Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 10 - "Journey to Babel"

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

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🗓️ 2 May 2013

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Journey to Babel," Spock's dad has a war to stop. Spock has to save his dad's life. But he also has to command the Enterprise. Plus there's sabotage afoot!

Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:05.6	Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast.
0:34.0	Ken, what, what are you doing?
0:36.2	I'm just welcome the people into the show, taking this buddy genre on the road to Babel.
0:42.4	Uh, okay, I got it, but, um, but no, it's not the road to Babel, it's the journey to Babel.
0:50.5	Oh, that's embarrassing.
0:52.9	But the good news is I can stop talking like Bob Hope then.
0:56.5	All right, each week we examine an episode of Star Trek to see what's there.
1:01.4	What are the morals, messages, and meetings?
1:03.8	And does the whole thing stand the test of time?
1:07.3	And I'm here to tell you.
1:08.6	Okay.
1:09.1	You can read us any number of ways you can actually get in touch with us because we would love to know from you, we're going to spend the next few minutes deciding.
1:15.9	But then after that, we would love to know what you think of any given episode.
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