Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 1 - "Amok Time"

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

Roddenberry Entertainment

Arts, Performing Arts, Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Amok Time," pulling a "The Cage/The Menagerie" play, John and Ken cut the first episode they ever recorded into the 30th episode of Mission Log. Spock's gotta have it, though what it is he will not say. But he's gotta get to Vulcan as soon as he can.

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0:00.0	Now Enteringnerdist.com
0:04.8	Hey, Ken, do you remember, do you remember that first season episode, The Menagerie?
0:11.7	I remember the first season episode, The Cage.
0:14.9	Oh, no, no, wait, wait.
0:15.9	I don't want to confuse you here.
0:17.8	There's the cage and there's the Menagerie. But you know what they did for the
0:22.3	menagerie? They took pieces of the cage and they cut it up and they stuck it into the menagerie.
0:28.2	I know. I'm blowing your mind right now, right? Well, no, I'm actually thinking, John,
0:31.4	you're giving me an interesting idea. Wait, really? Yeah. See, we, and I know it's been a while for you.
0:38.6	Yeah.
0:39.1	We actually recorded a couple of test shows before we ever recorded the first show that people
0:44.2	were going to hear.
0:45.4	Wait, we did?
0:46.0	You're blowing my mind right now.
0:47.2	I was there.
0:48.2	It's kind of crazy.
0:49.2	Well, I think it was you.
0:50.1	We may have actually had somebody else playing John Champion for this episode.
0:53.0	I can't remember.
0:53.9	Okay. Good.
0:55.1	We took shows from season two.
0:57.5	We took two shows from season two actually and recorded them thinking that, okay, we'll record these shows from season two.
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