questions. |
| 0:43.1 | What's the message? |
| 0:44.1 | What's the moral? |
| 0:45.0 | Does the episode stand the test of time? |
| 0:47.2 | And what's that on that guy's head? |
| 0:49.0 | No, this question only works when there's actually something on somebody's head. |
| 0:51.9 | Usually a guy's head, actually. This week, we're looking at the second pilot for Star Trek where no man has gone before. |
| 0:58.7 | Meet the crew of the enterprise again, or the first time, again. |
| 1:03.8 | Yeah, it's kind of weird. |
| 1:05.2 | It is. |
| 1:06.7 | But this is momentous, you know, this is the rare time in TV history that somebody got the news. |
| 1:12.8 | Well, we're not buying your pilot, but go make another one. |
| 1:16.3 | Yeah, right. |
| 1:17.6 | And they make no bones about it. |
| 1:20.3 | Oh, sing. |
| 1:21.4 | Because there is no bones. |
| 1:23.1 | There is no bones. |
| 1:25.4 | The bones have not been cast yet. |
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